"Those hugs helped calibrate your developing stress response system. The body’s stress response system works best in short bursts, with long rests in between. Too much activation and the stress reaction becomes self-reinforcing, inefficient, always set to trigger. Think of a car with an alarm so sensitive that you can’t walk past without starting it blasting.
"Stress hormones put additional wear and tear on the body, affecting infant growth patterns and eventual life functioning. A mother's fast response to an infant’s experience of stress allows the stress reaction system to turn off when it needs to. And, as the child learns that his mother will respond to help him overcome his stress, that understanding produces what’s called “secure attachment,” a close emotional bond between the infant and his mother or other caregiver...."
http://redesigningmentalillness.blogspot.dk/2012/11/that-hug-from-your-mom-is-evidence.html
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