Date Posted:22:58:31 02/14/07 Wed Author:Gabrielle Reisner Subject: Prenatal-Bonding
I think bonding in the early stages is possibly more for the benefit of the mother than the child. It is obvious that children have a bond with their birth parents no matter what age that bond may begin. I say it is possibly more crucial for the mother to form this bond early because she is the one who has to provide, have strength, etc. and I imagine it would be very hard to do so in the early stages of parenting (especially with postpartum depression) without such a bond.
