MATERNAL-INFANT BONDING

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

The attachment that forms between an infant and its mother beginning at birth

Example:

maternal-infant bonding influences the child's psychological and physical development

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Hypernyms ("maternal-infant bonding" is a kind of...):

bonding (a close personal relationship that forms between people (as between husband and wife or parent and child))

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