Re: Mothers are more apathetic towards their children if they were CSDs
A CSD is a C-Sectioned Delivery.
An interesting article shows that research in maternal response towards their babies is less in CSD babies as opposed to VD babies (VD = Vaginal Delivery).
My mind seems to agree with this … because I can’t see why Allah (SWT) should put women through so much pain in normal birth … I reject wholesale the Christian basis that because of the original sin, women were made to suffer the pangs of birth. Rather I follow an enlightened Islamic understanding that coming to Earth was to honour us and the pain of the mother is directly related to the rank she holds over us and in a more obscure sense enables her to be a “more naturally responsive” mother … of course it does not make her a better mother, because it is possible that C-section mother is brilliant because she may operate out of a sense of duty. However, the vaginal delivery mother may find it easier to emotionally rise to the mothering challenge than her counterpart.
Please read the following article:
Maternal brain response to own ba… [J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 2008] - PubMed - NCBI
Abstract
A range of early circumstances surrounding the birth of a child affects peripartum hormones, parental behavior and infant wellbeing. One of these factors, which may lead to postpartum depression, is the mode of delivery: vaginal delivery (VD) or cesarean section delivery (CSD). To test the hypothesis that CSD mothers would be less responsive to own baby-cry stimuli than VD mothers in the immediate postpartum period, we conducted functional magnetic resonance imaging, 2-4 weeks after delivery, of the brains of six mothers who delivered vaginally and six who had an elective CSD. VD mothers’ brains were significantly more responsive than CSD mothers’ brains to their own baby-cry in the superior and middle temporal gyri, superior frontal gyrus, medial fusiform gyrus, superior parietal lobe, as well as regions of the caudate, thalamus, hypothalamus, amygdala and pons. Also, within preferentially active regions of VD brains, there were correlations across all 12 mothers with out-of-magnet variables. These include correlations between own baby-cry responses in the left and right lenticular nuclei and parental preoccupations (r = .64, p < .05 and .67, p < .05 respectively), as well as in the superior frontal cortex and Beck depression inventory (r = .78, p < .01). First this suggests that VD mothers are more sensitive to own baby-cry than CSD mothers in the early postpartum in sensory processing, empathy, arousal, motivation, reward and habit-regulation circuits. Second, independent of mode of delivery, parental worries and mood are related to specific brain activations in response to own baby-cry.
didn’t go through whole thread don’t know if this mentioned or not but now a days there is hardly any difference between both deliveries thankx to epidural now vaginal delivery is also pain free. so no point of discussion