Recently I brought you a study that had related to the use of synthetic oxytocin in childbirth with breastfeeding difficulties. Now, a Spanish work, puts both parameters in relation again.
The study was carried out by specialists from the Gynecology and Obstetrics Clinical Management Unit of the Regional Hospital of Malaga and psychologists from the Department of Evolutionary and Educational Psychology of the University of Malaga.
He has been awarded by the twenty-ninth Congress of the Andalusian Society of Gynecology and Obstetrics and recently presented at the Interpacific Congress on Childbirth and Research in Primary Health, held in the United States.
The conclusions of this interdisciplinary study have indicated that the use of synthetic oxytocin and the duration of its administration are that there is a lower incidence of breastfeeding and a shorter duration of this when this medicine has been used, so the assessment is recommended of its use or the implementation of other measures when medically necessary, favor uterine contractions, advocating the humanization of childbirth care.
It is difficult to determine the cause-effect relationship, since there are other variables to consider, and in these variables and in the effect that the synthetic oxytocin In the development and evolution of children, this team will continue working on the scientific methodology.
Many mothers, especially if they are allowed to breastfeed in the delivery room with minimal interference, breastfeed without problems despite the use of synthetic oxytocin and these works, in no way, question the cases in which it was necessary.
What they do suppose is a wake-up call about their protocol use and an investigation that, more than in particular cases, is very interesting in general to detect what situations, such the use of synthetic oxytocin, can cause breastfeeding difficulties For mothers who want it.
