The phrase
"maternal instinct" refers to a natural and strong inclination or feeling that mothers have to protect, nurture, and care for their children.
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Some have attributed the lack
of maternal instincts found in some mothers to the lack of the hormonal release which comes as a result of not having this hormone released during labor.
The excitement of a new life inside of a growing belly gives expectant mothers a
natural maternal instinct to protect and provide for her baby.
But her intentions are good, and her
fierce maternal instincts drive her to risk life and limb in order to protect her son, taking readers on one heck of a ride.
While it goes without saying that both mothers and fathers love their children, a mother's
maternal instinct makes her hard - wired to always consider her children's best interest.
It is said that the whales possess a
strong maternal instinct and that the relation with their offspring is close and sensitive.
Trust your instincts, it may take a little fine tuning but you do have
natural maternal instincts, yes, I'm still finding mine but they are there.
Aching at this loss, and filled
with maternal instinct for this creature who looks so similar yet so different from her kind, she adopts it as her own, over the stringent disapproval of Kerchak (Lance Henriksen), her mate and the leader of the troop.
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This one truly tortures the premise, which is an already punishing exercise in
maternal instinct by way of road rage.
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Maternal instincts often underpin biological imperatives, which are usually pretty wise, if we learn... -LSB-...]
I read all the books in the beginning but a few instances where I followed the book instead of trusting my gut as I should have taught me that I do actually have a pretty good
maternal instinct when it comes to my own kids so now I do «turn inward instead of outward to check my parenting compass.»
Swinton's portrayal is a woman running
on maternal instinct and she herself is the very gravity that makes «The Deep End» as great as it is.
Mother loves unconditionally, sometimes blindly, her child is perfect in her eyes: this is
how maternal instinct works.
The film admirably makes Sam more assertive than her male partner — and her wannabe
maternal instincts do eventually kick in — and the catharsis at the end is satisfactory enough.
The reality of a hormonally
driven maternal instinct, distinction in the behavior of girls and hoys at a very young age in spite of gender - neutral social engineering, and the revelation that you can't «have it all» have come as a deep shock to all of us.
Anything subtler — like a feminine love of cooking or tendency to cry at the movies or
unsuppressable maternal instinct or cultivation of a wardrobe that will turn heads or even a passionate good - night kiss — is deemed an inadequate demonstration of sexual identity.
That was the first night that I didn't feel like the
USS Maternal Instinct had sailed, leaving me stranded at the dock.
As the nurses good - naturedly teased me, I interpreted my error as a sign that I lacked even the most
basic maternal instincts: I couldn't even recognize my own child.
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Maternal instincts lead women to show greater tenderness and less selfishness and to display these qualities towards her infants in an eminent degree».
They
oozed maternal instinct from a young age, feeding, bathing, and cradling their rosy - cheeked baby dolls, and disciplining younger siblings in their most authoritative voices.
According to psychologist Jo Lukins, from Peak Performance Psychology, the term «biological clock» is often used to refer to «the
increased maternal instincts of (particularly) women as they get older».
That seems to be the novel pitch underlining James McTeigue's «Breaking In,» in which Gabrielle Union's
maternal instincts turn her into an overnight John McClane when her children are taken hostage.
Gena Rowlands is a tough - as - nails mob moll
whose maternal instinct kicks in when a young boy is targeted by some thugs.
Emancipation for Delia (Kyra Sedgwick), battered wife and renowned slut, comes in the form of a handjob given a grateful backwoods hokum in the front seat of his beater; for book editor Greta (Parker Posey), in the separation from the mediocrity of her milquetoast husband and pocket dictator boss; and for runaway Paula (Fairuza Balk), in the
latent maternal instinct she discovers through the betrayal of a young hitchhiker.
Joan Allen's toughness and sensibility from Ultimatum are replaced with
more maternal instincts; she's there more to be tossed around by Straithairn and Glenn.
But once she gets over her initial shock — her newborn has «his father's eyes,» after all — watch how the ultimate baby - bump horror film becomes, oddly, a tribute to
maternal instinct triumphing over all.
Whether the problem is she just didn't have
much maternal instinct, not enough milk for the entire litter or illness or death, it often falls to caring humans to parent a kitten.
Female cats with a
frustrated maternal instinct may abduct and protect another cat's kittens, other small animals or kitten - like inanimate objects such as slippers.
You need to hunt for food and
utilise maternal instincts such as calling the cubs closer, making sure they drink water from rivers, and lifting and carrying them from harm's way.