Houston, Texas- Many people have noticed over the years how the reactions of new mothers and their babies are closely linked, and that for the first six months or a year that both seem to be linked almost in a bond as close as the 9 month pregnancy womb experience.
Well now there is medical science that appears to back up the closeness of this link during the first year of life.
Researchers working from Baylor College of Medicine from Texas have found some startling new information dealing with mothers and their new babies.
A study that is being published in the July article of Pediatrics talks about the responses from 28 first time mothers and their infant babies.
When the moms looked at their babies or even at a photo of their babies when they were smiling, specific areas of the brain in the mothers were activated.
These regions are called the substantia nigra, the frontal lobe, and the striatum, and these are the areas found in behavior, cognition and emotional processing.
This was impressive because the intensity of the stimulation that these areas of the brain received was very strong, almost a natural high.