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• They Say: Moms Shut Down Infant Brains During Birth (It's a Good Thing)

  Ah, oxytocin, how we love you. Or how you make us love others. Or something. But that's not all. Oxytocin, the hormone associated with social relationships, including maternal-infant bonding, lust, and trust, now has a different kind of role to add to its resume: Read More... Posted Oct 07 2008, 01:17 PM by Miriam Axel-Lute with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: birth, hormones, bonding, oxytocin, brains, c-sections, oxygen, medical research, neurological development

• Breast Feeding Makes Smarter Kids

  According to a study of nearly 14,000 children, increased breast feeding in the first months of life can raise a child’s verbal IQ. The study found that breastfed six-year-olds scored an average 7.5 points higher on the verbal IQ than the control group.    So that’s it, the final piece of evidence that absolutely everyone should breast feed, right?    Look for my counter-argument on the next page… Read More... Posted May 07 2008, 12:00 PM by Cole Gamble with | with 23 comment(s) Filed under: breastfeeding, study, IQ, LA Times, brains, PSA, mechanical bull, baby genius, evidence

• Seven Medical Myths Even You Might Believe

  I have always thought the ban on cell phones in hospitals was total BS. Why in the recovery room, where I was resting after giving birth – hooked up to zero machines and monitored only by a nurse wielding a blood pressure cuff, did I have to suffer the inconvenience and expense of a poorly positioned phone with a short cord that required me to push about about a billion buttons to get an outside line and charge the call to a credit card? Not to mention, all the numbers I wanted to call were stored not in my post-partum brain but in the cell phone I wasn't allowed to turn on! So I read this “Seven Medical Myths” with a great sense of satisfaction.  Read More... Posted Dec 23 2007, 03:47 PM by Madeline Holler with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: turkey, cell phones, Mythbusters, water, common sense, passive-aggressive, medical myths, brains, shaving, vision