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Having a baby is a big responsibility.
It’s one thing to take cute pictures with them, but to actually raise them is a whole other level of stress.????Attachment is an important part of nurturing an infant, but good news from a professional!
You only need to get it right 50% of the time.????See.
Sometimes you don’t need an A plus to succeed!????Susan Woodhouse, a researcher at LeHigh University and expert on infant attachment, found that if a primary caregiver helps a baby get to a calm state while crying just half of the time, the baby will feel secure.????“Thus, we expected that infants whom caregivers soothed from crying to calm in a chest-to-chest position for at least half of the observed episodes of infant crying would learn that, on average, they could trust their caregivers to provide a secure base,”????Which is good news for parents who don’t always have the luxury of holding an infant until they are calm every time.
????Woodhouse went on:” The other part is that you don't have to do it 100 percent - you have to get it right about half of the time, and babies are very forgiving and it's never too late.
Keep trying.
You don't have to be perfect, you just have to be good enough.”????Good enough is good!??????