Hormones and Blood Formed Elements
This article shares some information on hormones (list and some links below) that the body produces in pregnancy, and other comments on emergency births, c-sections and what mothers and their spouses do not ask when planning a family or during their first thrill of being pregnant. by Donna Young, volunteer Birth Educator, Mother and Grandmother
It is not wise for the mother-to-be and her spouse to face a pregnancy and birth
in blind trust by leaving important decisions of
her care and the child's to the doctor's decision. It is the mother's decision and approval that the
doctor must request by informed
consent. The mother's decision is by the mother's own drawn up birth contract that the medical
person ought to sign in good
faith. Copies should be given to the birth center, as well. The contract deals with what cannot
be done to her person or the child's
during labor and the delivery of her baby.
Any imposing on any person's body in a medical decision, without informed consent,
can result in laying of assault charges
and followed by civil suit. Writs can be filed in the child's name, as well, for any endangering
to the child, needlessly. The risks to
the newborn child are by many of practices being taught doctor's today, such as early umbilical cord
clamping, and drugging
women in labor, rather then freedom of choice of safer options being made known. Some c-sections
now being told to women
that they have no or are low risk. Some doctors almost make a c-section sound like a walk in the park.
Drugs, for a vaginal birth, are generally used for convenience of the medical
staff, in manipulating the time the child will be
born. Wise women labor at home, arriving just in time for the baby to be delivered. But
an inexperienced mother is unsure of
when the labor is true labor or the time she may have before the birth of the child will born. True
labor is described as 15-20
minute apart contractions that are about 40 seconds in length. As to the drugs, seldom are
they a good benefit for the birthing
mother as to any allergies. All drugs cross the placenta and endanger the child.
I would rather the spouse of the expecting lady was supportive of his spouse's
informed decision and were equally willing to
research, particularly, on the dangers of allowing early umbilical cord clamping, a method used to harvest
the baby's placenta
blood, and the risk in the use of drugs and use of tools (knife, forceps, vacuum) in the delivery of
a child. This is aggressive active
management rather than what would be better practice, natural birth education and practice, which can
be a hand's off birth, and
a warm water birth, by consent, even in a hospital.
COUPLES NOT WANTING THEIR BLISSFUL IGNORANCE OF JOY BURST:
An example of leaving it to the doctor, a couple believed that any information given to them, other then what was volunteered by the doctor, would burst their time of joy. The concerns of the girl's mother were rejected. The couple went into the birth of the child, totally unprepared, even though the woman did attend a professional prenatal class that was absent of warnings of risky practices and did not inform about the right of informed choice and rejection of some procedures. The prenatal classes are controlled what can be said and not said and they generally support the chemical drug companies and the policies of the doctor. What doctor can impose a policy of practice on your person and women are not advised they can reject policies of the hospital and the doctors, as to what is done to their own person.
This was in the fall of 2003, they went into the delivery room with blind trust,
in most matters.of their first child's birth. I can
understand this young couple not wanting information, nor taking research from the internet. I've
been there and done that,
birthed in ignorance of my first child's birth. The second birth was no better but the doctor
was more ethical, or perhaps, because
I labored at home, no drugs were used and early clamping was not done on this child. The facts
are, the majority of women for
the past 3 and 4 generation, have not been adequately informed on reproduction and child birth. This
control, blind trust in the
medical services, began after the 1900's and midwifery was beginning to come to an end in Canada and
in the States,
particularly, first in the cities, and by about 1915, home births were being frowned on, and the midwives,
who attended them,
threatened by jail terms. By the 1940's, the mothers who, themselves, had been born unassisted on the
farms, were now all
birthing in hospitals.
They had not communicated with their own mothers of their practices, which are
what are being revived today: warm water
births, freedom of birth positions, freedom of nourishment, and no tying, or clamping off the child's
umbilical cord. We lost that
directives by lack of communication on what Natural Birth Education and practice is. The teaching
of such ought to be taught
from knee high to all women and the guys, too.
In this couple's first child delivery, the doctor pushed back the baby into
the womb because it was being born face up. I know
of no clinical policy or standard of care that taught this. In other experiences of trusting mothers
in their birth attendants, I found
no one taking the responsibility for the clinical standards for the parents who had their baby's umbilical
cord clamped instantly, for
the "fear" of the mother bleeding. These are the concerns I have of the incompetency
of the training of the medical persons,
today, regarding child birth.
The facts about bleeding after child birth is it is a natural occurrence. Up
to 4 cups of blood lost, is considered normal. Prior
to birth, the mother's blood supply has increased, in expectation, of possible blood loss. Only
very anemic mothers have
something to fear. Mothers in North America, are not generally, poorly fed, or anemic, and it
is an easy blood test to do, by a
prick of the finger. This can be done even during delivery at the hospital, before the baby is born.
USE OF A DANGEROUS DRUG ON THE PRETENSE IT STOPS OR PREVENTS BLEEDING:
The use of the man-made hormone, oxytocin, for fear of the mother bleeding is not justified in North America, but, it is generally imposed on women, at the time their baby's head is being born. The use of this drug, often given without informed consent, has with it the World Health Organization's instructions to follow the injection (generally undiluted) with immediate umbilical cord clamping. WHO directs this as mandatory. It is a provided alibi for the medical person (s) endangering the child to have low blood volume and pressure, and subsequent anemia, to even the threat of shock and death.
The facts as I have researched on this hormone, Oxytocin, it is not the hormone
to stop the bleeding of blood vessels. It is a
muscle contractor, only. It is the drug companies alleging it stops bleeding. What oxytocin
may actually do is to trap the placenta
inside the womb causing an operation for its removal. It does this by closing the womb, quickly,
and unnaturally before the
placenta has been expelled. The placenta can be full of the child's deprived blood and it can
be more difficult and painful to birth
then the child's head. It can burst because of its weight and fullness of the blood that was deprived
the infant by immediate cord
clamping.
