Table 3 Themes and subthemes linked to the individual papers

Subthemes

Trusting the body’s capacity

Transferring goodness

Trusting the “how to”

Feeling relaxed

Feeling reassured

Seeing and interpreting the infant’s cues

Responding to infant’s cues

Seeing a positive response from the infant

Bjork et al., 2012 [30]

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

Boucher et al., 2011 [31]

x

x

x

x

x

Breivold et al., 2019 [32]

x

x

x

x

Bujold et al., 2018 [33]

x

x

x

Ericson et al., 2017 [34]

x

x

Ericson and Palmér, 2019 [35]

x

x

x

Flacking and Dykes, 2013 [36]

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

Flacking and Dykes, 2017 [37]

x

x

x

x

x

Holdren et al., 2019 [38]

x

x

x

x

x

x

Ikonen et al., 2016 [39]

x

x

Niela-Vilen et al., 2015 [40]

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

Niela-Vilen et al., 2019 [41]

x

x

x

x

Palmér and Ericson, 2019 [42]

x

x

x

x

x

x

Parker et al., 2018 [43]

x

x

Radtke Demirci et al., 2015 [44]

x

x

x

x

x

x

Rossman et al., 2011 [45]

x

x

x

Rossman et al., 2013 [46]

x

x

x