Hold Me

In what just about every parent would call the "Duhhh Department," Kumi Kuroda of Japan’s Riken Brain Science Institute has found that infants like to be carried. And this goes not just for human infants, but for mice ~ and probably others ~ as well. By measuring physiological signs, Kuroda discovered that being carried, and the bouncing motion that goes along with it, lulls babies into a kind of trance (story and video): http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/349758/description/Infants_whether_mice_or_human_love_to_be_carried