When discussing my early years my mother always has a smile on her face. She was so proud to have me as her boy. In the beginning stages after my birth and return home from the hospital my mother continued to try her best to take care of me the best that she could. Because she was abstaining from mostly all chemicals, she breastfed me from the time I was born. Throughout my first couple of weeks in the world, my mother says I was well behaved and slept a little more than the average according to doctor Benetti. My mother also says I grew very attached to her presence and began experiencing separation anxiety from the beginning. Although the book states it usually takes place around nine months, my mother recalls it being much earlier than that. She recalls me having a great deal of frustration at times when not by her. When my mother would have my grandmother babysit me at around six months, my mother said I did experience some stranger anxiety. My temperament according to my mother after I showed her the book easy. In fact, she used to thank god every day for having such a well-behaved baby. However, she did notice when not around her I wasn't as easy going.
             The next thing my mother likes to discuss is how early I began walking. She is proud to say that at 11 months I was walking alone. I read in the book that the average is somewhere around a year. She always said that in every respect of development I was a quick learner in walking, talking, and in development in general. My mother likes to take some well deserved credit for taking such good care of me and breastfeeding me in my developmental time frame. After showing my mother the text, she says I did have somewhat of an anxious-resistant attachment style during my infancy. When my mother was around I would take on any new task, play with toys, and explore in ways infants normally do. However in the absence of my mother I was more cautious to my environment.
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