Abstract
Motherhood is still insufficiently explored regarding its psychological aspects. Maternity brings an innovative perspective in the diagnosis and treatment of various disorders of mother and child in the first year of life. Functional gastrointestinal disorders are the most common diagnosis in Pediatric Gastroenterology, being recognized as a group of diseases difficult to diagnose and manage. Among diagnosed and treated infants, some display a long-lasting suffering, which shows that a number of clinical aspects may be insufficiently explored. One such dimension is the one described under the term "birth-related illnesses", i.e. psychosomatic symptoms that occur in the infant as a result of a deficient or non-existent emotional relationship with the mother. This paper aims to illustrate how the mother-infant emotional relationship influences the functional digestive manifestations of the infant, their relational dynamics, and the development of symptoms, with and without specific maternal therapeutic intervention. The results represent an argument for the use of the mother-child dyadic therapy for improving the infant's digestive function.
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