Dear Lactbuddies,

I saw this in today's edition of the Dayton Daily News, via the Knight
Ridder News Service:

"It's no crying shame"

It's not that you guys are less in touch with your feelings after all.
It's true that women cry about five times more often and 50 percent
longer than men, but the reason is that women generate more prolactin, a
hormone that controls neurotransmitter receptors in the tear glands,
Shape magazine reports. So since women's tear glands contain more
receptors, they are more prone to messages from the brain that trigger
weeping."

I will no doubt sneak a peak at Shape magazine as I stand in the checkout
line soon to see if there is more info as to where they found out about
this. I'm trying to figure out just where this fits in to what we already
know, or once thought we knew, before later research about prolactin.

Certainly can't mean we are at risk to cry more when we are newly
lactating than when not, could it? Maybe just that we COULD cry more
easily, if we get "messages from the brain that trigger weeping."? Deep
subject.

K. Jean Cotterman RNC, IBCLC
Dayton, Ohio USA

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