infants at about six months discover their pitching arm and attempt to train their mothers to fetch as the baby bottle first falls off the high-chair tray and is then thrown by the baby. Each mom plays fetch in her own unique manner. Some moms are one-bottle retrievers; most are three-to-four-bottle retrievers. Some are more enjoyable and will retrieve over and over, at least twice or three times every meal. From a baby’s point of view, the most fun are the sighing or noisy retrievers: “Will you please quit throwing your milk bottle off the tray?” Some retrievers are quiet but lovingly say, in
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