actually.. its the endorphins, they break down into other chemicals that stop or mute the memory, if the endorphins didnt do that no one would breed after the first because they could remember.. afterwards its a drug filled haze, which can cause drug users to feel no pain and sometimes not remember reality.
this was sort of covered in an old post here
http://www.refugees.bratfree.com/read.php?2,8682,page=1
**Four major hormonal systems are active during labor and birth. These involve oxytocin, the hormone of love; endorphins, hormones of pleasure and transcendence; epinephrine and norepinephrine, hormones of excitement; and prolactin, the mothering hormone. These systems are common to all mammals and originate in our mammalian or middle brain, also known as the limbic system. For birth to proceed optimally, this part of the brain must take precedence over the neocortex, or rational brain.**
http://www.mothering.com/articles/pregnancy_birth/birth_preparation/ecstatic.html Warning some pictures of pregnant women.
**The baby also produces oxytocin during labor, perhaps even initiating labor;6 so, in the minutes after birth, both mother and baby are bathed in an ecstatic cocktail of hormones.**
**Beta-endorphin
As a naturally occurring opiate, beta-endorphin has properties similar to meperidine (pethidine, Demerol), morphine, and heroin, and has been shown to work on the same receptors of the brain. Like oxytocin, beta-endorphin is secreted from the pituitary gland, and high levels are present during sex, pregnancy, birth, and breastfeeding**
*Noradrenaline, as part of the ecstatic cocktail, is also implicated in instinctive mothering behavior. Mice bred to be deficient in noradrenaline will not care for their young after birth unless noradrenaline is injected back into their system**
*Prolactin
Known as the mothering hormone, prolactin is the major hormone of breastmilk synthesis and breastfeeding. Traditionally it has been thought to produce aggressively protective behavior (the "mother tiger" effect) in lactating females.**
so in effect they can be addicted to it, due to the hormones released exactly like base jumpers and other danger addicts.. and they are addicts and should be treated as such
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