From Valerie Yule
Both as a psychologist and a mother, I have witnessed the importance of touch for babies. Often touch is life-giving for sick children. But at the same time, parents are taught to make babies sleep and play alone; babies are deemed “good” once they have learned this and cease to cry when left on their own.
In the West, babies are put in separate rooms, and taken around in prams that do not let them even see or hear their parent. Yet people do not wonder why babies cry when left alone and stop when picked up. Surely it is because babies know what they need.
Mount Waverley, Victoria, Australia
