Read the advice Dr. Sears, an academic and well-known pediatrician, gives to parents in regards to getting babies to go to sleep and having them stay asleep. (
http://www.askdrsears.com/html/7/T070200.asp
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Discover more about how culture affects infant sleep. James McKenna, a professor at the University of Notre Dame, provides a cultural background to our thinking about what constitutes "normal, healthy and desirable" infant sleep. (
http://www.nd.edu/~jmckenn1/lab/culturalarticle.html
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Read this summary of the most important findings about what a baby can see and when each of these visual abilities develops. (
http://www.ski.org/Vision/babyvision.html?id=10
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Find out more about how infants respond to touch. This report summarizes the findings of studies that have described the types of nonprocedural touch received by hospitalized preterm infants and includes a review of studies that have evaluated infants' responses to gentle touch and massage interventions. (
http://www.prematurity.org/baby/comforting-touch1.html
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Read this BBC report about the memory that babies have for music they have heard in utero. This report reveals the surprising extent of hearing that babies in the womb possess. (
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/1432495.stm
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