University of Groningen
Mother-to-infant bonding: determinants and impact on child development
Tichelman, Elke
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10.33612/diss.132367897
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Publication date: 2020
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Tichelman, E. (2020). Mother-to-infant bonding: determinants and impact on child development: Challenges for maternal health care. University of Groningen. https://doi.org/10.33612/diss.132367897
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These propositions belong to the PhD thesis entitled
" Mother-to-infant bonding: determinants and impact on child development. Challenges for maternal health care."
1. Mother-to-infant bonding is a process that starts during pregnancy and continues postnatally. (This thesis)
2. Mother-to-infant bonding and good maternal mental health contributes to child behavioral and emotional development. (This thesis)
3. The use of intrapartum synthetic oxytocin should be carefully considered in women at risk of a postnatal depression. (This thesis)
4. Midwives can improve their performance, and adhere to the guideline Prenatal midwifery care, by addressing the transition to motherhood using open questions. (This thesis)
5. Midwives should take the initiative to address the transition to motherhood in multiparous women. (This thesis)
6. The scientific evidence for the effectiveness of interventions aimed at mother-to-infant bonding is limited. Interventions such as group education aimed at bonding and attachment, may offer perspectives for the future. (This thesis)
7. Professionals involved in maternity care should monitor mother-to-infant bonding from early pregnancy on. (This thesis)
8. The generated knowledge on mother-to-infant bonding should be implemented in the Dutch national guidelines and in the international guidelines.
9. The first years of life are like the first moves of a chess game. They indicate the direction and style of the whole game, but as long as someone is not checkmate, there are still interesting possibilities open. (Anna Freud (1895-1982))
10. Someone has to mother the mothers, so that the mothers can mother the babies. (M.E. Erickson 1996)
11. I have never tried that before, so I think I should definitely be able to do that. (Pippi Longstocking, Astrid Lindgren (1907-2002))
12. De politiek is te belangrijk om alleen aan mannen over te laten. Politics is too important to be left to men alone. (Els Borst 1932-2014)
