Oxytocin: The Love Hormone (and Why Nursing Works)
Frank Brannen Frank Brannen

Oxytocin: The Love Hormone (and Why Nursing Works)

Oxytocin — the brain’s gentle glue — surges with nursing, touch, and ritual, lowering stress and building trust. This piece explores how nursing leverages biology to calm nervous systems, create mutual safety, and invite slow, repairful intimacy.

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The 24-Hour Milk Laboratory
Milk Drops Frank Brannen Milk Drops Frank Brannen

The 24-Hour Milk Laboratory

Milk is a secret playlist our bodies write across the day—bright and energizing at dawn, slow and soothing by night. In The 24-Hour Milk Laboratory we explore how these shifts shape intimacy and offer playful rituals to help couples tune nursing into real moments of connection.

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