hmm
There are all those studies about the baby monkeys who starved to death when the food was provided in the fake mothers made of chicken wire and not the warm and fuzzy ones.
Everyone in the birth center (and probably other places that cater to newborns) knows that newborns do best when they are held skin-to-skin on someone's chest.
Intensive care units for newborns and preemies are instituting "kangaroo care" where the baby is taken out of the incubator and held skin-to-skin on someone's chest - it improves their heart rate, breathing rate, blood pressure, everything.
I remember my human development teacher in nursing school saying how people need ventral-to-ventral (ventral surface = front or chest/belly surface of body) contact.
So how is it that it's so hard to get a hug once you're a grown up?
Everyone in the birth center (and probably other places that cater to newborns) knows that newborns do best when they are held skin-to-skin on someone's chest.
Intensive care units for newborns and preemies are instituting "kangaroo care" where the baby is taken out of the incubator and held skin-to-skin on someone's chest - it improves their heart rate, breathing rate, blood pressure, everything.
I remember my human development teacher in nursing school saying how people need ventral-to-ventral (ventral surface = front or chest/belly surface of body) contact.
So how is it that it's so hard to get a hug once you're a grown up?