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Salon | She loves me, she loves me not (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | She claims, from high atop an enormous mound of research, that her motives are strictly scientific, not political. |
 | | Yes, she says, "maternal responses that are biologically based are surely going on in the human species." Women bond with their babies, prompted, to some extent, by a flood of chemicals and hormones that build before, during and after pregnancy. |
 | | She gave birth to her first child in a euphoric flush (no doubt under the influence of oxytocin, a naturally occurring opiate that also plays a role in birth contractions), and was then stunned both by the lusciousness of her daughter and the magnitude of her own parental responsibility. |
| www.salon.com /mwt/feature/1999/12/09/maternal/print.html (2274 words) |
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