Excerpts
An Introduction to Attachment Pregnancy
Every mother wants to feel deeply attached and bonded to their baby, and every mother and baby deserve to experience this. However, there is more to achieving a deep and lasting bond with your baby than just having an understanding of what is happening to your body week by week during pregnancy. It is about fostering a deep spiritual and emotional attachment to your baby. This attachment is called the motherbaby bond and starts at the very beginning, from the moment of conception.
Babies are conscious and aware in utero and their experince in the womb forms the very foundation for the rest of their life. The mother’s environment, thoughts, and feelings determine how the baby develops. What today’s mothers need is the opportunity to connect within, which results in deeper intimacy, awareness and a profound attachment to their babies. This book provides a pathway for connection between mother and baby and is the ultimate guide for bonding with your baby and embracing an attachment pregnancy.
What is an attachment pregnancy? Attachment theory centers around the principle that when mothers respond to their babies instinctive needs the child develops a strong sense of security. This process of responsiveness between mother and baby creates a unique connection called the motherbaby bond. As mothers become more in tune with their own needs for love, security and being cared for, they begin the process of an attachment pregnancy. This self-care ability gives mothers the emotional and physical freedom to develop the deepest attachment humans can ever know, the attachment between mother and child. When an attachment pregnancy is practiced, it enables the baby to start her journey in life with what is known as a safe haven and a secure base. A safe haven allows the child to know that her mother is always there to provide comfort and soothing when the world seems unsafe. A secure base provides the knowledge that her mother is there to provide stability as she explores the world. Attachment pregnancy is often the beginning of an attachment parenting lifestyle. When babies are formed in a loving, secure environment during pregnancy, the attachment between the mother and baby is a life long bond.
This book will provide information that is based on groundbreaking new research, which is proving many of the theories on attachment to be true. This book shares little-known facts that can forge a deep bond between mother and baby, which can lead to a healthier pregnancy and baby.
This book is about transforming you and your baby’s lives through conscious attachment and awareness. It is about creating a secure attachment between you and your baby from the very beginning. It is about setting your intentions for your pregnancy and parenting to design a life that will support a healthy bond between you and your baby. Having an attachment pregnancy is your opportunity to transform yourself, your baby, all of your relationships, and ultimately the world in which we all live.
This book is designed to help you focus on what matters- the motherbaby bond. Each part of the book hones in on one developmental period and essential concept of attachment pregnancy. These sections share unique and groundbreaking concepts to help you build and then strengthen the motherbaby bond. This BOND is formed via “B”e-ing, “O”bserving, “N”ourishing and “D”eciding. Be-ing focuses in on the beginning of your journey towards motherhood and attachment. Parts two through four - Observing, Nourishing, and Deciding- concentrate on each of the three trimesters of pregnancy. Together these concepts are designed to help mothers truly experience an attachment pregnancy.
At no other time during life can humans possibly be more connected than during pregnancy. During this period of primal attachment, the mother and baby are in absolute physical connection between the umbilical cord and the placenta and are also in emotional connection as a result of the molecular messages being exchanged along this pathway between mother and child. This extraordinary period of development literally creates the motherbaby bond. Every thought, emotion and feeling that is occurring in the mother is being shared and directing the development of her baby. In fact, the baby is also communicating via a complex elixir of hormones back to its mother its every need. This is attachment pregnancy at its very core.
Expectant parents are taught what medical tests they will encounter, how many calories to eat every day, how much weight to gain, signs of labor and how to time contractions, but who is sharing with them that there is a sentient person inside them that desperately needs their love and attention. Parents don’t need to be taught what to expect. They should have the ability to decide what they want their own experience to look like and even more important, what they want their experience to feel like. What parents expect becomes what parents think about. What parents think about becomes what they experience. What they experience becomes their reality and the reality of their newborn. What we think about, we bring about.
Attachment pregnancy starts on an emotional level the moment a mother becomes mindful of her baby as a person. It is our deepest desire that all mothers and babies experience the love and connection that attachment pregnancy offers.
“Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behaviors. Keep your behaviors positive because your behaviors become your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.”––Gandhi
Every mother wants to feel deeply attached and bonded to their baby, and every mother and baby deserve to experience this. However, there is more to achieving a deep and lasting bond with your baby than just having an understanding of what is happening to your body week by week during pregnancy. It is about fostering a deep spiritual and emotional attachment to your baby. This attachment is called the motherbaby bond and starts at the very beginning, from the moment of conception.
