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A maternal bond is the relationship between a biological mother/caregiver and her child or baby. While typically associated with pregnancy and childbirth, a maternal bond may also develop in cases later on in life where the child is unrelated, such as in the case of an adoptee or a case of blended family. Both physical and emotional factors ...
Belief in prenatal fetal awareness, mental communication between mother and unborn child, and emotional attachment of child to mother as a prenatal phenomenon, are concepts that connect easily to the unfounded assumption that all adopted children suffer emotional disorders.
A mother's antenatal stress is correlated with detrimental neurobehavioural outcomes in the child. [11] There are a myriad of consequences on a child after birth, such as psychiatric disorders, behavioural abnormalities, dysfunctional emotional regulation and delays in motor production. [7]
Bowlby explains by the time the child has reached twelve months of age the child has developed a strong relationship with his mother. Freud who is cited in Bowlby's article "The Nature of the Child's Tie to his Mother" says that a child's first love is a satisfaction of the need for food and an object for food, so either the mother's breast or ...
The physical effects of domestic violence on children, unlike the effects of direct abuse, can start when they are a fetus in their mother's womb, which can result in low infant birth weights, premature birth, excessive bleeding, and fetal death due to the mother's physical trauma and emotional stress.
The child learns whether it can depend on its caregiver to provide for its needs and the types of affective and behavioral responses it can expect in specific situations, which serve as the basis for its future attachment style. An important role of the caregiver during this time is to assist the child in regulating its affect [citation needed].
The first point is at 12–17 days into embryo development, and the second is between 16 and 30 days after the rat has been born. Baby rats, from mothers fed a diet lacking in choline during these two periods of pregnancy, have poorer memory function than baby rats from mothers who received choline. Choline, when given during these critical ...
Research suggests that childbirth-related PTSD may negatively affect the emotional attachment between mother and child. [88] However, maternal depression or other factors may also explain this negative effect. [88] Childbirth-related PTSD in the postpartum period may also lead to issues with the child's social-emotional development. [88]