CFD 3240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Antibody, Colostrum, Laxative
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Infant carrying and co-sleeping has been positively related to: physical and social-emotional development of infants in traditional cultures, securely attached infants everywhere show confidence in engaging and exploring. In all cultures, the process by which babies develop secure attachment depends on: whether or not they experience contingent responsiveness from their parents and other caregivers, wherein infants both elicit attention and respond to attention. Demand feeding: an example of responsive caregiving: throughout the world, and all through history, babies have been fed when they cried to be fed, there is ample research evidence supporting demand feeding. Infants who are fed on demand are more likely to have secure attachment than are infants who receive scheduled feeding: when parents are reliably available to their babies, they learn to trust that their needs will be met. If they are staying dryer for longer periods of time (especially overnight) If they are expressing discomfort with wet diapers, and.