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"Marie Davis, Rn, Clc" <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 11 Nov 1996 23:31:39 -0500
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I wish the standard parent text books would drop this subject of BFin and
orgasims. It truely turns a lot of mom's and dad's off to  the whole idea.
One book (a really bab one) I have on infant care says that a dad didn't want
his wife to BrF because he knwe his wife could get sexual pleasure from the
Brfing and was jealous blah blah--the author did nothing to refute this line
of thinking.
I know this is going to sound wierd but has anyone actually talked to a
mother who had a full blown orgasm from breastfeeding?? I have asked and
asked, and moms look at me like I'm from the moon. "You've got to be
kidding?" I've been asked on more than one occasion. Mom's say--"Warm, fuzzy"
"After glow"  "Light cramps" but never use any terms sounding like an orgasm
or even close to orgasm.
I remember learning somewhere that even though it's the same hormone -
oxytocin - there are different thresholds.  Breastfeeding is low on the
oxytocin responce scale.  Immediately after birth, the uterus responds first
because of the number of oxytocin receptor sites that developed just prior to
labor. Then those die off. Some extra receptors develop in the breast during
lactogenesis and those remain stable as long as she breastfeeds. The
threshold for the breasts and oxytocin responce is far lower than that of
orgasm or labor.
Did I get that concept wrong?

Please, I'm not discounting that it can happen, but I would tend to believe
that it is by far the exception rather than the rule.
Inquiring minds want to know
TIA
Marie Davis

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