Predictors of maternal functional status during postpartum period

Promoting Maternal-Newborn Bonding During the Postpartum Period

Neonatal-Maternal Attachment and Self-compassion in Postpartum Period

Background: between mother and her neonatal reflects the quality of maternal emotional feelings and behaviors toward her baby. This attachment emerges in behaviors, which indicate the mother’s attention and care. Self-compassion is the extension of compassion to oneself in instances of perceived inadequacy, failure, or general suffering. Regarding this, the aim of the present study was to deter...

Regulation of anxiety during the postpartum period.

Healthy mother-infant interactions are critical for the physical, cognitive, and psychological development of offspring. Such interactions rely on numerous factors, including a positive maternal emotional state. However, many postpartum women experience emotional dysregulation, often involving elevated anxiety. Neuroendocrine factors contributing to the onset of postpartum anxiety symptoms are ...

Predictors of Maternal Blouse in the Postpartum Period Based on Social Determinants of Health of the World Health Organization Model: A Path Analysis

Objective The aim of this study was to determine the Predictors of maternal blouse in the postpartum period based on social determinants of health of the World Health Organization model: a path analysis Methods This cohort study was conducted on 449 women have given birth who were referred to health care centers of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences. The sampling method was a multi...

Association between maternal sense of competence and self-efficacy in primiparous women during postpartum period

Background: When women's' lives enter a new phase after childbirth, they need to adapt to it in order to accept their motherhood role. Maternal competency depends on the mother's perception of her maternal role and the ability to attain and fulfill it. The aim of this study was to examine the association between maternal sense of competence and self-efficacy in the postpartum period. Methods: I...

The plasticity of human maternal brain: longitudinal changes in brain anatomy during the early postpartum period.

Animal studies suggest that structural changes occur in the maternal brain during the early postpartum period in regions such as the hypothalamus, amygdala, parietal lobe, and prefrontal cortex and such changes are related to the expression of maternal behaviors. In an attempt to explore this in humans, we conducted a prospective longitudinal study to examine gray matter changes using voxel-bas...