Baby Meets World Suck, Smile, Touch, Toddle

Name: Baby Meets World Suck, Smile, Touch, Toddle
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ISBN: 9780312591342

ISBN-10: 0312591349

ISBN-13: 9780312591342

Edition: N/A

Authors: Nicholas Day

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Science, history, culture, and parenthood combine to create an elegant and engaging exploration of how babies encounter the world Like most new parents, Nicholas Day found himself puzzling over the endless mysteries of his infant son: Why does he find the straightjacket of his swaddling blanket comforting, not terrifying? How does he understand that funny noises are funny? At the same time, he also pondered the mysteries of parenting such as: Why is there such a stigma against pacifiers? If breast-feeding is so elemental, why is it often so elusive? After returning from the local bookshop empty-handed, Nick Day decided to write Baby Meets World, a book that would speak to curious parents…

Book details

List price: $25.99
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication date: 4/2/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 368
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Introduction



Suck



Sucking: A Love Story



Lactation and Its Discontents



The Very Weird, Perfectly Normal Story of Wet Nursing (Plus, Some Goat Milk and Beer)



Tasty, Tasty Thumb



Pacifiers: The Next Menace



Smile



The Birth of a Smile



"A Mother Evidently Perceives Her Baby to Be a Person Like Herself"



Get Happy



A Few Words on Some Small Subjects Like Culture, Civilization, and the Origins of Happiness



Touch



The Power of Touch



A Brief History of How We Have, and Have Not, Held Our Children



A Blessed Break from Emotion and a Sudden Detour into Physiology, Carnival Midways, and Kangaroos



In Which Touch Gets Perhaps a Little Too Much Power



Finding the New World



Toddle



Who Put the Norm in Normal?



Where Movement Comes From



Just Your Normal Milestone-Meeting, Spear-Throwing Infant



The Murky Origins of Bipedalism, or The First Toddler


Coda, or A Bedtime Story


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index