The hormonal changes when getting pregnant are many. What happens in the brain during pregnancy and after?
Different studies showed that Pregnancy causes reductions in brain volume that persist at least six years after childbirth. But this does not have negative consequences, as one might think at first.
Studies and works such as that of Susana Carmona, psychologist and doctor in Neuroscience, provide scientific evidence of the changes and neuronal and brain adaptations that women experience during pregnancy and motherhood. Of course, one of the most noticeable changes at this stage is hormonal.
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What is matrescence
The matrescence It can be described as the process a woman goes through when becoming a mother. It is a concept that highlights the Similarities between motherhood and adolescencetwo stages of vital transformation characterized by important biological, psychological and social changes.
At a biological level, both stages are accompanied by significant increases in sex hormones that coordinate changes in various organs in a woman’s body, including the brain.
How brain wave synchronization works
The important thing about synchronization between mother and baby is that this lays the foundation for later synchronization in adult life, and these bases are the pillars on which social and emotional learning is based. A recent study shows that the mother’s smellwhich is established from birth, facilitates synchronization.
Research on infant brain synchronization has been conducted in biological mothers, but is likely to extend to other primary caregivers as well, such as fathers, adoptive mothers, grandfathers, and grandmothers.
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