Baby Meets World: Suck, Smile, Touch, Toddle: A Journey Through Infancy

<p>A dynamic new story about how babies make their way in the world -- and how grown-ups have tried to make sense of these tiny inscrutable beings.</p><p>As a new parent, Nicholas Day had some basic but confounding questions: <i>Why does my son find the straitjacket of his swaddling blanket comforting and not terrifying? How can he never meet a developmental norm and still be OK? And when will he stop sucking my finger? </i>So he went digging for answers. They were not what he expected.</p><p>Drawing on a wealth of perspectives -- scientific, historical, cross-cultural, personal -- <i>Baby Meets World</i> is organized around the mundane activities that dominate the life of an infant: sucking, smiling, touching, toddling. From these everyday activities, Day weaves together an account that is anything but ordinary: a fresh, surprising story, both weird and wondrous, about our first experience of the world.</p><p>Part hidden history of parenthood, part secret lives of babies, <i>Baby Meets World</i> steps back from the moment-to-moment chaos of babydom. It allows readers to see infancy anew in all its strangeness and splendor.</p>