Thus, the question remains: Does improving maternal responses to infant crying offer an opportunity to support healthy infant development in this context? (child-encyclopedia.com)
«The close contact also helps a mother recognize and become familiar with her infant's signals, which leads to more sensitive maternal response,» she says. (fitpregnancy.com)
Depression may affect maternal response via altered sensitivity to their infant's signal.34 Schuetze and Zeskind34 show that perception of infant crying varies with level of maternal depression: as the level of depression increases, infant crying is perceived as less urgent and sick - sounding (i.e., less aversive and less arousing). (child-encyclopedia.com)