August 11, 2010

Love of my life

Mother means the most and actually the whole world to an infant.

Mothers are perhaps the only person with whom you share an ultimate bond and
even after years and years of separation still the mother is the one person
that will always love her children. This love is not because of greed or
some thing that she desires, it comes naturaly to all mothers.

Our scientific studies of mother and infants sleeping together have shown
how tightly bound together the physiological and social aspects of the
mother-infant relationship really are. Other studies have shown that
separation of the mother and infant has adverse consequences.
Anthropological considerations also suggest that separation between the
mother and infant should be minimal. Western societies must consider
carefully how far and under what circumstances they want to push infants
away from the loving and protective environment. Infants' nutritional,
emotional and social needs as well as maternal responses to them have
evolved in this environment for millennia. (Dr. James J. McKenna, professor
of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Behavioral Studies of
Mother-Infant Sleep. Notre Dame University,* World Health* (WHO),
MARCH-APRIL 1966)