Infant Attachment Analysis

A secure attachment bond ensures that a newborn will feel secure, understood, and be calm enough to experience optimal development of his or her nervous system. During the prenatal period, there are some form of attachment between the mother and fetus which includes listening to the heart beat of the fetus, feeling the kicks, and verbal and nonverbal communicating with the fetus. After childbirth, the bonding/ attachment between the parent and newborn is secured (Schenk & Kelly, 2005). The secured bonding is unidirectional. It can be bonding between parents to child or child to parents. Attachment process can be enabled through social, verbal, and nonverbal responses. In addition, parents easily secure attachment with their infant if the birth of a child meet their expectation in terms of gender, appearance, personality and social capabilities. Some of the parental behaviors affecting infant attachment are eye contact hovers, names infant, touches infant, smiles at infant, sings to infant, expresses pride
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Last week, I had an opportunity to work in FCU with a mother that had C- section. She already had a name for the baby even before she was born. In addition, she fed her baby few minutes after deliver and also informed her RN that she would like to breastfeed her baby for about a year. Furthermore, she maintained skin-to-skin contact with her baby and also interacted with her baby several times. Her husband carried the baby most of the time, made eye-contact with her. He was very excited when his wife said the baby’s nose resembled his