Babies need to feel safe to be able to rest, digest and thus grow well. Here is how to understand this whole process
So when we look at the baby from the lens of neuroscience, we are looking at the environment, which is an inner environment, which is called the limbic system. The limbic system – it represents the emotional environment of the baby. And if we need to go into the rest and digest mode, which allows the repair system, development system, the growth aspect of the baby, it requires the kind of sleep that baby goes into.
So if the baby’s not able to go into that mode, and we are worried that, you know, my baby’s not sleeping enough and we are thinking maybe, oh, the food is not enough, so baby’s not sleeping.
We may need to reconsider the environment the baby is in. Because baby needs that sense of security and that level of settling, that needs to be environmentally created for the baby, by the attachment of the mother and other dynamics that are going around that, which allows this mode to happen automatically.
