I did some training this week, some of it covered a bit about attachment theory, which I knew a reasonable amount about. But something came up which disturbed/unsettled/worried me, given the continued stresses I have found myself under this pregnancy, and also in my last pregnancy when my mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer and became very very ill.
It is suggested that Attachment starts in utero, and that the brain development can be physically affected by 'loss of equilibrium' resulting in production of excess cortisol? I asked if this is was caked up medically as it was a bit scaremongery (esp given that the training did not come with any 'health warning' as such).
Of course there is the 'resilliance factor' in relation to how a newborn baby might cope in the first few months of having to deal with parental stresses and lack of attachment can be overcome, but what about the physical aspects of this suggestion on brain damage in the womb? That cannot be reversed, if it is correct.
I am wondering what your thoughts on this are? Do not passify me, or say what you think I might want to hear, but rather your actual opinions on whether this is in fact true, and how you might come to that decision?