There are few images more tender than a baby taking her mother's tit. You can see the complicity and the union between the two, the little hands on mom, the looks, the mother caressing the baby ... There is a crush between the two difficult to describe, a very special moment that only those who have breastfed understand, and in my opinion , one of the most beautiful experiences of being a mother.
But all this is not pure sentimentality, but there are behind cinematic studies that corroborate it. A few months ago I was talking about a magnificent study from the University of Navarra about what happens in a woman's brain when she is pregnant. During pregnancy the woman stores Oxytocin, called the hormone of trust and love, segregated after childbirth to strengthen the bond of attachment between the mother and the newborn.
The infant's contact with his mother's chest triggers the production of oxytocin in the woman's brain, which when entering the bloodstream activates the mammary glands and strengthens the bond between the son and his mother.
A recent international study conducted at the Center for Scientific Computing and Computer Science in Warwick, United Kingdom and published in Computational Biology has just revealed how the biological mechanism responsible for pressing that button that triggers the production of the love hormone occurs when the Baby gets on the chest.
According to scientists, the most likely response is that as a reaction to the baby's suction, the cells begin to release the hormone synchronously from the dendrites, as well as from the nerve ends. This was somewhat unexpected because until now it was believed that dendrites were part of the neuron that receives and not the one that transmits information.
As you can see, breastfeeding, whose benefits we enact in Babies and more, represents, in addition to the nutritional factor, a primary component to strengthen the emotional bond with the baby.
