The emotional rapport between mother and child during the first months of life
Franchini, F.; Brizzi, I.; Pitta, D.; Cocchi, C.
La Pediatria Medica e Chirurgica Medical and Surgical Pediatrics 16(3): 269-271
1994
ISSN/ISBN: 0391-5387 PMID: 7971451 Document Number: 423514
Feeding children involves a mutual interaction between their parents and them; interaction in which everyone is influenced by and, contemporarily, influences the others. In fact the act of administering food is considered to be fundamental inside the relationship between the mother and her child. Such a relationship can supply consequences that are important for the children's physical, emotional and cognitive growth, particularly in their first two years of life. Therefore, any time a child arrives at the pediatrician's attention showing a nourishment matter, and anamnesis and examination are indicative of a lack of evidence that may address to a physical disease, the next zone to be indagated must be the existing relationship between the child and his family.