What is it about?
The paper presents the hypothesis that the competence of a newborn in the first hours after birth is the direct result of behavior training that begins during the first 12 weeks of fetal life. Correlation of Widström’s 9 Instinctive Stages (behaviors of the full-term newborn during the first hours after birth) with the developmental movements during fetal life demonstrates that the fetus is invested in learning specific tasks, in a specific order, that are evolutionarily necessary for survival during the first hour and beyond.
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Why is it important?
The 9 stages may be a performance of previously learned intrauterine behavior. Following this pattern, from in utero through the first hour after birth, provides long-term benefits for both the mother and newborn.
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This page is a summary of: A plausible pathway of imprinted behaviors: Skin-to-skin actions of the newborn immediately after birth follow the order of fetal development and intrauterine training of movements, Medical Hypotheses, January 2020, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2019.109432.
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