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Prepare for Pregnancy, Birth, and Parenting

  • A mixed methods approach to understanding the relationship between attachment and child outcomes: The connection of related findings, theory and cultural implications as explored through the perspectives and practices of attachment parents.
  • Does Antenatal Education Affect Labour and Birth? A Structured Review of the Literature
  • Effective Intervention Programming: Improving Maternal Adjustment Through Parent Education
  • Effects of Group Prenatal Care on Psychosocial Risk in Pregnancy: Results from a Randomised Controlled Trial
  • Mothers Affiliated with a Positive Parenting Program Report Rearing their Children Differently
  • Mothers' and fathers' parenting challenges, strategies, and resources in toddlerhood
  • Perceived Partner Support in Pregnancy Predicts Lower Maternal and Infant Distress
  • Preparation for Parenthood: A Concept Analysis
  • The effect of exercise and childbirth classes on fear of childbirth and locus of labor pain control
  • Understanding and Meeting the Needs of Women in the Postpartum Period: The Perinatal Maternal Health Promotion Model
  • [PDF] Fathers' engagement in pregnancy and childbirth: evidence from a national survey

Feed with Love and Respect

  • Attachment insecurity and emotional eating
  • Breastfeeding and Its Relation to Maternal Sensitivity and Infant Attachment
  • Continuity in primary school children's eating problems and the influence of parental feeding strategies
  • Eating me up inside Priming attachment security and anxiety, and their effects on snacking
  • Families, meals and synchronicity: eating together in British dual earner families
  • Food consumption by young children: A function of parental feeding goals and practices
  • Food parenting: A selective review of current measurement and an empirical examination to inform future measurement
  • Parenting Styles, Parental Response to Child Emotion, and Family Emotional Responsiveness are Related to Child Emotional Eating
  • Quality of Early Maternal-Child Relationship and Risk of Adolescent Obesity
  • Responsive Feeding and Child Undernutrition in Low-and Middle-Income Countries
  • Responsive Feeding is Embedded in a Theoretical Framework of Responsive Parenting

Respond with Sensitivity

  • Breastfeeding, Brain Activation to Own Infant Cry, and Maternal Sensitivity
  • Fathers are just as good as mothers at recognizing the cries of their baby
  • Good Partner, Good Parent Responsiveness Mediates the Link Between Romantic Attachment and Parenting Style
  • Parental rearing behavior prospectively predicts adolescents’ risky decision-making and feedback-related electrical brain activity
  • Predictors of Maternal Sensitivity to Infant Distress
  • The Relation Between Early Mother-Infant Skin-to-Skin Contact and Later Maternal Sensitivity in South African Mothers of Low Birth Weight Infants
  • Unequal in Opportunity, Equal in Process: Parental Sensitivity Promotes Positive Child Development in Ethnic Minority Families

Use Nurturing Touch

  • A Longitudinal Investigation of Maternal Touching Across the First 6 Months of Life: Age and Context Effects
  • Effect of Mother/Infant Skin-to-Skin Contact on Postpartum Depressive Symptoms and Maternal Physiological Stress
  • Gentle touch activates the prefrontal cortex in infancy: An NIRS study.
  • Influence of Maternal Social Communication on Ticklishness in Infants: A Comparison With Being Stroked
  • Influence of Skin-to-Skin Contact and Rooming-In on Early Mother–Infant Interaction: A Randomized Controlled Trial
  • Natural Variations in Maternal and Paternal Care are Associated with Systematic Changes in Oxytocin Following Parent-Infant Contact
  • Physiological and behavioral responses reveal 9-month-old infants' sensitivity to pleasant touch
  • The Development of Maternal Touch Across the First Year of Life
  • The Sacred Hour: Uninterrupted Skin-to-Skin Contact Immediately After Birth
  • Touch for Socioemotional and Physical Well-Being: A Review
  • Touched by the storyteller: the influence of remote touch in the context of storytelling.

Ensure Safe Sleep, Physically and Emotionally

  • A longitudinal study of child sleep in high and low risk families: Relationship to early maternal settling strategies and child psychological functioning
  • Behavioral Sleep Interventions in the First Six Months of Life Do not Improve Outcomes for Mothers or Infants: A Systematic Review
  • Breastfeeding May Improve Nocturnal Sleep and Reduce Infantile Colic: Potential Role of Breast Milk Melatonin
  • Childhood Sleep Duration and Associated Demographic Characteristics in an English Cohort
  • Continuity and Change in Poor Sleep from Childhood to Early Adolescence
  • Cortisol regulation in 12-month-old human infants: Associations with the infants’ early history of breastfeeding and co-sleeping
  • Cross Cultural Differences in Toddler and Infant Sleep
  • Ensure Safe Sleep - Special Section
  • How Do Mothers Help Their Children Sleep at Night? Night-waking Strategy Use Among Mothers of Preschool-aged Children
  • How Much Sleep Is “Normal” in Children and Adolescents? Normal Sleep Duration in Children and Adolescents
  • Infant Sleep and Paternal Involvement in Infant Caregiving During the First 6 Months of Life
  • Infant sleep problems: a qualitative analysis of first-time mothers' coping experience
  • Maternal emotional availability at bedtime and infant cortisol at 1 and 3 months
  • Normal Sleep Patterns in Infants and Children: A Systematic Review of Observational Studies
  • Norms and Trends of Sleep Time Among US Children and Adolescents
  • Patterns of Developmental Change in Infants’ Nighttime Sleep Awakenings from 6 through 36 Months of Age
  • Postpartum Sleep in New Mothers and Fathers
  • Reasons for Mother–Infant Bed-Sharing: A Systematic Narrative Synthesis of the Literature and Implications for Future Research
  • The Role of the Father in Child Sleep Disturbance: Child, Parent, and Parent-Child Relationship
  • Troubled sleep Night waking, breastfeeding and parent–offspring conflict
  • [HTML] Continuity and change in poor sleep from childhood to early adolescence
  • [PDF] Behavioral Sleep Interventions in the First Six Months of Life Do not Improve Outcomes for Mothers or Infants: A Systematic
  • [PDF] Postpartum Sleep in New Mothers and Fathers

