The quality of children's social interactions and their attachment security with a primary caregiver are two widely studied indices of socioemotional functioning in early childhood. Although both Bowlby and Ainsworth suggested that the parent-child interactions underlying the development of attachment security could be distinguished from other aspects of parent-child interaction (e.g., play), r...

This study was conducted to identify the factors affecting maternal– fetal attachment behaviors among unmarried pregnant women. The research subjects were 105 unmarried pregnant women who visited 15 shelters for unmarried mothers around the country. The data were collected from January to February 2015 through questionnaire survey, and were analyzed with descriptive statistics, t-tests, ANOVAs,...

Malm, M.-C. 2016. Fetal Movements in late Pregnancy. Categorization, Self-assessment, and Prenatal Attachment in relation to women’s experiences. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Medicine 1171. 73 pp. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. ISBN 978-91-554-9446-9. Aim: To explore how pregnant women experience fetal movements in late pregnancy. Specif...

PURPOSE To test the feasibility and acceptability of a caring-based nurse home visit intervention for women pregnant after perinatal loss (PAL), the goal of which was to provide a safe, supportive environment, normalize the pregnancy after loss, reduce anxiety and depression through stress reduction skills, and facilitate prenatal attachment. STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS This mixed methods study ...

Aim: to assess effect of a training program about maternal fetal attachment skills on prenatal attachment among primigravida women. Subjects and Methods: A quasi experimental research design was utilized. From a specific private Antenatal Clinic in Mansoura city-Egypt eighty primigravida women aged 20 to 35 years, at 30 week gestation, had singleton pregnancy and can read and write were selecte...

Introduction and Objectives: Nulliparous women with unplanned pregnancy experience high levels of anxiety, which may adversely affect maternal-fetal attachment. Therefore, in this study, we aimed to determine the effect of guided imagery on maternal-fetal attachment in nulliparous women with unplanned pregnancy. Materials and Methods: In this clinical trial, 67 nulliparous women with unplanned ...

OBJECTIVE The current longitudinal study explored the prevalence and psychosocial factors of disordered eating among new Chinese mothers in Hong Kong. METHOD Self-report questionnaires on bulimic symptoms and pregnancy-related factors were collected at both prenatal and postnatal periods from 131 Chinese women. RESULTS Participants reported significantly more severe disordered eating in the...

Our understanding of prenatal behavior has been significantly advanced by techniques for direct observation and manipulation of unanesthetized, behaving rodent fetuses with intact umbilical connections to the mother. These techniques involve brief administration of an inhalant anesthesic, enabling spinal transection of the rat or mouse dam, after which procedures can continue with unanesthetize...