| What an interesting post.
The best suggestion is to introduce a dog to children at as young an age as possible. Gunner met babies when he was less than 5 months and every chance I get I have him see babies.
Reminds me of a friend who recently dropped by with her 16 week old baby. He was sleeping in his car seat on the coffee table and Gunner would wander over all carefull like and stretch his nose towards him for a sniff. If the baby moved he'd lean back and cock his head. He was hilarious. Then at one point the baby cried and he took off into another room as fast as he could. lol. Then peeked out and looked, carefully (almost tip toeing) came back out and gave him another shiff and a lick while he was in his mommy's arms.
A woman around the corner from me had a red female and she had a baby about 7 months ago. When the nice weather came (hadn't seen her since last summer) I found out that she had given the female to a friend b/c she was growling and nervous around the baby when she got home from the hospital. The friends have been bringing her over for play time with the male corso they still have and that now she is fine with the baby and will even go up and lick him. That she regrets giving her away and feels too terribly to ask if she can have her back.
So my best advise is to read the body language of the dog and give them time to adjust to babies.
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