Serotonin:
The hormone to stop bleeding of torn blood vessels is the hormone Serotonin which is released by the platelets stop that kind of bleeding. When tissues are damaged, the platelets disintegrate, releasing serotonin. The Serotonin constricts the blood vessels and prevents more bleeding. Serotonin is also present in the brain and intestinal tract. Some drugs affect brain function by preventing the release of serotonin. (4)
This alibi of clamping the pulsating cord after the use of oxytocin is likely
an alibi to the endangering of the child, for the alleged
benefit of the mother. If the truth is reviewed, the injection of oxytocin, has been known to
increase the risk of bleeding, or the
bleeding does not start until after the fact of injections of oxytocin and harsh contractions of the
placenta have begun. It is the
drug companies that promote the oxytocin as a preventing bleeding and I question their reports and research
on this drug.
It is believed to be an alibi with dubious reasons and endangering of the child
by harvesting its placenta blood, following hasty
clamping. This should be investigated by the Food and Drug authorities in North America. I have
researched that in Canada and
the States, these two nations have failed to adequately protect women on this issue of being drugged
with a risk to the child of
being anemic by blood deprivation. Justification, likely, before a court of law will bring this
matter to full disclosure. Those who
have experience in this matter are encouraged to write your authorities in your own community and in
your State, Province, or
Territory.
Please sign the Petition.
There is a link provided at the end of this article.
Bleeding comes "after" the placenta (afterbirth) is birthed.
To stop the child's circulation system for a fear which was absent of
the facts is not justified. This was also an occurrence in two 2003 year births. This happened
both in Canada and the States and
it did not make a difference if it was midwives or a doctor attending the birth - they used the same
alibi to justify interruption of the
child's lifeline - fear of the mother bleeding.
FEARS THAT ARE ALIBIED TO DIRECT IMMEDIATE CORD CLAMPING:
Other fears are also being questionably used, such as fear of jaundice, fear of too much blood, fear of too fast flowing blood, fear of too thick of blood. Blood fears are generally associated with use of drugs give the mother. Then there have been the fear stated to stop the circulation system for the fear of a short cord, and the fear of a cord around the child's neck. That latter can be corrected without harm to the child, by putting a finger between the neck and the cord and to allow the continued pulsation and transfusion of the blood, until sufficient length of cord and/or placenta is expelled to safely unwind or remove the cord from the child's neck. You simply do not pull on the cord, but keep the cord from injuring the neck by your finger's protection.
Many nurses and doctors jump at the opportunity to cut a cord around the neck,
not trained in correct harmless care of a cord
around the neck. (See
Chow-Case-Law
, Ontario, Canada)
There are logical ways and means for a short cord. Simply hold the baby
in a warm towel, for a short cord, until the placenta is
born. What is wrong that medical persons are not prepared to put the baby in a warm blanket, even if
you must hold the child
close to the mother's vagina, until the placenta is expelled? Birth is logical. The security of
the child's right to full blood transfusion
into his/her lungs is a priority, not the inconvenience to the medical persons. It is a duty to
keep the child warm, at all times, to
prevent hypothermia which can also stop the pulsating cord, as though the cold air was a clamp.
In the case of the trusting couple, not wanting their joy to be robbed of them
by informed choices, that while the baby was born
fine and was believed allowed to remain on the umbilical cord until it stopped beating, his mother suffered
infection to her now
torn womb caused by the doctor's twisting the child back into her womb. This older child-bearing
women (age 32) may never
have another child and she is not, yet out of danger, at this writing.
POLICIES OF THE ETHICS BOARDS OF HOSPITALS:
Most parents do not know to ask of the hospitals policies of taking the placenta and the placenta blood that was deprived their own child of natural immunities in the blood, and the baby was caused to be anemic and weaker and that the hospitals, by policy, were sending the placenta and the blood to the highest bidders. In the Chow-case-law, that child's placenta blood went missing. I suspect the placenta was drained and the blood sent to one of the two private cord blood banks in that Province, or sent abroad. Such organs and blood can be sent to any area on Planet Earth within 36 hours delivery. No child is safe with the allowance of harvesting of their placentas by the Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons and the Royal Colleges and the governments of today. There seems no respect of the duty to enforce the criminal codes, or the constitution and charter of rights and freedoms and human rights signed by over 100 nations to see there is no form of discrimination to the women; and to the duty to protect the child.
APPROPRIATE CARE FORMS ARE NO PROTECTION TO MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS:
These questionable medical active management procedures are being done without true informed consent, as to some hospital forms being signed as to "appropriate care." Under appropriate care comes appropriate disposing of the placenta organ and its blood. The practice of taking the placenta to sell to research and cosmetic companies and burn tissue banks was first written up in biology textbooks of the 1980's . What does "appropriate care" mean, except a form was signed? The civil and likely the criminal law looks for informed choice or being told one can say no to policies of the doctor's or the hospital's.
Most couples are never told told no clamping off or cutting the cord need be
done. It is merely a cosmetic procedure, with risk
of cord infections and the child caused to be anemic. Only if the cord tore or for placenta previa,
need the cord ever be clamped.
The child would have to be quickly assisted with oxygenated blood. All other medical excuses
and even the policies put out by
the experts (ACOG Policy #216, November 1995 now retired and SOGC's Policy #71, December 1998 and #89
May 2000) are
believed to be alibis that give allowance to the harvesting of the placenta and its contents and
without informed consent. SOGC
acknowledge the blood deprived the child may not be sufficiently re-made for 6 weeks to 9 months. The
child may not be tested
for anemia in that period of time, and not grow sufficiently and may suffer as a consequence brain damage.
What is best may be doing nothing at all. The Pioneers simply put the
placenta in a diaper, the method now called the Lotus
Birth. The couples today can do that too. No hospital can stop them, nor can they take their
baby away from their sight and
syringe out the stem cell blood from the placenta. That is defeating the purpose of parents asking
for no clamping or cutting off
the cord. Babies can be operated on, still attached to their placenta and cord. (See Miracle
Baby). That is the right of the
parents to protect their babies to remain as a biological reciprocal sealed unit, as I call an unclamped
umbilical cord.
The parents can take their baby home and remove the placenta and cord, for cosmetic
reasons if they like, at their own time, if
the placenta is to be removed at all by cutting, rather than natural falling away. They can burn it
and/or bury it. Pioneers put it in the
outhouse and threw lime on the placenta. Some buried it in under a shrub.
