Stress and c-sections may disrupt breastfeeding via 'cuddle chemical' oxytocin
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People: This is a study based on research using people.
International scientists, including an Australian, reviewed 29 previous scientific papers on the 'cuddle chemical' oxytocin and breastfeeding, and concluded that oxytocin is released in response to breastfeeding or breast pumping to help eject milk, promote milk production and to help mums bond with babies. Stress during birth and c-sections may disrupt the process, they say, so could also interfere with breastfeeding.
Journal/conference: PLOS ONE
Research: Paper
Organisation/s: The University of Queensland, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden
Funder: the COST Action IS1405 BIRTH: "Building Intrapartum Research Through Health - An interdisciplinary whole system approach to understanding and contextualizing physiological labour and birth" http://www.cost.eu/COST_Actions/isch/IS1405), supported by EU COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology).
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