"Your baby's brain doubles in size during the first year of life. This extraordinary brain growth is, according to Dr. Allan Schore, a professor of interpersonal neurobiology at the Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, "experience dependent" -- that is "reliant on social interaction" with the mother."
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"For the first few weeks it may seem like a baby does nothing but eat, poop, and sleep. But the truth is very different; an infant is creating 40,000 synapses (connections between neurons in the brain) per second."
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• Reading this passage and knowing there's so much #truth here. My 8-month old clings desperately to me like his life depends on it...because it does •
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The results of the data analysis also supported the idea that in the course of early ontogeny, a hierarchical organization emerges in the central nervous system that underlies the behavioral development of free-living chimpanzee babies and infants. We went on to observe and film human mothers and their infants in their home environment in the Netherlands.
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Out of this analysis emerged the notion of what we now know as "developmental leaps." The data showed clear phases of "regression" in independence --difficult phases when the baby clings more closely to the mother, when they want to be nursed more often, and let out "whimpering sounds" more frequently than before.
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• Not a single baby escapes, the book says, and mine is no exception. Here's a tentative forecast chart that means more to me than the actual weather forecast ☀️⛅️⛈🌪Parenting is hard, y'all, don't ever let anyone tell you otherwise. Good night, friends •
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• I am enjoying this nonfiction, social science-y book about my tribe. AWKWARD people UNITE! •
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