In follow-up appointments or visits with parents and their new baby,it may be useful if the nurse can identify parental behaviours that can either facilitate or inhibit attachment.What is a facilitating behaviour?
A) The parents have difficulty naming the infant.
B) The parents hover around the infant,directing attention to and pointing at the infant.
C) The parents make no effort to interpret the actions or needs of the infant.
D) The parents do not move from fingertip touch to palmar contact and holding.

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Hovering over the infant and obviously paying attention to the baby are facilitating behaviours.Inhibiting behaviours include difficulty naming the infant,making no effort to interpret the actions or needs of the infant,and not moving from fingertip touch to palmar contact and holding.

In Follow-Up Appointments or Visits with Parents and Their New