while studies have shown the disastrous effects of post-partum depression (ppd) on children's behaviors, there is relatively lack of reliable data in asian countries. this study examined the relative significance of maternal ppd in children's developmental disabilities at age four. in a longitudinal study design (2009), 1801 pregnant women attending in primary health centers of mazandaran provi...

The article demonstrates the connections between motherhood and feeling of loss experienced by a woman mother in Marie Petitcuénot's autobiographical novel, Ce qui gronde (2021). Based on feminist critical approach, care theory psychoanalytic theories, study presents how affects feminine maternal identity examines Petitcuénot manages to find herself through writing. impact her life feminine/mat...

The objective of this pilot study was to determine women's perceptions of their levels of maternal role competence at discharge from a Baby-Friendly hospital. A convenience sample of 30 women completed two self-report questionnaires: a demographic questionnaire and the Perceived Maternal Parenting Self-Efficacy scale. Women report that they perceived high levels of maternal role competence with...

Mendelian genetics presumes inheritance of fitness through DNA. Kinder et al. find that maternal microchimerism induces stable immune tolerance to non-inherited maternal antigens in offspring. Female offspring that share these antigens with their mate experience reduced fetal wasting, establishing a role for vertical transmission of non-genetic information in reproductive fitness.

background: women and children form two-thirds of the country's population and the health of mothers and children is effective in improving the health of the entire community. using the experience of successful countries in the world in this field, can improve maternal and child health indicators in iran. objective: the present study aimed to improve maternal and child health services mana...

• Policy dialogue on the MDGs needs to recognise that the gender dynamics of power, poverty, vulnerability and care link all the goals • The achievement of the MDGs requires a coordinated policy approach that is sensitive to gender-specific discrimination and risks • Gender-sensitive social protection policies offer an opportunity to link gender equality and the MDGs G ender inequality causes a...

Recent research conducted with nonhuman primates confirms that adaptive emotional processes, such as maternal attraction arousability and maternal anxiety arousability, enhance and sustain female motivation to interact with infants, invest in them, and protect them during the postpartum period. Changes in these emotional processes, and concomitant changes in maternal motivation, facilitate the ...

AIM An increased duration of breastfeeding has many advantages for the child and mother. However, little research to date has investigated the influence of maternal psychosocial well-being during pregnancy on the duration of breastfeeding. This study aimed to examine whether experience of life stress events, social contact/support in pregnancy and postpartum emotional disturbance had an effect ...

*Correspondence: J. A. Stamps, Evolution and Ecology, University of California Davis, 1 Shields Ave, Davis, CA 95616, USA e-mail: [email protected] Changes in personality over ontogeny can occur even when every agent (individual or genotype) is exposed to the same set of cues, experiences or environmental conditions. A recent Bayesian model (Stamps and Krishnan, in press) shows how individua...

A single case study approach was used to examine the maternal experience of chronic sorrow in caring for an adolescent with a progressive neurodegenerative condition. A family systems model was used to examine maternal coping and adaptation. A diagnosis of a childhood neurodegenerative illness will inevitably result in periods of deterioration, increased physical, financial and health care need...