Preparing mothers for newborn baby's crisis

The article substantiates the relevance of mothers ' preparation for the newborn crisis. In this regard, the concept of psychological readiness of parents to age crises in the child, which is the ability to effectively overcome the crisis manifestations of age development of children. The author presented a developmental program for the formation of psychological readiness of mothers to overcome the age crisis of the child during the neonatal period. The article assesses the effectiveness of the proposed program both according to the survey and the content of subjective self-reports of participants. In conclusion the prospects and ways of development of the programm for the preparation of the family to the crisis of birth.