Controlling Labor Controls: The impact of beta-endorphins on labor
“The pain experience is a central aspect of labour [sic], and the psychobiology of labour [sic] pain has been involved in stimulating maternal hormonal, vascular and physiological systems which, in concert, also contribute to postnatal fetal adaptation” (Zanardo, 2001, March, p. 133). Labor naturally releases powerful chemical substances within the maternal and fetal bodies; beta-endorphins… Continue Reading