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Objective. The existing review aimed to increase being familiar with of continuity and stability of constructive parenting of infants, across age and different settings in females with a record of melancholy who are at elevated danger for postpartum melancholy. Design. Moms (N = 103) with a background of big depression and their infants ended up observed throughout 5-min enjoy and feeding interactions when their infants were 3, 6, and 12 months of age. Summary scores symbolizing mothers’ positive parenting had been computed independently for each individual age and context dependent on scores of 5 parenting behaviors. Mothers’ depressive symptom levels were being assessed at each individual toddler age. Effects. Continuity (consistency of stage) and steadiness (regularity of rank purchase) were being assessed across age and context at the two the team and person degree. Across-age analyses uncovered continuity in the participate in context and discontinuity in the feeding context, albeit only at the group degree, as effectively as weak to moderate balance. Throughout-context analyses uncovered bigger constructive parenting scores in play than feeding at all time factors as nicely as weak to average balance. Variants in favourable parenting across age and context have been independent of mothers’ postpartum depressive symptom ranges. Conclusions. Results centered on normative samples may not generalize to girls with a record of melancholy, who could advantage from interventions aimed at maximizing their good parenting more than the program of infancy, irrespective of postpartum depressive symptom level. Results also underscore the worth of examining parenting at a number of age details and throughout varying contexts.