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Iowa City Press-Citizen Monday, January 20, 1988 Emphasis engagement Book tells parents 'what's available in a baby' be allowed to lie quietly with them. The hour after birth is a good time for parents and the newborn to get to know one another, they said. They also recommend a type of "rooming in" situation, flexible to the mother's needs. This practice allows the baby to spend most of its time with the mother in her room, rather than in a community nursery. The benefits of being aware of a newborn's capabilities, the Klauses say, is a better understanding of the baby, and thus a better chance of meeting the child's needs, as well as a greater enjoyment and easier bonding with the child.

First-time parents likely will feel more self-confident with the child. Fathers also benefit by feeling more immediately involved with the child, and perhaps can bypass the feelings of jealously, Phyllis Klaus said. "Equal emotional involvement can mean there's less of a tendency for jealously, when both parents' energies are geared toward the same thing," she said. She said parents of older children shouldn't feel distressed or guilty if they did not completely realize their newborn's potential. "Human beings are amazingly adaptable," she said.

"We have a wonderful ability to adapt to a lot of settings and do well. What we're saying is why not take advantage of new knowledge when it comes about?" By Sue Nichols Gannett News Service LANSING, Mich. Mom always knew her newborn baby was watching her, and she insisted her babe was smiling at her, even though everybody else said it was just gas pains. Mom was right, two experts say. Dr.

Marshall H. Klaus, professor and chairman of the Department of Pediatrics and Human Development at Michigan State University's College of Human Medicine, and his wife, Phyllis H. Klaus, a psychotherapist, social worker and educator, have written The Amazing Newborn (Addison-Wesley, 145 pages, a book that presents newborns as far more perceptive than previously believed. "People have thought of babies as immature and reflexive," he said. "We wrote the book to show parents what's available in a baby.

Most parents don't appreciate what is available in the first month of life. The infant is much more complex than is realized." The Klauses say babies just minutes old can not only see their mothers, but express a preference to their mother's faces over others, and can imitate some expressions and try to reach for people. "Sometimes when the baby touches your face or grabs a finger, the baby is truly reaching," he said. Still, Phyllis Klaus is quick to emphasize the book is not a training manual for raising super babies, but a tool to help parents make the most of an infant's first weeks of life and a way to understand and enjoy their baby more. "None of this is a test of the prowess of the baby," she said.

"We don't want to give parents the idea that babies are doing tricks all the time or that there's something wrong if they aren't. This is something to be appreciated and to be sensitive to, but not to teach." The soft-cover book, which has 125 photographs of babies less than 10 days old, says minutes-old babies focus on objects, and especially are attracted to their mothers. Marshall Klaus said the mistake many parents make is holding the infant too close to their face. Infants focus best, he said, when held about 8 to 12 inches away. Newborns also are able to visually follow an object, such as a red ball, first with their eyes, then by turning their head.

They will turn their heads toward the sound of their mother's voice, the Klauses have found. Infants also have been found to give more attention to a story that has repeatedly been read aloud before birth. They also have a highly developed sense of taste, preferring sweet to sour. And to those who attribute baby grins to gas pains, the Klauses have a few pictures, years of research and maternal testimony that says otherwise. "Mothers would see their babies looking at them and smiling at them, but the doctors would say they couldn't focus and the mothers would fight (their instincts)," Phyllis Klaus said.

"Do you smile when you have gas? If babies can imitate, and have several smiling faces over them for hours at a time, they smile." Infants have six states, from deep sleep to crying, Marshall Klaus said. It is the "quiet alert" state, which is similar to the conscious attention friends give persons to whom they are listening closely, in which an infant is most receptive to such actions. Babies only are in the quiet alert state for 10 percent of a 24-hour day, he said. Infants have a prolonged period of quiet alertness right after birth about 40 minutes in the first hour. "It is almost as if this state of quiet alertness is ideally suited so the baby can meet its mother," he said.

For this reason, the Klauses advocate changing today's traditional hospital procedure which commonly has a newborn immediately placed in a brightly lit, noisy nursery. "Why put such a sensitive, alert baby in this terrible environment," Marshall Klaus said. "It's a cruel thing to do to a newborn baby." Instead, the Klauses say a child should remain with its parents after delivery and ROBIN KAY WHEELER TIMOTHY PATRICK HENNES Celebrities to 'Bowl for Kids' Sake' Mr. and Mrs. Jim Wheeler, West Branch, announce the engagement of -their daughter, Robin Kay, to Timothy Patrick Hennes, a son of Mr.

and Mrs. James Hennes, Oxford, and the late Mary Ann Hennes. The wedding will be June 7 at United Methodist Church in West Branch. Wheeler, a graduate of the University of Northern Iowa, is assistant director of the Iowa CityCoralville Convention and Visitors Bureau. Hennes received his architectural drafting degree from Kirkwood Community College and is employed by McCo-mas-Lacina in Iowa City.

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