How to Bond with my newborn

Male Speaker 1: What is bonding thing? Male Speaker 2: Bonding is the emotional attachment that a parent forms to its newborn infant. That is a feeling that is very, very important for the mother and the father to be able to care for their child. That process especially with the mother starts immediately after the birthing process. As a matter of fact, a mother needs to be bonding with the child immediately after birth. This being done by after that the infant has been born, placing the baby on mother’s chest and allowing the mother to be in a position to look at the baby’s face, look into the baby’s eyes, allow the baby to latch on, and start suckling on her breasts, to form that emotional bond that is so important for the mother feed a newborn relationship. As a matter of fact, if mothers are the pride of that they early phase of a bonding, forming this emotional attachment to their baby immediately after the birth, it prolongs this process of attaching to the baby much longer if it’s done later on or even several hours later. Male Speaker 1: The better the nursery you have a kid in, the more they encourage bonding and process her mother in close contact with the baby, is that so? Male Speaker 2: Absolutely. It is much healthier for the mother and the baby to be in a position where they are either having access to the baby all the time or even what used to be called rooming in when the baby is next to the mother in that room itself, where the mother can constantly be there to care for the baby, feed the baby when the baby needs to be fed and form a very close physical contact with the baby, which will be easy if the mother is there right next -- or the baby is right there next to their mother and the baby can basically touch them, and look into the mother by the mother on a constant basis. Male Speaker 1: If you’re choosing an institution, the first questions usually asked is, what’s the process after the baby is born, if there’s good bonding, breathing practice center or something like that, if there’s packages? Male Speaker 2: Absolutely, absolutely. Male Speaker 1: So the bigger the institution, more likely with that particular component? Male Speaker 2: It’s extremely important to be senses take to these issues and a lot of the new way of delivery rooms and hospitals; the partners are actually developing what’s called birthing suits, where the mother and the baby after birth can stay together and bond immediately after birth. Obviously, the father’s role in it is important as well although it may take longer for the father to bond with the baby. But the bonding of the mother to the baby immediately after birth is extremely important. Male Speaker 1: There are some lunge of good effects from bonding, sure, wasn’t there? Male Speaker 2: Oh, absolutely. Male Speaker 1: So in other words, the question is to ask to an -- not only he can live his world, but it’s the hospital delivery afterwards? Male Speaker 2: Yes. You want to know what the whole set up is immediately after the birth and what facilities they have in order to make this transition as pleasurable and as smooth as possible.