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Maternal Attachment, Maternal Caregiving Behavior, and Family Income: A Pilot Study
… examine the prevalence of differing degrees of maternal emotional attachment, the mother's emotional tie to her infant, and maternal caregiving behavior, the mother's sensitivity and responsiveness to her infant. Specifically, this study examined if maternal attachment and maternal …
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Effects of maternal sleep deprivation on maternal sensitivity and contingent responsiveness
… or vocalization. These findings suggest that maternal sleep deprivation, resulting from infant night awakening in combination with depression, suppresses their contingent responsiveness to their infants' social cues.
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Risk-Appropriate Maternal Care: Identifying Risk Factors that Effect Maternal Outcome
Although maternal deaths are the most tragic of obstetric events it continues to be a rare event. Maternal morbidity, on the other hand, is increasing and poses a greater impact on the economic, psychological, and physical health of the woman and her family, yet it has not been the focus of …
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Late stillbirth: the contribution of maternal sleep practices and maternal views
… was the first to identify an association between maternal supine going-to-sleep position and late stillbirth. This provided an important stimulus for further studies on sleep position and stillbirth. We pooled the eligible studies into an individual participant data metaanalysis, concluding that …
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Saying It Through The Maternal Body: understanding maternal subjectivity through art practice
… and theorist Julia Kristeva?s claim that the maternal body has no subject, this research aimed at finding answers to the following question: in what ways might a maternal subjectivity be understood through art practice? The research focused on three themes: fragmentation, invisibility and …
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Associations Between Maternal Maltreatment-Specific Shame, Maternal-Infant Interactions, And Infant Emotion Regulation
… shame with parenting (as measured by maternal hostility and maternal positive affect) and infants' emotion regulation during an interactional stressor at 6-months postpartum. These associations were also explored with depression, to compare the outcomes and understand the distinct …
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Maternal employment : exploring the relationship between maternal stress, child factors and daily routines
… why working mothers are stressed. Studies of maternal employment have demonstrated that working mothers are exposed to the numerous, often conflicting roles of being a wife, a mother, and an employee (Apter, 1993, Greenhaus & Beutell, 1985; LeMesurier, 1995). These opposing roles usually …
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Maternal Sensitivity, Maternal Mind-mindedness, and Infant Socioemotional Functioning: An Examination of Concurrent Associations
<p>Associations between maternal sensitivity, maternal mind-mindedness, and infant socioemotional (SE) functioning were examined in a sample of 40 mother-infant dyads. Semi-structured home observations were conducted to assess maternal sensitivity and collect maternal ratings of maternal depression …
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Cesarean delivery on maternal request /
… reasons for requesting a caesarean section on maternal request are multifactorial and often include the fear of pain, fear of failure, concern for fetal injury and pelvic floor injuries that can lead to urinary and faecal incontinence, as well as vaginal and rectal prolapse. Other reasons can …
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Maternal programming of piglet microbiomes
Understanding how maternal factors in early life influence piglet microbiomes is key to unlocking the potential for manipulation of these factors to positively influence pig health and production without the need to resort to individualized interventions such as dietary antimicrobials later in …
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Maternal Perception of the Neonate
<p>The purpose of this study was to determine the maternal perception of the neonate in two groups of patients. The Broussard Neonatal Perception Inventory was used to measure maternal perception. The Inventory was modified by the researcher for use with both primiparae and multiparae. The control …
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Maternal Modulation of Neonatal Immunity
… and test the hypothesis that activation of maternal inflammatory immunity during pregnancy influences maturation of the neonatal immune system.</p> <p>Lymphocytes in blood and spleen were immunophenotyped by flow cytometric analysis to determine differentiation characteristics, and …
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Maternal Supplement Use During Pregnancy
Background: There is little consensus regarding the need for vitamin and mineral supplementation during pregnancy. The composition and use of supplements among pregnant women varies greatly. Toxicity or inadequacy of nutrients could have health effects on the mother and fetus. A recent study …
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Maternal pheromone in the rat
… investigate an initial failure to replicate the maternal pheromone effect in the rat. It examined:1. Apparatus parameters (airflow rate)2. Pup factors (age, pre-test maternal deprivation, early experience)3. Maternal factors (diet, strains; PVG/C, Wistar, Sprague-Dawley)Publications on the …
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Maternal control, shame, and alexithymia
… independently is always unacceptable. Excessive maternal control can lead to feelings of learned helplessness in girls, because they are not given the opportunity to learn how to trust their own instincts (Kapur & Rai, 2013; Uji, Kitamura, & Nagata, 2009). This sense of being incompetent when …
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Maternal Transgressions in Contemporary Cinema
… an infantile process which violently divides the maternal figure into ‘good mother’ versus ‘bad mother’, is a dialectical binary that operates structurally within the precarious worlds these films depict. Klein’s psychic model is a punitive framework, quick to categorize and punish different …
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The effect of maternal obesity/GDM and metformin intervention on maternal, placental and fetal health
… placental extracellular vesicles (EV) in fetal-maternal communication, with their microRNA (miRNA) content affecting maternal metabolism and potentially the fetus. Overall, it is well-established that obese and glucose-intolerant pregnancies have short- and long-term health consequences for …
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