title: Why Babies Do That: Baffling Baby Behavior Explained
author:  Jennifer Margulis 
description: <i>"With all the parenting books out there, one women found a way to write about babies without doling out the usual advice about sleep schedules and breast feeding."<br /></i><br /> (<i>Ashland Daily Tidings</i>)
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  The Help
  
  
  Chapter 1
  
  
  August 1962
  
  
  MAE MOBLEY was born on a early Sunday morning in August, 1960. A church baby
  we like to call it. Taking care a white babies, that’s what I do, along with
  all the cooking and the cleaning. I done raised seventeen kids in my lifetime.
  I know how to get them babies to sleep, stop crying, and go in the toilet bowl
  before they mamas even get out a bed in the morning.
  
  But I ain’t never seen a baby yell like Mae Mobley Leefolt. First day I walk
  in the door, there she be, red-hot and hollering with the colic, fighting that
  bottle like it’s a rotten turnip. Miss Leefolt, she look terrified a her own
  child. “What am I doing wrong? Why can’t I stop it?” It? That was my first
  hint: something is wrong with this situation.
  
  So I took that pink, screaming baby in my arms. Bounced her on my hip to get
  the gas moving and it didn’t take two minutes fore Baby Girl stopped her
  crying, got to smiling up at me like she do.