Colleagues commented that my stressful work (budget + campaign launch + unreasonable boss) attributed to the frowns during the 9+ months of pregnancy.
I do admit that during throughout the pregnancy, I was stressed out at work, I frowned everyday, I snapped @ anyone who hadn't got a common sense, then came after launch, my temper worsened... Tsk tsk tsk...
My girl has a temper just like her mommy, ie, can be happy and then get frustrated in just a split second.
Came across a title "Are children born happy?". Hmm... I guess so. But whatever they're born with, it also needs time to further sustain and perhaps inculcate. Children are like sponges. They absorb.
"Although temperament is determined by nature, that doesn't mean it's permanent, temperament is modified by experience, and you end up with what we call personality." as quoted from Lise Eliot, author of What's Going on in There? How the Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years of Life.
I don't know if I'll need to work doubly hard to get my girl not to frown so ever often, but whatever it is, she still has the happy character...
According to the experts, the eyebrows, the mouth, and vocalizations are all signaling systems for the baby.
For example, a baby in physical distress will cry with the corners of his mouth turned down and his eyebrows arched in the middle. With anger, baby's face becomes red, his eyebrows turn down, his jaw clenches, and he lets out a roar. Most parents recognize that a fearful, easily upset baby isn't a happy camper.
While the youngest infants don't really feel happy when they look happy, the good news is they're not emotionally aware when they're screaming, either. Eliot explains that the "cortical emotion centers" of baby's brain don't begin to function until he's 6 to 8 months old, when he starts to feel the emotions that seem so vivid on his face.
So is baby Heidi happy when she looks happy? or sad?
Duh... I'm confused.
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