2007-03-17 14:16:27 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Newborn & Baby
Oxytocin is released in the brain during milk letdown & it creates a warm & fuzzy bonding feeling. That may be the chemical you are thinking of.
2007-03-17 14:19:59 · answer #1 · answered by birdie 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If this is true then why do some mothers not bond or fall in love with their baby? I know of a baby that's 4 months old now, the mother did not have any maternal feelings at all from the time he was born. She didn't want to hold him, look at him, she stated that she didn't want him. Whenever her estranged boyfriend would come to take him for a few days she was more than glad to get rid of him. She even left him once but had to come back to her mother's home. It wasn't for the baby. On the other hand, I didn't physically have him but I fell in love with him the first day I saw him and bonded immediately with him (as well as my husband) and he with us. That wasn't a hormone. That was love from the heart. Some people love children and some don't have it in them. By the way this wasn't PPD.
2007-03-17 14:53:57 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Prolactin, the hormone that is produced once the baby is born to signal the breasts to begin making milk, is also known as the "mothering" hormone, causing feelings of motherliness, protectiveness, responsiveness toward the infant.
Oxytocin also plays a big part with its high amounts of endorphins.
I agree that it is an oversimplification to say that the hormones are "responsible" for 100% of this bonding experience. I believe that they can help *encourage* it, however.
2007-03-17 14:33:34 · answer #3 · answered by LaundryGirl 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I would hesitate to say that it is any hormone. If falling in love was due to a mother's hormones, please explain the love I have for my son, who was adopted. I did not give birth to this child, but he is my son in every sense of the word and I would lay down my life for him. So I agree with the others above who said that it is the "heart" rather than a hormone.
2007-03-17 14:31:31 · answer #4 · answered by BPD Wife 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Saying a single hormone makes a mother fall in love with her newborn is almost certainly oversimplifying matters.
"just me" is likely correct that you are looking for oxytocin. As noted, it is released during nursing as well as labor, and even during sexual arousal and orgasm (so it helps sexual partners bond as well as helping mother and child bond).
Other hormones and non-hormonal factors likely play a role as well.
2007-03-17 14:27:30 · answer #5 · answered by SpaceSquirrel 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Wow, it somewhat is loopy! Its a stable situation i do no longer own a television, or i could be mad!! Heck, i'm mad listening to you communicate approximately it. I even have been co-slumbering with my son for the reason that delivery, and that i remember whilst he grow to be so little I continuously slept deeply yet with "one eye open" so which you will chat. It looked that even whilst I slept conveniently, i grow to be nevertheless attentive to each thing that grow to be happening. that's loopy using fact i'm a reasonably deep sleeper. and actual, what variety of moron could sleep with their toddler wedged between themselves and a settee back ???? Ugh. Its humorous that the financial controlled to coach the single case of co-slumbering it somewhat is doubtlessly risky, and yet forgot to show the form of SIDS toddlers that have been slumbering in CRIBS.
2016-10-01 02:32:17 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I didn't know there was a hormone- just love.
2007-03-17 14:34:27 · answer #7 · answered by BB 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The AWWWWWWW hormone.
2007-03-17 14:18:11 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
It isn't a hormone... it is an organ, the heart
2007-03-17 14:18:45 · answer #9 · answered by florida_sassy 4 · 4⤊ 2⤋
theres a hormone for that? odd
2007-03-17 14:23:24 · answer #10 · answered by berrykiss2010 1 · 3⤊ 2⤋