For mothers, whether they are first-time or already down the line, taking care and nurturing their child comes first. This is because it's natural for them to have a link with their child. However, having a link to one's child and having bonding attachment are two separate things that most moms must contend with.

Right off the bat, moms feel a connection with their child but babies on the other hand don't immediately form this bond with their moms. For them, bonding is a process that doesn't happen overnight, but that doesn't mean they're not ready to bond. In fact, bonding might actually blossom from the day to day care that a mom gives to her baby.

So in properly bonding with one's infant, it is hugely important to understand them, to be there for them, and to interact with them, according to HelpGuide.org.

Having different personalities and preferences, mommies should understand their baby's cues such as their facial reactions, how they're rubbing or closing their eyes, or how they're fists are curled up. These physical signs and the sounds that they make are how they communicate. So moms should keep an eye out for them.

More often than not, babies' early signs and signals will only revolve around sleeping or eating. Since their development can happen quite fast, it is important to keep track on their signs as to how much sleep or food they need.

Now, the best part of having a baby is interacting with them. Simple things like talking, playing, holding them, and laughing with them are a significant step and a sure way of successfully bonding with them. But one's tone, body language, and touch are things to be considered as infants are sensitive.

Bonding Benefits

All those sleepless nights and those days that went on not having peace and quiet do have its benefits as bonding not only affects babies but also as they grow up to be teenagers.

This bond is so important that it can even affect weather one's child grows up to be healthy or not, according to new research from Ohio State University. In their research, the quality of the emotional relationship between mothers and her children has an impact on the risk of their child being obese during their adolescence.

Findings suggest that toddlers who had low-quality emotional relationships with their mothers grew up to be obese teenagers, as opposed to those who were close with their moms.

But not only that, teenagers who have good relationships with their moms and also their dads when they were still young have other numerous benefits.

These benefits include better academic outcomes, less risk that they will exhibit problem behaviors, better mental, social, and emotional well-being, and overall, better self-esteem, happiness, and life satisfaction, according on an analyses done by Child Trends, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research center that studies children at all stages of development.

And when a good bond is established, rewards for taking good care of one's children can be reaped as the research center's data found that those who had a good relationship with their mom strongly agreed that they wanted to be like them, that majority reported really enjoying time spent with them, and that they think highly of them.