Abstract Background Prenatal depression and adult attachment are factors that affect the establishment of an intimate relationship between a mother fetus. The study explored differences in prenatal maternal-fetal (MFA) scores different types effects maternal dimensions on intimacy with Methods Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS), Experience Close Relationship (ECR) scale, Maternal Anten...

Successful intrauterine hematopoietic cell transplantation (IUT) for congenital hemoglobinopathies is hampered by maternal alloresponsiveness. We investigate these interactions in semi-allogenic murine IUT. E14 fetuses (B6 females × BALB/c males) were each treated with 5E+6 (B6) or paternal (BALB/c) bone marrow cells and serially monitored chimerism (>1% engraftment), trafficked immune cells, r...

STR marker. Fourteen of these 19 pairs (74%) showed the presence of X-chromosomal DNA of paternal origin in maternal plasma (Table 1). Among the 14 third trimester sample pairs with informative STRs, the paternal allele could be detected in 10 (71%). A similar percentage was found for maternal plasma collected during the second trimester (80%; four of five). The earliest gestational age at whic...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the influence of an expectant mother's personality style, maternal object representations, and ability to develop an internal representation of her fetus upon the quality and intensity of maternal fetal attachment. The exploration of the power of object representations and personality to predict prenatal attachment (also referred to in the literature ...

The earliest relationship does not begin with birth. Pregnant women construct mental representations of the fetus, and feelings of affiliation or "maternal-fetal attachment" generally increase over the course of gestation. While there is a fairly substantial literature on the development and moderation of psychological features of the maternal-fetal relationship, including the role of ultrasoun...

Article history: Initial receipt 2 February 2017 25 September 2017 Final revision received 25 September 2017 Available online xxxx The relationship betweenmaternal and paternal affection, reported in adulthood, and personality was examined using a genetically sensitive research design comparing differences betweenmonozygotic twins. Using life history theory as a framework, itwas predicted that ...

Mammalian pregnancy requires protection against immunological rejection of the developing fetus bearing discordant paternal antigens. Immune evasion in this developmental context entails silenced expression of chemoattractant proteins (chemokines), thereby preventing harmful immune cells from penetrating the maternal-fetal interface. Here, we demonstrate that fetal wastage triggered by prenatal...

BACKGROUND Over the past decades, attachment research has predominantly focused on the attachment relationship that infants develop with their parents or that adults had with their own parents. Far less is known about the development of feelings of attachment in parents towards their children. The present study examined a) whether a simple non-verbal (i.e., pictorial) measure of attachment (Pic...