So in the weeks before a baby is born they have a sleep wake cycle & manage to go to sleep by themselves. However once they are born their parents have to get up in the night to soothe them. Now I realise that in the womb a baby has constant ‘food’ on tap & once they are born they get hungry & need feeding, but why do they need their parents to be awake with them even when all their physical needs are met?
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This isn’t the full answer but I may have a piece to the puzzle. Babies hear a constant whooshing sound in the womb, it being their mothers pulse. As they are growing in the womb this becomes very comforting. Then one day it’s gone. And it’s cold. And bright. WTF? The “shhhh” sound parents make soothes their babies because it sounds like the mothers pulse in the womb.
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