chabot@arden.DEC (04/05/84)
I know from friends that this is really a problem. It's not just a bother because babies pull their mothers' long hair, the kids actually find feeling the hair to be pacifying--I knew two youngsters who could not go to sleep without clutching their mothers' hair. The babies probably associated moms' hair with nursing and warm cuddling times like that. My best friend didn't want to cut her hair, so she started wearing it up, but I know others who cut their hair. But once the baby gets used to clutching mom's long hair before, it's another sort of a weaning process to get them to go to sleep without clutching hair; and you have to do it, since mom can't always hold the baby as it falls asleep. I was a blanket-binding clutcher myself, Lisa Chabot usually at: ...decwrl!rhea!amber!chabot