Momma Georgia

I read something very interesting yesterday in a book by Dr. Dobson:

To understand the personalities and inclinations of young girls, it is important to understand what is called "infantile puberty." It refers to a period between six and thirty months of age when the ovaries produce huge amounts of estrogen, comparable even to adult levels. As testosterone marinates the male brain in early gestation, estrogen bathes the female brains of babies and toddlers. Estrogen is called the "intimacy hormone" because it stimulates brain circuits that create an urgent desire for bonding, nurturing and communication....It's what makes her feminine.

He then goes on to share a story of a woman who was one day "mildly depressed. At eighteen months, her daughter noticed immediately that something was wrong. She climbed onto her mother's lap and caressed her hair, glasses, and earrings. Then she looked straight into her mother's eyes, held her face in her hands, and soothed her mom's feelings. That little girl knew exactly what she was doing. We know now that this kind of female nurturing is a precursor to bonding in motherhood. She was a future mom in training.

Intriguing! I have to admit that Georgia has done this for me before as well. I never thought of it as the "future mother" in her. But I know now this is true because this is what I found after stepping out of the room for a minute:


Here is Momma Georgia going through all of my pregnancy papers and pamphlets. I guess she wants to know what she has to look forward to as a "future mother"!