Infancy is a sensitive developmental period that presents opportunities and challenges for caregivers to feed their infants in ways that support healthy growth and development. A new integrative ...

Research has found that women with depression during pregnancy, or with a history of depression, had a reduced quality of mother-infant interaction at both eight weeks and 12 months after their babies ...

In a recent study published in JAMA Network Open, researchers investigated the effect of initial skin-to-skin contact (SSC) at delivery on the quality of mother-infant interactions at four months of ...

Researchers found that when the adult talked and played socially with a 5-month-old baby, the baby's brain activity particularly increased in regions responsible for attention -- and the level of this ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The behavior of 4 groups of infants-healthy term, healthy preterm, sick preterm, and sick full-term-was assessed in the neonatal period using ...

The relationship with our babies can often be seen as a dance—a give-and-take of eye contact, touch, gestures, and emotions between parent and child. This metaphorical dance finds its scientific ...

Tactile contact with an infant plays an important role (though one largely overlooked by researchers until recently) in the development of synchronous interactive dialogues between caregiver and child ...