Host: What is Bonding?
Oded Preis: Bonding is the emotional attachment that a parent forms to its new born infant, and that is a feeling that is very, very important for the mother and the father to be able to care for their child, and 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 ,and that's being done by, after that the infant has been born. Placing the baby on mothers 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 deprived of that, the early phase of bonding, or forming this emotional attachment to their baby, immediately after birth, it prolongs this process of attaching to the baby much longer, if it's done later on or even several hours later.
Host: The fact that the, initially, if you have a kid in, they more they encourage bonding, in presence of the mother, in close contact with the baby. Is that true?
Oded Preis: 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 their room itself, where the mother can constantly be there to care for the baby, feed the baby, when the baby needs to be fed, they 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 the mother, and the baby can basically be touched and hugged and caressed and looked at by the mother on a constant basis.
Host: If you choose an obstetrician, the first question you should ask him, what is the process after the baby is born? Is good bonding, birthing practice or something like that, because that's part of the whole package. Isn't it?
Oded Preis: Absolutely. Absolutely.
Host: So the bigger the institution, more likely they sensitize, to that particular component, is that right?
Oded Preis: It's extremely important to be sensitive to these issues and a lot of the new way delivery rooms and the obstetrics departments are actually developing what's called birthing suites, where the mother and the baby after birth can stay together and they 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, and it's the bonding of the mother to the baby, immediately after birth is extremely important.
Host: And there are some bunch of goods effects some bonding. True, isn't that?
Oded Preis: Oh, absolutely.
Host: So in other words, the question you should ask an obstetrician, not only if he delivers well, what does the hospital deliver right afterwards?
Oded Preis: Yes. You want to know what their whole setup is, immediately after birth and what facilities they have in order to make this transition as pleasurable and as smooth as possible.
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