For new mothers, the relationship matters: Relationship characteristics and postpartum sexuality

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 126-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaclyn Cappell ◽  
Tara K. MacDonald ◽  
Caroline F. Pukall
Keyword(s):  
New Mothers ◽  
The Relationship

scholarly journals Early exclusive breastfeeding cessation and postpartum depression: Assessing the mediating and moderating role of maternal stress and social support

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. e0251419
Author(s):  
Md Jahirul Islam ◽  
Lisa Broidy ◽  
Kathleen Baird ◽  
Mosiur Rahman ◽  
Khondker Mohammad Zobair
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Postpartum Depression ◽  
Exclusive Breastfeeding ◽  
Maternal Stress ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Current Evidence ◽  
Multivariate Logistic Regression Model ◽  
New Mothers ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
The Relationship

Background Early termination of exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) and postpartum depression (PPD) are both recognized as global health problems. Recent literature reviews demonstrate a notable link between PPD and breastfeeding outcomes, however, the underlying mechanisms linking the two remain unclear. Objectives The aim of the study is to: 1) explore the comparative risk for PPD among new mothers who terminated EBF before the 6-month mark, compared to those who did not; and 2) test whether maternal stress and social support operate to mediate and/or moderate the relationship between EBF and PPD. Methods Between October 2015 and January 2016, a cross-sectional study was carried out among 426 new mothers of Bangladesh who were six months postpartum. Results Based on the multivariate logistic regression model, non-exclusively breastfeeding mothers were 7.58-fold more likely to experience PPD (95% CI [3.94, 14.59]) than exclusively breastfeeding mothers. Additionally, maternal stress and social support not only partially mediate the relationship between EBF and PPD but also substantially moderate this relationship. Specifically, the odds of PPD are significantly higher among mothers who had early EBF interruption in conjunction with increased stress levels and limited social support. Conclusions Current evidence suggests that concurrent screening for EBF difficulties and maternal stress are important red flags that might hint at complications even before mother’s screen positive for PPD. Support and care from family members can provide assistance in overcoming this issue.

scholarly journals Attachment Styles, Various Maternal Representations and a Bond to a Baby

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (10) ◽  
pp. 3363 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Zdolska-Wawrzkiewicz ◽  
Magdalena Chrzan-Dętkoś ◽  
Daria Pizuńska ◽  
Mariola Bidzan
Keyword(s):  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Attachment Styles ◽  
Close Relationships ◽  
Young Mothers ◽  
New Mothers ◽  
Adjective Checklist ◽  
Maternal Representations ◽  
Postpartum Bonding ◽  
Experiences In Close Relationships ◽  
The Relationship

(1) Background: The aim of this study was to assess the relationship between: (a) new mothers’ styles of attachment to their own mothers with their representation of self as a mother as well as with their representation of one’s mother as a mother, (b) new mothers’ representation of self as a mother with their representation of one’s own mother as a mother, and (c) their bonds with their children and their styles of attachment to their own mothers. (2) Methods: A total of 86 mothers were interviewed approximately six months postpartum. The Adjective Checklist, a modified version of the Experiences in Close Relationships, and the Postpartum Bonding Questionnaire were used in the study. (3) Results: Analysis revealed a statistically significant relationship between the new mothers’ styles of attachment to their own mothers and both their representation of self as a mother and their representation of one’s mother as a mother. The relationship between representation of self as a mother and representation of one’s mother as a mother was also statistically significant. No statistically significant relationship was observed between the style of attachment to one’s mother and the bond with one’s child six months postpartum. (4) Conclusions: A deeper understanding of the relationship between these variables may improve the help system directed at young mothers.

scholarly journals Sleep in the Postpartum: Characteristics of First-Time, Healthy Mothers

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Creti ◽  
Eva Libman ◽  
Dorrie Rizzo ◽  
Catherine S. Fichten ◽  
Sally Bailes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sleep Quality ◽  
New Mothers ◽  
Nocturnal Sleep ◽  
Daytime Functioning ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Sleep Parameters ◽  
Postpartum Mothers ◽  
Anxiety Depression ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Relationship

Goals for the present study were to (a) describe the sleep of healthy new mothers over a 6-month postpartum period, (b) examine how sleep quality relates to daytime levels of fatigue and sleepiness, and (c) evaluate the relationship between mothers’ and infants’ sleep parameters. The sample consisted of 37 healthy, partnered, first-time mothers who had experienced full-term vaginal birth and had a healthy infant. We investigated infants’ sleep parameters and mothers’ sleep, mood, and daytime functioning 2 and 6 months postpartum. We found that at 2 months postpartum, mothers reported sleeping 6 hours at night and just under one hour during the day. Despite relatively frequent nocturnal awakenings, mothers experienced minimal insomnia, nonrefreshing sleep, anxiety, depression, daytime sleepiness, or fatigue at either 2 or 6 months. The most robust relationship between mothers’ and infants’ sleep was in the number of nocturnal sleep-wake episodes. Of note is that none of the infant sleep parameters was related to mothers’ anxiety, depression, fatigue, sleepiness, or nonrefreshing sleep at either time period. Our results indicate that (1) selected low risk new mothers are resilient in terms of sleep quality, daytime functioning, and mood and (2) these are independent of their infants’ sleep parameters.

scholarly journals The new mothers’ little helpers: medicalization, victimization, and criminalization of motherhood via prescription drugs

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle Smirnova ◽  
Jennifer Gatewood Owens
Keyword(s):  
Cesarean Section ◽  
Physical Health ◽  
Prescription Drugs ◽  
Health Problems ◽  
New Mothers ◽  
The Family ◽  
Good Mother ◽  
Physical Health Problems ◽  
Gender And Crime ◽  
The Relationship

