Sentences with phrase «by oxytocin»

If you've been reading some of my recent blogs you'll see I'm fascinated by oxytocin and it's connection to social anxiety, postpartum depression, and autism.

«People also bend the truth more when it improves not only their own but also others» outcomes, when their lies benefit a cause or another person they care about and group - serving dishonesty is modulated by oxytocin — a socially - bonding hormone.»

But it is not clear which cells are targeted by oxytocin, or how the hormone affects neural circuits.

This is caused by Oxytocin, the hormone responsible for let - down and providing that wonderful feeling of relaxation to you and your baby.

Some say that memory deficits caused by oxytocin are nature's way of «making sure we have more babies», believing we must forget the pain of childbirth in order to go through it again.

Milk release itself isn't caused by dopamine dropping; it's caused by oxytocin rising.

The website explains, «Milk release itself isn't caused by dopamine dropping; it's caused by oxytocin rising.

The reception of oxytocin from the mother to the infant through skin to skin contact triggers regulation of body temperature as well as a decrease in heart rate due to the relaxation caused by the emotional sense of safety also caused by oxytocin reception.

This is sometimes helped along by oxytocin given by an injection or sometimes it comes out naturally and no medical assistance is needed.

11 (Uvnas - Moberg, Eriksson: «Breastfeeding: physiological, endocrine and behavioral adaptations caused by oxytocin and local neurogenic activity in the nipple and mammary gland.»

If the mother is at or near her due date, many doctors will induce labour right away with either oxytocin or prostaglandin gel, sometimes followed by oxytocin.

Not exact matches

Research by Paul Zak found that character driven storytelling led to the production of a hormone called oxytocin in test subjects.

By taking blood draws before and after the narrative, we found that character - driven stories do consistently cause oxytocin synthesis.

Further, the amount of oxytocin released by the brain predicted how much people were willing to help others.»

When one person extends himself to another in a trusting way — by, say, giving money — the person being trusted experiences a surge in oxytocin that makes her less likely to hold back and less likely to cheat.

The addictive «high» is produced by four chemicals: serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and norepinephrine.

Those jolts are electrochemical responses in your synapses that are caused by levels of things like seratonin, oxytocin, endorphins, and the like.

Except oxytocin isn't an artificial stimulant, it is a mammalian neurohypophysial hormone (secreted by the posterior pituitary gland) that acts primarily as a neuromodulator in the brain.

When ingested, chocolate stimulates the brain to release oxytocin, a «love hormone» which is also produced by personal connections such as hugging and kissing.

Your baby is calmed by your heartbeat, and learns that you are one of two people (mom too, primarily through breastfeeding) who can give him solid doses of oxytocin that make him feel loved and emotionally secure.

Oxytocin triggers the primal birth instincts and and allows your partner to play a supportive role and reduces the risk of interventions by correcting mal - positions, opening the pelvic outlet wider, reducing shaking and pain, and increasing the mother's comfort.

According to Gourley, the hormone oxytocin is responsible for your letdown and it is produced by the hypothalamus and pituitary gland.

They forgot about the oxytocin... My vaginal birth not having messed things up (and the pitocin having even increased my natural levels... shh don't tell anyone), I was able to chill out and send the occasional text message without the usual fight or flight response caused by texting while I get on the freeway (wait a minute, I thought fight or flight was the response caused in all the other drivers when they see you texting).

Supposedly this works by releasing the body's natural oxytocin and causing contractions.

It was written by Nekole Shapiro who «focuses on oxytocin - infused states, birthing parts and healing birth trauma.»

Play reconnects us by triggering connection hormones like oxytocin.

This is because the 2 hormones that drive lactation, (Prolactin and Oxytocin) are produced by the pituitary gland in the brain and not the ovaries.

Her vision is to help create healthier and happier women by expanding the knowledge about female physiology and by creating medical interventions based on oxytocin.

New fathers also show a surge in oxytocin, but their higher levels are triggered by more stimulatory parenting: tossing the baby in the air or pulling him up to sit, or stimulating discovery and laughter.

Being present at your child's birth will help you release oxytocin («the love hormone»), strengthening the bond with your newborn by stimulating the desire to care for your child.

Some people might tell you that the polysaccharides from barley and hops might help increase prolactin, the hormone that helps you produce milk, but this is countered by the fact that alcohol lowers your level of oxytocin, which allows you to release the milk.

Moist - heat applied to the breasts prior to pumping or nursing can enhance your body's natural let - down reflex by helping to increase circulation and stimulate oxytocin, the hormone responsible for let - down.

Not only mummies release oxytocin so dare to be there, by your partner's side, from the beginning.

The photo can help you to visualise baby and image they are close by, and in turn release oxytocin.

What I mean by this, is all the oxytocin and the hormonal changes that occur during this peaceful (sometimes only 10 min) time, I find myself relaxed and stress free.

Newborn feeding behaviour depressed by intrapartum oxytocin: a pilot study, Fernandez et al. (July 2012), Acta Paediatrica, 101 (7), pp. 749 - 754

I was told by a lactation consultant that oxytocin would help me get back to sleep after nighttime nursing.

During let down, usually stimulated by your baby's sucking, oxytocin is released in your brain, which causes the milk to be released.

Incredibly, nature is the greatest protector against these disorders by stimulating the production of 2 very poweful nanopeptide hormones called oxytocin and prolaction.

For example recent research by the American College of Obstetrics & Gynecology has shown the use of oxytocin, for induction of labour or to «speed up» labour, is an independent risk to babies and increases NICU admission.

Examples I personally can document: a plague of deadly bacteria in the newborn nursery killing 3 previously healthy newborns, exploding the fetal lungs with too forceful dose of oxygen after birth by inexperienced doctor, crushing the skull during forceps extraction, overdose of adrenalin to newborn by a nurse, slow paging or slow response to call to resuscitate newborn, exploding the uterus (uterine rupture) and / or placental abruption as a result of high IV dose of oxytocin in labor in a low risk women.

The HSE Clinical Practice Guidelines on Prevention and Management of Primary Postpartum Haemorrhage state that for «women without specific risk factors for PPH delivering vaginally, oxytocin (10 iu by intramuscular injection) is the agent of choice for prophylaxis in the third stage of labour.

Oxytocin helps women get through labour by stimulating uterine contractions, which is why it's sometimes administered (as Pitocin) during labor.

Oxytocin is the hormone naturally released by the body that stimulates uterine contractions which helps sperm reach their end goal of implantation.

Caring for a small child may also cause stress, which is no longer mitigated by the release of oxytocin.

What we do know is that nipple stimulation by various means releases the hormone oxytocin, which stimulates the uterus to contract.

If the immersion is right, mother's body will respond by releasing more oxytocin, which helps to speed up the labor process.

The pain caused by stretching means that baby is coming, then your brain releases a dose of oxytocin to get ready to bond and fall in love with your baby.

When your baby stimulates your breast by suckling (or even when you think of your baby, hear your baby's cry, smell your baby's scent or look at a picture of your baby), your body releases oxytocin and prolactin that triggers a «let down» so milk flows from the alveoli to the milk ducts.

Epidurals slow labor, possibly through the above effects on the laboring woman's oxytocin release, although there is also evidence from animal research that the local anesthetics used in epidurals may inhibit contractions by directly affecting the muscle of the uterus.18