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(London.CityRegions.com, May 02, 2013 ) London, UK -- According to new studies, crying babies truly do calm down when they are picked up and held. The study fortifies a deeper scientific concept of the phenomenon that every mother is said to experience to be true through personal experience.
Scientists in Japan were among those who found that the heart rate and crying of babies slows when they are held by their mothers or carried around. The same study showed the same results were not produced simply be holding the child whilst standing still.
Kumi Kuroda and colleagues at Riken Brain Science Institute in Saitama have discovered the same behavioral trait in young mice pups and considered that the phenomenon may be found in humans in some capacity.
“From humans to mice, mammalian infants become calm and relaxed when they are carried by their mother. This infant response reduces the maternal burden of carrying and is beneficial for both the mother and the infant,” Dr Kuroda said.
The study has been published in the Current Biology journal, and showed that the slow of heart rate was accompanied by the activation of movement detectors in the nervous system, which controls the cerebellum region within the brain.
Dr. Kuroda made a discovery following his noticing of activity within mice. “When I picked the pups up at the back skin very softly and swiftly as mouse mothers did, they immediately stopped moving and became compact. They appeared relaxed, but not totally floppy, and kept the limbs flexed,” Dr Kuroda said.
“This calming response in mice appeared similar to me to soothing by maternal carrying in human babies,” she said.
Knowing how and why the pups and babies are likely to be calmed by being carried may help avoid cases of child abuse when parents find themselves frustrated or anxious by children continually crying for extended periods, according to Kuroda
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