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This is a quote from
Sunni Karll, excerpted from "Making A Difference:A Blueprint for Harmony" Midwifery Today Issue 58
"Think About
It"
"To the baby, birth is about being received. We unfold the world and know our value when received with love and
acceptance, in our own perfect tim- ing. If someone yanks us out of a place intrusively, we naturally recoil and go within
in order to maintain balance against this outside force. The difference of being "received"compared to being "forced" results
in opening to this world or shielding ourselves from it. Out of this experience comes baby's first decision: either "the world
is a friendly place" or "the world is a hostile place." "This decision is the initial filter that determines if baby opens
to or shields herself from the world, from then on.
The experience of birth determines the vibration of life that a
soul will live and filters the way that person experiences the world. This vibration becomes their blueprint. Only by creating
a birth of absolute safety, gentleness, warmth and acceptance, internal peace, love and a state of wonder can we have a baby
who knows within, "I am all this. I am secure and loved."
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Too Many C-Sections: Docs Rethink
Induced Labor NY Times, Aug. 2, 2010 By Tiffany O'Callaghan This very pertinent article points not only to the very high rate of C-Sections in the US, but the significant
relationship between the high rate of inducing labor and the resulting C-Section. The article also points out that because
so many C-Sections are being done women have a very false sense of security about this major surgery. "While
the procedure undoubtedly saves lives and leads to better health outcomes for mothers and infants who face problems during
pregnancy and labor, many experts say the procedure is being performed too often, and in many cases for nonmedical reasons,
putting healthy women and babies at undue risk of complications of major surgery."
Put At Risk
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Vitamin K-The Debate and The Evidence Essence : Midirs Resource
"Both new and expectant
parents find themselves presented with many choices and decisions...not simply a black or white matter..."Whether or
not to allow the health care provider to give your baby Vitamin K, immediately after birth is one of those decisions. Vitamin
K is a clotting factor needed for healing, it is naturally produced in the body. Newborns are said to have low levels of vitamin
K at birth. .. but do they need to get more, or will they develop what they need on their own. Vitamin K
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Informed Refusal
The following is reprinted from the Childbirth Connection. "What are women's legal rights to "informed
consent" and "informed refusal?"
The article is self exclamatory, and describes what both these
very critical concepts and processes are.
Informed
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Labor Induction Increases Risk of Rare Amniotic Fluid Embolism Medscape, May 2010, by David Douglas " Labor induction, a multiple pregnancy, and cesarean delivery each increases the risk of rare
but deadly amniotic fluid emboli, UK researchers report." This study
points to the fact that approximately one third of all cases of AFE ( amniotic fluid embolism) could be avoided, if inducing
labor, and unnecessary Cesarean sections were not done. While
some women have been known to survive the occurance of an AFE, many times they
do not.
AFE
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InJoy Videos: Videos for a Better Birth Healthy Birth Your Way The following link provides access to 6 videos for a natural health birth produced by Lamaze, a natural childbirth
organization existing world wide for over four decades. The videos can be downloaded and the DVD purchased.
Injoy
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ACOG Affirms Vaginal Delivery After C-Section Medscape:By Charles
Bankhead, Staff Writer, MedPage Today Published: July 22, 2010 Reviewed by Dori F. Zaleznik, MD; Associate Clinical
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston and Dorothy Caputo, MA, RN, BC-ADM, CDE, Nurse Planner The following article begins with an encouraging statement by ACOG which
simply states: "Most women who have a cesarean section can safely attempt a vaginal delivery in
a subsequent birth, according to updated guidelines from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG)." For many years, midwives, doulas and many, many advocates of natural birth have been saying the same thing and
encouraging women to have a vaginal birth after a C-Section. This statement by ACOG is very important because ACOG is
the organization which sets many "guidelines" for OB/GYN's to follow. ACOG sets the "standard of care".
The article ends by taking a few steps backward but does point out that "80%" of the
moms who have had previous sections, can ( and should) have natural births, since the morbidity rate for both the mom and
the baby is significantly decreased with a natural birth.
Affirming Natural Birth
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