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To: Crabbe who wrote (3293)	1/13/2006 4:24:03 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 219795

<Oxytocin is the hormone of love and creates bonding.> For years I've thought that having caesarians and pain killers must mess with women bonding with their children, but didn't know why. I wondered about post-natal depression too. Now I have a Male Answer Syndrome theory. Without the pain of childbirth, women don't get doses of oxytocin so don't properly bond with their children. Since they don't get that bonding, they feel instinctively that they have lost their baby, even though it's actually there. Emotional responses aren't just a matter of thinking. One can't think oneself into not shaking when doing a bungee jump if that's one's inclination, nor can a claustrophobic think themselves into being happy in small spaces. When women lose their babies, even if just by lacking the proper bonding, they must be prone to depression. They have to think their relationship with their baby rather than just feeling it. Like looking after a pet lamb or kitten. I know they give injections of oxytocin at birth [maybe not to all women], but maybe that doesn't do the job right for some reason. Okay, that's enough theories for one day. Mqurice