Bryan’s poop is getting ridiculously humongous. Sometimes when we open up the diaper, we can’t tell where his butt ends and the poop begins.
In addition to the humongous poops, the little fella has also been pooping two to three times a day on a regular basis. What could possibly be in the formula that makes so much poop? Marvels of the human body…
Yesterday was the first day of class with this famous infant/toddler instructor in the Bay Area. She was impressive. Remember the “Cry Baby” entry I did? Well, she touched on the scientific aspect of that topic in the class. It had something to do with the inhibitory and excitatory synapses and neurons. The basic idea is, when an infant is deprived of his emotions or needs (i.e. nobody attends to his cries), the inhibitory neurons get used a lot more often and thus form stronger connections for synapses. Over time, this translates into a person who’s going to be incapable of “regulating” his own emotions and is much more likely to be depressed, stressed with less self-confidence.
With all the research and knowledge we have today (30+ years of continuous longitudinal research), I am surprised there are still people who choose to believe that attending to crying babies is a form of spoiling them.