maternal-infant bonding

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

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

   Broaderbonding

Questions about maternal-infant bonding

What does maternal-infant bonding mean?

maternal-infant bonding means "the attachment that forms between an infant and its mother beginning at birth".

Is maternal-infant bonding a common word?

maternal-infant bonding is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.