Bonding Before Birth combines up-to-the-minute research with enlightened and compassionate wisdom. This book explores what science knows about babies in the womb and explains why mother-baby bonding is so vital for the future well-being of mother, father, and baby. Dr. Miriam Stoppard writes about the feelings that expectant parents experience during the first, second and third trimesters and promotes the significance of rites of passage through pregnancy, from adjusting to the changes that parenthood brings to celebrating your future as a family. The emotional and psychological elements of pregnancy are often overlooked in favor of hard facts and scientific evidence. This book redresses the balance and turns its attention to the conflicting feelings of exhilaration and anxiety, dreams and fears that so often characterize the nine months of pregnancy and gives parents-to-be inspiring guidance through these uncharted waters.

Professional channel, author, and mother of two, gives pregnant women the tools they need to bond with their baby as much as possible before he or she physically gets here.

Advice and guidance on how to fall in love with your baby before birth, from parenting guru, Dr Miriam Stoppard Building that special relationship with your baby starts before birth. Forming a close, early bond can make a real difference to your baby�s wellbeing, your feelings as a parent and in creating a loving environment for when baby arrives. Parenting expert Dr Miriam Stoppard combines up-to-the-minute research with enlightened and compassionate wisdom to explain why mother-baby bonding is so vital. Let her help you get to know, understand and cherish your unborn baby and guide you through this extraordinary time: from hearing your baby�s heartbeat for the first time, to the first magical days post birth.

Your resource for raising a healthy child from the moment of conception! Studies have shown that parents have more influence over their child, both emotionally and physically, during pregnancy and the first years after birth than at any other point in life. With The Attachment Pregnancy, you will learn how to use this important time to form a deeper connection and introduce your child to a loving environment--even before birth. Childbirth experts Tracy Wilson Peters and Laurel Wilson guide you through each stage of development with advice for providing consistent and nurturing care as your baby grows, so that you can ensure that every need is always met. From the moment your child is conceived to the day of delivery, The Attachment Pregnancy shows you how to strengthen your bond and give your baby the best life possible from the very beginning.

Guilt abounds among women who are unable, for whatever reason - illness of mother or child, premature birth, adoption - to experience the required period of bonding with their babies. In this absorbing book, Diane E. Eyer traces the history of the bonding myth and explains its continuing popularity despite its demonstrated lack of validity. Most important, she shows how it reflects a disturbing tendency in our society to accept "scientific" research without question - and without awareness that it can be distorted by professional agendas and public demands. Eyer argues that the concept of bonding was developed at a time then hospitals were losing their appeal for many women who wanted to deliver their babies in birthing centers or at home. Hospitals seized on the bonding idea as a way to make their services more attractive to pregnant women and to reassert medical authority over the birthing process by regulating the bonding procedure

A great guide and source of information on natural birth and bonding with your baby. Following in the footsteps of their bestselling guides The Natural Way to Better Babies and The Natural Way to a Better Pregnancy, Francesca Naish and Janette Roberts show you how to experience a healthy, natural birth and relaxed bonding with your new baby. Giving birth is an empowering and transformative life event, and when the birth and bonding between mother and baby unfolds naturally, the positive effects for both are immeasurable. 'Better' birth and bonding is simply birth and bonding as nature intended them to be. The Natural Way to Better Birth and Bonding is a treasure trove of practical information to help you make choices about the kind of birth you want - and beyond. It includes such topics as: - What is 'natural birth'? - The benefits of a natural birth for you and your baby - Which birth for you? - Nutrition and exercise for a natural birth - Choosing your team and making a birth plan - Managing stress and pain for an easier birth - Making decisions about medical management - Care after the birth for you and your baby - Bonding with your new baby - Natural treatments and remedies and how to use them Plus handy lists including what you and your baby will need at the birth, and after

With recent studies using genetic, epigenetic, and other molecular and neurochemical approaches, a new era has begun in understanding pathophysiology of suicide. Emerging evidence suggests that neurobiological factors are not only critical in providing potential risk factors but also provide a promising approach to develop more effective treatment and prevention strategies. The Neurobiological Basis of Suicide discusses the most recent findings in suicide neurobiology. Psychological, psychosocial, and cultural factors are important in determining the risk factors for suicide; however, they offer weak prediction and can be of little clinical use. Interestingly, cognitive characteristics are different among depressed suicidal and depressed nonsuicidal subjects, and could be involved in the development of suicidal behavior. The characterization of the neurobiological basis of suicide is in delineating the risk factors associated with suicide. The Neurobiological Basis of Suicide focuses on how and why these neurobiological factors are crucial in the pathogenic mechanisms of suicidal behavior and how these findings can be transformed into potential therapeutic applications.