The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry - This is the abstract of a (small) preliminary study on how the areas of a mother's brain that respond to her baby's cry are more active (shown by MRI) when she's had a vaginal birth than when she's had a cesarean. "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."
The University of Melbourne is developing a computer program predicting premature labor based on the mother's hormones. The knowledge can lead to interventions that may prolong gestation.
A woman in New Zealand who had to have a planned cesarean talked her doctors and hospital into letting her pull the baby out of the incision and have the baby skin-to-skin on her chest immediately after birth. (She had her doctors talk to a doctor in the UK who had done several such procedures.)
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