Toward a New Era of Childbirth Education
Awareness may be suppressed in more than 90% of childbirths today, as a basis for the overuse of other medical
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The Impact of Trauma on the Embryo and Fetus: An Application of the Diathesis-Stress Model and the Neurovulnerability-Neurotoxicity Model
Today embryology and fetal research offers consistent findings that nature and nurture overlap. The relational and environmental world of the
Attachment and Self-Understanding: Parenting with the Brain in Mind
This article is an adaptation of a chapter in a text edited by Marci Green and published by Karnac and
Adaptation and Resilience in Early Life: Implications of the New Developmental Neurobiology for Clinical Practice
Growing research interest in the connections between early experience and developmental outcome-in combination with technological innovations that have made possible
The Importance of Psychosocial Variables in Predicting Low Birth Weight
Objective: An analysis of a pre-existing data set of 606 inner city pregnant women collected by the Fetal Alcohol Research
Conceptualizing Prenatal Attachment: Toward a Multidimensional View
In the present paper, several theoretical issues are outlined as important to the understanding of the process of defining prenatal
Fetal Attachment and Depression: Measurement Matters
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between Fetal Attachment (FA) and depression. Condon and Corkindale (1997)
Views on Medical and Natural Birth in University Women and Men
In the U.S. and other industrialized nations, the prevailing childbirth approach has been described as medicalized, a view in which
The Maternal Fetal Attachment Scale: Some Methodological Ponderings
The development of Cranley’s (1981) Maternal Fetal Attachment Scale (MFAS) has stimulated a great deal of research and discussion about