Birth Slideshow

HERE is a stunning slideshow of a labor/birth by a professional photographer. She really captures the JOY of giving birth!

Beware...you will want to have another baby after seeing this  :)

Written by an MD

"By treating childbirth as a disease, the obstetrician makes his
intervention indispensable. If obstetricians acknowledged the fact that
more than ninety-five percent of births proceed entirely without
complications, more than ninety-five percent of their services would be
recognized as unnecessary. That would mean a lot fewer obstetricians - as
well as healthier families. Instead, what we have is childbirth taking place
in an operating room. Of course, it may not be a bad idea to have all
hospital births occur in an operating room, since hospital births are a lot
more dangerous. Babies born in the hospital are six times more likely to
suffer distress during labor and delivery, eight times more likely to get
caught in the birth canal, four times more likely to need resuscitation,
four times more likely to become infected, and thirty times more likely to
be permanently injured. Their mothers are three times more likely to
hemorrhage."

"Confessions of a Medical Heretic" by Robert S. Mendelsohn, MD

LOVIN this birth story :)

I loved THIS birth story. 

What a woman...doing what she was meant to do.

So much for a 'marginal pelvis' and CPD.

Docs, GIVE US A CHANCE.

Birth Center in DC

HERE is a wonderful story about a midwife in Washington DC who opened a birth center for low-income moms.

The national infant mortality rate is about 6.8 deaths per 1,000 live births...and in Washington DC the rate is DOUBLE that and 12.2 deaths per 1,000 live births.

There is NO EXCUSE for such a travesty.

So this 81 year old midwife decided to spend more time with her clients and be there for them. So these moms on medicaid (considered 'high risk' just for that and their social status) have been receiving midwifery care for the past 8 years. And what do you know, the infant mortality rate has lowered and the premature baby rate has been sliced in half.

Proof that midwifery care is superior and time spent with clients can make all the difference in whether a child lives or dies.

This midwife is a wonderful example to us all!!!

media

A News Story here in Paradise about homebirthin...

Interesting...

...the little poll I have going on the right hand side of this page about homebirth. I cannot wait till it is over and we see how moms are thinking/feeling.

I sincerely DO wonder why more moms do not choose homebirth. SERIOUSLY. So for me this is pretty interesting.

Speaking of birth  :)

Let's take a look-see at the newest gadget to hit the hospital market for laboring moms.

As if the internal fetal monitor (a screw put into the baby's head) is not barbaric enough for our baby's head.

As if the vacuum extractor (the name gives the use away) is not barbaric enough for our infant's skull.

As if the forceps (metal salad tongs) are not crushing enough for our baby's fragile brain.

They need to torture mom a bit more here...so they came up with THIS.

As if the episiotomy is not barbaric enough.

As if the countless vaginal exams (some moms refer to them as 'birth rape') are not enough.

WAIT A SEC.

The docs have FOR YEARS defended the hourly vaginal exam. They need to know that information, right? It helps them better manage moms labor, right? I mean, they HAVE to chart it, right?

Well, then why do they feel the need to come up with a 'better' option? Are they admitting that moms hate the exam, that the exam causes more infections, that the exam can give false information, that the exam can break the bag of waters to early, that the exam is NOT going to tell you when the bay is coming....??????? Cause if not, then why would they invent this Birth Track garbage in the first place?

Perhaps they want all the information "given" during the exam WITHOUT having to take the time to come into the hospital, wash the hands, get a glove on, make small talk with the family, torture mom...er, dig into mom to find the cervix and measure dilation, effacement and station.

In other words, they want machines to replace personal care.

AGAIN.

We have seen this with the electronic fetal monitor. Doctors and nurses cannot be bothered to check the baby's heart rate manually so they invent a machine that replaces the need for a human. A machine, might I add, that has TRIPLED the cesarean rate over the past few decades without lowering the infant death rate. (for those of you who may not understand...the EFM has not helped save any babies lives statistically in the past 3 decades. The infant death rate is the same and even HIGHER than before the EFM was introduced)

So many moms have expressed concern and even anger over the fact that the medical staff (doctors, midwives, nurses) care more about the beeping machines than her. They walk in the room mumbling a weak "hello" and their eyes only stay on the paper read out. Does mom even count? Or is she a Womb Pod?

Answer me this:

Is labor only about the cervix?

Do we only "need" to know what the cervix is doing in order to manage birth better? Is that how this new devise will....dare I say the word...HELP?

Or should we try and manage labor at all?

Will it limit the mom's movement, comfort, care and ability to labor uninhibited?

Already mom has a blood pressure cuff on one arm, an IV on the other arm, two straps around her contracting belly or 2 devices inserted into her body (IFM, & pressure cathitar in the uterus) as well as a catheter in her bladder. And if she, like most moms, cannot handle the pain of labor laying on her back totally still (I could not either) she will also have a needle inserted into her back sending much needed pain relief to this poor mom.

So let's limit mom even more. Let's send her the message that her body is broken and she needs to let the 'experts' take over. That she cannot do it. That she is in danger.

And what will happen? We will have an even higher c-section rate. As if a national average of 30%+ is not high enough. (remember, that rate doesn't not parallel a lower infant death rate)

Oh.....and may I say a quick word about inductions??? (Yes! It is my blog!!!)

I hate them. They are from the devil.

Perhaps that will be the subject of my next post...

"Inductions: A moms fastest way to major abdominal surgery" (the the doctors vacation or golf game)

A few changes

Hey y'all   :)

I have made a few changes in the links to the right ------------>

Hopefully that will allow more searching for you self educators out there. I also have a list of links a bit farther down on the right that consist of more random information....birth, homeschool, God, food, etc.

Enjoy this birth video....

VBA3C 

-vaginal birth after 3 cesareans-

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