Beautiful thoughts on oxytocin, now what do you think comes first though?  the emotions or the chemical reactions?  see, I always thought of these things so distorted and disconnected on various levels or didn’t really think about it at all.  For example I got the idea that pain was simply a nerve impulse, even though I knew in my body that any sort of emotional discord would cause me instant gastric distress and then diarhea if I didn’t deal with it immediately.  I had IBS my first semester away from home that I lived at the dorms — the dorms and the particular class load I had just didn’t make a healthy me mentally or physically.     Lately I’ve been thinking that upon conception, the Lord imparts the emotional/spiritual to that baby even before it has a fully formed body, and thus that knowing that there’s a LIVE human is why miscarriages are so tragic to the intuitive mother. What if it’s actually the babies emotions/thoughts also participating in the birthing process?   How would people treat birthing and birthing mothers if this was known to be the case?   Others don’t comprehend the devestation involved with miscarriage or just blame it on fluctuating hormones.  Maybe I’m wrong, but it certainly makes more sense to me though if that’s the case.    I felt like I was just a cow in an assembly line with my first two deliveries in hospitals and that has to have had an impact on the babies, knowing they feel what those around them feel.  I’m just completely rethinking much of what I thought I knew about health now.

a personal experience with oxytocin in a nasal spray form:  after Cassie’s birth in a German hospital —due to her NOT wanting to come out of me even though pitocin had already been tried numerous times and the midwives at the birthing clinic later theorized that Cassie’s pituitary gland or somesuch brain part did not send off the appropriate ‘time for labor and delivery’ hormones — she was taken and poked and prodded for 2 days before the doctors would talk to me or let me hold her and she projectile vomited bile from shortly after birth.  They agreed to let me try to express breastmilk and tubefeed her that via NG drip, but it didn’t work, she had to be TPN fed till 3 weeks at which time they operated on her stomach and we tried again with some breastmilk.  By this time my milk supply was not coming in strong, so the doctors offered me the nose spray to help.  It only worked for a few weeks, and then the supply dwindled, which the midwife said was both the stress and the body getting used to the extra oxytocin.  I regretted weaning my 2nd daughter during that pregnancy because I felt that if I’d kept her nursing, I could have more easily pumped for feeding Cassie.  My sweet husband knew how important nursing was to me and became a breast pump expert as we tried to find or rig one that would work for me -  I’m not a good jersey cow on a milking machine, though I can raise my own youngin’s if they can do the sucking part themselves! )~    We were blessed a number of times during her life with multiple breastfeeding moms donations of breastmilk, which always were much better digested by Cassie and seemed to help tremendously.  I am very thankful to those moms for their ‘liquid love’ shared with my daughter.

What an amazing story!  I was talking about these things with some other women and one brought up Jeremiah 1:5 as a scriptural proof that the baby’s soul is there upon conception.  The implications/ramifications of this for healing is just huge.  In my past, I mistakenly thought that you are stuck with things from birth, and now I no longer believe that to be true.  If the soul/spirit/emotions — eternal things — actually come first, and we know those can be improved upon and have a profound effect upon the body, then it’s possible to see healings the average person doesn’t believe possible.  I know Jesus healed the man blind from birth, but now I believe it’s still possible today to see this.  So then the question becomes ”Are all disciples of Christ supposed to do as instructed in Mark 6:13?”