Hungry babies want to eat. It's up to parents and other caretakers to help babies develop a good attitude about food. With lots of praise, a little patience and encouragement, your baby can learn a wide variety of tastes and textures in new foods. Good food habits start in infancy. Mothers who use full-time child care sometimes worry that their babies will feel more love for the child care provider.
Research shows that infants in child care do form strong bonds of love with caregivers.
But research also shows that caregivers do not replace the parents. Some of the research was done in communal towns in Israel, where babies live and sleep in special infant houses with trained caregivers and only see their parents for about three hours each evening. Even in this extreme case, babies are still more strongly attached to their parents than to their caregivers. Babies form these same strong attachments to adoptive parents, too. He or she helps you raise your baby, but never replaces you.