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The Ultimate Body Language Book

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<strong>The</strong> arms of glasses can serve as a soother while “babying” a thought.<br />

While baby mouthing has no definitive explanation, it likely stems from the need to strengthen the<br />

muscles of the jaw and tongue and increase their coordination to better handle solid foods. Ancestral<br />

babies would not have had access to processed foods and the best they would have done was mouth to<br />

mouth transfers of masticated food, or food that was broken up by hand. <strong>The</strong>se foods would have<br />

contained larger bits as well that might have caused less coordinated babies to choke. When babies first<br />

start eating solid foods, they need to balance the size and dryness of the foods with how much they

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