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« One of the reasons you should get to know your baby both in his states of excitement and contentment is that he needs your help and unless you know him, you can't help him. He needs you to help him master the terrible transitions between the pleasure of sleeping or waking up and the total attack of voracity. Routine tasks aside, you could say that this is your first duty as a mother.... »
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Donald W. Winnicott
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« To begin with, I think you will be relieved to learn that I do not intend to tell you what to do. I am a man and, therefore, I cannot really know what it is to see there, bundled up in a cradle, a small piece of my person, a small piece of me having an independent yet dependent life and which, little by little, becomes a person. Only a woman can live this experience. And only, perhaps, a woman can live it in imagination when, by bad luck, the true experience is lacking. »
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Donald W. Winnicott
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« Your consolation `when your baby cries with anger`, in my opinion, is that the cries of anger probably mean that `the baby` believes in you. He hopes he can change you. »
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Donald W. Winnicott
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