Decoding Mother-Infant Interaction: A Story of One Mother and Infant
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Published 2021-11-23
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In "Decoding Mother-Infant Interaction: A Story of One Mother and Infant" we follow one mother’s experience of coming to Dr. Beebe’s filming lab for an “educational viewing” of the mother’s interaction with her infant who is four months old. Four months is an important age for studying mother-infant interaction. By four months, patterns of mother-infant interaction have already organized sufficiently that they can predict the infant’s later development, such as attachment security and cognition.
An educational viewing is a way of using our research to help parents see more of what their infants communicate to them, and to see more of what they communicate to their infants. Our research uses video microanalysis, which captures moment-to-moment sequences of interactions. This process is like a “social microscope,” enabling us to see subtle details of interactions which are too rapid and complex to grasp in real time with the naked eye. These moment-to-moment sequences show us how infant and mother affect each other.
In the educational viewing, first the mother is filmed playing face-to-face with her infant, and then Dr. Beebe is filmed playing face-to-face with the infant. Then the mother and Dr. Beebe together look at the films, first in real time, and then in slow-motion and frame-by-frame.
The infant of this film is just emerging from having had colic in the first four months of life. It is extremely difficult to make an infant with colic comfortable. For four months, this mother has been so tuned in her infant’s discomfort, and she has been trying everything possible to help her baby calm down. However, by the time they come to the filming lab, the mother reports that the infant has been better in the prior couple weeks.
In this educational viewing, together the mother and Dr. Beebe discover that the mother is still in “colic-mode,” still very reactive to any slight sign of discomfort or distress in the infant. However, in this filming, the infant is mostly calm. Together, the mother and Dr. Beebe realize that the mother can calm down now also.
Some months later, when the mother was interviewed by the film maker Karen Dougherty, the mother describes how her experience with Dr. Beebe at the filming lab helped her readjust her interaction with her infant, who then “came back to her” and engaged with her more fully.
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Director: Karen Dougherty (FIPA)
Producers: Beatrice Beebe, Karen Dougherty, Dorothy Engelman, Richard Quinlan
Editors: Gavkhar Abdurokhmonova, Rachel Ende, Amruta Wagh, Robert DelGaudio, Steve Lang
Special Thanks: Nielsen Family Foundation, Bernard & Esther Besner Infant Research Fund, The Miranda Family Fund (Hispanic Federation Funds), A & J Kay Family Foundation, Billie Pivnick, PhD, Q Media Solutions, Jacktar Films, New York State Psychiatric Institute
Uploaded for Dr. Beatrice Beebe by Zack Cagan.
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All Comments (6)
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I love this. I am an infant teacher and I am blessed with an instinct for these relationships and interactions, yet I am really loving to watch this video and focus/articulate in a more conscious way these beets on interactions. I do have to say that I could hardly stand not reaching in an readjusting the baby to be sitting at a more comfortable position. I knew right away he wasn’t going to like being so scrunched down.😂
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"Yes, you affect the infant, but the infant affects you." To me, this seems to be so essential. I am not a mother, but I am a daughter. I only recently gained realization of how much my mother was affected by child me. It helps me to understand her, and myself.
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Marvelous that cameras can help us enter this world of interactions that previously was only a world of two. ❤❤❤ How have these videos changed the view of mother infant interactions put forward by Melanie Klein? (I realize that might be a big question but hey if I can ask a world renowned expert why not!!!) 😂😂😂😊😊😊😊
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Here to say that your and Lachman book about Infant reaserch was one the most mind-blowing thing i've ever studied at University of Bari "Aldo Moro" to pass the Clinical Psychology exam thanks to the Professor Alessandro Taurino of "Aldo Moro" University, it really helped me understand how structural can became the interaction between an infant and his caregiver and becoming something thay you bring with you for all your life while interacting with people and even your future childs
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Your hands, the first babies feet, & the mother's hands are all in synch
