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Lisa points out....
> One other interesting tidbit: he says that oxytocin upregulates its own
> receptors, so the more oxytocin flowing, the more receptors proliferate. He
> also mentioned that oxytocin is closely related to ADH and so upregulates
> those receptors as well.......... sometimes causing edema in the process.
> Aha! Now I understand why pitocin-augmented labors can cause excess fluid
> retention and edema.
>
> Fascinating, Lisa. We've known that Pitocin is an anti-diuretic -- now we
> know why. the other thing is that according to Unvas-Moberg (did I get her
> name right this time?) the use of pitocin during labor (or perhaps after
> labor as well?) can squelch the woman's production of her own oxytocin --
> so what happens with all these women who are being induced? Her own
> production of oxytocin is diminished which means she's not increasing the
> receptors in the breast....is this one of the reasons that moms don't get
> much, if anything, when they pump the first few times after birth? And of
> course, why put the baby skin to skin (which would at least help increase
> oxytocin)....we must keep the baby in the nursery so mom can rest, of
> course.
>
> Oh what a tangled web we weave when we start to deceive (the natural
> birthing process).
>
> Jan in very cold Wheaton. Bit of weather trivia: warmest Christmas in
> Chicago -- 1982: 64 degrees. Coldest Christmas in Chicago -- 1983, just
>
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