What Is Mother-Infant Bonding Affect Newborns Voice?
Summary
The bond between a mother and her baby is said to be inimitable and essential for newborn socioemotional development. This article examined whether newborn infants had a preference for their maternal mothers’ voice through discriminating her voice from other female voices to support the idea of mother-infant bonding. The study analyzed ten neonate’s preference for the tape recorded voice of their mother reciting a Dr. Seuss story compared to a tape recorded voice of a different mother. Results from this research favored the idea of maternal voice preference for newborn infants over the voice of another female. Furthermore, the study demonstrated that newborns not only favored their maternal mothers’ voice, but that they will work or …show more content…
The fact that newborn infants have the ability to differentiate his or her mothers’ voice from other female speakers seems rather intellectual beyond the idea of bonding. Furthermore, this study provides evidence of initial auditory language acquisition develops intrauterine for infants.
Synthesis
This article can be related back to the section on “Newborns and Parents” linking childbirth and bonding as well as what newborns need from their mothers from Chapter 5 of Papalia et. al. text.
Within the text, mother-infant bonding is defined as critical or sensitive periods for the development of certain behaviors from which the mother coax feelings of close, caring connection with her newborn, such as their prenatal relationship (Papalia et. al., 2008).
Supporting the results of the study on newborns preference of their maternal mothers’ voices as it links to human bonding at birth is the idea of imprinting and how infants are impressionable.
Based on the idea of human imprinting what does this mean for a newborn infant who was adopted at birth and had only been cared for by the adoptive mother and nurses as opposed to the biological birth
The bond between a mother and her baby is said to be inimitable and essential for newborn socioemotional development. This article examined whether newborn infants had a preference for their maternal mothers’ voice through discriminating her voice from other female voices to support the idea of mother-infant bonding. The study analyzed ten neonate’s preference for the tape recorded voice of their mother reciting a Dr. Seuss story compared to a tape recorded voice of a different mother. Results from this research favored the idea of maternal voice preference for newborn infants over the voice of another female. Furthermore, the study demonstrated that newborns not only favored their maternal mothers’ voice, but that they will work or …show more content…
The fact that newborn infants have the ability to differentiate his or her mothers’ voice from other female speakers seems rather intellectual beyond the idea of bonding. Furthermore, this study provides evidence of initial auditory language acquisition develops intrauterine for infants.
Synthesis
This article can be related back to the section on “Newborns and Parents” linking childbirth and bonding as well as what newborns need from their mothers from Chapter 5 of Papalia et. al. text.
Within the text, mother-infant bonding is defined as critical or sensitive periods for the development of certain behaviors from which the mother coax feelings of close, caring connection with her newborn, such as their prenatal relationship (Papalia et. al., 2008).
Supporting the results of the study on newborns preference of their maternal mothers’ voices as it links to human bonding at birth is the idea of imprinting and how infants are impressionable.
Based on the idea of human imprinting what does this mean for a newborn infant who was adopted at birth and had only been cared for by the adoptive mother and nurses as opposed to the biological birth