Bonding: Building The Foundations Of Secure Attachment And Independence

By Marshall H. Klaus, John H. Kennell, Phyllis H. Klaus

Book Overview

The mighty bond between parent and child is one of the enduring wonders of psychology. John Kennell and Marshall and Phyllis Klaus bring decades of research, insight, and clinical practice into one book that offers parents, and those who care for them during pregnancy, everything they need to know to enhance this essential relationship. This important work explores the effects of various birth practices and situations--prenatal testing, labor support, testing of newborns, breast feeding, prematurity, and adoption--on the parents' feelings and on the development of later attachment and independence.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 020162673X
• ISBN13: 9780201626735
• Release Date: October 1995
• Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.0" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

Nature Bonding with babies is sharing love

I love this book of direct parent-infant contact to essential for parenting babies after birth. it explains many natural needs baby has for skin to skin, eye to eye, nursing, family bed, playing & bathing together, cuddling, carrying baby on body & accepting all emotions naturally caring. It includes bonding after hospital & homebirthing, is also called 'attachment' parenting & they assert is essential for belonging & independence for babies growing up whole. This "Bonding" is mostly for natural birthing parents or anyone who needs bonding from childhood & even lovers now, who weren't bonded growing up, as i missed, so we can learn deep feelings of love touching with trust. Even little girls love carrying & caring for babies, is good practice for them birthing & bonding later.

This book tells everything you need to know about bonding

This book compiles years of research to give parents the best source for information on building stable relationships with their children