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Development of Parental Attachment, Bonding, and Positive Family Relationship

This document discusses components of developing parental attachment and bonding with a newborn, including rooming-in and sibling visitation. It also discusses factors that can influence a mother's ability to bond with her infant, such as her inherent personality and ability to recognize a newborn's needs. Skin-to-skin contact, eye contact, and engrossment behaviors help facilitate early attachment. Rooming-in allows more time for bonding and confidence building. Sibling visitation reduces feelings of abandonment and helps integrate the new baby into the family. Common postpartum concerns include abandonment, disappointment, and baby blues, which are often hormone-related and can be helped through support and coping strategies.

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Development of Parental Attachment, Bonding, and Positive Family Relationship

This document discusses components of developing parental attachment and bonding with a newborn, including rooming-in and sibling visitation. It also discusses factors that can influence a mother's ability to bond with her infant, such as her inherent personality and ability to recognize a newborn's needs. Skin-to-skin contact, eye contact, and engrossment behaviors help facilitate early attachment. Rooming-in allows more time for bonding and confidence building. Sibling visitation reduces feelings of abandonment and helps integrate the new baby into the family. Common postpartum concerns include abandonment, disappointment, and baby blues, which are often hormone-related and can be helped through support and coping strategies.

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Development of Parental

Attachment, Bonding, and Positive


Family Relationship
Components:
a. Rooming- In
b. Sibling Visitation
Factors to consider:
• Ability to be a good mother
• Infant’s inherent
personality
Ability to be a Good Mother
• Some women recognize a newborn’s
needs immediately and to give care with
confident understanding right from the
start.
• However, a woman enters into
relationship with the newborn
tentatively and with qualms and
conflicts that must be addressed before
the relationship can be meaningful.
Attachment or Bonding
When a woman has
successfully linked with her
newborn.
Skin to Skin • soon after birth facilitates the
early attachment and binding
Contact phase.
• This should ideally occur within
the first hour of any birth, even
cesarean deliveries, as soon as
the mother and baby are stable
and last until completion of the
first breastfeeding.
• Improve breastfeeding
durations and outcomes and
the emotional stability of both
infant and mother.
• Looking directly at
En face position her newborn’s face,
with direct eye
contact.
• Is a sign a woman is
beginning effective
attachment.
Engrossment • Fathers are observed
staring at a newborn for
long intervals.
• This action alerts
caregivers to how
actively the father, as
well as the mother, is
beginning bonding.
• The more time a woman
Rooming-In has to spend with her baby,
the sooner she can become
better acquainted with her
child, feel more confident
in her ability to care and
more likely form a sound
mother-child relationship.
• Qualify as “baby friendly”
Cont. Rooming-In
• Space to keep the infant with the
parents.
• Occurs when the infant remains in
the woman’s room and the mother
and child are together 23 out of 24
hours a day.
• In many settings, the father can
stay overnight in the mother’s
room.
Sibling • Separation from children is
Visitation often as painful for a
mother as it is for her
children.
• A chance to visit the
hospital and see the new
baby and their mother
reduces feelings that their
mother cares more about
the new baby and than
about them.
Cont. Sibling Visitation
• The visit can help to relieve some of the
impact of separation and also help to
make the baby a part of the family.
• Assess to be certain siblings are free of
contagious diseases.
• Wash hands if they choose to hold or
touch the newborn with parenteral
assistance.
Cont. Sibling Visitation
• If the mother had a cesarean delivery,
protecting her abdomen with padding
can decrease anxiety of the siblings
about the condition of the mother.
• May need to caution a woman that the
opinions of a new brother or sister
expressed by her older children may not
be complimentary.
Maternal Concerns and
Feelings in the Postpartal
Period
Typical issues identified by postpartal women
that they would like to hear discussed are:
• breast soreness
• regaining their figure
• regulating the demands of a job,
housework, their partner, and their
children
• Coping with emotional tension and sibling
jealousy
• How to combat fatigue
Components:
a. Abandonment
b. Disappointment
c. Postpartal Blues
• Many mothers, if given the
Abandonment
opportunity, admit to
feeling abandoned and less
important after giving birth
than they did during
pregnancy or labor.
• A woman can be helped
move past these feelings by
verbalizing the problem.
• Help her realize that the
feeling she is experiencing
is NORMAL.
Cont. Abandoment
• Making infant care a shared
responsibility can help alleviate
competitive feelings and make
both partners feel equally
involved in the baby’s care.
Disappointment • Difficult to feel positive
immediately toward a child
who does no meet their
expectations.
• It can cause parents to
remember their
adolescence, when they
felt gangly and
unattractive, or to
experience feelings f
inadequacy all over again.
Cont. Disappointment
Coping strategies:
• Handle the child warmly to show
you find the infant satisfactory or
special.
• Comment on the child’s good
points, such as long fingers, lovely
eyes, and healthy appetite.
Postpartal • During the postpartal
Blues period, as many as 50% of
women experience some
feelins of overwhelming
sadness or “baby blues”.
• This is caused by hormonal
changes, particularly the
decrease in estrogen and
progesterone that occurred
with delivery of the
placenta.
Cont. Postpartal Blues
• Breastfeeding has been shown to help
elevate baby blues and counteract the
effects of the hormonal drop that
occurs after childbirth.
• The syndrome is evidenced by feelings
of inadequacy, mood lability, anorexia,
and sleep disturbance.
Cont. Postpartal Blues
Coping Strategies:
• Anticipatory guidance and individualized
support from healthcare personnel are
important to help the parents understand
that this unexpected response is normal.
• Give the woman a chance to verbalize her
feelings and make as many decisions as she
wants to help her gain a sense of control.
Cont. Postpartal Blues
• Women are at greater risk (19% to 48%)
for moderate to severe depression after
childbirth requiring formal counselling.
• Severe psychosis also can occur in
women during this time

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