Oxytocin, science, and damn my computer is making me crazy!
I was looking up something completely unrelated (wanted to know how much oxytocin a BABY produces at birth and when breastfeeding) and found this article, which fits quite nicely- and perhaps a cursory search would find much much more, huh?
Maternal hormone protects baby’s brain during birth
although I don’t have the time, ALAS! gotta try and finish this book Zines, Slings and Other Do It Yourself Things is being held up at the printing stage because the ‘form’ I fill out on the computer is broken. I’ve been waiting for it to be fixed for 3 weeks now and today is the day. It’s supposed to be done. So right after I post this I’m headed there to finish the book. But! I’ve been totally side-tracked by a website that promises to send you expedited birth certificates for a hefty fee, I filled out my request on February 2, so here we are in Mid-March and I have YET to hear anything. Well, come to find out the process stopped because of some snafu on their side. Yeesh! and finally, I know that I need to do my taxes but since these things seems to go in threes I’m going to wait for the third thing to be something else. I don’t think I could bear to have my taxes get bogged down in computer troubles. Of course this sort of evasive tactic may not be so easy to explain to dearest husband…who would like the taxes done soon, thank you very much. oh well. Perhaps I’ll just dive it, what could go wrong with taxes, right?
I’m glad everyone is enjoying the birth series! couple more to go!
Love,
Heather
sewathomemama said,
March 19, 2008 @ 10:23 am
you are thoroughly rocking my world, hathor, with these comics. i am a visual learner & although i tend to take dr. odent’s words as gospel, it’s hard for me to put it into context without visual aids. this is where you come in m’dear. thanks to your recent comics (specifically the “other planet” comic), i am leaning more toward a UC for my future pregnancy than ever before. i had my son in a birth center & yet it still resembled the “what’s wrong with this picture” comic. (without the interventions, but just as many people & me on my back)
Julinda said,
March 19, 2008 @ 11:20 am
What could go wrong with taxes? HA!
Julinda (who also still needs to do taxes)
wiffersnapper said,
March 19, 2008 @ 4:00 pm
Our taxes aren’t done, either… but that’s the husband’s job around here! (I’m too busy being pregnant!
What concerns me about that article is the part about how fetuses who aren’t exposed to the “stresses” of labor are “safer”… if labor is really so horribly stressful, how HAS the human race survived all these years? We know those cave babies weren’t delivered by cave-doctors doing cave-c-sections… you can’t tell me that we’ve evolved ourselves right out of being able to have babies!
jmcqbigler said,
March 20, 2008 @ 9:21 am
Actually studies show that babies that have a trial of labor before a c-section do better because of the stresses of labor the contractions help the baby breath at birth so that coment makes no sense that babies have a higher chance of oxygen deprivation because of the stress of labor.
On a related note I was just at a bunco group with a group of women and they were taking about there next birth and that if they ended up with a c-section they would just get there tubs tied then. I was amazed that they just seemed to think that there was a possibility of a c-section and it was no big deal. these were normal women planning vaginal (full work hospital) births. It just floored me that it was something they new to be a possibility and no problem about it at all.
Although in this same group there was a woman who was pregnant and her other babies were earily and she think she may a month or more early and when I suggested ideas that would help her carry to term she said she wanted the baby early and is worried she may actually go later closer to her due date. I could not understand how she wanted another early baby after her last was in nicu for the first few weeks. Needless to say I have to watch my tongue when I am with this group to keep from just going off about there horrible birth choices that they think are the greatest. I just through in my comments about my birth when approriate and enjoy the night other than that.
typeogirl999 said,
March 21, 2008 @ 4:12 am
Interesting article. May bring it up in my Human Growth and Development class today.
Becci76 said,
March 25, 2008 @ 3:15 pm
You know, my last baby’s head was in the “95th” percentile but was only 7lb15oz. Yeah his head was very hard to make it’s way out but I still had no tearing or anything like that. I hear over and over “I am going to be induced because my baby is so big” and then they come out weighing a “normal” or even very little amount. It really cracks me up!
badbirthingmom said,
May 22, 2008 @ 10:10 pm
I truly must say, how dare you say that my birth was without love.
No, my birth of my baby was all about love. I loving let her be born in the way that was safest for her, putting her safety above my own. My DH and I were sharing our love for each other, as the product of our passion was born.
Not all Cesarean births are the gloom and doom that the home birthing community would want us all to think they are.
If Michael Odent really believes that humanity cannot survive the safe Cesarean, he truly must hate women and babies, because sometimes women need to birth by Cesarean to save their lives, and sometimes babies must be born by Cesarean so that they may live.
badbirthingmom said,
May 22, 2008 @ 10:22 pm
Another mom, same username..
I used to think your cartoons were cutesy when I first learned about AP. But now I honestly understand why some people take one look at AP and run far away in the other direction. You are so demeaning! I will parent my son for his entire life - my medically necessary cesaerean was a miniscule portion of our history. And it does not affect one single thing about us.