Mom Guilt? Scientists Filmed Moms and Babies – Out of Sync More Than 70% of the Time

🤍 Carrying mom guilt? A free personal letter for you https://thebirthletter.com/your-lette... Made from your birth date and birth name. Ready in about 3 minutes – read or listen, no card needed. Ever feel like you're getting it wrong with your baby? Researchers filmed moms and babies at play, moment by moment – and found they were out of sync more than 70% of the time. The authors called it "common and expected… normal, indeed." What mattered was coming back. Plus Winnicott's "good enough mother," the famous still-face experiment, and what research found about the pressure to be perfect. CHAPTERS 0:00 Mom guilt 0:28 The good enough mother 1:11 Out of sync – most of the time 2:03 The part that matters: coming back 2:43 When a mom stops responding 3:25 What ordinary looks like 3:50 The pressure to be perfect 4:20 You're a good mom Studies • Winnicott D.W. 1953, International Journal of Psycho-Analysis 34:89–97 – Transitional Objects and Transitional Phenomena • Tronick E.Z. & Cohn J.F. 1989, Child Development 60(1):85–92 – doi:10.2307/1131074 • Tronick E. et al. 1978, Journal of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry 17:1–13 – the still-face experiment • van IJzendoorn M.H. & Kroonenberg P.M. 1988, Child Development 59:147–156 – doi:10.2307/1130396 • Lee M.A., Schoppe-Sullivan S.J. & Kamp Dush C.M. 2012, Personality and Individual Differences 52(3):454–457 – doi:10.1016/j.paid.2011.10.047 • Kawamoto T., Furutani K. & Alimardani M. 2018, Frontiers in Psychology 9:970 – doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00970 Not medical or parenting advice – for anything about your health or your child's, talk to your doctor. #momguilt #motherhood #goodenoughmother