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milk ejection result from positive feedback mechanisms.
[Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxytocin]

Notice that it is stated that oxytocin is released in large amounts AFTER the distension of the
cervix and uterus during labor. Due to medical interventions, such as C-sections, many women
never experience this release of oxytocin. The mother’s blood supply is tied to the baby through
the umbilical cord. Whatever is released into her blood is consequently passed to the child during
labor.

Conversely, if these beneficial hormones are hindered from being released to the woman, the
baby is affected. Little consideration has been given by the medical profession to understand how
the presence of pain in labor produces positive consequences for both mother and child. It is
assumed that pain is negative and to be avoided, but this is not true. When Yahweh pronounced
His judgment upon the woman in Genesis chapter 3, He was telling her what would be the
natural course of bringing new life into the world. All things have been designed by Yahweh
with purpose. When humanity seeks to circumvent Yahweh’s they introduce chaos and disorder.

In 2003, Lisa Diamond, PhD had an article posted in Psychological Review, where she sets forth
a model for sexual attraction that involves the hormone oxytocin. A reviewer of her study states:

Sexual desire is driven by the gonadal hormones of estrogens and androgens. Animal research
indicates that attachment is mediated by the neuropeptide oxytocin...
[Source: http://www.apa.org/monitor/feb07/lovesnot.aspx]

“Attachment,” another way of describing bonding and attraction between individuals, is
“mediated,” by oxytocin. Understanding that oxytocin plays a large role in shepherding a
person’s attachment to other individuals, both male and female, is it not proper to question what
effect occurs when a mother and her baby do not experience one of the greatest releases of this
hormone that one can know in life, a release that is triggered by the pain of labor and the
experience of natural childbirth? What effect does this deprivation of oxytocin have on the child?
Studies have shown that a baby born to a mother who used some form of pain medication, or
who was birthed by C-section, will have difficulty bonding with its mother, and nursing may
become problematic.