Studies show babies become anxious if ignored for even two minutes by mother
They may have barely mastered sitting up by themselves.
But six-month-old babies become stressed out when they don’t get the attention they feel they deserve.
Levels of the stress hormone cortisol soar when they are ignored by their mother, and even a day later they are worried about the same thing happening again.
A baby who is deprived of its mother’s love for just two minutes is anxious about being ignored again the next day, a study found.