BACKGROUND Children with cleft lip and palate are at risk for psychological problems. Difficulties in mother-child interactions may be relevant, and could be affected by the timing of lip repair. METHOD We assessed cognitive development, behaviour problems, and attachment in 94 infants with cleft lip (with and without cleft palate) and 96 non-affected control infants at 18 months; mother-infa...

Attachment theory postulates that mothers and their infants possess some basic physiological mechanisms that favor their dyadic interaction and bonding. Many studies have focused on the maternal physiological mechanisms that promote attachment (e.g., mothers' automatic responses to infant faces and/or cries), and relatively less have examined infant physiology. Thus, the physiological mechanism...

A positive effect of breastfeeding on the mother–infant relationship is often assumed in the scientific literature, but this has not been systematically reviewed. This review aims to clarify the role of breastfeeding in the mother–infant relationship, which is conceptualized as the maternal bond toward the infant and infant attachment toward the mother. Our findings indicate that theoretical me...

background: recent studies have demonstrated the high prevalence of vitamin d deficiency in the general population. pregnancy and preterm delivery are known as risk factors for vitamin d deficiency. consequently, vitamin d level in women with preterm deliveries might vary from those with term pregnancies. in this study, we aimed to compare vitamin d level in term and preterm infant–mother pairs...

introduction with the increase in women's employment and change in attitudes towards father’s role in family, father involvement in infant care can indirectly influence the physical health and well being of infant and mother. materials and methods this randomized clinical trial was performed on 150 qualified pregnant women and husbands. during the 35-37 weeks of pregnancy, fathers in fathe...

INTRODUCTION We aimed to investigate the mother-toddler relationship in preterm toddlers. METHODS The sample consisted of 18 mothers and their preterm toddlers (group 1) and 20 mothers and their fullterm toddlers (group 2). Anxiety and depressive symptom levels, attachment pattern, and parental attitudes of mothers and social-emotional problems and developmental level of the toddlers were exp...

Many mothers experience difficulties after the birth of a baby. Mindful parenting may have benefits for mothers and babies, because it can help mothers regulate stress, and be more attentive towards themselves and their babies, which may have positive effects on their responsivity. This study examined the effectiveness of Mindful with your baby, an 8-week mindful parenting group training for mo...

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...

The phenotype of the infant of the diabetic mother is generally perceived as being macrosomic or large for gestational age. However, not all infants of women with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) are macrosomic and, under certain circumstances, because of the interaction of genes and environment, can present as small for gestational age at birth. In contrast, the macrosomic infant presenting...