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The development of the child begins with the critical act of birth and the critical period that follows it, the newborn period. At the moment of birth, the child separates physically from the mother, but because of a number of circumstances, biological separation from the mother does not quite occur at that moment. In basic vital functions, the child remains a biologically dependent being for a long time. During this whole period, the vital activity and existence itself of the child is of such a unique character that this alone is a basis for identifying the newborn period as a special age with all the distinctive traits of a critical age.
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Rieber, R.W. (1998). Infancy. In: Rieber, R.W. (eds) The Collected Works of L. S. Vygotsky. Cognition and Language. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5401-1_7
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