The quality of a baby's initial attachment is extremely important. It lays the foundation for your baby's ability to learn, develop confidence, and to form healthy relationships.

1. Bonding builds trust

   Through talking, sharing, touching, playing and any forms of bonding, a baby learns the basics of how to relate to others. As a baby begins to coos back when you communicate with him/her, he/she starts to see you as a trusted person. It's from this emotional connection that babies can begin to develop a sense of who they are and the feelings of security and trust they need to grow up confidently around other people.

2. Bonding builds love.

   Every time you feed the baby, touch him/her, play with him/her, read to him/her and love him/her, he/she is stimulated and feels the love. As the baby gets older, he/she will be very capable of loving other people. Thus, creating a strong, loving bond is vital to a baby's emotional growth.

3. Bonding builds sense of security.

   By promptly responding to your baby's needs in a loving manner will help develop a secure attachment between you and the baby. Imagine a baby crying out loud in his/her crib and no-one is attending to him/her. The emotional connection between the parents and the baby seems broken by the attitude of the parents. The baby would feel insecure as the supposedly most trusted people in his/her early life could not provide him/her with his basic needs: "attention" and "love". Let's hold, talk, sing, rock, read, cuddle and do whatever you can to interact with your little ones. The bonding experience will certainly strengthen the loving relationship between you and your babies.

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