First Days at Home: Making a Place in the Family

Authors

• Anna Klunk, Philadelphia College of Osteopathic MedicineFollow
• Shaquita Bell

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2025

Abstract

This chapter describes the relational aspects of bringing a new infant home, including understanding infant behaviors, caregiver stress, postpartum support, parental leave, adjustments of siblings and other caregivers, and caregiver-infant interaction touchpoints such as feeding and soothing.

Publication Title

Dixon and Stein's Encounters with Children: Pediatric Behavior and Development

Comments

This chapter was published in Dixon and Stein's Encounters with Children: Pediatric Behavior and Development.

The published version is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-443-10704-7.00008-5.

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Recommended Citation

Klunk, Anna and Bell, Shaquita, "First Days at Home: Making a Place in the Family" (2025). PCOM Scholarly Works. 2379.
https://digitalcommons.pcom.edu/scholarly_papers/2379 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-443-10704-7.00008-5