OBJECTIVE To study whether early mother-infant contact with suckling and rooming-in reduces the rate of infant abandonment. DESIGN The infant abandonment rate was studied at a Russian hospital before and after the introduction of early mother-infant contact with suckling and rooming-in. SETTING Maternity Hospital 11 , a public hospital in St Petersburg, Russia, was chosen as the site of thi...

The mother child relationship can help or hinder the social, emotional and intellectual development of the infant. Research has shown that the interaction between mother and child can affect the child's cognitive development. Research has shown that mothers from the lower socio-economic groups do not stimulate their babies optimally and that this may affect the children negatively. In this stud...

Recent high-risk longitudinal studies have documented a unique contribution of the quality of the early mother-child relationship to diverse forms of psychopathology in young adulthood, even with family economic status, later traumatic experiences, and some genetic factors controlled. In addition, measures of attachment-related deviations in caregiver-infant interaction predict more than measur...

This study examined associations between interparental relationship dynamics and vagus system functioning in infancy. The functioning of the vagus system, part of the parasympathetic nervous system, indexes emotional reactivity and regulation. Interparental avoidance and dyadic adjustment constitute the focus of this study in order to bring attention to relationship dynamics not subsumed under ...

Postnatal depression (PND) is associated with impairments in the mother-child relationship, and these impairments are themselves associated with adverse child outcomes. Thus, compared to the children of non-depressed mothers, children of mothers with (PND) are more likely to be insecurely attached, and to have externalizing behavior problems and poor cognitive development. Each of these three c...

This article is part of a Special Issue "Parental Care". Early mother-infant relationships play important roles in infants' optimal development. New mothers undergo neurobiological changes that support developing mother-infant relationships regardless of great individual differences in those relationships. In this article, we review the neural plasticity in human mothers' brains based on functi...

<b>Objective: </b>The aim of the study is to evaluate relationship between fear COVID-19 and mother infant bonding in postpartum women.<br /> <b>Material methods: </b>This descriptive cross-sectional was conducted online from social media platforms. The women who were period (between 1-40 days), using smart phones, healthy for themselves their babies included study...

In a study of the occurrence of detectable antibodies to SS-A and SS-B in 300 randomly selected mother-infant pairs, three (1%) mother-infant pairs were positive for precipitating antibodies to SS-A. No matched pairs were positive for SS-B. Review of the clinical history of the mother-infant pairs with SS-A antibodies failed to reveal evidence of connective tissue disease or the neonatal lupus ...

Objective: This study aimed to investigate paternal depression occurring during a partner’s pregnancy in the Chugoku region of Japan, as well examine factors associated with and its possible relevance attachment child. Methods: cross-sectional used Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) assess men. Sociodemographic details background from previous studies on included. In particular, relevant sc...

a study on the relationship between duration of breastfeeding and some maternal and neonatal factors    amirshahi m [1] *,shiri s [2] ,salehin sh [3] ,mohamad rezaei zh [4]     received: 19 feb, 2013 accepted: 25 apr, 2013    abstract   background & aims : breastfeeding has many benefits for mother and preterm infant. identify factors affecting breastfeeding, have an effective role in supportin...