How Your Mother Passes Her Wounds Onto You
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Julia Austin
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Chemical closeness
“One of the first things that happen when you give birth, is you do skin to skin contact…When we have it, it releases those feel-good hormones –the bonding hormones, like oxytocin. It starts that early,” explains Jackson. “When we think of it starting from there, it makes sense why there is that connection. It’s a different role from the father. It’s sacred. There is an emotional attachment that the father didn’t get to experience.”
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