Mother-baby bonding

Oxytocin is the hormone that influences social attachment and compassion in both humans and animals. Oxytocin circulating in a mother s blood immediately after birth facilitates mother-to-baby bonding and stimulates breast milk production. Oxytocin is also present in the bodies of males, and makes them more emotionally aware and socially outgoing. It has been proposed that administering oxytocin to autistic people could help alleviate symptoms of emotional indifference, isolation, and obsessive repetitive behaviors (Rosenwald, 2008). 

Human studies suggest that oxytocin levels are elevated by massage and by close intimacy, whether cuddling or by intercourse. Oxytocin is implicated in the mother-baby relationships, and in the very action of falling in love. You might say that it adds a whole new meaning to the phrase chemical bonding . For this reason it s often referred to as the love hormone . 

Make the bond between babies and mothers stronger... 

Description In addition to its core functionality, the monitoring system could increase the bond between mother and unborn baby. This could be achieved by providing simplified information of the relationship between the status of the mom to be and that of her child. ... 

For example, in At the Inland Sea, the play s dynamics centre upon two relationships. They are both between an adolescent boy and an older woman. One is a mother-son relationship and the other is a relationship between the boy and a woman and her baby from Auschwitz who are about to perish in the gas chambers (Figure 1). Bond creates and explores parallels between the moral imperative that the historical Woman places upon the boy, with the confused and conflicting emotional expectations between the boy and his own mother. The Woman tells the boy that if he tells a story to her... 

Figure 1 Mandy Finney in the role of Woman in At the Inland Sea, which was the first commissioned play from Bond by Big Bmm in 1995, directed by Geoff Gillham. The photograph powerfully conveys the tragic vulnerability embodied by this character, who with her baby is an internee of a Nazi concentration camp. Like Joe in The Children, a character known only as Boy is experiencing conflict at home with his mother and anxious about his imminent school examinations. It is out of these tensions that the Woman appears in the Boy s bedroom with her baby, distraught and frightened but determined to survive. Her life-and-death command to the Boy is a challenging moral imperative Tell me a story. Then my baby will live AIS, p. 11)...

A woman among the leading citizens of Trebizond, the city in which Athanasios was born, assumed care of the baby boy and, in the words of Vita A, she accepted him with a mother s love." She also provided for his education. She raised Athanasios together with a number of other children who were apparently not her own. The young saint developed a close bond with one of these children, a girl who later left to marry a high official in Constantinople. Some years... 

Breastfeeding releases oxytocin which helps bonding between baby and mother... 

Perinatal nurses educate pregnant women about delivery options, nutrition, and other important issues. They also assist during the delivery of babies and help new mothers learn how to bond with their children. Because perinatal nurses work in healthcare facilities, they are exposed to a... 

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