Maybe that’s why the woman I’m with won’t wake up when the kids are crying. For six long years I have been the one that gets up and takes care of the kids. (We have twins) Made my bed, now must lay in it.
Uh . . . we adopted, and my wife has been well attuned to all three of the children’s cries. (I have learned to sleep through out of necessity.)
Makes TOTAL sense. Just like it takes longer for milk to let down in C-Section women (unless allowed to go into labor),the hormone wouldn’t be released in childbirth.
It would be interesting if they gave some detail about how this is demonstrated. Do they mean that mothers who delivered vaginally can select their own child's cry from among a group of other crying children, like penguins in a rookery? The utility of this would be minimal in the standard family setting: if a baby's crying in my house, it's mine!
Or do they mean that this mother is more likely to wake up when her child is crying than one who delivered by c-section? In that case, how much more quickly? Mom's taking another 45 seconds to wake up isn't going to hurt the baby, especially if he stops crying after 30 seconds anyway.
Oh for heavens sakes.
I don’t put much stock in psychiatric studies, but sometimes they do make perfectly spot on observations.
My wife had all of our four children at home naturally, and without the use of drugs. She also breastfed the three youngest (couldn’t seem to get the technique right on our eldest).
I can say though, that she’s always been especially sensitive to the cries of our infants. It often would surprise me that they could wake her out of a sound sleep, even when they cried softly.
They’d get me up too, but usually only once they reached the fire siren stage .. LOL
vaginal childbirth involves the release of oxytocin"Ears pierced while you wait."
Having had all four of my children via C-section, I completely disagree with this article. I can point out a few ‘mothers’ who’ve had multiple children vaginally, who weren’t and still aren’t ‘sensitive’ to their babies’ cries.
not arguing but for me, my first was born vaginally, she never once cried after she was born and then she was taken away to be cleaned and i was left to rest. A few hours later i was awakened by a babies cry down the hall and I just KNEW it was my daughter. Got myself all ready to greet her when she came to my room...and i was right. Its as if I KNEW her cry even though i’d never heard it before. There were alot of babies in that nursery that night and i knew that.
I’m sure that someone who gad their baby C section would have the same experience. I think that in most women there is a connection that is almost spiritual with the child that they create and carry in their bodies for 9 months.
Disagree. All mine were C’s and I was always very attuned to their cries.