Oxytocin Through Birth, Bonding, and Motherhood with Kerstin Uvnäs Moberg




Raising Primates show

Summary: Kerstin Uvnäs Moberg, MD, PhD, and author of Oxytocin: The Biological Guide to Motherhood, and I sit down to talk all about our favorite hormone: Oxytocin! We discuss: -biological underpinnings of oxytocin -what helps release oxytocin (and what hinders its release), particularly during the birth and breastfeeding processes -creating an ideal environment for your body to release and work with oxytocin -how common hospital interventions can affect the release of oxytocin -oxytocin's role during bonding/breastfeeding in the postpartum period Visit her website for more information: www.kerstinuvnasmoberg.org Order her book: www.amzn.com/B01NA7V002