Every mother at one point will spend time away from her child – whether it’s going back to work or them going to school, going away for a weekend or them staying over at a friend’s house.
The panic of being separated from your child for the first time slowly subsides (well it took about a dozen times before I was comfortable with leaving her with a babysitter). But sometimes you can’t help but think ‘I should be there to comfort my baby if anything goes wrong!’.
A recent study suggests that a mother’s voice is as soothing to a child in a stressful situation, as much as a hug. A mother’s voice can help create as much oxytocin (the love hormone) in a child as physical comfort. Oxytocin is believed to be strongly associated with social bonding as well as alleviating the affects of cortisol (the stress hormone).
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