Page 3 - The First 60 Days Magazine

NURTURING

IS

NOT

SPOILING!

The first and primary need of a baby is to get their needs
met and establish a trust in someone that aids in their
survival and a feeling of security. They seek and actually
require closeness. An infant is helpless so it is necessary to
establish a connection to someone that will consistently and
lovingly respond to expressed needs. When needs are met
repeatedly and predictably in a timely and nurturing way, a
feeling of security results.

These repeated nurturing experiences actually create
physical connections between the 86 billion brain cells a
baby is born with and to a critical extent contribute to an
essential foundation in the brain toward well-being in life.
These early relationships and important resulting
connections have a very real impact on physical and mental
health, behavior, learning and self-perception.

The most advanced “thinking area” of the brain for
controlling impulses, abstract thinking, planning, regulating
behavior and anticipating consequences begins
development through predictable, nurturing, respectful and
responsive relationships.

There is a wealth of valuable research on the crucial impact
of responsive caregiving and establishing a secure
attachment that has been done for decades. Recent
research reveals that the first two months have the greatest
influence.

So, nurturing is absolutely NOT spoiling a baby, it is
completely the opposite. The babies are desperately waiting
for this to become common knowledge!

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