Word: infantability
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...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...
Brazelton has managed to bring babies personalities to almost everyone's attention by keeping a working schedule that keeps him running. He splits his time between his practice, which he is soon to give up, his research on infant behavior, his teaching at Children's Hospital, and his more public work: the books, articles, and television appearences designed to make child-raising easier for parents. Between 8:30 a.m. and 9:30 a.m. every day he has his "phone hour," which he devotes to reassuring anxious mothers, some patients and some strangers...
This human approach is Brazelton's secret to success with infant research. "For a long time, people thought babies couldn't even see or heat because they'd just set one on a table and show him a ball or ring a bell, and he wouldn't react. But as soon as you pick him up, he can do all these things," he says...
This sense of the infant individual, although not exactly originated by Brazelton, has gained acceptance through his work. "Parents can no longer talk about 'the baby,' and neither can academics," says Edward Z. Tronick, professor of Developmental Psychology at the University of Massachusetts. "Brazelton has placed the infant in the social context in a way that infants have never seen before," he adds...
...downcast at the same angle of mourning, some shirtsleeves rolled up, a shirttail out the way that Bobby's sometimes was. The cousins walked up Hickory Hill bearing one of their own, David Anthony Kennedy, Robert and Ethel's fourth child, their third son. Except for infant deaths years ago, David, at 28, was the first of the new generation...