The provision of maternal-infant body contact during a period of maternal separation was examined for its effects on parent-infant and triadic interactions. Participants were 146 three-month-old preterm infants and their parents, half of whom received skin-to-skin contact, or kangaroo care (KC), in the neonatal nursery. Global relational style and micro-patterns of proximity and touch were code...

...................................................................................06 INTRODUCTION..............................................................................07 CHAPTER 1: OJIBWE BIRTHING AND MOTHERHOOD IN LOUISE ERDRICH’S THE PAINTED DRUM .......................................................24 CHAPTER 2: CHEROKEE BIRTHING AND MOTHERHOOD IN BETTY LOUISE BELL’S FACES IN THE M...

Background: Mothers of preterm neonates are more sensitive to their baby's health than other mothers, and this causes them worry and anxiety. Meanwhile, the possibility of facing Covid-19 may increase their worries and anxiety and leave negative effects on their role as mothers. This study aims to determine the relationship between maternal fear and anxiety about Covid-19 and maternal role atta...

Mothering, Education and Culture is a fascinating immensely readable ethnographic study of mothering in modern Israel. Based on comparison middle-class Russian, Palestinian Jewish women, it examines how these groups mother their children, the values they seek to impart them see children's future rapidly changing sometimes volatile society. The role education central both this imagined contempor...

Skeletal changes in pregnancy and lactation 253 fed rats. The spleens of rats with lower calcium intakes showed a weight gain during gestation which disappeared during the subsequent lactation. 7. Fertility of the dam and mothering instinct were not impaired, even in severe calcium deficiency. The weight of the young at birth and the number of young in a litter were not affected by the level of...