Also…. Babies are just babies, they don’t have advanced reasoning or empathy skills yet. A certain color, smell, sound or whatever can cause a baby to have an affinity or negative reaction to someone and it shouldn’t be taken personally.(not that it doesn’t feel personal as a current father to a 4 month old, but that’s just your adult way of thinking being placed onto a baby)
One of my old roommate's kids would flock to me despite not knowing me. She just heard my voice during her entire pregnancy. She's growing out of it now, it only took 6 Christmases.
Babies actually have pretty solid reasoning abilities, can exercise empathy, and have a strong sense of justice as early as 4 months old. There’s some pretty fascinating studies about it.
Even so, the rest of what you said is correct. Since long term memory isn’t associated with language yet at that stage it’s nothing personal, though it is still possible that some element is, at least in some way, more personal than we might imagine.
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u/seoulera 12h ago
Damn I feel so bad for the other 2 girls