There is a tool, called Umbicut, by Dupont, made especially for the use of oxytocin,
directing hasty clamping, that is sterile and
clamps and cuts instantly. Most ambulance medics have this tool and are a threat to any child's
birth they may attend for they,
too, are trained to clamp a functioning organ and are directed to take the placenta back to the hospital. There, this organ will be
harvested for its blood and it will be sold to the highest bidder for the value it has in hormones and
enzymes.
TO PREVENT HARVESTING OF THE AMERICAN BABIES - DON'T CLAMP THE UMBILICAL CORD:
The umbilical cord, if left alone, and this is the best assurance to stop harvesting of North American's babies, will fall off naturally in a day or two. The benefits of an unclamped umbilical cord and uncut cord: No cord infections. No hernias. And a perfect navel. The facts are, there are 500,000 babies who die from infections from cut cords, and some of those were born in North America.
The procedure is simple to follow natural process: Simply
keep the placenta well aired
while the child sleeps, and that is about
22 hours of the 24 hours in the day, for a neonate. Just remember to keep the cat away. Think
about it. What is gross? This
pioneer method? Or, the infections in a cut cord that takes 5 to 15 days to heal.
What is harmful, no infections and a healthy blue ribbon baby or a baby
caused to be anemic by being harvested at birth by
doctors and nurses doing hasty cord clamping, and taking the baby's blood for another's cause and/or
for their own financial
compensation of organ and stem cell blood collection?
TARGETING BABY'S FOR STEM CELLS BY RACE:
The facts are, your child's blood can be targeted for the race that you are or the mixed race that you are. Values of $30,000 can be paid for an ounce of stem cells. That is the price Australia was willing to pay for doing experimental stem cell transplants. That is paid to the finder of the posted stem cells and match requested. So a transplant of stem cells may cost $130,000. The rich can purchase from those they target, even relative's babies, exploited parents who may well sell their baby's blood, for a price. Even its organs if the baby should die.We cannot control what mother's and father's may plan, as one mother in New York, in the summer of 2003, was believed to have sold her baby's placenta blood, and premeditated that planning.
How she did it?: The expecting mother vacationed in high mountains, that can
increase blood volume in her and her baby.
Athletes train in high mountains for this reason. The more blood the more oxygen carried to cells
and muscle development and
strength. This lady planned to have vigorous sex and sure enough, she gave birth to an 8-month
gestation baby, a premature
baby whose umbilical cord was early clamped. Why? Premature babies have more quantity of
stem cells, according to the
research of Judith S. Mercer, who encouraged doctors to stop immediate cord clamping, in favor of at
least 30-second clamping.
She did not believe they would do no clamping. Babies that are premature, she said, have
more stem cells then do full term
babies. In my opinion, this was a perfect premeditated crime, if you consider endangering
a child, even though they live, a crime
against a person's equal right to security of person.
By preparing the doctor to clamp the cord 30-seconds at birth, most of the
placenta blood would be trapped and harvested.
The blood gathered and given to a private cord stem cell blood bank, a relative could benefit from the
collection the mother had
paid to store in that private blood bank. The mother was free to use the placenta blood,
consisting of stem cells extraction, for
her child's future needs, or offer it to any of her friends or relatives. Gifts of money, if received,
and it likely was, would never be
suspected to be associated with selling of the placenta blood of her love-child. Babies do not
die, after being harvested, in most
cases. Particularly, if they are given oxygenated blood and blood expanders, and one in sixteen babies
are being revived in this
manner today. But any revived baby is a compromised baby, impaired to the degree of oxygen and
blood volume deprivation.
These endangered babies never have the full immunities, enzymes, hormones, vitamins, minerals, platelets,
plasma, proteins, as
to their own natural whole blood. They may never develop the volume of hormones or immunities
to protect them from disease,
once weakened, at birth.
PRENATAL CLASSES ARE PROMOTING STEM CELL COLLECTION BY EARLY CORD CLAMPING
:
Many of the prenatal courses for couples are confusing them on stem cell storage. Don't do it This is if you want the healthiest baby and to have his/her fullest genius potential undamaged or risked. Autistic children are very challenged to raise and to educate. Hasty clamping has been around as to the same increases in autism. Not all autistic children, many now adults, will ever have a fully independent life, become married or have children that they can raise, themselves. Do allow your baby to have what nature intended the baby to have inside his/her own body at the time of birth, immunities in their blood, rich in stem cells and nutrients, and the proper volume and pressure of blood to prevent holes in the heart and other internal organ damage.
Storage of stem cells has no assurance they will not be contaminated by the
cut cord, or in storage or when wanted, they will
actually have strength to do anything after being frozen for any period of time. The other nutrients
and immunities are not stored
with your babies stem cells and not contracted to keep or in the extraction of these nutrients. But,
the stem cell blood bank,
without your known consent, has likely sold these other components of blood to the highest bidder when
extracted from the stem
cells.
Think about this. Are you making truly informed choices on the issue of
the timing of the clamping of the umbilical cord and the
issue of stem cell blood storage? Stem cell cord blood is the fastest growing private enterprise,
world wide. It is organized by
large private corporations and they are funded by the governments of the day, world wide, by taxpayer's
money, through research
grants.
My opinion is that the stem cells are a scam and the process is endangering
to any child so violated by having their placenta
blood clamped off. They are injuring our babies because the greatest source of stem cells is from
the baby's deprived placenta
blood. It is endangering to the child and a violation of their security of person, and I believe criminal
charges should be begun.
THE NAME CORD BLOOD:
The name Cord Blood simply means the placenta blood was drained or syringed out of the umbilical cord - cord blood. It suggests to the mind only a "tad" of blood has been deprived the child, or taken for samples for pH. pH tests can be done from urine tests. The amount of blood deprived your baby can be 1/2 to 1 cup of blood. If the baby only created 10 ounces of blood if 9-pounds and of full term, that was greatly needed to keep your baby strong and not anemic.
Take 50 percent of 10 ounces of blood and you will have a very weak child, needing,
at sometime, medical care for his/her low
immunities, maybe even special education, if the child becomes autistic. The increase in autism in children
is the medical
opinion of Dr. George M. Morley, (www.cordclamping.com). These autistic children look normal but
have internal damages and
many have social interaction difficulties.
