I'm pretty happy around babies and infants
and not used to them crying or becoming traumatised in my prescence.

However, when I wasliving in Japan I learned that i had to be really carefully around babies there - even smiling at one on a train could lead to tears and terror. They weren't used to scary white gaijin, and a lot of them weren't that used to men either (dads leaving for work beofre they wake up and getting back after they've gone to bed mean that many Japanese children don't really get to know their fathers until their older).
(massively_optimistic that's terrific!, Wed 23 Apr 2008, 14:19, Reply)