Promotes the mother-infant relationship through breast-feeding.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mothering Twins] Reference

She painted a picture of mother-infant bonding that appealed to me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Amy Sohn: Breastfeeding Benefits--for Moms] Reference

Researchers followed 926 mother-infant pairs in Crete for one year after birth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why You Forget Birthdays] Reference

Postnatal classes for high risk mother-infant pairs: Curriculum by Earladeen Badger.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Child Left Behind?] Reference

At the time, people really thought it was nursing that forged the mother-infant bond.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-12-01] Reference

Just as importantly, early mother-infant relationships and breastfeeding are enhanced.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Official Lamaze® Guide] Reference

The development of mother-infant and father-infant attachments in the second year of life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal or political?] Reference

And finally she lost both of her infants to the cannibal mother-infant pair Passion and Pom.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Journey Through the Jungle] Reference

As I explained in the Coonifesto, the mother-infant dyad is a biologically natural phenomenon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-03-01] Reference

While we waited for one of them to move, I studied the nose prints of the two mother-infant pairs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mountain Gorillas: Discovery Channel: How to Identify a Mountain Gorilla] Reference

Male circumcision has been shown to disrupt the mother-infant bond during the crucial period after birth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The First Cut | Her Bad Mother] Reference

“The effect of doula support during labor on mother-infant interaction at 2 months,” Infant Behav Devel, 21:556, 1998.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Official Lamaze® Guide] Reference

Over the next weeks and months, Lefty watched from the Siberia of his side of the bed as this mother-infant love affair blossomed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Middlesex]

On one hand, bonding seems the most natural thing in the world, but on the other, we know that the mother-infant bond cannot be taken for granted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shouldn’t I Be Happy?] Reference

“The effect of a supportive companion on perinatal problems, length of labor, and mother-infant interaction,” N Engl J Med, 303:597–600, 1980.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Official Lamaze® Guide] Reference

Dr. Moss joined the National Institute of Mental Health in 1961 and worked for its child research branch, where he conducted research on mother-infant interactions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Howard A. Moss, NIH Senior Scientist] Reference

The team studied 1,160 mother-infant pairs over three flu seasons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reuters: Top News] Reference

It provides parenting education and is aimed at strengthening the mother-infant bond.    From Wordnik.com.  [IndyStar.com Top Stories] Reference

Researchers looked at mother-infant pairs treated at clinics in Cameroon, Ivory Coast.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference

A total of 7223 Australian mother-infant pairs were monitored prospectively over 15 years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Food &Health Skeptic] Reference

Oxytocin is nicknamed the hormone of love because it is known to promote mother-infant bonds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medlogs - Recent stories] Reference

But the relaxing activity does more than foster a close and confident mother-infant relationship.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hellomagazine.com - Home updates] Reference

1991 “Sleep and arousal patterns among co-sleeping mother-infant pairs: Implications for SIDS.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Official Lamaze® Guide] Reference

The researchers closely observed 14 mother-infant pairs for the first two months of the infants 'lives.    From Wordnik.com.  [Science Blog - Science news straight from the source] Reference

Six mother-infant pairs (MIPs) labeled 2617, 1449, 1084, 2669, 2873 and 1984 from our Zambian mother-infant cohort.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

In this study, we have further examined the perinatal transmission of HIV-1 subtype C of our Zambian mother-infant cohort.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

In her clinical research, Cong studies only mother-infant pairs, but she notes that fathers, too, can provide Kangaroo Care.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

The opioid system, which is linked to pain, pleasure and addictive behaviors might also play a role in mother-infant bonding.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American] Reference

Signalling of hunger by the infant is likely an evolved mechanism that individualises timing of weaning for a mother-infant pair.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference

There, high levels of mercury were found in umbilical cord blood and correlated with reduced performance in neurologic testing in 917 mother-infant pairs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference

None of the mother-infant pairs in this trial had access to prophylaxis for in utero transmission of HIV-1, which was not available at the time in South Africa.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS Medicine: New Articles] Reference

This provides corroborative evidence for Ducey's (1976) thesis that the shamanic complex is laid down in early infancy through ruptures in the mother-infant dyad.    From Wordnik.com.  [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference

I had only just started to flick through it when a sub-heading caught my attention: "Disorders of the mother-infant relationship: Obsessive thoughts of hostility to the infant".    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and style | guardian.co.uk] Reference

Thus, the authors of this study elegantly highlight the dyadic nature of the mother-infant relationship. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [THE MEDICAL NEWS] Reference

“needed: country overnight lodgings for mother-infant outings this summer, preferably with forest or lake nearby.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Monstrous Regiment of Women]

Risk in mother-infant separation postbirth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

Same with mother-infant bonding, IQ, leukemia, cholesterol, diabetes.    From Wordnik.com. Reference