The development of maternal touch across the first year of life

Early Human Development

Volumn 84, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 363-370

  Ferber, Sari Goldstein ^a   Feldman, Ruth ^b,c   Makhoul, Imad R ^d  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d MEYER CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Israel)

Author keywords

6 months; Crawling; Maternal touch; Separation individuation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD GROWTH; COGNITION; EMOTION; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PLAY; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TOUCH;

BIRTH ORDER; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT BEHAVIOR; LOVE; MALE; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; MOTHERS; PLAY AND PLAYTHINGS; TOUCH; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 43449119497     PISSN: 03783782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2007.09.019     Document Type: Article

References (48)

1. Feldman R., and Eidelman A.I. Skin-to-skin contact (Kangaroo Care) accelerates autonomic and neurobehavioral maturation in premature infants. Dev Med Child Neurol 45 (2003) 1-8
2. Putnam S.P., and Stifter C.A. Development of approach and inhibition in the first year: parallel findings from motor behavior, temperament ratings and directional cardiac response. Dev Sci 5 4 (2002) 441-451
3. Keren M., Feldman R., Eidelman A.I., Sirota L., and Lester B. Clinical interview for high-risk parents of premature infants (CLIP) as a predictor of early disruptions in the mother-infant relationship at the nursery. Infant Ment Health J 24 2 (2003) 93-110
4. Stack D.M., and Muir D.W. Adult tactile stimulation during face-to-face interactions modulates five-month-olds' affect and attention. Child Dev 63 6 (1992) 1509-1525
5. Pelaez-Nogueras M., Field T., Gewirtz J.L., Cigales M., Gonzales A., Sanchez A., et al. The effect of systematic stroking versus tickling and poking on infant behavior. J Appl Dev Psychol 18 (1997) 169-178
6. Tronick E.Z. Touch in mother-infant interaction. In: Field T.M. (Ed). Touch in early development (1995), Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., Hillsdale, NJ, England 53-65
7. Weiss S.J., Wilson O., Hertenstein M.J., and Campos R. The tactile context of mother's caregiving: implications for attachment of low birth weight infants. Infant Behav Dev 23 (2000) 91-111
8. Richter L.M., Yach D., Cameron N., Griesel R.D., and de Wet. Enrollment into birth to ten population and sample characteristics. Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol 9 1 (1995) 109-120
9. Ferber S.G. Some developmental facets of silence: a case study of a struggle to have a proximity figure. Br J Psychother 20 3 (2004) 315-332
10. Field T.M. Maternal depression effects on infants and early interventions. Prev Med: Int J Devoted Pract Theory 27 2 (1998) 200-203
11. Stepakoff S., Beebe B., and Jaffe J. Mother-infant tactile communication at four month: infant gender, maternal ethnicity, and maternal depression. Poster presented at the international conference on infant studies, Brighton, England (2000)
12. Weinberg M.K., and Tronick E.Z. The impact of maternal psychiatric illness on infant development. J Clin Psychiatry 59 2 (1998) 53-61
13. Muir D.W. Adult communications with infants through touch: the forgotten sense. Hum Dev 45 2 (2002) 95-99
14. Hertenstein M.J. Touch: its communicative functions in infancy. Hum Dev 45 2 (2002) 70-94
15. Polan H.J., and Ward M.J. Role of the mother's touch in failure to thrive: a preliminary investigation. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psych 33 8 (1994) 1098-1105
16. Feldman R., Keren M., Gross-Rozval O., and Tyano S. Mother-child touch patterns in infant feeding disorders: relation to maternal, child, and environmental factors. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psych 43 9 (2004) 1089-1097
17. Weiss S.J. Psychophysiologic and behavioral effects of tactile stimulation on infants with congenital heart disease. Res Nurs Health 15 (1992) 93-101
18. Field T. Early interventions for infants of depressed mothers. Pediatrics 102 (1998) 1305-1310
19. Pelaez-Nogueras M., Gewirtz J.L., Field T., and Cigales M. Infants' preference for touch stimulation in face-to-face interactions. J Appl Dev Psychol 17 (1996) 199-213
20. Schino G., Speranza L., Ventura R., Troisi A., and Schino G. Infant handling and maternal response in Japanese macaques. Int J Primatol 24 3 (2003) 627-638
21. Ferber S.G., Feldman R., Kohelet D., Kuint J., Dollberg S., Arbel E., et al. Massage therapy facilitates mother-infant interaction in premature infants. Infant Behav Dev 28 (2005) 74-81
