When you cuddle with your baby and smell each other's scent,
you both experience higher levels of the hormone oxytocin.
Not exact matches
Because our bodies
experience such
high «
highs» in
hormone level, we can hit bottom very fast after the delivery
of our children.
There is increasing evidence that
high levels of stress
hormones are toxic to infant brains and may have lasting effects on your child's response to stressful
experiences.
In fact it is the
highest level of oxytocin, the love
hormone, that a person will ever
experience in their life!
What's more, the decline in verbal memory seemed to be related to
hormone levels: women who
experienced high levels of oestrogen during early pregnancy and lower
levels of the stress
hormone cortisol throughout pregnancy
experienced the most marked fall in verbal memory performance.
And when it comes to the common
experience of reliving moments from one's life, one culprit might be the locus coeruleus, a midbrain region that releases noradrenaline, a stress
hormone one would expect to be released in
high levels during trauma.
A new study finds that black and Latino students who
experience racism have
higher levels of cortisol, a
hormone linked to stress, and one that is known to impact focus and learning.
In a study
of 50 young couples who engaged in a
high conflict discussion, couples who
experienced flow in a follow - up conversation about a positive
experience they shared together had significant decreases in stress
hormone levels and
higher levels of reported relationship closeness.2
Think
of it as secondhand
hormones — if mom
experiences stress, she'll have
higher levels of stress
hormones, some
of which will be passed along to her breastfeeding infant.