Newborn Nursing Care Q 13

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Which of the following behaviors would indicate that a client was bonding with her baby?

  

     A. The client asks her husband to give the baby a bottle of water.

     B. The client talks to the baby and picks him up when he cries.

     C. The client feeds the baby every three hours.

     D. The client asks the nurse to recommend a good child care manual.

    

    

Correct Answer: B. The client talks to the baby and picks him up when he cries.

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Option B: Maternal-infant bonding is the intense attachment that develops between parents and their baby. Mothers and infants are designed to stay close to each other. For this to happen, nature has provided a process of “bonding”, so that normally a mother becomes attached to her particular baby, making her want to stay near him or her and respond to any crying or other signals.

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