In follow-up appointments or visits with parents and their new baby, it may be useful if the nurse can identify parental behaviors that can either facilitate or inhibit attachment. Which is a facilitating behavior?
a. The parents have difficulty naming the infant.
b. The parents hover around the infant, directing attention to and pointing at the in-fant.
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.
B
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A This would be an inhibiting behavior.
B Hovering over the infant and obviously paying attention to the baby are facili-tating behaviors.
C This would be an inhibiting behavior.
D This would be an inhibiting behavior.
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