Sentences with phrase «physical attachment to our mothers»

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Attachment parenting is a parenting philosophy that aims to promote the attachment of mother and infant through various decisions and methods, like maternal empathy, quick responsiveness and constantly physicaAttachment parenting is a parenting philosophy that aims to promote the attachment of mother and infant through various decisions and methods, like maternal empathy, quick responsiveness and constantly physicaattachment of mother and infant through various decisions and methods, like maternal empathy, quick responsiveness and constantly physical contact.

What I've noticed is that while breastfeeding is very convenient once established and offers many physical and mental benefits to mother and child, a secure attachment can be formed without it.

With trademark humor, Brenda McCreight, mother of nine children with special needs, shows parents how to resolve issues, such as grief and loss, sexual and physical abuse, as well as, improve attachment, handle ADHD and transracial issues, and manage the effects of drugs and alcohol.

In early childhood development, attachment is so important that a lack of connection to a secure attachment figure (most likely the mother, father, or other major caregiver) who was reliable and available results in physical alterations to the anatomy and chemistry of the brain, such as reduced brain activity and less developed cortexes.

An increased risk of physical and emotional / behavioural problems has consistently been observed in the offspring of mothers suffering from depression in the perinatal period.9, 10 Probably, complex interactions between several pathways may explain this phenomenon, including biological mechanisms (eg, fetal exposure to maternal stress hormones), behavioural and emotional features (eg, poorer prenatal care and attachment style of depressed mothers) and genetic predisposition transmitted to the offspring.10 In addition to depression during pregnancy and postpartum, exposure to ADs is another major concern.

But now there is a growing movement in the U.S. toward «attachment parenting», a theory of child - rearing centered around responsiveness to children's needs and close physical contact between baby and mother.

As a result, mothers with insecure attachment representations are much less likely to be sensitive to their babies» cues than mothers with secure representations.39 In fact, research findings implicate insecure attachment representations — due presumably to maltreatment in infancy — in physical abuse of infants and young children by their parents.40

One review (Moore et al., 2007) investigated skin - to - skin contact between mother and infant immediately post-partum and found it to be associated with a range of improved outcomes, including mother — infant interaction, attachment behaviours, infant behaviour and infant physical symptomatology in full - term and pre-term infants.