Mother–Infant Communication: Carrying Understanding to a New Level
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چکیده
A recent study has found that carrying - not just holding - by human mothers has a specific calming effect on crying infants, inducing a coordinated physiological response that includes a reduction in heart rate. A similar response in mice has opened the door to elucidating the underlying neural mechanisms.
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A survey on hospital-staff practice for communication of mother-infant attachment and rooming in plan in niknafs maternity ward in Kerman
birth attendants are among the most important persons who can provide appropriate mother-infant relationship,immediately after birth followed by nurses who continue the task in the postpartum ward.on june 1995,using a data collection from prepared by the research group,staff behaviour toward childbearing mothers and their newborn infants(n=215) was observed in the delivery room and postpartum ...
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Current Biology
دوره 23 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2013