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(Pediatrics in Review. 1980;2:4-30.)
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Mother-Infant Interaction

Studies in both animals and humans have shown the importance of keeping the mother and infant together during the early postpartum period for the development of the mother-infant bond.

In goats, sheep, and cattle, when a mother is separated from her young in the first few hours after delivery and then reunited, the mother will show disturbances of mothering behavior, such as failure to care for her young, butting her own offspring away, and feeding her own and other babies indiscriminately. Rhesus monkey mothers deprived of tactile contact but allowed to see and hear their infants rapidly decreased the amount of time they spent viewing their infants.






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