Effects of Awareness-based Parenting and Birth Preparation Education Given to Couples on Materna-paternal Bonding, Birthparameters and Postpartum Harmony

In addition to the 1-week birth preparation training at the Kayseri City Education and Research Hospital Pregnancy School, the intervention group received Mindfulness-Based Parenting and Birth Preparation Training. This training aimed to teach participants how to monitor their thoughts and emotional states, how to deepen their sensory awareness of their bodies, how to be more careful about how their minds work, and how to deepen their sensory self-awareness, so that they would be more sensitive during the birth and parenting processes. A total of 9 separate sessions were implemented. Mindfulness-Based Parenting and Birth Preparation Training was held once a week for 9 weeks, with the duration of each session varying according to the parents' compliance and needs in the program, and each session lasted an average of 150 minutes.