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...Berry Brazelton, associate professor of Pediatrics at the Medical School is something of a renegade. At 65 his passion is babies, and he continues his lifelong work of documenting the distinct personalities of newborns, striking out beyond traditional medical research and delving into child development and psychology. He seeks through his non-traditional research and overall approach to understand each infant as a whole individual, and to communicate this understanding to their parents...
...renegade attitude began early. "I hated medical school." Brazelton says, then pausing, shakes his head. "It was such an intellectual brainwashing. I wanted to treat my patients like people not just diseases...
...Brazelton and his wife Christina have three daughters and a son, ages 19 to 32. He still worries about his high expectations and pushing his children too hard. His son, however, calls him "a great...
Like Spock, Brazelton makes it a cardinal rule to reassure anxious parents and to encourage them to trust their instincts. "Parents in our culture are so hungry for people to tell them what to do and so vulnerable as a result," he says. "I feel very strongly that telling them what to do is destructive. Supporting them for what they can do is constructive...
...Brazelton is in the midst of a project of "intervention research" that involves studying 100 undersized babies and trying to see which of them will need special assistance. Babies that have been undernourished in the uterus are "very scrawny, very hypersensitive to any kind of stimulation, and they become very fussy and difficult for the parents," says Brazelton. "They need help to see their baby as a person. You have to help parents see that you're seeing the same baby they are. And that the baby doesn't need to be like them. And they...