Check this out.

March 21, 2006

So in the midst of my random wanderings last night, I found this.

It’s very scientific and a bit of a hard read, but most interesting on bonding and the mother child connection. And this is 25 year old information.
Good quotes:
It appears that shortly after birth the baby, as well as the mother, are in a state of readiness that allows them to interact with each other…One can speculate that shortly after birth the human mother and her infant are in a state of readiness that allows them to interact with each other, triggering maternal behavior and attachment. There is evidence that during the postnatal period important benefits may be provided to the mother and her newborn infant by allowing them to be together.
However, important questions need to be addressed: how can we enhance maternal attachment? Is there a similar pattern of behavior in all mothers after birth? Or, is it attributed to social changes and variations in different cultures? Is there a specific period of time after birth where maternal attachment is optimal?

These are important considerations that require extensive evaluation, as they may influence the future care of mothers and babies after birth.

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Musings of the Lame was started in 2005 primarily as a simple blog recording the feelings of a birthmother as she struggled to understand how the act of relinquishing her first newborn so to adoption in 1987 continued to be a major force in her life. Built from the knowledge gained in the adoption community, it records the search for her son and the adoption reunion as it happened. Since then, it has grown as an adoption forum encompassing the complexity of the adoption industry, the fight to free her sons adoption records and the need for Adoptee Rights, and a growing community of other birthmothers, adoptive parents and adopted persons who are able to see that so much what we want to believe about adoption is wrong.

3 Comments on "Check this out."

  1. Connnie | March 21, 2006 at 4:48 pm |

    Very interesting, Claud. There was some more recent studies done regarding oxytocin and I believe prolactin that you might be interested in. I’m sorry but I don’t have the link (puter and I had a recent, um, disagreement – I lost). It even had adopted chidlren in it, as compared with non adopted and how they bonded with the mother who was the caretaker. It was published in one of the psychology journals within the last year. If you can’t find it, let me know and I will try to search it down.

  2. warriorwoman | April 29, 2006 at 10:03 pm |

    Thanks for the post about mothers and babies bonding. Today in America, some moms and their babies are being scammed in the worst way as businesses promote infant adoption and “traditional surrogacy” trying to get more babies for adoption customers.

    Traditional Surrogacy vs. Infant Adoption

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