pre term time which involves the negative or traumatic birth experience and the hospitalization of the baby in neonatal intensive care unit can be a stressful time for mothers causing psychological distress which is associated with subsequent emotional and behavioural problems of the child (Miceli et al, 2000). The physical separation also hinders mothers from form secure attachment with their babies. Secure attachment can be the foundation to a child development in terms of their biological, social, emotional and positive behaviour adjustment in adulthood. (Granot and Mayseless, 2001). On the contrary, insecure attachment is linked with emotional and social problems and also results in biochemical consequences in the developing brain(Levy
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The importance of secure attachment is an important policy in the health child programme(HCP) (DH, 2009) which state that heath visitors should to observe and assess parent- infant interaction , so that issues such as attachment, enabling social support and post-natal depression can be identified and offered additional health visitor support. This was done during the new birth visit where Emma was observed to be having attachment problems as she could not bond with her child. She found the birthing experience stressful and was still recovering from the trauma. Hence, she was offered more visit for extra support. However, there was no immediate continuation of these visit support when baby was discharged due to lack of communication. Nonetheless, this discontinuation was not for long as the health visitor kept calling the mother whiles baby was in hospital and found at about the discharge at which point a visit was arranged immediately for the visit to continue and give support. Sufficient readiness was recognised to promote confidence and self-efficacy in new mothers which increased the amount of social support that was sought, enabling increased emotional capacity to cope with the transition (Salmela-Aro et …show more content…
Postnatal depression (PND) is defined as a non-psychotic depressive episode which has all the elements
The importance of secure attachment is an important policy in the health child programme(HCP) (DH, 2009) which state that heath visitors should to observe and assess parent- infant interaction , so that issues such as attachment, enabling social support and post-natal depression can be identified and offered additional health visitor support. This was done during the new birth visit where Emma was observed to be having attachment problems as she could not bond with her child. She found the birthing experience stressful and was still recovering from the trauma. Hence, she was offered more visit for extra support. However, there was no immediate continuation of these visit support when baby was discharged due to lack of communication. Nonetheless, this discontinuation was not for long as the health visitor kept calling the mother whiles baby was in hospital and found at about the discharge at which point a visit was arranged immediately for the visit to continue and give support. Sufficient readiness was recognised to promote confidence and self-efficacy in new mothers which increased the amount of social support that was sought, enabling increased emotional capacity to cope with the transition (Salmela-Aro et …show more content…
Postnatal depression (PND) is defined as a non-psychotic depressive episode which has all the elements