RESEARCH ON CHILD BIRTH:
This child birth research ought to be done long before the birth of the baby, and the couple should always be prepared for a natural emergency birth in their own home. I have provided, at this website, how to handle an emergency birth that even a teenager could handle, if they had to. Handling an emergency birth is the first consideration of research a couple should do when they first hear they are having a family on the way, if not before conception. I have provided Emergency Manuals and commented on what they said and why.
Back in 1957, a Dr. Mavis Gunther, London, UK, said the evidence for
never to clamp a pulsating umbilical cord is that
babies not clamped who were born without a professional's assistance, thrived. Today, Canadian
research reveals one in
sixteen babies being revived and research of the past of
Dr. T. Peltonen
, who delivered 89 babies in 1981, by c-section, and
removed the babies as a sealed unit, placenta still attached to baby, had none of these babies have
Infant Respiratory Distress
Syndrome. This included premature babies. It is not likely the lung chemical surfatant missing,
it is probably the volume and
pressure of blood to the lungs, missing by early umbilical cord clamping that is damaging the c-sectioned
babies' lungs.
Research indicates one in four individuals have problems with the heart valves not closing on their
hearts, leading to heart
murmurs or holes in the heart, the latter sometimes not showing up until one is in their 30's. (2)
UNASSISTED BIRTHS:
It maybe safer to birth the baby on the way to the hospital, in a taxi, then actually, arriving on time for a doctor to deliver you of your child. Why? No, meddling. Doctors tend to use drugs and tools because they are trained that way, called "active management." They are not trained in natural birth education and practice, and that may be true of the registered-nurse-midwives of today. The true is nature is working for mother and child. All the mother and the father needs to do, prior to conception, is have healthy bodies, free of drugs, including marijuana that is fat soluble and can go into the fat cells of the reproduction cells. They should try to live in a pollution free area, at the time of conception (agricultural areas can use sprays in the spring and summer.
Following natural process, in most instances, with a healthy conception and
living environment of healthy foods and exercise,
the baby and mother's body know what to do as a team, just fine. At birth, in 95 percent of all
births, everything is just fine, even
for multiple births, who do not need their cords clamped either. Women and their spouses just
need confidence through
education to know what is natural birth education and practice and make that birth contract. Not
even a court can order a women
to have a c-section in child birth or to have her body drugged or cut to give birth. That was
ruled on in the Appeal Court in
London, UK, and since birth is a universal natural occurrence, that decision should be upheld world
wide. The story is available
at British Medical Journal (BMJ)
SEEKING INFORMATION FROM YOUR DOCTOR OR FROM THE INTERNET:
One should not fear information or knowing the experiences of other women, the good and the bad experiences. There are many joyful experiences of unassisted births shared on the internet, by first time birthing mothers as well as to experienced and educated women. There unassisted births were the best they have ever had -- their dream births were achieved only after they birthed in their own homes.
My own mother, now 90, was the first of ten children and she was an unassisted
birth on the farm, born 1913, when women
were more emancipated to birth in their log cabins and had no regulations imposed on natural birth,
their right as women.
Maternity is not a medical sickness requiring any professionals services. it is a natural event. It
is time the women just have
support handy, if needed. So a hand's off birth in a rented hospital room should be within
a women's legal rights to sign a
contract for. This is allowed in some areas of Mexico. It should be allowed world wide.
The 3 billion dollar medical costs in the
United States could be reduced by 95 percent if this trend caught on. Only 5 percent of all births
are true medical emergencies
requiring surgery.That is what the stats were back in 1913 when women did birth, unassisted, in their
own homes, with just family
or close friends assisting, if asked.
By the 1940's, most women did not know they had a legal choice over their own
bodies to have natural births, yet in their own
homes. They were intimidated by the criminal code about seeking assistance for their child's birth. It simply means the mother
cannot birth her baby with the intent to kill her child, not that she cannot birth alone in her own
home, unassisted of professional
medical persons. She can have family and friends near by to aid, her if necessary.
You can read about the women mavericks, who, themselves, birthed unassisted,
since the 1960's. In some cases, no one
was there with them. They have encouraged women to return to natural births and in their own homes,
if they have the
confidence, are physically healthy and expect no complications. But it is best to keep such plans
to yourself, like an well arranged
emergency birth, so relatives are not on pins and needles.You just don't have time to call anyone until
after the fact for a normal
progressing natural birth that is not complicated. Babies can come quickly, eh.
You don't really need state of the art medical procedures to make you feel uncomfortable
or at institutional risk during child
birth: prone and supine positions, needles, starvation, dehydration, drugs, morphines to slow labor,
oxytocin to cause labor to be
extreme, and the threat of your body cut, and your baby being harvested for his/her placenta blood,
and needles stuck into his/her
anemic body with injections of toxins and diseases, when natural immunities will protect him, and injections
of Vit. K when full
blood supply has the necessary platelets that will give him the nutrients to clot his blood, normally,
and then there is the tradition
by the risk of circumcision and infections, if you have a boy child. This is another medical threat
to the child, done for cosmetic
reasons and traditions. Circumcision is not a health benefit to the child, unless the penis is
infected. The parents must now pay
for this religious and cosmetic surgery. I would think that a good idea for cord clamping and cutting
too, for it, too, is merely a
cosmetic amputation.
RISK OF SCANNING YOUR EMBRYO, FETUS:
In regards to scans, the state of the art technology of scanning the fetus is that one scan, an invasion on the baby's development, leads to another, and consequently, one in sixteen babies have some kind of minor to serious birth defect. (1) Are these defects caused by the scans? Most likely.
Medical societies, who are enjoying big profits for modern baby care, do not
want to research the birth care given, involving
scans, and putting needles into the amniotic sac, to know the truth, which of those babies with defects
were meddled with, and in
most cases, without cause. Today, the older women is the most vulnerable to be suggested she have scans. The high tech
actually work on the fears of older women's fears of having a deformed baby. As a consequence,
many of these women, losing
confidence they can have a healthy baby, have aborted their healthy babies. Their babies went
to organ and stem cell research,
after listening to fears their baby "may be deformed." They are not told the scan readings
are by interpretation, with no
assurance the interpretation is correct. And, one cannot not know the heart of knowing the cell-type
and blood type of a baby, is
the motive for compensation for collection of organs and cells, if the mother agrees to abort her baby,
often the services and
clinic connected to the scanning services. Those organs and blood tissue may be more valuable in organ
tissue banks, then if
they baby were allowed to progress to be born and given a chance at life.
