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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Nature is really simple sometimes.
Babies who cried from *any* discomfort, who *also* had parents who reliably responded to these cries and tried to resolve the source of discomfort, tended to live longer than babies who didn’t always cry, or whose parents didn’t consistently respond.
Thus emerged fussy babies and eternally suffering parents.
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