{"id":148,"date":"2005-09-27T22:49:28","date_gmt":"2005-09-27T22:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/?p=148"},"modified":"2015-08-23T20:22:16","modified_gmt":"2015-08-23T09:22:16","slug":"coo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/2005\/09\/27\/coo\/","title":{"rendered":"Coo!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The neo-natal manager at a hospital special care baby unit says<\/a> “Cooing should be a thing of the past because these are little people with the same rights as you or me.”<\/p>\n

I can see the thinking but it just makes me laugh because babies are designed to be cooed over! It’s a cunning part of the process of interaction which allows babies to survive, engage, learn, talk and become social beings. When I was involved with public radio in the early 80’s, the sound engineer at the station remarked that the soundproof studio doors would hold out all sounds except a baby’s cry, because their cries are designed to get our attention no matter what. It’s the same deal. Go to Goodhappyfun<\/del> and mouse over the main links. I bet you can’t help smiling. I even get those spine tingles at the back of my neck that I was speaking of before.<\/p>\n

I don’t particularly buy the infection argument either. In normal circumstances I would go with the ‘boosts natural immunity’ outlook.<\/p>\n

Updated links 2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The neo-natal manager at a hospital special care baby unit says “Cooing should be a thing of the past because these are little people with the same rights as you or me.” I can see the thinking but it just makes me laugh because babies are designed to be cooed over! It’s a cunning part […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[345],"tags":[358,359],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-babies","tag-cooing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/saZhI-coo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3544,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions\/3544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}