Would the professional share conflict of interest as they get compensation packages
for suggesting to a fearful mother-to-be,
the baby may be deformed and they do abort. So scans are for persons with lack of confidence and cannot
accept conditional
love of the blessing of a child coming into their lives who may be challenged. Unnecessary scans are
not wise. A scan might be
wise, in some circumstances, where the mother thinks her baby is overdue by cord entanglement, as in
one case, that led to a c-section, the baby's cord around his neck, five times. It was not likely
the baby could be born, by natural birth and in that case, may
have died, in the womb, had it not been for the mother's request for a scan, going on her instincts.
There is cause to use the availability of state of the art technology but it
always should be the freedom and volunteer choice of
the mother, not an demand of the doctor. It is the mother's body and her baby, and her ultimate
choice. Knowing the facts that
scans are not absolutely assured to be read correctly is something women must be informed, so they could
abort a healthy baby
that was wanted for stem cell collection of specific organ parts.
That is the kind of world we do live in today. Not everyone is going to be ethical
or counsel in the best interest of the mother
and/or the child's best interest for life and the best it can possibly be. People can conceal
motives. Not all person's have a
conscience. Some value money and profit over best interest of people. When working for an institution,
many nurses and the
doctors feel pressured to earn them a profit. This will be more so as medical services change over to
a private enterprise
system, for profits. Therefore, we cannot expected to have true informed choice. To have
true informed choices may lead to
many women opting for unassisted births in a hospital, paying only for a rented room, and any services,
if requested and as
needed. Should such a trend, catch on, billions of dollars would be lost to those currently using
child birth as a lucrative business.
Billions of dollars will be lost when the babies are not the major supplier of experimental blood, stem
cells, so wrongfully now
taken, and not with the true knowledge of otherwise caring and loving parents.
NATURAL HORMONES PRODUCED IN CHILDBIRTH THAT AID A MOTHER IN CHILD BIRTH:
Some hormones that women should read up on are Relaxin (pelvic joint lubricant) (3), Prolactin (colostrum production), Oxytocin and Prostaglandins (Contractions of muscles in the birth canal), Estrogen and Progesterone (prepare the breast for milk production);Serotonin (seals broken blood vessels released by the platelets).. Warnings on man-made oxytocin that it is followed with endangering the baby by early umbilical cord clamping. (Links to other Hormone information provided).
Of the hormones, I would like to share about the least hormone told to women
during prenatal classes and this is relaxin. (3)
Relaxin is produced by the placenta prior to labor. It causes the ligaments in the pelvis to loosen,
providing a more flexible
passageway for the baby during delivery.
By not knowing this working of the hormone Relaxin, many women, if they take
drugs during labor discomfort, have subjected
themselves to prone birth positions and cutting of their bodies to enlarge the vagina for birth of their
child. If they knew that relaxin
natural expands the vagina and makes it soft and stretch, they need not fear having trouble passing
their baby.
The are also not adequately informed that the prone or supine positions close
the birth canal up to 30 percent, which is
generally the reasons doctors are doing episiotomy (cutting of the vagina to enlarge it) procedure on
them. If women birthed in
an upright, or sideways postilion, or forward sitting, or any position they choose, and trusted in their
body's hormones to work with
those of the child's, they would not need drugs, particularly, if they moved around during labor discomfort
and had a friend with
them, at all times.
Most women do not know the birth canal expands with the natural hormone relaxin
and the brain produces hormones of pain
comforters, which serotonin when released in the brain, calms one; and that the contractions come with
released hormones for
pain, and can be within control of the women if she is educated on the purpose of the contraction discomfort. The pelvis is on
hinges and they expand, with the relaxin hormone, as large as is needed for the birth of the child,
whether it is born bum first, feet
first, or head up. The hormones help the contractions of the birth canal to turn the baby, and if the
mother birthed in warm water,
the baby never experiences birth shock of cold air. The cold air often stops the continued flow
of blood from the placenta to the
baby's expanding lungs. The water adds buoyancy and supports the mother and the warmth is comforting. Nothing of this is new
information and was practiced by the pioneers in their homebirths, unassisted, of a professional doctor,
in most instances.
It is wise to consider a "warm" water birth or to birth in a very
warm birth room, not one that is kept chilled for the convenience
and comfort of the medical staff, in some institutional birth rooms. Home births have reports
they are as just as safe as hospital
births, if not safer. They allow the women to be in control of the birth environment and she is
more relaxed and can be nourished
with beverages and foods of her choice so her energies and strength are not depleted, as they are in
hospitals. Hospitals fear to
feed women during labor and often the women go 12 hours without nourishment. It is small wonder,
some women do develop a
diabetic condition and are low of sugar during child birth. Going for a long period of time without
nourishment does not seem a
wise directive of the institutional birth policies.
I am noticing a local increase in c-sections, and nation wide. Many of
the women, having these c-sections, are of average
size, that is over 5 feet tall and rather large. They are having modest sized babies who, in most
instances, under 7 pounds and
the babies have average sized heads.
I feel women just are not adequately educated on natural birth education and
practice, particularly, how their own body will
serve them well, if they understand the function of the hormones in childbirth. And that it is
possible that insufficient information is
provided on the hormones naturally produced during pregnancy and leading up to and during the child's
birth.
I also believe the fear of contraction discomfort (known as labor), scares women
to think a c-section will take away pain.
Doctors justify them by stating with active management births, dealing with many drugs giving during
labor that there is little
difference in the costs between a vaginal birth and a c-section operation. I would say this about
c-sections, that if it is medically
required that it is better to go straight to a c-section then to mess with a variety of drugs during
labor or gels and creams to
induce labor, and then, end up with a c-section because of the complications and distress to the child
by these drugs given to
manipulate the child's birth.