In order to understand the relationship between nonmedical prescriptiondrug use, gender, and crime, interviews were conducted with 40 incarceratedwomen who self-identified as nonmedical Rx users. Of the women weinterviewed, 70% were prescribed Rx drugs from their doctors to aid inrecovery from cesarean section childbirth deliveries, treat postpartumdepression, or for mental or physical health problems associated with childhoodabuse and victimization. These women subsequently discovered thatthese pills also helped them cope with the stresses of caretaking andkeeping the family together, particularly when experiencing intimate partnerviolence and prolonged poverty. Women were motivated to use Rxdrugs in order to be a “good” mother, as defined by medical and culturaldiscourse; however, despite positive intentions, prolonged nonmedical useoften hindered the realization of these ideals and ultimately resulted intheir criminalization, incarceration, and separation from their children.

scholarly journals Patient Satisfaction With Postpartum Teaching Methods

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Debra L. Wagner ◽  
Cynthia Washington
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Study ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Traditional Method ◽  
Birth Experience ◽  
New Mothers ◽  
Discharge Instructions ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Crucial Part ◽  
Discharge Teaching

ABSTRACTPostpartum discharge instructions are a crucial part of a mother’s birth experience. Finding the method to provide those discharge instructions in a manner that increases the mother’s satisfaction with her hospital experience is important. This quasi-experimental study examined the relationship between new mothers’ interaction with nurses providing postpartum instructions by the traditional and class methods and their satisfaction with discharge teaching. The results indicated new mothers were satisfied with both methods of discharge teaching; however, they were more likely to report stronger agreement with overall satisfaction with the traditional method of discharge teaching than with attending the discharge class.

scholarly journals Interpreting Images of Motherhood: The Contexts and Dynamics of Collective Viewing

2010 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 26-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen Lomax ◽  
Janet Fink
Keyword(s):  
Personal Experience ◽  
Visual Images ◽  
Cultural Representations ◽  
Cultural Narratives ◽  
New Mothers ◽  
Emotion And Memory ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Interpretive Process ◽  
Experience Emotion

Our research is concerned with cultural representations of birth and mothering and, as part of this, we are engaged with debates concerning competing theoretical and methodological approaches to the analysis of visual images. In particular we are interested in how meanings of an image are reflexively produced, managed and negotiated. That is, whether and to what extent interpretation is influenced by personal experience, emotion and memory; the ways in which the context of viewing may mediate meaning; and how the relationship between researcher and research subject may shape the interpretative process. In order to explore such questions, this paper draws on the tape-recorded discussion of a group of women collectively viewing images of new mothers. These included photographs of mothers and their newborns taken by the Dutch photographer Rineke Dijkstra, and photographs of us, the authors, as new mothers, taken by our respective families. The paper blends the analytic framework of conversation analysis and discursive psychology in order to consider both our own and the discussants’ responses to these photographs as they emerge through the dynamic and discursive process of collective viewing. In addition we consider the significance of our own and the discussants’ biographies and reproductive experiences, as they are made visible in the talk-in-interaction, for the meanings generated by the group's engagement with the photographs. Through this reflexive approach we highlight the significance of the interplay between broader cultural narratives, genres, memories and experiences for the interpretive process and the analytical challenges posed by collective viewings of images in which meanings are discursively situated, negotiated and silenced.

Interstellar gas in the central region of the Galaxy

1967 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 239-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. J. Kerr
Keyword(s):  
Central Region ◽  
Galactic Plane ◽  
Neutral Hydrogen ◽  
Continuum Emission ◽  
Galactic Centre ◽  
Interstellar Gas ◽  
Hydrogen Recombination ◽  
The Galaxy ◽  
Centre Region ◽  
The Relationship

A review is given of information on the galactic-centre region obtained from recent observations of the 21-cm line from neutral hydrogen, the 18-cm group of OH lines, a hydrogen recombination line at 6 cm wavelength, and the continuum emission from ionized hydrogen.Both inward and outward motions are important in this region, in addition to rotation. Several types of observation indicate the presence of material in features inclined to the galactic plane. The relationship between the H and OH concentrations is not yet clear, but a rough picture of the central region can be proposed.

The relationship of the scleractinian corals to the rugose corals

Paleobiology ◽  
1980 ◽  
Vol 6 (02) ◽  
pp. 146-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
William A. Oliver
Keyword(s):  
Critical Points ◽  
Scleractinian Corals ◽  
Convincing Evidence ◽  
Early Triassic ◽  
Rugose Corals ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Biologic Factors

The Mesozoic-Cenozoic coral Order Scleractinia has been suggested to have originated or evolved (1) by direct descent from the Paleozoic Order Rugosa or (2) by the development of a skeleton in members of one of the anemone groups that probably have existed throughout Phanerozoic time. In spite of much work on the subject, advocates of the direct descent hypothesis have failed to find convincing evidence of this relationship. Critical points are:(1) Rugosan septal insertion is serial; Scleractinian insertion is cyclic; no intermediate stages have been demonstrated. Apparent intermediates are Scleractinia having bilateral cyclic insertion or teratological Rugosa.(2) There is convincing evidence that the skeletons of many Rugosa were calcitic and none are known to be or to have been aragonitic. In contrast, the skeletons of all living Scleractinia are aragonitic and there is evidence that fossil Scleractinia were aragonitic also. The mineralogic difference is almost certainly due to intrinsic biologic factors.(3) No early Triassic corals of either group are known. This fact is not compelling (by itself) but is important in connection with points 1 and 2, because, given direct descent, both changes took place during this only stage in the history of the two groups in which there are no known corals.

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