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"Gestation Outside of the Womb- “Exterior Gestation”
Simple observation of a newborn clarifies her helpless nature. She
needs warmth and nourishment. She cannot move herself away from danger
and cannot use words to communicate her needs. She is challenged to use
her nervous system to figure out space and her relationship to it, to
breathe by herself, to circulate oxygen and nutrients to her entire
body; to eat, digest, and eliminate. It is clear that the newborn goes
through a transformation that does not occur instantly but gradually
lasting most of the first year of her life. During this time the infant
must be carried everywhere. She has a long way to go before she can even
somewhat manage for herself.
In his book Touching, The Human Significance of the Skin, Dr Ashley
Montagu talks of the importance of the mother-baby relationship after
the baby has already been born. He describes the relationship between
the two as “naturally designed to become even more intensive and
interoperative after birth” than while the baby was gestating or growing
in the womb (Montagu, 1988, 75).
“Birth no more constitutes the beginning of the life of the
individual than it does the end of gestation. Birth represents a complex
and highly important series of functional changes which serve to
prepare the newborn for the passage across the bridge between gestation
within the womb and gestation continued out of the womb.” (Montagu, 1986, 57)
Human babies are born early out of necessity. Nurturing the baby in a
manner that represents the intimacy of pregnancy as closely as possible
until this “exterior gestation” is complete offers the baby the optimal
environment for his immature systems. This means the baby should be in
constant proximity to her mother, either in her mother’s arms or worn on
her mother’s body with a piece of cloth or other baby carrier."
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