Oxytocin

At birth, about 75% of babies are breast fed, but by the age of six months only 21% of infants are exclusively breastfed. Breastfeeding is the best way to keep your child healthy and happy. Many people choose to formula feed their infants, but it just doesn’t live up to the quality of breast milk. There are an abundance of reasons to choose breastfeeding over manufactured formula. The first reason breast milk is far superior is colostrum. This is often times referred to as liquid gold, because…

Males process less of oxytocin than females, making them less inclined to form substantial relationships (Jantz). In his research, psychiatrist Dr. Richard Blancher illustrates the importance of developing strong doctor-patient relationships to decrease the amount surgical complications…

The more stressed you become your body starts losing the ability to produce the hormone oxytocin, oxytocin helps with bonding to others; “The absence of Oxytocin, on the other hand, enables us to feel isolated, which in turn initiates a chronic threat response enabling a feeling of “us versus them” (Mitchell, 2006).”(Maloy) This happening causes a lot of facility mangers…

In modern day America, many doctors believe that technology is necessary to control the birthing process. However, technology often causes more problems than there would be otherwise. As a result, a growing number of women opt to give birth in birthing centers attended by midwives or at home attended by midwives or without outside birthing assistance. This alternative method has the possibility of being safer, as hospital births often result in a high infant and mother mortality rate, and…

Prescription For Addiction In this video I saw how damaging pills have become in our society. Oxytocin was a pill first used to treat pain in patients. However, it has now turned into a drug that has everyone addicted. The video shows just how everyday people can get addicted to this pill because they were treated with these pills after an accident. My dad had two back surgeries before and has been prescribed oxytocin as well. I am extremely grateful that my dad didn’t fall trap to that drug.…

Postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) is one of the leading causes of maternal mortality and morbidity worldwide, and accounts for nearly one-quarter of all maternal deaths (World Health Organization, 2012). Unfortunately, resulting in the most significant birth complications, and research has found that incidences are increasing (Ford, Shand, & Roberts, 2013). A major cause of PPH is uterine atony and the prolongation of third stage (Kashanian, Fekrat, Masoomi, & Ansari, 2010). Consequentially, active…

Male and females will interact and think in the way society shapes both men and women. In the eyes of society, men can be approached as fierce, strong, and prideful individuals. Furthermore, women can usually be seen as sentimental, lighthearted, and caring. Men’s and women’s communication strategies are related to the issue of social and biological norms in the way an individual treats a person from a specific gender due the prior beliefs a specific individual is raised upon. In society, men…

With roughly 7 billion people inhabiting our planet, it should not be a shock that there are many hungry infants looking to be fed at the exact moment someone decides to head into the city for lunch or a shopping trip. Breastfeeding in public is a hot topic on the should you or should you not scale, and many are in favor for it not being allowed. Choosing to ignore the advantages it can give to a child, quite a few see public feeding to be wrong and distracting and ask for women to not do it.…

Love comes in many forms and is shown differently by almost everyone, thus making it nearly impossible to pinpoint whether or not a couple’s love is true. In the past, poets used the theme of love and made personal views on affection through their work to argue their opinions on the topic of love. In the poem “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” John Donne argues that having a physically intimate relationship means that the love between two people is shallow, however I disagree and feel that a…

Kelly McGonigal “How To Make Stress Your Friend” Oxytocin is a stress hormone that your pituitary gland pumps out when you are feeling stress. It a neurohormone that make you seek support and tell someone how you feel instead of holding it. Oxytocin protects your cardiovascular it helps your blood vessels stay relax during stress. It help your heart regenerate and heal it from any stress damage. Us human are a living organism we want to know everything that going in on our body. In the talk…