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 Bonding is the relationship that forms between a mother and her child that establishes the basis for an ongoing mutual attachment.  Bonding implies that there has been interaction between them, each contributing to the relationship at some level.

The encouragement and practice of prenatal learning provides the mother with an opportunity each day to focus on her prenatal child.  She can offer her prenatal baby auditory stimulation that she knows will help the baby’s cognitive development.  It is a loving, conscious effort on the part of the mother and it is satisfying to her maternal instinct to be able to do something so very beneficial for her baby.

As a mother observes the baby’s movements in response to a prenatal curriculum, communication between the mother and baby has begun.  The baby reacts with interest and curiosity to these new sounds which have entered its otherwise predictable environment.  In brief, their interaction becomes an elementary form of learning, like playing a game (the same delight seen in infants playing peek-a-boo or pat-a-cake).

Parents who have engaged in prenatal learning with their babies report various responses.  Typically, babies will become active during the sessions, kicking in rhythm with the simple sounds of BabyPlus. Other babies adjust their biologic clocks to begin arm or leg movements at the precise time a session is to start (even if the mother is late) if the mother turns on the BabyPlus unit at the same time each day.  Still others who are normally active may cease activity during the sessions, as if they are concentrating on the sounds.

Naturally, while such bonding is most significant between the mother and the prenatal baby, others can share in this interpersonal exchange.  Not only do they observe maternal happiness as an effect, they can place their hands or face against the mother’s abdomen and feel what is going on.  In this way the family can experience the beginning of interactive family communication.  How a baby responds can actually provide a preview of future personality traits!