Provide Consistent and Loving Care

  • Beyond an “Either–Or” approach to home-and center-based child care: Comparing children and families who combine care types with those who use just one
  • Differential Susceptibility to Parenting and Quality Child Care
  • Do Effects of Early Child Care Extend to Age 15 Years? Results From the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development
  • Do toddlers prefer the primary caregiver or the parent with whom they feel more secure? The role of toddler emotion
  • Double Jeopardy: Poorer Social-Emotional Outcomes for Children in the NICHD SECCYD Experiencing Home and Child-Care Environments That Confer Risk
  • Early Mother-Child Separation, Parenting, and Child Well-Being in Early Head Start Families
  • If You're Happy and You Know It, Clap Your Hands: How Do Mothers and Fathers Really Feel about Child Caregiving?
  • Observational attachment theory-based parenting measures predict children's attachment narratives independently from social learning theory-based measures
  • The evolved development niche: Longitudinal effects of caregiving practices on early childhood psychosocial development
  • The Impact of Non-Parental Child Care on Child Development: Evidence from the Summer Participation "Dip"
  • When a Parent Goes to War: Effects of Parental Deployment on Very Young Children and Implications for Intervention

Practice Positive Discipline

  • Developmental Trends in Emotion Regulation: A Systematic Review with Implications for Community Mental Health
  • Early Attachment Organization Moderates the Parent-Child Mutually Coercive Pathway to Children's Antisocial Conduct
  • Eavesdropping on the family: A pilot investigation of corporal punishment in the home.
  • Examining classroom influences on student perceptions of school climate: The role of classroom management and exclusionary discipline strategies
  • From Parent to Child to Parent…: Paths In and Out of Problem Behavior
  • Inhibitory Control and Harsh Discipline as Predictors of Externalizing Problems in Young Children: A Comparative Study of US, Chinese, and Japanese Preschoolers
  • Linking Maternal Warmth and Responsiveness to Children's Self-Regulation
  • Longitudinal links between fathers' and mothers' harsh verbal discipline and adolescents' conduct problems and depressive symptoms
  • Maternal Attachment Style and Responses to Adolescents' Negative Emotions: The Mediating Role of Maternal Emotion Regulation
  • Parenting and Late Adolescent Emotional Adjustment: Mediating Effects of Discipline and Gender
  • Parenting and Trajectories of Children's Maladaptive Behaviors: A 12-year Prospective Community Study
  • Parents' Aggression Toward Children and Children's Own Aggression
  • Reciprocal positive affect and well-regulated, adjusted children: a unique contribution of fathers
  • Relations between parental discipline, empathy-related traits, and prosocial moral reasoning: A multicultural examination
  • Spanking, corporal punishment and negative long-term outcomes: A meta-analytic review of longitudinal studies
  • The Relation of Harsh and Permissive Discipline with Child Disruptive Behaviors: Does Child Gender Make a Difference in an At-Risk Sample?
  • The Role of Caregiver Contingent Responsiveness in Promoting Compliance in Young Children

Strive for Balance in Personal and Family Life

  • Associations Among Marital Qualities, Supportive and Undermining Coparenting, and Parenting Self-Efficacy Testing Spillover and Stress-Buffering Processes
  • First-Time Mothers: Social Support, Maternal Parental Self-Efficacy and Postnatal Depression
  • In survival mode: mothers and fathers' experiences of fatigue in the early parenting period
  • New Mothers and Media Use: Associations Between Blogging, Social Networking, and Maternal Well-Being
  • Oxytocin administration alters HPA reactivity in the context of parent-infant interaction
  • Parenting Style Trumps Work Role in Life Satisfaction of Midlife Women
  • Peer and Professional Parenting Support on the Internet: A Systematic Review
  • Social Influences on Neuroplasticity: Stress and Interventions to Promote Well-Being
  • Social Support, Volunteering and Health Around the World: Cross-National Evidence From 139 Countries
  • The role of maternal self-care in new motherhood
  • Yoga and social support reduce prenatal depression, anxiety and cortisol
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