Author(s)

G. Chtabou, Khaoula Mammad^*, M. Chkirate, K. Karjouh, A. O. T. Ahami

Unit of Clinical and Cognitive Neuroscience and Nutritional Health, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Kenitra, Morocco.

The maternity process that has unfolded throughout the pregnancy, undergoes a turning point that occurs most of the time during the stay in diaper: place for installation of early mother-born interactions. The objective of the study is the evaluation of the quality of the establishment of early motherborn interactions as well as the effect of maternal feeling disruption on these interactions. It is a prospective study, focused on a total of 102 maternal-New-born dyads, in the unit of maternity series, at Rabat Children’s Hospital, University Hospital of Ibn Sina. It was based on a scale and an evaluation grid: the Mother-to-Infant Bonding Scale MIBQ and an evaluation grid of early mother-child interactions. The results showed that the age of the youth who is dominated at 60% (between 21 and 30 years), and that the primiparity was at 54% and 51% healthy; the correlation analysis between MIBQ and the grid shows that there is a significant correlation of average size with the emotional stability of the mother (p = 0.014 < 0.05), the quality of the attachment of the baby as his mother at the moment breastfeeding (p = 0.011 < 0.05) and the quality of the observed family context (p = 0.017 < 0.05). The installation of the mother-child relationship therefore depends on maternal capacities to recognize her place as a mother and to recognize the needs of their child, but it also depends on the child’s ability to show signs of attachment, his feelings of discomfort and pleasure.

Maternity, Mother, New-Born, Interaction, MIBQ

Chtabou, G. , Mammad, K. , Chkirate, M. , Karjouh, K. and Ahami, A. (2019) Evaluation of the Quality of the Setting up of Early Mother-Born Interactions. Open Journal of Medical Psychology, 8, 66-77. doi: 10.4236/ojmp.2019.84007.