WOTBaby app makes bonding with your baby easier

Many parents expect bonding with their newborn to be an easy thing
However 60 per cent of parents don’t automatically connect with their baby
New app WOTBaby has been launched to help parents in the early stages

Josh Hanrahan For Daily Mail Australia

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02:28 EST, 25 July 2016

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For mothers, one of the first priorities after childbirth is creating an instant bond with their newborn.

But despite most having high expectations, bonding with your baby isn’t as straightforward as you might hope.

In fact, close to 60 per cent of parents don’t make an instant connection with their new child.

So is this your fault? Their fault? Or is it only natural? Well research has found it can often take up to six months to bond with a newborn, but thankfully there’s a new app that may help speed that up.

Not straightforward: Despite most parents having high expectations, around 60 per cent of mums and dads don’t initially bond with their newborn baby, research has found

Connection creator: Nurse and parenting expert Jen Hamilton has developed a new app called WOTBaby that helps parents deal with a newborn child

‘It’s all you see in advertising and the movies. Mums are depicted as forming an immediate bond, when in reality it can take much longer to form a true rhythm with their baby,’ nurse and creator of mothering app WOTBaby, Jen Hamilton said.

‘There are some key fundamentals that result in a successful bond between parent and baby, and so many out-of-control factors can effect that experience.

‘In my experience, I generally find on average mums truly bond with their child at four to five months.’

Ms Hamilton said her new WOTBaby app would serve as a ‘mid-wife in your pocket’, helping parents through the difficult early stages of raising a child.

The app will also provide parents with the ability to track their child’s developmental milestones and navigate their way through the challenges they face on a day-to-day basis.

But it’s not just mums who can sometimes take a while to hit it off with their little one.

Just recently, father-of-two Patrick O’Malley, from Auckland, opened up about his initial struggles at bonding with daughter, Lola.

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Here to help: Ms Hamilton said that despite their expectations, in her experience it can take parents four or five months to truly bond with children

Not just mums: Patrick O’Malley, from Auckland, also recently opened up about his struggles at bonding with his daughter Lola when she was born

The 30-year-old told Daily Mail Australia that he was worried his feelings towards his daughter were abnormal and so penned a letter to get his thoughts out in the open.

‘Some parents instantly fall in love and others take time for that flame to alight. Is that an awful thing to say?’ Mr O’Malley questioned.

‘Or is it so expected that we feel an instant connection with our children, that society puts us in a position of feeling like an inadequate person?’

While he has grown into his role as a father, Mr O’Malley said he was initially most afraid he would be a bad parent.

Parenting problems: The father-of-two recently penned a letter which he hopes his young daughter will one day read, admitting that he was concerned about whether he would be a good parent

And he said he hopes Lola, who is now three, will one day read the letter and understand his early struggles.

‘I was afraid to have a girl, I didn’t know what to do with girls. Was I going to be a good parent?’ he said.

‘When did I fall in love with you? From the moment I first met you. I just didn’t know it yet.’

WOTBaby can be downloaded from the app store from Monday and costs $2.99.

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