I had someone claim that my inability to
initially bond with my child directly after he was born, was because I had an epidural and not a drug - free birth.
Not exact matches
She shared
with me once that she
initially felt jealous when she returned to work and her
children started forming that
bond with her husband.
You may not know what to say or how to act
initially after the diagnosis, but distancing yourself will make an older
child feel like she did something wrong, and won't allow you the time to
bond with a young
child or newborn.
Mother -
child bonding in the music program was evidenced by more positive and responsive relationships, especially noticeable for several mothers who were
initially unsure of how to interact
with their infants.
Initially the therapist is the adult directing play and interacting
with the
child; over time the parent (s) are expected to take over the play; thus, developing the
bonds of attachment.
Whilst the study of attachment was
initially centred on the mother —
child bond (Bowlby 1979), it was later developed to include the concept of multiple attachments, such as
with the father, kin and day carers (Rutter et al. 2007; Santelices and Pérez 2013).