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Importance of bonding with baby

Baby Bonding (Home) Not Bonding With Baby? Ways To Bond With Baby

The quality of a baby's initial attachment is extremely important. It lays the foundation for your baby's ability to learn, develop confidence, and to form healthy relationships.

Bonding Builds Healthy Relationship

I remember once when I breastfed Adriel, I talked gently to him. He looked at me while sucking. As I kept on talking and talking, he suddenly gave me the toothless, sweetest smile with the breast still in his mouth. Oh, I can tell you, at that very moment, my motherly love increased 10 folds!

Well, I'm not saying that because of that smile, my love for Adriel increased...but...yes...my love for Adriel indeed increased. Oh, what am I talking here? What I meant was that Adriel responded positively to my sharing with him.

I knew that as I continued talking to him, he would begin to grasp the words and understand me. And this helped me become better in attending to his needs.

Also, I learnt that talking to my babies helped them in their language development later.

Bonding Builds Trust

Through talking, sharing, touching, playing and any forms of bonding, a baby learns the basics of how to relate to others. As a baby begins to coos back when we communicate with him, he starts to see us as a trusted person.

It's from this emotional connection that babies can begin to develop a sense of who they are and the feelings of security and trust they need to grow up confidently around other people.

Bonding Builds Love

Every time you feed the baby, touch him, play with him, read to him and love him, he is stimulated and feels the love.

As the baby gets older, he'll be very capable of loving other people. Thus, creating a strong, loving bond is vital to a baby's emotional growth.

Bonding Builds Sense of Security

By promptly responding to your baby's needs in a loving manner will help develop a secure attachment between you and the baby.

Imagine a baby crying out loud in his crib and no-one is attending to him. The emotional connection between the parents and the baby seems broken by the attitude of the parents. The baby would feel insecure as the supposedly most trusted people in his early life could not provide him with his basic needs...attention and love.

Let's hold, talk, sing, rock, read, cuddle and do whatever we can to interact with our little ones. The bonding experience will certainly strengthen the loving relationship between us and our babies.

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