The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Trauma and Adversity—A Transformative Guide to Understanding Childhood Trauma and Health

by Nadine Burke Harris

But if an infant doesn’t have a caregiver’s reciprocal eye contact, stimulating facial expressions, snuggles, and kisses, hormonal and neurologic damage can occur, and that can prevent a child from growing and developing normally. When a baby is not being cared for, she doesn’t grow well, even if she has enough nutrition.