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The author outlines issues in development and gender for the developing infant and parent, and discusses interventions for mother-infant dyads that are struggling. She concludes that if parents can make a relationship with their new infant in which the infant feels readable, the mother in particular is more likely to feel whole again. She gives vignettes of babies and mothers that recover from early deficits, giving the baby a more substantial footing and the mother a new view of herself as a mother.