Monday, July 19, 2010

The Magical Kiss

Today, at story time, Walter choose to use that time to practice his running. He is getting so confident on his two legs he is starting to take risks. A bad thing. And sure enough as he was practicing his running he fell. And true to his mom’s spirit he had an audience. And he fell hard. As the moms in the room all collectively held their breath to see if there would be tears. Walter started crying. I hurried over, scooped him up and started applying the requisite kisses to his forehead. And like magic he stopped crying. There is something about a mom’s kiss. But what is it?

Kisses, it turns out actually have a biological reason behind them. Right after the birth a mom is compelled to kiss her new baby. This is instinctual, she is learning the smell of her new baby and the baby her smell. The days pass, mom and baby are bonding and mom still can’t seem to stop kissing her baby. The biological reason this time: the mom is gathering the germs off baby’s skin, her immune system then produces antibodies for those germs and passes them through her breast milk. And most importantly of all, they provide the comfort and nurture that a child needs to grow.

A mom’s kiss. There is nothing in the word as special and unique.

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