If you do need a c-section, by not fooling around, the mother-to-be is cutting
out these harmful labor drugs, not essential in
most instances. The drugs during a c-section cannot be avoided. All drugs cross the placenta
and can harm the baby, even kill
it. Drugs during a vaginal birth are optional, but often are accepted by the nervous mother-to-be because
of lack of education that
all drugs cross the placenta, and instantly, too. There is no safe dosage of any drug because
of the risk of an unknown allergy to
either the mother or the child. There is risked of long term or life time injury to the child, while
in physical appearance, they look
will look normal. That is what is meant, no harm to the child, when nurses off a drug to take the edge
off labor. Often, they are
buying time for the convenience of the doctor, offer Demerol that slows the labor down. Internal
damages are ever so subtle to
diagnose or to relate to the birth of the child. But if the facts were known, the placenta can have
its cells tested for trace elements
of the metals in all drugs.
Seldom do the mothers get a list of the drugs and the ingredients they are made
of, nor the manufacturer's recommendation of
use, and warnings and risks. They have trusted blindly any drug offered by a doctor or the maternity
nurse are safe. Without a
birth contract, signed, on the care of the mother and what she will not allow to herself or the baby,
everything is left to the last
minute. The mother is not prepared when she is tired of being pregnant. When asked if she wants
a quick and painless birth all
she can think of is that she just wants to get the birth over with...to the point, she becomes reckless
in wise decisions at this end
of the pregnancy. Both her and her spouse are in a panic when doctors push for a c-section and the mother's
right to refuse any
form of cutting of her body to birth a child. A waiver of course should be signed that she has
been informed and wishes a natural
birth. The mother can always change her mind.
A c-section is major operation but most women have never seen a film on it, showing close cutting of the many layers of skin and muscle. They also do not know to request in a c-section that the baby be removed unclamped and uncut from the placenta, for the placenta to be taken out with the child. The child can be put in a warmed towel while the placenta is then taken out. In this way the baby gets all the blood from he placenta, the heart beat drawing the placenta blood into the child's expanding lungs. Most c-section babies do not get the contraction that help the blood into the expanding lungs. They are alleged to be premature, when it is not lack of surfatant, at all, but lack of volume and pressure of the placenta blood absorbing the water fluid in the lungs, and given the child oxygenated blood from the placenta, as adding to the oxygenated blood by any breathing the child may do, after birth. Some children do not take the first breath until the lungs have sufficient volume of blood to do so. But the completion of the blood from the placenta does not mean a justification of clamping a functioning umbilical cord by clamping it to prevent further blood transfusion. The baby's blood was made for his/her own needs and size, and they, themselves close of the internal vessels when they are satisfied, which cannot be guessed at by any professional.
Most mothers have never asked about the style of stitching them up, after a c-section. Some doctors take short cuts, leading to ruptures in another pregnancy, or even if the women is involved in high activity. The c-sections have a risk, as any operation, to serious infections, to both the mother and the child.
Some mothers have shared they got the flesh eating disease, after a c-section. Some of their stories, including graphic
pictures are shared at this web site. C-sections must not be entered into lightly.
Others have shared they have experienced rupture of the stitches when they tried
a VBAC. But the truth of such ruptures is that
many of those ruptures came after the mother had accepted drugs that caused harsher labor contractions,
such as oxytocin. It
causes harsher labor contractions. The body also produces oxytocin, so how much is too much. Naturally
produced inside the
body is what the woman needs, and man's administration is always just a good guess. It is often
mixed with morphine. In this
way the woman may not know the contractions are more severe then what would be naturally occurring. If the contractions are
harsher then nature would allow the baby is pulled away from the placenta and begins to suffocate and
may then not be born
alive...unless an immediate c-section is performed.
Many of the women feel once a c-section all their babies, thereafter, will have
to be c-section. It is they who will decide if they
will have a VBAC or not. But, often it is the doctors who impose that they will only do a c-section,
after the first c-section
operation. If you live in a small rural area, there can be limited choices for a vaginal birth
after a c-section (VBAC).
When faced with a medical need of a c-section, some women fear to ask questions
of the surgeons that are not their regular
doctors. They are intimidated and are fearing that if they doubt something of his/her skills they will
be more endangered. Some
either ask no questions, or if they do, they go through their own referring physician, hoping he/she
will be there to govern over
their care or witness it.
The increase of c-section is over 25 percent in some areas in Canada, and running
over 26 percent in the United States.
Women have not be informed that many of the drugs given to them, at the hospital, leads to c-sections. They interfere with the
normal labor process, often slowing labor, then another drug is used to speed up labor. The morphine
slows the labor down, often
misleading the mother to think pain is reduced, when the contractions have been caused to stop. Then
the uneducated women
have found themselves in total shock when they accept oxytocin this is man-made and increased, fast
labor, of long duration
contractions and in quick succession, had this had these women screaming in so much pain the request
a c-section.
This is a active management drugs, followed with the c-section drugs, is a tremendous
amount of drugs that all cross the
placenta. It takes a long time for a tiny baby's body to dispel the drugs in its system, not like an
adult can rid the toxins from their
larger bodies. The women's fears involved by lack of education and in accepting this "active management"
process, often
causes them to leave the hospital with a birth experience they regret and with a damaged child, that
only looks normal.
Many of these babies are damaged by the drugs, at that is likely a contributing
cause to the increasing in autism, that some
mothers in organized groups have said, in their areas, is an increase by 900 percent. More boys
then girls have autism, and it is
may be, that after the active management and the c-section, combined, the boys are then exposed to circumcision,
of more
drugs within days of their birth. The children may never get out of the shock and being low blood
volumed and anemic. All the
babies are risked to injections of vaccinations soon after birth, and within two months of age.
The active management of drugs manipulating the birth, often to the convenience
of hospital staff and availability of the doctors
(9 to 5 Monday to Friday work schedules) or holiday times, are likely the contributing factors of all
increases of internal disorders
of children today, brain cancers, bone cancers, learning and behavior problems, eating and sleeping
disorders, autism to name a
few increased, including MS, identified in babies as young as 13 months.
All drugs have some kind of preservative in them and trace elements of toxic
metals, like mercury, that is hard to get out of a
child's system. The drugs used during labor stages and birth, I believe, may be behind the theory it
is better to short change the
child of proper and full volume of natural blood, contained in the placenta. This causes the child
to re-create new blood, but the
child may take up to 9 -months to do so, as 50 percent total blood volume is known by immediate umbilical
cord clamping. This
amount of blood leaving the baby, weaker, but living, causes the child to be anemic and under threat
of even more brain damage.
