Touch

Interesting new study: http://consumer.healthday.com/Article.asp?AID=640555

showing that what you and others touch when you're interacting is just as important as the other senses.

Interesting article Perna. I also like the second about touch with babies and children. I think we all need touch and I feel sorry for the elderly in nursing homes. It would be nice to have volunteers go in and just comb their hair and rub some cream on their arms. I think this is why we have pets, since they love to be pet and it calms us. I wonder if some pets get more compassionate touching, than we do lol.

Sometimes my girls and I play the game, where to spell out the alphabet on the back of the other person and you have to guess what it is - it's so relaxing. When they were younger they used to play with my hair and put it in multiple pony tails - it was fun for them but relaxing more me.

Yes, my daughter-in-law, granddaughter and I went out to the store last weekend when they were here and before I could get in the car my daughter-in-law had to find/insert the head rest back into the front, passenger seat. I looked a question and she explained that our 5 year old grandson had been brushing her hair from the back seat as they drove to our house (an hour drive)

lovely topic - especially as this is something i do battle with - craving touch and just to be hugged and held. it definitely is important to all of us, and starts from the minute we are born.
I was born prem, and sometimes wonder if those few days I spent in an incubator, with not quite as much touch, has now caused me as an adult to crave it

How premature were you ((sugahorse))? Both my girls were 7 weeks premature, but fortunately I would take them in and out all day long. I really missed not having them come home right away. I used to pull the curtain and lay them on my bare chest with just their diaper on - it was a wonderful bonding for both of us.

I was just thinking - isn't it funny how it feels heavenly when someone else combs or washes our hair but when we do it ourselves, it doesn't feel that good.

I was about 4 weeks prem, spent about 2 weeks in an incubator. But straight after I was born I went to another hospital, and my mom only saw me after about 4 days (was born caesarean too!) My dad came to visit me though.
This was mid-winter in Germany

http://www.livestrong.com/article/72...ewborn-babies/

I agree about the importance of touch...my partner and I were friends for a short time (6 months) and we never touched, though I would look at his lips and think "those lips look so soft and sensual I want to kiss them"; When I would see him without his shirt I'd look at his skin and almost reach out to touch it. I would see his smiling face and I would want to reach out and touch his smiling lips, and stare into his sparkling blue eyes...

Waitiing 6 months was like foreplay without a single touch, and when he ran his finger down my back it was electric

Rhia