PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to test the effects of infant massage (auditory (mother's voice), tactile/kinesthetic (massage) and visual (eye to eye contact) stimulation) on weight and height of infant and mother-infant interaction with normal infants over a period of 4 weeks. METHOD This study was designed as a nonequivalent control group pretest-posttest design. The experimental gro...

This review summarises the psychiatry of the puerperium, in the light of publications during the past 5 years. A wide variety of disorders are seen. Recognition of disorders of the mother-infant relationship is important, because these have pernicious long-term effects but generally respond to treatment. Psychoses complicate about one in 1000 deliveries. The most common is related to manic depr...

This longitudinal study examined the extent to which dimensions of infant negative temperament in the first year predicted IQ at age 3, and whether these associations depended on the quality of the infant–mother attachment relationship. In a sample of 63 infant–mother dyads, mothers completed Rothbart's (1981) IBQ when infants were 4 and 12 months, mothers and infants participated in Ainsworth ...

Objective: Sustained withdrawal is a sign of infant distress and may be determined by extreme conditions like organic pathology or relationship problems. The Alarm Distress Baby Scale is the best instrument to identify withdrawal in infants between 2 and 24 months of age. The aim of this study was to assess the association between infant social withdrawal behavior and maternal pathology in the ...

Oxytocin (OT) has been associated with mother–infant bonding, while cortisol levels have stressful response. The objective of this study was to explore the possible correlation between OT and quality bonding. were measured using urine saliva tests. Maternal bonding by observation a post-partum questionnaire. Our results, group 29 healthy dyads, found no nurturing condition, but we positive corr...

The development of visual interaction between mother and infant has received much attention in developmental psychology, not only in humans, but also in non-human primates. Recently, comparative developmental approaches have investigated whether the mechanisms that underlie these behaviors are common in primates. In the present study, we focused on the question of whether chimpanzee mother and ...

OBJECTIVES Very preterm infants are known to be at risk of developmental disabilities and behavioural disorders. This condition is supposed to alter mother-infant interactions. Here we hypothesize that the parental coping with the very preterm birth may greatly influence mother-infant interactions. METHODS 100 dyads were included in 3 university hospitals in France. Preterm babies at higher r...

Little is known about the relationship between maternal affectivity, social withdrawal and temperament in infants low-income countries. The goal of study was to assess prevalence behavior aged 8 ± 2.3 months explore associations affectivity during pregnancy postpartum, infant (as a sign stress) ‘difficult’ as assessed by mothers. 458 mother–infant dyads were recruited city’s public mother child...

Stress physiology is shaped by early experience, with enduring effects on health. The relation of chronic maternal physiological stress, as indexed by hair cortisol, to infants' stress systems and to mother-infant interaction quality has not been established. We examined maternal hair and salivary cortisol, six-month-old infants' salivary cortisol, and mother-infant interaction in 121 mother-in...