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Title: First Steps: III Peach Fuzz Summary: This is all he needs to know in his first week of life. His child-mind processes binary concepts. Yes/no. Positive/negative. He knows these things: soft warm good happy This is all he needs to know in his first week of life. He has no worries, nor does he even realize what worry is. If he had the ability to understand non-linear concepts, he would know that he is safe in the care of a mother and a father. He would be assured that they will take care of everything he needs, and wrap him in a bunting of love. But he drifts in dreams of bright colors. Images have yet to form within his developing brain. Every color is good. The bass thud of a heartbeat under his ear reminds him of his mother's womb. It registers a "positive" on his binary scale. He feels only a beat, and thinks he may still be in mommy's uterus. He does not know it is his father's heart thumping under him. He does not know what "father" is. "Warm" is good, too, but when it spreads to his diaper, it becomes not so good. He scrunches up his face and cries. The heartbeat under him -- "father" -- will take care of it. He does not know the abstract reasoning behind it, but knows that negative will become positive. This will soon be good.
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