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A hormone that stimulates contractions during labor, and then the production of milk.
Examples of oxytocin in a Sentence
It is better to use oxytocin in the awake patient having a regional or local anesthetic.
This study did however find that oxytocin augmentation significantly reduces the overall length of labor.
Oxytocin A hormone, produced by the pituitary gland, which stimulates contraction of the uterus.
Oxytocin use, duration of labor, prolonged infant hospitalization, and maternal fever followed a similar pattern.
Women randomized to active management commenced an oxytocin infusion within 20minutes of randomisation.
The hormone your body makes during labor is called oxytocin.
For women receiving oxytocin, the odds were 0.3 - ie about 23% .
The highest risk was for women who had had prostaglandin gel (4.5% ), tho most of them had also had oxytocin.
The paraventricular nuclei produce mostly oxytocin and the supraoptic mostly vasopressin although both hormones may also be produced by the other type of nuclei.
You will also receive the hormone oxytocin to help stimulate uterine contractions.
In response to suckling, the hormone oxytocin causes the milk ejection reflex or "let-down" reflex to occur.
When oxytocin is administered IV, it is called an oxytocin contraction stress test (OCT).
Orgasms during intercourse can also produce oxytocin to stimulate contractions.
When a mother breastfeeds her baby, oxytocin, a stimulating hormone, is produced.
In addition, orgasms produce oxytocin and sex can help reduce stress.
Stimulating your nipples may produce the hormone oxytocin, which can cause contractions.
That's because when we fall in love our brain releases dopamine and oxytocin, two "feel good" chemicals.
In the human it seems that changes in the levels of the oxytocin receptor, rather than in oxytocin receptor, rather than in oxytocin itself are important for labor.
Oxytocin secretion is also nature's way of causing a woman's uterus to contract after birth to control postpartum bleeding and assist in uterine involution.
There is a benefit to using EFM in women with complicated labors, such as those induced or augmented with oxytocin, prolonged labors, vaginal birth after having a cesarean section, abnormal presentation, and twin pregnancy.
Extended stimulation of the nipple makes the body produce oxytocin, a hormone that can cause uterine contractions.
Over time, dopamine and oxytocin stabilize and we don't feel the same high that we once did at the start of the new relationship.