The Effects of Negative Emotions on Infants

As infants, what we anticipate and what we really need is to feel when we are distressed and in need that the person that primarily is taking care of us can handle that. But like you said, Sue, for all sorts of reasons, sometimes that doesn't happen. And because we as parents have depression, we may as parents have a history of not being nurtured ourselves. Not being comfortable with negative emotions, that's a big impact from a parent to an infant.