What generally follows during labor and during the actual time of the
child's birth, such as oxytocin is immediate or early 30-second cord clamping. The volume of blood
deprived the child is never shared to the parents. But lab workers report, and it is
verified by SOGC, the Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists of Canada to be stated in their policy
#71, December 1998, to
be 50 percent. Some nurses manuals indicate up to 60 percent total blood volume deprivation. The
child, at birth, goes limp,
and not breathing or is in shock then requires quick blood transfusion, often first an artificial blood
(Ringer's Lactate) to keep the
child's arteries from collapsing; he/she may be given later plasma or whole blood. But, seldom
is it the blood deprived the child
from their own placenta, given back to the child.
The placenta, in more cases, then not, has the blood drained, and it is used
for others, or sent to research and used in stem
cell blood transplants, and this is generally, without informed consent. In some situations, by
lack of education, mothers and
fathers have actually signed waivers to have immediate cord clamping on their babies, to store their
babies blood or donate it to
science and stem cell research, or to the needs of another in their own family. This creates a
second class citizen, weakening
the baby who did not receive the amount of blood nature created for his/her own needs, at the time of
birth, and with all the
nutrients the child need for his/her own particular needs, rich in hormones and immunities and enzymes. These are valued as
much as to $30,000 for just small samples of the human blood.
This taken of the placenta organ, which is ground up for further extraction
of hormones and blood suspensions, and the
placenta blood, called cord blood as it is drained from the cord, is all part of active management.
For this to be done, and it is
not, in my opinion done ethically, is done by most hospitals, today, by requiring the mother's to-be,
to sign hospital forms, of
appropriate care. This is meaning what is done with the placenta organ and its contents is only
the business of the hospital and
staff.
The legal guardians of the child will not be told any particulars, like how
much blood was deprived the child, and where the
placenta went, for burning or for use in organ tissue transplants. Such is the case of foreskin
removed from circumcise boys, and
most parents do not know this is all part of the medical rituals that are not needs of medical treatment
to the babies. No health
benefit is to the baby circumcised at birth with no infections to require that. And no benefit
is to the child immediate and early
clamped on the umbilical cord, when no clamping or cutting need be done at all, unless the cord tore
or for placenta previa.
The placenta blood is full of hormones, enzymes, white cells to fight infection,
red cells to carry oxygen, stem cells that are
there to build the immunity system and replace the dying cells or those killed by drugs, proteins, vitamins
and minerals and trace
elements -- all important to the child's continued growth. The foreskin of the circumcised penis
is used in tissue banks, like burn
victims, but information that circumcision is a risking operation, some children dying, some bleed to
death, others are maimed for
life.
Other shared information on hormones are below, such as serotonin. Serotonin
actually is the hormone that is released from
the platelets that seals up blood vessels, after birth. It is questionable to inject women with
full strength Oxytocin that has a
questionable chemical, chlorobutanol that is alleged to cause thyroid problems. Again, it is best
if women sign a birth contract
and do not accept drugs during labor, or during the birth of the baby, or "after" the baby
is born.
Oxytocin is also alleged to stop the proper heart contractions, so why
risk drugs. You go into the hospital healthy, you should
expect not to go out in any less condition that you went in. Birth should not change that and
need not if the women get an
education of such information, and the best is on the internet with many sharing their research and
experiences around the world.
Your choices are vast for selection of good persons trying to prevent women of an experience they can
regret, but what is being
warned about, Active Management and risk of long-term consequences of any drugs during at time of pregnancy.
References:
(1) Sylvia S. Mader, Inquiry Into Life, 9th Edition, p. 456, 2000
(2) Sylvia S. Mader, Ibid, p. 459
(3) Ritter, Bob, Nelson Biology, P924, 1996 ISBN 0-17-604977-0
(4) David P. Earle, World Book, Vol. S-Sn, page 248b, 1979
A web site with information on Hormones link at:
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Hormones and Mood: oxytocin vs serotonin:
http://www.sci.tamucc.edu/~chopin/neurobiol/notes/Behavior.htm l
Overview of the Hypothalamus
I. The hypothalamus is part of the diencephalon
II. Integrates somatic and visceral responses to maintainhomeostasis
III. The portion of the hypothalamus that borders the thirdventricle (periventricular zone of the hypothalamus) has two major functions
A. Secretes hormones
1. Hypothalamohypophyseal portal system: releasing orinhibiting hormones that act on the anterior pituitary (AKA: anteriorhypophysis or adenohypophysis)
2. Hypothalamohypophyseal tract: oxytocin (pitocin) and antidiuretic hormone (vasopressin) that are released by the posteriorpituitary (AKA: posterior hypophysis or neurohypophysis)
B. Controls autonomic (without conscious control) nervous system
1. Sympathetic system: fight or flight (intruder in your apartment)
2. Parasympathetic system: rest and digest (after Thanksgiving dinner)
Chemical Control: The Endocrine System
I. Pituitary (hypophysis)
A. Releases hormones, chemical messengers that modulate function
1. Hormones travel in the blood to target organs,which have specific receptors to respond to specific hormones
2. Hormones can affect one or multiple organs and functions
3.
