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1. Baby-carrying provides the elements of pressure, motion, pleasure, warmth, security, sound that is essential to the development of the vestibular nervous system. Baby-carrying provides constant vestibular stimulation necessary to the development of motor skills in infants and calming deep-pressure touch and kinesthetic stimulation.

2. Carrying infants lowers the level of stress hormones and adrenalin circulating in the blood stream of the infant.

3. Carrying helps the baby develop balance and trunk and head control. Infants who are carried sit independently and walk sooner.

4. Baby-carrying enables the mother to be acutely responsive and aware of her babys cues and signals. Baby-carrying increases maternal sensitivity and heightens parents perceptions of their childrens needs. Mothers become so sensitive to their baby that they can anticipate hunger needs, waking, and the need for a clean diaper.

5. Babies that are carried develop a strong and secure attachment to their mothers.

6. Baby carrying reduces crying and fussiness (one study found by 43% during the day and 51% at night), mothers feel more competent and nurturing toward their infant and are less likely to act in abusive ways towards their children. This author found that baby-carrying resulted in crying less than 1% of the time for the first year of the babys life.

7. Continuously carried infants initiate separation faster and become more self-reliant.

8. Baby-carrying creates autonomy, intimacy and a healthy development of physical intimacy and touching between parents and children. Baby-carrying gives healthy messages of touching to children and they learn to give and receive affection and touching in healthy ways. Carried infants are less likely to have sexual problems or unwanted pregnancies later in life.

9. Babies who are touched and carried continuously develop larger brains...