Baby Meets World  Suck, Smile, Touch, Toddle  Nicholas Day  St.
Martin's Press   Sucking: A Love Story  He’s missing. He has
horrible aim. It’s Isaiah’s first photo starring him and his new
best friend. It is also the beginning of an obsession, his
desperate need to get something—anything—into his mouth and suck
on it like a toothless vampire bat. He was designed to be a
vampire bat: a newborn is a body led around by a mouth. It is
his most sensitive organ, his most useful tool for probing the
mysteries of the world—the best way to probe any mystery being
to suck on it, of course. When you have a hammer, everything
looks like a nail; when you are a baby, everything looks like
something to suck. Even nothing is something to suck. Watch a
sleeping or sleepy infant closely and you will often see her
mouth slowly, silently, suck on nothing but air. The typical
baby in the parenting books we were reading seemed to be highly
discriminating about what she sucked. The parents have tried
every bottle; they’ve bought e