{"title":"Building Relationships: Connecting With Baby During Pregnancy","authors":"Marley Hall","doi":"10.55975/nniq8286","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Pregnancy marks the beginning of a lifelong connection between women and birthing people and their babies. It’s a common misconception that maternal/infant bonding begins the moment the baby is born; for many, the rush of love felt at the point of birth, is a culmination of feelings – emotional attachment steadily developed during pregnancy. The notion of bonding during pregnancy has been studied for many years and the relationship between a woman and her unborn baby is often described as maternal-fetal attachment (MFA) by researchers.1","PeriodicalId":35678,"journal":{"name":"Practising Midwife","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Practising Midwife","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.55975/nniq8286","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"Nursing","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Pregnancy marks the beginning of a lifelong connection between women and birthing people and their babies. It’s a common misconception that maternal/infant bonding begins the moment the baby is born; for many, the rush of love felt at the point of birth, is a culmination of feelings – emotional attachment steadily developed during pregnancy. The notion of bonding during pregnancy has been studied for many years and the relationship between a woman and her unborn baby is often described as maternal-fetal attachment (MFA) by researchers.1