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To: HairOfTheDog

Actually, I have heard a theory that endorphins are released during nursing...you sit and rock, feeding the kid, and it's pleasant.


42 posted on 05/17/2005 8:47:20 AM PDT by tiamat (Can't sleep...clowns will get me..can't sleep...clowns will get me...can't sleep....clowns will get)
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To: tiamat

Pleasant is not the word for it. I have breastfed six, and the word that best describes it is "fulfilling."


46 posted on 05/17/2005 8:50:27 AM PDT by coton_lover ("If He who was without sin prayed, how much more ought sinners to pray?" --St. Cyprian)
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To: tiamat

Oxytocin is released in both sexes by nipple stim I believe.


87 posted on 05/17/2005 4:56:54 PM PDT by Melas
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