The effect of gestational diabetes mellitus on postnatal mother-infant bonding: Findings from the Tohoku Medical Megabank Project Birth and Three-Generation Cohort Study.

We observed the reverse of our hypothesis, that there was a trend for women with GDM to self-report higher bonding compared to non-GDM women. There is need to replicate this finding in cohorts specifically designed to measure GDM-specific psychological distress.