In this new, integrated model, some of the previously
defined attachment antecedent and consequent elements
have been combined or reworded to more broadly depict
certain meanings (for example, the new category “making
the baby’s acquaintance at birth” replaces: “making its
acquaintance,” and “seen baby at birth or soon after” is
replaced with “physical contact with baby at birth”). Other
attachment antecedents combined and reworded were
“drug dependency,” and “poor maternal health” to become
“continuing poor maternal physical and psychological
health.” The delineation by Bialoskurski and colleagues
(1999) of “positive maternal feelings” was subsumed
under the new “physical and psychological availability
with/to baby soon after birth.” Availability assumes positive
maternal feelings are present.