Mothers Not Just 'Too Posh To Push'

[Smoke Jaguar]

What a brilliant article - but I reckon I'd venerate Sarah Buckley's shopping list, given half the chance
Julie - being familiar with Sarah's work, I would say that she is writing to help alleviate those feelings of guilt that, often, other women put on women who have had C-S's. There are physiological scans and tests that measure hormone activity in the human body, and the parts of the brain that are active in that production, so that would be where she gets that information from. She is saying that the physical act of giving birth is a hardwired trigger for women to produce the hormones that are believed to be nature's way of helping us love our children - in an evolutionary sense, it means we are less likely to abandon our children. Oxytocin is also released during orgasm, so it really is the love drug! I know what you mean, though, and it's easy to see where you're coming from, but please don't feel guilty - the article is more for awareness than it would ever be for generating guilt!
ETA: oxytocin is also found during breastfeeding - another way nature helps keeps us chained...ahem, attached...to our children In research studies, it has been found that mothers report higher levels of bonding whilst bfing than women who do not bf, but these studies also tend to find that the bonding feelings level out at about 12 months, so that whilst bfing HELPS, it is not the be all and end all of bonding mechanisms (I have one such study on my hard drive, if anyone really wants it!). Bfing has more benefits than just bonding, so those study results are not a good reason alone to bypass bfing, but for women who are in that minority who physiologically cannot breastfeed, they need not beat themselves up that they will never properly bond with their children - they'll just take a different journey However, I digress...but my point is that these bits of information are not researched in order to generate guilt.