Welcome to the Burling Instincts Podcast.

I'm Dr. Stewart Fishbein, community-based practicing obstetrician and long-time advocate for birth choices.

And I'm Bliss Young, a licensed midwife.

Join us in our conversational style podcast where we talk about everything birth.

Sometimes we laugh, sometimes we cry, but we're happy that you're here, so here we go.

In spite of many cultural interferences, to have a baby until recently, a woman was obliged

to rely on the release of a sort of hormonal cocktail.

Mammals in general, equally human mammals, there is hormones to have babies.

The men was being oxytocin, but others are lactin, endorphins, vasopressin, and so on.

So we can say today in the current scientific context that this is in fact a cocktail

of love hormones.

Today we know a lot, but the behavioral effect of this hormone is not just not

just contracting the uterus and having baby bought, it's also having an effect on the behavior

of the mother. So that's why we can say until now to have a baby, women were obliged to rely on a release of a cocktail

of love hormones. But today is different. Today, at the level of the planet, the number

of women who give birth to the baby and to the placate

also only thanks to the release of their natural hormones,

this number is approaching zero.

That voice.

Who doesn't recognize that voice?

Right.

I think a lot of people first knew him from business of being born.

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