A mother will arrive at the discovery, either instinctively or by an unconscious series of

A mother will arrive at the discovery, either instinctively or by an unconscious series of trials and errors, that her baby is more at peace if______on the left against her heart than on the right.

A．holding

B．held

C．having held

D．being held

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