Babies are conscious and aware in utero and their experince in the womb forms the very foundation for the rest of their life. The mother’s environment, thoughts, and feelings determine how the baby develops. What today’s mothers need is the opportunity to connect within, which results in deeper intimacy, awareness and a profound attachment to their babies. This book provides a pathway for connection between mother and baby and is the ultimate guide for bonding with your baby and embracing an attachment pregnancy.
What is an attachment pregnancy? Attachment theory centers around the principle that when mothers respond to their babies instinctive needs the child develops a strong sense of security. This process of responsiveness between mother and baby creates a unique connection called the motherbaby bond. As mothers become more in tune with their own needs for love, security and being cared for, they begin the process of an attachment pregnancy. This self-care ability gives mothers the emotional and physical freedom to develop the deepest attachment humans can ever know, the attachment between mother and child. When an attachment pregnancy is practiced, it enables the baby to start her journey in life with what is known as a safe haven and a secure base. A safe haven allows the child to know that her mother is always there to provide comfort and soothing when the world seems unsafe. A secure base provides the knowledge that her mother is there to provide stability as she explores the world. Attachment pregnancy is often the beginning of an attachment parenting lifestyle. When babies are formed in a loving, secure environment during pregnancy, the attachment between the mother and baby is a life long bond.
This book will provide information that is based on groundbreaking new research, which is proving many of the theories on attachment to be true. This book shares little-known facts that can forge a deep bond between mother and baby, which can lead to a healthier pregnancy and baby.
- Being conscious and aware of your thoughts, feelings, and beliefs can deepen the motherbaby bond and be beneficial to the health of your baby and your pregnancy.
- Reducing stress in pregnancy can positively affect your baby’s development, emotional and mental health, disposition and personality, as well as her overall health.
- Eating mindfully and making positive lifestyle choices during pregnancy actually has a significant impact on your child’s disease risk, brain development, and even her future personality.
- At no other time in the life of your child does the motherbaby bond have the power to influence who your child will be, both emotionally and physically, than during pregnancy and the first years of her life.
This book is about transforming you and your baby’s lives through conscious attachment and awareness. It is about creating a secure attachment between you and your baby from the very beginning. It is about setting your intentions for your pregnancy and parenting to design a life that will support a healthy bond between you and your baby. Having an attachment pregnancy is your opportunity to transform yourself, your baby, all of your relationships, and ultimately the world in which we all live.
This book is designed to help you focus on what matters- the motherbaby bond. Each part of the book hones in on one developmental period and essential concept of attachment pregnancy. These sections share unique and groundbreaking concepts to help you build and then strengthen the motherbaby bond. This BOND is formed via “B”e-ing, “O”bserving, “N”ourishing and “D”eciding. Be-ing focuses in on the beginning of your journey towards motherhood and attachment. Parts two through four - Observing, Nourishing, and Deciding- concentrate on each of the three trimesters of pregnancy. Together these concepts are designed to help mothers truly experience an attachment pregnancy.
At no other time during life can humans possibly be more connected than during pregnancy. During this period of primal attachment, the mother and baby are in absolute physical connection between the umbilical cord and the placenta and are also in emotional connection as a result of the molecular messages being exchanged along this pathway between mother and child. This extraordinary period of development literally creates the motherbaby bond. Every thought, emotion and feeling that is occurring in the mother is being shared and directing the development of her baby. In fact, the baby is also communicating via a complex elixir of hormones back to its mother its every need. This is attachment pregnancy at its very core.
Expectant parents are taught what medical tests they will encounter, how many calories to eat every day, how much weight to gain, signs of labor and how to time contractions, but who is sharing with them that there is a sentient person inside them that desperately needs their love and attention. Parents don’t need to be taught what to expect. They should have the ability to decide what they want their own experience to look like and even more important, what they want their experience to feel like. What parents expect becomes what parents think about. What parents think about becomes what they experience. What they experience becomes their reality and the reality of their newborn. What we think about, we bring about.
Attachment pregnancy starts on an emotional level the moment a mother becomes mindful of her baby as a person. It is our deepest desire that all mothers and babies experience the love and connection that attachment pregnancy offers.
“Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behaviors. Keep your behaviors positive because your behaviors become your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.”––Gandhi