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Foxs-In-A-Trenchcoat t1_irr6coh wrote

Reply to comment by LoveToMix in How the mother's mood influences her baby's ability to speak. Scientists found even children whose mothers suffer from mild depressive mood that do not yet require medical treatment show early signs of delayed language development. by Wagamaga

Targeted early intervention for infants of mothers with PPD or other problems that affect their babies.

My mom had undiagnosed PPD and undiagnosed autism, so I grew up in a home with a poverty of words. I had language delays. I wish my family had been identified and I and my siblings could have gotten early intervention to at least get us on track of normal language development.

Public health agencies can also provide parent education of how much talking and singing to babies matters, and strategies of how to do that. I received materials like that automatically when I had my babies. But this all needs to be evidence based before health authorities can promote advice.

My parents were ignorant back in the 80s. There was nothing like the information booklets that I got in the 00s. They thought babies were dumb blobs not worth talking to because they couldn't talk back and didn't understand anyway.

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LoveToMix t1_is3ete0 wrote

Really good that the availability of funding can be effected by the availability of research!

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