It also drives neurons to grow to motivate us to feel those good sensations again, plus avoid any bad ones.Ī key to making it all work is dopamine. Its core function is to cherry-pick activities (like eating, having sex, or playing with kids), and make them feel rewarding. One of the limbic system's most crucial parts is a reward pathway called the mesolimbic dopamine system. "This is also similar to what women feel when they are breast-feeding."Īn illustration of a dopamine reward pathway in the brain. "It's like a drug and calms me," said one relative and mother, who said she feels it as strongly as I do, in an email.
I also learned the baby high may be more of a spectrum. "Addiction, in fact, is what happens when this system gets attached to a drug rather than a person." (Szalavitz has also written extensively about her own experiences with addiction and recently authored a book on the topic, called "Unbroken Brain".) "Nature's goal is to get you addicted to the baby," Maia Szalavitz, a science journalist who co-authored a book about the science of bonding, called " Born for Love", told Business Insider. (At least with biological parents - we don't know enough about the changes that may occur in non-biological parents to make any conclusions yet.) Such changes may tune the brain's deeply rooted pleasure center to reward parenting behaviors. It often indicates a user profile.įor one, babies can subtly hack the biochemistry of their parents, even before they're born. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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