14.04.2011 / / now I understand ...
Janusz L. Wisniewski 'Scenes from the life behind the wall "-" Biochemistry of motherhood ", the part
Neuroscientists have studied the exact biochemistry of motherhood, carrying out a functional magnetic resonance tomography in the brains of women at childbearing. Everything indicates that, during childbirth in the brain, after an unprecedented explosion of endorphins, which in effect are more effective than morphine, soothing pain, followed by a period of withdrawal symptoms and in most cases, the type of deep depression. It was only after a long time repeatedly ponawiany mother infant contact can change this state. Any such contact-all, without exception, accompanied by a mammalian-manufacturing process by the hypothalamus of the brain (and collecting in advance by the pituitary gland) hormone oxytocin. The release of oxytocin, not without reason called "hormone sensitive", appears at your touch the infant, but is most intense during the irritation of the nipples during suckling breast. This is accompanied by immediate production of another hormone-prolactin unusual. They found that prolactin, until very recently exclusively associated with the initiation and maintaining lactation in nursing mothers, is also responsible for the entire set, as they call it a cool language researchers' evolutionary prosocial behavior. " The greater the concentration of prolactin in the brain of the mother, the stronger the bond with her offspring and unconditional determination to defend and protect. Women "on prolaktynie" survive the first days and even weeks of your maternity and long-lasting orgasm. It is not only impressive literary comparison. The concentration of prolactin in the brain of a woman sexually szczytującej increases, for a short time, by about 400%. In women, similar levels are recorded for a long time in contact with the infant, but after a few days after birth. Researchers involved in the syndrome of abandonment of children by their mothers shortly after birth, they believe that these "several days" is extremely important, and suggest that the postpartum depression was not related to the period of building ties with the action of oxytocin and prolactin.
now understand the mechanism of my unconditional, blind love for their offspring. It's awesome and so true. Both from the first moments of its existence in the world wtuleni in my arms, przyssani to my chest for the next 24 months, both totally speaking my mind.