Welcome Baby, a program that First 5 Los Angeles (First 5 LA) sponsors, provides new mothers with supportive services intended to create enriching environments for their children. To identify mothers in need of these services, First 5 LA employs hospital liaisons who administer a maternal risk assessment tool, the Modified Bridges for Newborns screening tool, during postpartum interviews of mot...

A Review of Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality. By Tomiko Brown-Nagin.

The effect of daily work stress on the next morning's awakening cortisol level was determined in a sample of 124 mothers (M age = 49.89, SD= 6.33) of adolescents and adults with developmental disabilities and compared to 115 mothers (M age = 46.19, SD = 7.08) of individuals without disabilities. Mothers participated in 8 days of diary telephone interviews and provided saliva samples. Multilevel...

This three-generational study investigated family histories of attachment relationships and abusive experiences as well as current functioning of family members that differentiate supportive from unsupportive mothers of sexually abused children. Interviews and standardized adult and child measures were administered to a sample, including (a) 99 nonoffending African American mothers and their ch...

OBJECTIVE To compare some socio-demographic and obstetric factors between adolescent mothers (aged below 20 years) and older mothers of low birthweight (birthweight < 2000 gm) babies. DESIGN Cross sectional descriptive study. SETTING The Newborn Unit of the Kenyatta National Hospital. RESULTS Sixty nine adolescent mothers and 73 older mothers were studied. Adolescent mothers were more lik...

Bidder, R. T., Crowe, E. A., and Gray, 0. P. (1974). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 49, 766. Mothers' attitudes to preterm infants. Mothers' attitudes to their preterm and term children were examined and compared using the SemanticDifferential and an interview related to the experiences of mothers during pregnancy and after birth. It was postulated that mothers would show more concern for th...