Authors of the study have one message for parents: Don’t be too worried. “Babies are resilient and inquisitive by nature,” they note, and are likely to bounce back given the right support. (via The Washington Post)
of life are their most formative — their brains soak up every interaction and experience, positive and negative, to build the neural connections that will serve them for the rest of their lives.For the cohort of “lockdown babies,” the “first year of life was very different to the pre-pandemic babies,” Susan Byrne, a pediatric neurologist at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and lead author of the study, told The Washington Post.
When Chi Lam, 33, had her first child, Adriana, in April 2020, England was in lockdown. Most people wereHer parents and in-laws, who were in Hong Kong, were also unable to visit, as Hong Kong had closed its border.for the first few months of Adriana’s life, it was “just us three,” Lam told The Post. There were no play dates or visits from family and friends, and Adriana wasn’t regularly exposed to children her own age until she turned 1.
It’s difficult, Lam says, to disentangle how much of this is inherent to who Adriana is, and how much is tied to the unusual circumstances of her first year of life. But her observations echo the Studies that rely on observations can identify differences but not shed light on the reason for the difference. However, the authors of the Irish study have some theories.
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