why a mother hates her baby

[Joseph S. Barrera III]

> >Who could not love a little kid.
> 
> [from D.W. Winnicott, "Hate in the Counter-Transference," The 
> International Journal of Psycho-Analysis 30, part 2 (1949), pp. 69-74]
> 
> The mother, however, hates her infant from the word go. I believe 
> Freud thought it possible that a mother may under certain 
> circumstances have only love for her boy baby; but we may doubt this. 
> We know about a mother's love and we appreciate its reality and 
> power. Let me give some of the reasons why a mother hates her baby, 
> even a boy.

1. Note that Winnicott describes a hate that coexists with love.

   So this doesn't really answer the original question of

   how one could "not love" a little kid.

2. Why the word "hate"? "Resent", I can understand.

- Joe