ArticleFrontiers in behavioral neuroscience2024
From inner to dyadic connection: the role of mindfulness in mother-infant interaction during the first year of life.
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- A systematic review of nonpharmacological interventions to improve trauma symptoms and mother-infant bonding for women who experience birth trauma.Australian occupational therapy journal · 2026Pooled it
- The Importance of Motherhood for Early Maternal Bonding and Engagement.Maternal and child health journal · 2026Article
- Role of Maternal Mindfulness in Longitudinal Mother-Infant Neuroendocrine Reciprocity in an Urban, Low-Income White Sample.Developmental psychobiology · 2026Article
- Maternal depression during the perinatal period: the role of Sensory Processing Sensitivity and social support and its impact on infants' negative affect.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
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Abstract
Introduction: Mother-infant attunement is fundamental to supporting infant socio-emotional development. Based on the assumption that we connect better with others if we are aware of and connected with our own experience, mindfulness could affect the maternal ability to attune to the infant. However, little is known about this topic in the first year of life. Study 1 aimed to investigate the role of maternal dispositional mindfulness and mindful parenting in mother-infant physiological and behavioral attunement at 3 months of age. Study 2 aimed to explore the effect of a mindfulness-based intervention not specific to parenting experience on mother-infant behavioral and physiological attunement and on maternal wellbeing at 9 months of age. Methods: In Study 1, mother-infant ( Results: Results showed that maternal mindfulness was associated with high physiological and behavioral attunement at 3 months and with more positive maternal behaviors and less stress at 9 months. Analysis evidenced a slight improvement in the intervention group in maternal dispositional mindfulness and a reduction in parenting stress at T2. Discussion: Findings from both studies suggested that maternal mindfulness could represent a protective factor that could support mothers in fostering better dyadic interactions with their infants. The implementation of mindfulness-based interventions for mothers could have preventive and clinical implications.
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