ANATOMY

Detailed explanation-1: -Oxytocin is a natural hormone that stimulates uterine contractions in childbirth and lactation after childbirth. It also affects aspects of human behavior and the male and female reproductive systems.

Detailed explanation-2: -The hormone oxytocin plays a key role in labour. Often called the ‘love hormone’, oxytocin is associated with feelings of bonding and motherhood. This is also true of another hormone released during labour called prolactin.

Detailed explanation-3: -Oxytocin injection is used to begin or improve contractions during labor. Oxytocin also is used to reduce bleeding after childbirth. It also may be used along with other medications or procedures to end a pregnancy.

Detailed explanation-4: -Oxytocin contracts the uterus and promotes the progress of labour. A large oxytocin pulse occurs with the birth, and pulses continue afterwards, which help the new mother to birth the placenta, prevent bleeding, and warm her chest for skin-to-skin contact with her baby.

Detailed explanation-5: -Oxytocin is a powerful reproductive hormone with widespread effects on the brain and body of all mammals, for example, by mediating sperm ejection, labor contractions, and milk ejection.