Bonding Before Birth

✍ Scribed by Miriam Stoppard

• Publisher: DK ADULT
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 196
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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 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.

✦ Table of Contents

Preliminaries......Page 1
Index......Page 0
1 Benefits of bonding......Page 10
2 Becoming parents......Page 44
3 How I affect my unborn baby......Page 80
4 Bonding through choices......Page 112
5 Bonding through birthing......Page 142