In Brief: Infant Mental Health
According to the National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families or “Zero to Three” (zerotothree.org, 2016), the first three years of life are a substantial period of growth in all areas of a baby's development: “A newborn's brain is about 25 percent of its approximate adult weight. But by age 3, it has grown dramatically by producing billions of cells and hundreds of trillions of connections, or synapses, between these cells. While we know that the development of a young