trust — blog — Anne Benvenuti

This mamma-baby connection is where oxytocin—the trust hormone—flows at peak levels, creating in both animals (the mom and the baby) the feeling of intense warm attachment. It is the way that the desire for warm attachment becomes part of an individual, staying with her for life and creating the desire and willingness that trust between animals might work. It feels really good to be connected in trust, and that's nature's way of making sure it happens. Yes, this is yet another way in which all mammals, ourselves included, are alike.

Unless we're very, very unlucky, we get lots of oxytocin from day one onward.

animal family, animal studies, anthrozoology, human-animal relationsAnne BenvenutiOctober 10, 2017mother-baby connection, oxytocin, attachment, trust, regulating emotions, pacific gray whale, Jaak Panksepp, Baja, San Ignacio lagoon, understanding across species, animal family, animal studies, affective brain systemsComment