ABSTRACT
Such two-way meetings are seen immediately after birth. Klaus (1998, p.1244) described the new-born’s astonishing capacity, moments after birth, to crawl towards its mother’s breast and find the nipple, inching slowly forward with its legs, pushing on its mother’s abdomen, and eventually coming ‘close to the nipple, he opens his mouth widely and, after several attempts, makes a perfect placement on the areola of the nipple’. Most babies can do this if they are not washed after birth nor born with too much medical intervention. Smell is central; if one washes the right breast then infants crawl to the left one, and vice versa, and if both breasts are cleaned, the infant crawls to the one with the mother’s amniotic fluid on it.
