Why attachment is the only thing that really matters in baby?s first year
We are born to connect. As human beings we are relational and we need biological, emotional and psychological connection with others. We learn how to connect and create the patterns we form during our infancy and early childhood.
These patterns and experiences become embodied in us and become the way we understand how the world and people work. Such early experiences with our primary caregivers teach us what to expect throughout life.
Attachment is the relational dance that parents and babies share together. You can think of this when you see a baby look at their parent and they catch each other?s eyes in a wonderful gaze: the parent smiles and the baby smiles and then the parent kisses and the baby coos. Or, when an infant cries to tell their parent they are hungry, and the parent picks up the baby and provides a warm cozy snuggle and the baby is satiated with a full heart and belly. This is the dance that creates the framework for the interactions that we have our whole lives and how we understand love.
Babies need loving connection to thrive
René Spitz was a psychiatrist who studied infants and children in orphanages and prisons before Western medicine understood the importance of attachment or connection.
Through his research in the 1930s, Spitz discovered infants and children could die if they were not connected with or touched: they could receive adequate nutrition and health care, but fail to thrive from lack of loving contact.
Spitz filmed babies and toddlers who w...
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