Recently I started thinking perhaps we should re word how we talk to Mothers about cluster  and frequent feeding. Because we live in a Pleasure Less society, truly, we stuff ourselves with things and food,  and staying busy, but true Biochemical Bliss and Pleasure are so foreign too most, they see frequent feeding as a chore, cutting into their sleep time. But if we explain it as the Oxytocin/Endorphin surge that it is, perhaps they could see it as a positive, a chance to restore the normal bio chemical/hormonal milieu that Mother Nature intended to make early parenting a Joyous ocassion, not a dredgery to be completed quickly. Too bad we live in such a puritanical culture that lumps sexual with the sensual/affectionate. We really do not even have a baseline for healthy touch, sensual , affection, in the current social milieu, unless you happen to be a Body Worker or Energy Healer. It was so healing for me to go to Massage school and get some of the healthy touch that I had misssed out on as a child and young adult.  It is not like you can tell a mom Oxytocin is the hormone, among many, that you release when you have an orgasm. Too bad, because that would be one hell of a successful Marketing campaign, given how sex obsessed our culture is. Perhaps we could say every time your baby gives you the opportunity to Breast Feed him/her,  you get the same flood of hormones and resulting pleasure you get when you have a Massage. Then of course we know how the back to sleep and NO EVER  co-sleeping is also wrecking our chance of promoting night time Nursing, Urghh..... will the Obstacles ever cease???? Lisa Mooney  		 	   		  
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