Hormones turn nursing mothers into fearless fighters with low blood pressure and calculating minds… Husbands, stay away…
Scientists studied nearly 60 women, a third of whom were breast-feeding, a third who were bottle-feeding and a third who did not have children.
Each was asked to compete in a computer challenge against one of the scientists, who was behaving deliberately rudely while the woman’s child – if she had one – was in an adjoining room.
If the woman won, she was allowed to press a button to make a sound blast to the loser as an act of aggression.
She could press the button as hard and for as long as she liked.
The scientists found that the breast-feeding mothers made sounds twice as loud and long as the other women.
The results were the same in tests carried out both before and after the breast-feeding mothers nursed their infants.
The study also measured the women’s blood pressure and those who were breast-feeding had readings ten points lower than those who were feeding formula and 12 points lower than non-mothers.
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