For a blog that I was writing on oxytocin, how it helps mother and newborn to bond, how it increases breast milk, how it decreases anxiety, I stumbled on several blogs about the effects of synthetic oxytocin. In this blog you can read more about synthetic oxytocin.
Most of the time synthetic oxytocin has been given for good reason. There are a lot of reasons why synthetic oxytocin should be given to support during or after birth. There are also reasons to give synthetic oxytocin to speed up the birth the question is, when is it necessary and when not and who decides this?
In this blog about the effect of medical and operative birth interventions you will read how medical birth interventions are increasing. It says that emerging evidence suggests that birth interventions may have an effect on baby's health. The aim of their study was to examine the association between operative and medical birth interventions on the baby's health during the first 28 days and up to 5 years of age.
It seems like these days it is more common to intervene in a child's birth compared to, let say, fifty years ago. Why? Is it possible that synthetic oxytocin is given out of convenience? If that's true we should make mothers aware that they should be able to make a choice if they want to speed up their delivery if there is no medical reason to do so, don't you think?
Because Queensland Cradle Care couldn't find enough articles or research about the effects of synthetic oxytocin on newborns, we have decided to make our own survey.
It would be of great help if you can fill out the survey as well. Thank you in advance!
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