Maternal-infant attachment and postpartum adaptation to motherhood

The purposes of this descriptive research were to examine the level of maternal-infant attachment in the postpartum period of adolescent mothers and the level of postpartum adaptation to motherhood of adolescent mothers. The samples were the first time adolescent mothers who gave birth and recovered in the postpartum unit, Hatyai hospital from November 2007 to August 2008 (n = 100). The instruments consisted of demographic data, the measurement...