Re: Pitocin/oxytocin-Did you have this Yes or No?

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Didn't I recently read somewhere that they did testing with rats...they

injected the rats with oxytocin, and this affected/impaired the rats social

memory? I KNOW I read something along those lines somewhere...because that

link has been playing around my brain...

Like....I feel that I have noticed that a lot of at least Asperger kids - of

which my son is one - are often firstborns. Not always but often. Okay so

what would be different about that? Does a woman's body go thru something

different hormonally/chemically to ready itself to carry a child the first

time around? Could this extra surge of whatever be one of the elements to

'trip the switch' in terms of autism? I have been wondering about the

oxytocin link for awhile...and also the incidence among firstborns. OR

perhaps not just firstborns but firstborn MALES. Just some big fat thoughts.

I know we would all love some answers at some point...all I've done is ask

more questions. Thanks a lot, right?

BTW - I was like several people who already replied. Labor started, then

stalled - then they used the pitocin. Ya gotta wonder...

Ann

>From: JBsC5@...

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>Subject: Help Pitocin induced labors ...Did you have this Yes

>or No?

>Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 22:09:39 EDT

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>In reading July 24th article in Newsweek..which in itself is an

>insult..JMHO

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>Dr. Hollnader of New York''s Mount Sinai School of Medicine noticed

>several years ago that 60 % of the autistic patients in his clinic had

>abeen

>exposed in the womb to pitocin, the synthetic version of a brain

>chemical(oxytocin) that helps induce labor. That could be significant since

>only 20 % of all births are assisted by pitocin. Or it could be a

>meaningles

>coincidence. In the hope of finding out. Hollander is now tracking 58,000

>kids whos mothers' treatments were monitoried during preganancy.

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>I need to know..Who else on the mosaic list had an induced labor..Induced

>with pitocen.

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>Thank you in advance for your response.

>

> And Geri Brown.

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