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“There is no such thing as a baby.”

Donald Winnicott

Winnicott was saying is that a baby cannot exist on his or her own. A baby needs the care of a mother (caregiver) and without the mother (caregiver), the baby cannot exist. Winnicott saw the infant and the mother as a unit (Winnicott, 1960).

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