Awareness-Based Parentıng And Bırth Preparatıon Educatıon Gıven To Couples; Impact Of Maternal-Paternal Attachment, Bırth Parameters And Postpartum Rapport

One of the behavioral intervention programs used to adapt to the changes experienced during pregnancy, birth and postpartum and to maintain a healthy transition to parenthood is Conscious Awareness-Based Practices .Conscious awareness is an experiential process in which attention is directed purposefully and consciously to what is happening in the body and mind at that moment, and the content that emerges as a result of these observations is accepted with curiosity, understanding and compassion, without being judged, analyzed, or reacted.Due to their stated effects, these interventions help parents improve their awareness and acceptance of thoughts, feelings, and body sensations, reduce reactivity, avoid disturbing experiences, accept the roles and responsibilities of parenting in a non-judgmental manner, learn to use mechanisms to cope with the stress of parenting, and help themselves and the child. It is important to enable people to show compassion .

Awareness-based training can be integrated into birth preparation training as it is a method that can be used to improve birth parameters.

The word parent means mother and father according to the Turkish Language Association. It is also described as a nuclear family and represents a child's mother and father. The meaning of being a parent is defined as constantly providing care, needs and support for a child for development and survival .

Becoming a parent is one of the developmental transition periods that adds new roles and responsibilities to an individual's life and involves radical changes .This process of change is called the transition period to parenthood .Although there are many different opinions about when the transition to parenthood begins and ends, the most widely accepted view is that it begins with pregnancy in individuals who become mothers/fathers for the first time and ends within a few months after birth. The transition period is followed by the parenthood period .

The transition to parenthood also brings about parent-infant bonding. The term attachment refers to the ability to establish and maintain an emotionally positive, reciprocal, helpful relationship between infants and parents. If the relationship is properly established, adults adapt themselves to their babies, and babies give adults clues about their needs. This relationship, which develops in the early period, has an important place in the physical, psychological and intellectual development of the child and continues its effectiveness throughout life. The family-infant attachment process develops in three periods: pregnancy, birth and postpartum .During pregnancy, it is important for parents to feel and caress their baby physically, to believe that their baby is establishing a relationship with them, to talk to the fetus, to say its name, to think about their baby, to feel positive emotions about their baby, and to imagine their baby's future situation for the development of attachment.. It is stated that the attachment that begins during pregnancy gradually increases as pregnancy progresses and becomes stronger after the baby is born.In a study examining attachment, it was determined that there was a strong and significant relationship between prenatal attachment and postpartum attachment .Since the aware emotions created by attachment are motivating during pregnancy and facilitate adaptation to the parenting role, they also positively affect the parent-infant adaptation process.