Ch. 17 Transition To Parenthood

Front 1

Acquaintance

Back 1

Process used by parents to get to know or become familiar with their new infant; an important step in attachment

Front 2

Attachment

Back 2

A specific and enduring affective tie to another person

Front 3

Becoming a Mother

Back 3

Transformation and growth of the mother identity

Front 4

Biorhythmicity

Back 4

Cyclic changes that occur with established regularity, such as sleeping and eating patterns

Front 5

Bonding

Back 5

A process by which parents, over time, form an emotional relationship with their infant

Front 6

Claiming process

Back 6

Process by which the parents identify their new baby in terms of likeness to other family members, differences, and uniqueness

Front 7

En face

Back 7

Face-to-face position in which the parent's and infant's faces are approximately 20cm apart and on the same plane

Front 8

Engrossment

Back 8

A parent's absorption, preoccupation, and interest in his or her infant; term typically used to describe the father's intense involvement with his newborn

Front 9

Entrainment

Back 9

Phenomenon observed in the microanalysis of sound films in which the speaker moves several parts of the body and the listener responds to the sounds by moving in ways that are coordinated with the rhythm of the sounds(infants have been observed to move in time to the rhythms of adult speech but not to random noises or disconnected words or vowels); believed to be an essential factor in the process of maternal infant bonding

Front 10

Letting-go phase

Back 10

Interdependent phase after birth in which the mother and family move forward as a system with interacting members

Front 11

Mutuality

Back 11

Parent-infant interaction in which the infant's behaviors and characteristics call forth a corresponding set of maternal behaviors and characteristics

Front 12

Postpartum blues

Back 12

A let-down feeling, accompanied by irritability and anxiety, which usually begins 2 to 3 days after giving birth and disappears within a week or two; sometimes called "baby blues"

Front 13

Reciprocity

Back 13

Type of body movement or behavior that provides the observer with cues, such as the behavioral cues infants provide to parents and parent's responses to cues

Front 14

Sibling rivalry

Back 14

A sibling's jealousy of and resentment toward a new child in the family

Front 15

Synchrony

Back 15

Fit between the infant's cues and the parent's response

Front 16

Taking-hold phase

Back 16

Period after birth characterized by a women becoming more independent and more interested in learning infant care skills; learning to be a competent mother is an important task

Front 17

Taking-in phase

Back 17

Period after birth characterized by the women's dependency; maternal needs are dominant, and talking about the birth is an important task

Front 18

Transition to parenthood

Back 18

Period of time from the preconception parenthood decision through the first months after birth of the baby during which parents define their parental roles and adjust to parenthood