The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of a handicapping condition on mother-infant interactions and, to investigate the conditions under which coordinated attention to an object and a person is demonstrated. This study provides a unique opportunity to make across-mother and within-mother comparisons of mother-infant interactions in two sets of fraternal twins. In each set, one...

The short-term impact of infant exposure to alcohol in breast milk on mother-infant interactions and infant arousal was examined. Fourteen mother-infant dyads were tested on 2 occasions that consisted of an alcohol administration and a nonalcohol condition. Mother-infant interactions during feeding were videotaped and coded for dyadic reciprocity. maternal noncontingency. and dyadic conflict. I...

Parent-offspring birth weight correlations are presented by sex of parent and infant. They range from .14 to .16, except for the mother-daughter correlation, which is .32. This pattern of parent-offspring correlations varies when the parity of the infant, the size of the mother, and the mother's drinking and smoking status are considered. All parent-offspring correlations are higher when the in...

OBJECTIVE This study assessed adolescent maternal psychopathology and its relation to the quality of mother-infant interactions. METHOD Twenty-one mother-infant pairs recruited from an adolescent medicine clinic were assessed for socio-demographic background, psychosocial adversity, conduct disorder, alcohol or substance dependence, and depression. Dyads were videotaped during free play and t...

To investigate social influences on human suckling behavior, 25 healthy, full term, 7 to 14-week-old infants were each bottle-fed their own formula twice by their mother and once in each of four experimental conditions: (a) held, provided social interaction; (b) held, without interaction; (c) not held, provided interaction; (d) not held, without interaction. Volume intake (VI), Total Sucks, inf...

Abstract Males may increase their fitness by providing care to offspring or unrelated infants of female “friends” maximise future mating. The potential for paternal depends on paternity certainty, particularly in multi-male, multi-female groups with polygynandrous In crested macaques ( Macaca nigra ), there seems be high certainty and need protection. However, male-mother affiliation (or “frien...

background: infant's transition is a challenge for parents and the health system that requires ongoing assessment and management to improve each newborn`s growth and development. the purpose of this study was to explore the management of infant` transition from neonatal intensive care unit (nicu) to home.materials and methods: we used a grounded theory study to explore and describe the man...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this pilot study was to gather preliminary data on father-infant dyads using the Nursing Child Assessment Satellite Training (NCAST) Teaching scale, a parent-infant interaction measure, to determine whether and how fathers score differently than mothers from normative samples. METHOD Interactions between first-time father (N = 15) and their infants, 3 months to 6 mont...