Nikki writes:
<Hormones create > feelings and feelings motivate behavior. As pitocin is
now given to virtually > everyone that I see, whether as a LC in private
practice or as a RN for an > agency, I wonder if the abuse of the
synthetic hormone is creating another > susceptibility for women to keep
some distance for their babies. >

The large majority of at least 2 or more generations of U.S. mothers have
routinely been receiving synthetic oxytocin, which leaves us very little
here to compare the possible emotional reactions to! When I had my OB
rotation as a student nurse back in 1948, I heard that pitocin had
recently been developed in the laboratory,  by changing  the fraction of
the natural oxytocin molecule that seemed to elevate blood pressure. It
finally received the Nobel prize in medicine in 1955. I think my small
hospital was using the standard of care most other hospitals were using.
There were virtually no IV's except in dire emergencies, but all mothers
were routinely receiving 1 cc. of pitocin IM after the delivery of the
placenta, and this practice continued all the time I worked in OB for the
next quarter of a century. C. Sections would receive it directly into the
muscle tissue of the uterine fundus. (Sometimes, in the late '40's-early
'50's, inductions were performed by saturating a q-tip swab by dipping it
into a pitocin ampule, and inserting it in the mom's nostril, and leaving
it there till the desired results were, (or were not) obtained!!!  That
was before the buccal from of pitocin was developed, and then later
removed from the market in the '70's!)
Jean
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K. Jean Cotterman RNC, IBCLC
Dayton, Ohio USA

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