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Natural Birth V.s. The Epidural (Part 3): How Hormones affect bonding and parenting

In my last post, I talked about the Hormonal Blueprint of labor. This “blueprint”, if you will, guides the body into it’s natural, normal labor and birthing process. And then in turn, sets us up with a nice “cocktail” of hormones that get us to bond with our baby, to feed and care for it. [...]

¶ Posted 27 June 2009 † beth § Breastfeeding § Labor ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: Accomplishment, Best Friends, Birth Experience, Breast, Choices, Cocktail, Coffee, Dual Purpose, Hormones, Human Females, Labor Contractions, Little Babies, Motherhood, Natural Birth, Orgasm, Oxytocin, Parenting, Placenta, Self Esteem, Uterine Contractions

Natural Birth V.S. The Epidural (Part 2)- The Hormonal Blueprint of Labor

Think twice about getting that epidural…it interrupts the body’s own natural cycle of pain relief. Discusses the “Hormonal Blueprint of Labor”

¶ Posted 18 June 2009 † beth § Childbirth Education § Labor ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: Brain, Cervix, Contractions, Epidural Pain Relief, Eyeballs, Hormones, Hospitals, Loud Noises, Natural Birth, Natural Oxytocin, Nursi, Opiate, Oxygen, Oxytocin, Pain Relief, Pain Reliever, pelvic floor, Pitocin, Pregnancies, Pregnant Women, Uterus

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