Development of relationship between parent and child during pregnancy

This thesis deals with the parent - child bond in prenatal period and aims to understand the feeling of this relationship and to describe its development. It also answers the questions of parental strategies used to develop parent - child bond and the specifications of women- and men - child relationship. The essay on parental bond and its aspects are described in the first chapter of the theoretical part. The description of prenatal function development which influences forming the prenatal bond is in the next chapter and the psychical changes of the parents during pregnancy are described in the last chapter. The research was made by using the form of semi-structured interwiew. There were 5 pairs, i.e. 5 women, 5 men inquired into and all the women were in the third trimester of pregnancy. The results show that the parent - child bond in prenatal period is multidimensional construction which involves more aspects. In general three elementary levels of the bond were discovered: cognitive, emotional and behavioural. The thesis describes more real aspects of prenatal bond important for parents which are imaginations and phantasies about the child, beginnings of gender identity, intuition bond, positive emotions, fears, readiness, need of child care through the mother and the communication. The first..