a. Amino acids and amines: epinepherine, norepinepherine, thyroid hormone
b. Peptides and proteins: adrenocorticotropic hormone, folliclestimulating hormone, growth hormone, insulin, luteinizing hormone,oxytocin, prolactin, thyroid stimulating hormone and antidiuretichormone
c. Steroids: aldosterone, glucocorticoids, estrogens,progesterone, testosterone
B. Anterior pituitary: derived from the roof of the mouth
1. Gland (adenohypophysis)
2. Cells of anterior pituitary synthesize and secrete a variety ofhormones into the systemic circulation
3. Secretion by anterior pituitary controlled by releasing orinhibiting hormones from the hyopthalamus
C. Posterior pituitary: an outgrowth of the hypothalamus
1. Nervous tissue (neurohypophysis)
2. Neurons of the hypothalamus synthesize oxytocin andantidiuretic hormone which are released from their axon terminals inthe posterior pituitary
II. Hypothalamohypophyseal portal system
A. Capillaries that run from the hypothalamus to the anterior pituitary
B. Transport releasing or inhibiting hormones from the hypothalamus to the anterior pituitary
III. Hypothalamohypophyseal tract
A. Nerve cell bodies of neurosecretory cells arelocated in the hypothalamus; their axons pass down into the posteriorpituitary
B. Nerve cell bodies synthesize the hormones which are released in the posterior pituitary; the hormones are transported down theiraxons and released at the axon terminals
C. Hormones enter the systemic circulation
Nervous System Control: The AutonomicNervous System
I. Autonomic Nervous System
A. A two neuron motor system that innervates glands,myocardium and smooth muscle
B. First neuron located in the central nervous system
1. First neuron sends its preganglionic axon tosynapse with the second neuron, which is located in an autonomicganglion; acetyl choline is the neurotransmitter released by thefirst neuron
2. The second neuron sends its postganglionic axon to synapse withthe effector cell
3. Parasympathetic, postganglionic axons release acetyl choline tothe effector cell
4. Sympathetic, postganglionic axons release norepinepherine tothe effector cell
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Blood
For full information and photos: http://www.e-histology.net/special.html
Blood consists of fluid and cells that flow in one direction in a closed circulatory system. The formed
elements are blood cells
and platelets. The liquid in which they are suspended is called plasma. Plasma is an aqueous solution
containing proteins,
inorganic salts, amino acids, vitamins, hormones and other organic compounds. The main plasma proteins
are albumin,
globulins, and fibrinogen. Albumin is necessary in maintaining osmotic pressure and acts as a transport
protein for various
substances. The globulins are, for the most part, antibodies and fibrinogen is involved in the clotting
process.
Formed Elements
Erythrocytes
Red blood cells are anucleate and filled with the oxygen carrying protein hemoglobin. Human erythrocytes are biconcave discs 7.5 microns in diameter. The biconcave shape provides a large surface-to-volume ratio for oxygen delivery and better flexibility in narrow capillaries. There are normally 3.9-5.5 million per microliter in women and 4.1-6 million per microliter in men. A decrease in the number of red blood cells is called anemia.
Within the cell membrane of erythrocytes is the respiratory pigment hemoglobin and enzymes to break
down glucose.
Erythrocytes loose their mitochondria, nucleus, ribosomes and many cytoplasmic enzymes during maturation
to become
specialized for carrying oxygen. Maturation in bone marrow takes 24-48 hours and the average red blood
cell survives in
circulation for 120 days. Old erythrocytes are removed from circulation by phagocytic cells of the spleen
and bone marrow.
Leukocytes
White blood cells are found in circulation but may leave the circulatory system and migrate to the tissues to perform various functions. White blood cells are involved in cellular and humoral defense of the organism. They are capable of motility and often leave the circulatory system by slipping through the vessel endothelium by a process called diapedesis. The number of leukocytes varies according to the age, sex, and physiologic conditions with normal adults having about 6,000-10,000 leukocytes per microliter of blood. Leukocytes are classified into granulocytes and agranulocytes based on the presence or absence of visible granules within the cellular cytoplasm. Granulocytes include neutrophils, eosinophils, and basophils. Agranulocytes are the monocytes and lymphocytes.
Neutrophils
These cells make up the bulk of circulating leukocytes (white cells) (60-70%). Neutrophils are short-lived cells (6-7 hours in blood and 1-4 days in tissue) that are12-15 microns in diameter with a multilobed nucleus. Immature neutrophils have a nonsegmented horseshoe shaped nucleus. Older neutrophils have more than five lobes and are called hypersegmented. The cytoplasm contains small granules that are primary lysosomes containing numerous enzymes. There are few mitochondria in the cytoplasm and netrophils mostly survive by the anaerobic use of glycogen for energy. These phagocytic cells surround and engulf bacteria and constitute a defense against invasion.
Eosinophils
These granulocytes are much less numerous than neutrophils and make up 2-4% of leukocytes in normal blood. Eosinophils have a diameter of 12-15 microns and contains a characterisitic bilobed nucleus. The main identifying feature of eosinophils is the presence of many large and elongated granules that are stained red by eosin. An increase in the absolute number of eosinophils in circulation is associated with allergic reactions and parasitic infections. These cells also produce substances that modulate inflammation.
Basophils
These cells contain numerous granules that contain heparin and histamine and may mediate hypersensitivity reactions. These granules stain blue with the typical hemotoxylin/eosin stain used in blood smears. Basophils are often difficult to find in blood smears because they are so few in circulating blood (less than 1% of blood leukocytes).
Lymphocytes
Lymphocytes are spherical cells with a diameter of 6-18 microns with a spherical nucleus and very little cytoplasm. Some large lymphocytes are thought to be memory cells that differentiate into effector T cells or B lymphocytes having specific antigen receptors on the cell surface. T cells participate in cellular immunity while B cells are involved in humoral immunity as they differentiate into plasma cells that make specific antibodies. Lymphocytes vary in life span with some living only a few days while others circulate for many years. These cells are the only white blood cells that return to the blood stream after migrating to the tissues.
Monocytes
These agranulocytes vary in diameter from 12-20 microns and have an oval, horseshoe or kidney shaped nucleus with more cytoplasm than lymphocytes. The nucleus does not stain as darkly as that of lymphocytes in blood smears. Monocytes represent 3-8% of circulating white blood cells. After leaving the circulatory system, monocytes differentiate into macrophages in connective tissues.
Platelets
These cell fragments originate from large cells in the bone marrow called megakaryocytes, have a life span of about 10 days and are nonnucleated. Platelets promote blood clotting and repair gaps in the walls of blood vessels. Upon injury to the vessel endothelium the platelets aggregate and form a platelet plug. They then release substances that induce further platelet aggregation and blood clotting. After the vessel is repaired by the formation of new tissue the clot is removed by plasma and platelet derived enzymes. Normal platelet count ranges from 200,000 to 400,000 per microliter of blood.
(NOTE: From Donna Young. The substances are believed serotonin that work with the
platelets to seal broken blood vessels.)
contact:
Donna Young, Mother and Grandmother
Home: www.lotusbirth.com
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