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This is Your Brain on Hugs

♦ September 30, 2013 ♦ 8 Comments

We never outgrow the need for touch. As infants we are held, rocked, and touched endlessly throughout the day (and night). It is this loving touch that helps infants to survive and thrive in this strange new world. People volunteer in hospital nurseries just to rock the babies who, for one reason or another, may …

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