Natural births: Better after all?
The adage “no pain, no gain” may have some truth to it after all.
Mothers who give birth vaginally show significantly greater brain activity in response to their baby’s cry than mothers who have chosen a Cesarean section, new research conducted by a group of researchers at the Yale Child Study Center suggests.
The group, led by Child Study Center assistant professor James Swain, carried out functional MRI scans on six mothers who had delivered naturally and six who had undergone a Cesarean section two to four weeks after their deliveries. When presented with 30-second...
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