A decline in socializing during COVID could mean less verbalizing for babies born during the pandemic. Read more by clicking the link below. DiscoverMagazine
In late January 2020, I had my second child, a baby girl. By all accounts, the experience was similar to my first child, a baby boy born in 2015. In both cases, I went into labor a week before my due date, went through a natural birth at the same hospital and then took my daughter home to the same bassinet that my son had slept in five years earlier.
Separate unpublished research also found a dip in words used throughout a child’s day, according to the, a Colorado-based non-profit that used recording technology to track a child’s language. LENA Foundation has tracked children between the ages of two and 24 months with digital recorders worn in their front pockets throughout the day.
Clinicians and researchers are worried that parents were talking to their children less as a result of stress and time constraints, says Dani Dumitriu, an assistant professor of pediatrics, in psychiatry, at Columbia University. Less exposure to their peers in places like preschool, birthday parties and family get-togethers, as well as less diversity of experiences may also impact their development.
"What we might see in babies who were born during the first part of the pandemic when there was so much stress and insecurity might be very different from what we see towards the end of the pandemic," she says. "People have changed the way they work and a lot of parents are spending more time at home and more time with their children.
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