Nature versus Nurture.  Which is it? Is it both? Nature is our gene-pool – what we bring to the table. But what does nurture include? Is it only the environment after the baby is born or does it include the in-utero environment? How much of a role does either play in child development? And that of our children whose past – genes or otherwise – we don’t know? The ones who come to us with a whole other life and blueprint?

These questions and many others related to this topic make up what continues to be one of the leading debates in child development. Luckily for certain children the research – and mainstream reporting of such – is finally beginning to catch up with what we as mothers have perhaps know all along. When a child has a difficult start in life, whether inutero, at birth or after, it can leave its mark on the    child’s development for months and years after. […]