The problem with synthetic oxytocin is really the additional stress that's caused to the mother.

And that could put her system into more of a stress in labour than the anti-stress, the oxytocin antistress system.

But it's just so reckless to think of how prevalent it is.

They should be all over this research.

They should care immensely about getting to exactly how to administer Potosin, considering how common it is. Yeah, yeah,

there's a lot we don't know. And as you say, it's used very commonly. And also, you know,

why do we need it? Why is so many women giving it? And I would say it's because we're not

helping women with those basic needs of laboring women, which is to feel private, safe,

and unobserved. What we're designed for over 65 million years of mammalian evolution.

Axytocin is probably the most important hormone on the planet. And you are doing the most

work on studying it. So that makes you very, very important.

Thank you. I'm Cynthia Overgard, birth educator, advocate for informed consent, and postpartum

support specialist. And I'm Tresha Ludwig, certified nurse midwife and international board certified

lactation consultant. And this is the Down to Birth Show. Childbirth is something we're made to do,

but how do we have our safest and most satisfying experience in today's medical culture? Let's

dispel the myths and get down to birth.

I'm Dr. Sarah Buckley. I'm a family physician or GP by training. I'm mother of four children or one at home, and I'm a writer and researcher on pregnancy,

birth and mothering.

And I started off really from my own experiences of having such amazing experiences at home,

which were a bit different to what I'd learned at medical school in my GP,

obstetric training in hospitals.

And I thought, how did that happen?

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