22. Feldman R. Infant-mother and infant-father synchrony: the coregulation of positive arousal. Infant Ment Health J 24 (2003) 1-23
23. Feldman R., Weller A., Sirota L., and Eidelman A.I. Testing a family intervention hypothesis: the contribution of mother-infant skin-to-skin contact (kangaroo care) to family interaction, proximity, and touch. J Fam Psychol 17 1 (2003) 94-107
24. Cohn J.F., and Tronick E.Z. Mother-infant face-to-face interaction: influence is bidirectional and unrelated to periodic cycle in either partner's behavior. Dev Psychol 24 (1988) 386-392
25. Feldman R. Parent-infant synchrony and the construction of shared timing; physiological precursors, developmental outcomes, and risk conditions. J Child Psychol Psychiatry 48 (2007) 329-354
26. Feldman R., Greenbaum C.W., and Yirmiya N. Mother-infant affect synchrony as an antecedent of the emergence of self-control. Dev Psychol 35 1 (1999) 223-231
27. Stern D. The interpersonal world of the infant (1985), Basic Books, NY
28. Brazelton T.B., and Cramer B.G. The earliest relationship: parents, infants, and the drama of early attachment (1990), Addison-Wesley/Addison Wesley Longman, Inc, Reading, M.A., US
29. Feldman R., Eidelman A.I., and Rotenberg N. Parenting stress, infant emotion regulation, maternal sensitivity, and the cognitive development of triplets; a model for parent and child influences in a unique ecology. Child Dev 75 (2004) 1774-1791
30. Feldman R., Greenbaum C.W., Mayes L.C., and Erlich H.S. Change in mother-infant interactive behavior: relations to change in the mother, the infant, and the social context. Infant Behav Dev 20 (1997) 153-165
31. Feldman R., Greenbaum C.W., Mayes L.C., and Erlich S.H. Change in mother-infant interactive behavior: relations to change in the mother, the infant, and the social context. Infant Behav Dev 20 2 (1997) 151-163
32. Belsky J., Rovine M., and Taylor D.G. The Pennsylvania Infant and Family Development Project, III: the origins of individual differences in infant-mother attachment: maternal and infant contributions. Child Dev 55 3 (1984) 718-728
33. Bateson P.P. Rules and reciprocity in behavioural development: implications for rehabilitation. J Child Psychol Psychiatry 24 1 (Jan 1983) 11-18
34. Rescorla L., and Fechnay T. Mother-child synchrony and communicative reciprocity in late-talking toddlers. J Speech Hear Res 39 1 (1996) 200-208
35. Feldman R. Parents' convergence on sharing and marital satisfaction, father involvement, and parent-child relationship at the transition to parenthood. Infant Ment Health J 21 3 (2000) 176-191
36. Feldman R. Coding interactive behavior manual. Unpublished Manual. Israel: Bar-Ilan University in press.
37. Weiss S.J. Touch. Annu Rev Nurs Res 6 (1988) 3-27 Review.
38. Weiss S.J., and Wilson P. Origins of tactile vulnerability in high-risk infants. Adv Neonatal Care 6 1 (2006) 25-36
39. Field T.M., et al. Tactile/kinesthetic stimulation effects on preterm neonates. Pediatrics 77 5 (1986) 654-658
40. Feldman R., Masalha S., and Nadam R. Cultural perspective on work and family: dual-earner Israeli Jewish and Arab families at the transition to parenthood. J Fam Psychol 15 3 (2001) 492-509
41. Feldman R., and Eidelman A.I. Parent-infant synchrony and the social-emotional development of triplets. Dev Psychol 40 6 (2004) 1133-1147
42. Feldman R., and Klein P.S. Toddlers' self-regulated compliance to mothers, caregivers, and fathers: implications for theories of socialization. Dev Psychol 39 4 (2003) 680-692
43. Field T.M., et al. Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis: benefits from massage therapy. J Pediatr Psychol 22 5 (1997) 607-617
44. Mahler M., Pine F., and Bergman B. Stages in the infant's separation from the mother. In: Whitchurch G.G., and Handel G. (Eds). The psychosocial interior of the family. 4th ed. (1994), Aldine de Gruyter, Hawthorne, NY, US 419-448
45. Campos J.J., Anderson D.I., Barbu-Roth M.A., Hubbard E.M., Hertenstein M.J., and Witherington D. Travel broadens the mind. Infancy 1 2 (2000) 149-219
46. Ferber S.G., and Makhoul R.I. The effect of skin-to-skin contact (kangaroo care) shortly after birth on the neurobehavioral responses of the full-term newborn: a randomized controlled trial. Pediatrics 113 (2004) 858-865
47. Tronick E.Z., and Gianino A.F. The transmission of maternal disturbance to the infant. New Dir Child Dev 34 (1986) 5-11
48. Bronfenbrenner U. Ecology of the family as a context for human development: research perspectives. Dev Psychol 22 6 (1986) 723-742