Study - there is a weak association between observer-rated maternal warmth (someone watching you and your baby and rating you) and future BMI trajectories in the baby Headlines:pic.twitter.com/SXUqFdvFXa
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It's probably pretty much impossible for an external observer to assess 'maternal warmth' in a totally unbiased way, which to me makes the whole thing much more complicated How much of this rating could be due to the observers' own biases? Hard to say
On top of all of this, it's worth noting that the study didn't find ANY correlations with MOST OF THE VARIABLES THEY STUDIEDpic.twitter.com/heX0uirY0h
So the headlines could've read "mother's behavior makes very little difference to baby's future weight, some indications warmth is important" But that's a bit less news-worthy, I guess
Honestly, my take-home from this study is that mothers probably don't have to worry much about how loving they are to their infants To be fair, I would've said that before the study as well
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