Author: Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn / Source: did you know?
When I had my first child, it was one of those baffling things — I could walk and bounce him to sleep, but as soon as I tried to take a load off my very, very tired feet, he would wake up and fuss. How did he know? Wasn’t he asleep? Had I given birth to a future superhero?
The jury is still out on the last question, but as for the others, well, it turns out that my baby boy wasn’t alone. What’s more, science has some answers for why babies prefer it if we stand while we soothe them.
It starts with evolution.
A 2013 study published in Current Biology says you’ve got to imagine a mother and a newborn back in the day when predators abounded, but being erect and ambulatory gave us a head start if stuff went down. So babies just got used to their parents always holding them on the go. Researchers refer to this learned behavior as a “calming response,” which means that not…
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