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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