Interactions

Interactions

1. containing

   • Walker-Andrews
     • 1mth distinguish between happy/angry/sad/surprised expressions
       • express different emotions with diff cries facial & movements
         • mom treats display as indicating distinct emotional experience
           • mom may find these difficult to handle
             • coping successfully gives infant experience of strong emotions being containable

2. Babies have 5 states of being

   • deep sleep, light sleep, quiet/alert/still/attentive, active awake, crying
     • research needs to be done in quiet state, 50% of sample give no results
       • proportion of time in this state dependent on age, temperament, environment

3. Bradley

   • average of 1.5-3 hrs a day in crying state
     • this is 1/4 to 1/2 of waking time
       • large proportion of time in distress
         • soothing major task for mom
           • together with other stresses mom can feel negative

4. Oakley

   • 70% felt angry/violent towards baby
     • 73% had feeding problems
       • 77% found babycare harder than expected
         • 100% couldn't get enough sleep

5. meshing, imitation, scaffolding, containing

   • all give child experience of different kinds of relatedness with mom
     • experience used to build IWM of first relationship
       • a basis for future relationships