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The Power of Touch
An Important Way to Bond With Your Newborn
By Jennifer Lacey
Dr. Frederick Leboyer, one of the first physicians to dispute society's beliefs about lack of awareness in a newborn, observed that for babies, "being touched and caressed, being massaged, is 'food' for the infant."
Infant massage attempts to combine many degrees of bonding, including eye-to-eye contact, touch, verbal communication and rhythm in a program that features both parent and child interaction.
The benefits to both Mom and Baby may include relief of a newborn's colicky disposiion, restlessness and sleeplessness. A study published in the December 2002 edition of the Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics
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