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Bonding between Mother and Newborn

4/1/2016

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Bonding and Attachment between a Mother and her Newborn...

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is crucial by Divine design. When the newborn is laid on the mother's chest, her body temperature begins to regulate so that her baby will stay warm. The contact with her body will also regulate the newborn's respiration and oxygen levels along with reducing crying, and increasing the newborns alertness, because of the ocytocin is being relased. (Phillips, 2013) Oxytocin is referred to as the LOVE hormone sinse it gives the mother the ability to love, hold, and kiss her baby. (Moore, Anderson, Bergman, & Dowswell, 2012)

       Babies start communicating as soon as they are born, when separated from mother they will cry or manifest with intense activity. They don't have a perception of time like we do, and they see that time away as possibly life threatening, and that is an emotion that we don't want the baby to experience. The mother and baby bonding shouldn't be interrupted if at all possible within the first hour. During this time the baby is going to initiate breastfeeding and skin-to-skin will activate the amygdala via the prefronto-orbital pathway that helps mature the brain structure. (Phillips, 2013) As the baby refines their motor skills on the chest they look at their mother and this ignites the visual part of the brain as well as the sensory region effecting smell and touch. (Hawkins, 2010)


Oxycontin,“decreasing maternal anxiety and increasing calmness and social responsiveness”
(Moore, Anderson, Bergman, & Dowswell)

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