Episiotomy and early umbilical cord clamping -- the myths about them by Donna Young
Episiotomy (i piz ee ot o me), is a surgical incision of the vulva to facilitate childbirth. Early umbilical cord clamping is stopping the fetus/neonates circulation system prior to the completion of the child's birth. Both practices are continued to be done but they are both myths and false traditions. Both practices are generally not necessary and dangerous to the mother and the child. Yet, for reasons to be justified, eventually, in a court of law, the medical practices are being carried out in the current medical training of most doctors, nurses, and some midwives and emergency ambulance medics. This is in particular to the management of the child's lifeline, the umbilical cord, involving hasty clamping off up to 50 percent total blood volume, and lowering blood pressure to vital organs and cells.
The truth about the episiotomy is that they are mostly done on drugged women
who are forced to birth on their backs or in a
semi-sitting birth position. The truth about early umbilical cord clamping, stopping the infant's circulation
system is that it
facilitates harvesting of the baby's placenta blood for the use by the medical professionals. The
placenta blood is stored in
private blood banks. There are compensation packages to the medical person or the institution that collects
the organ and the
blood contents in it.
The prone birth positioned will close the birth canal by up to 30 percent. This
is harmful to both the mother and the child. This
information of harm has been known to the medical societies since 1913. It is an evidence of fact
to be seen on x-ray state of the
art technology.
The myth of early cord clamping was often said to stop the baby from the fear
of jaudice, or having too much blood, when such
facts were not known at the time of clamping. The facts are the clamping off the cord and cutting
it is merely cosmetic and a
mere preference of most doctors. But, the practice leads to the harvesting of the baby's placenta
blood, when the cord is
clamped quickly after the birth of the child, or clamped with only a portion of the child being born.
The early clamping leads to the harvesting of the baby's blood for another's
purpose or research in stem cells. The baby is
logically weaker and with a lower immune system. This hasty clamping is generally done without
true informed consent and the
risk to the baby. Hasty clamping does not benefit the baby and risks the child to subtle to serious
internal harm. The internal harm
is generally latent in discovery. These harmful birth trends have not been stopped by the Colleges
of Physicians and Surgeons.
Why not? These colleges and other medical organizations were formed to protect the public. All
have as their first priority in duty
to only teach and allow the best practice possible and least risk of harm or endangering to any one
member of the public. This is
regardless of age, sex, race, religion or social and/or marital status of the mother of the child.
The myth of the episiotomy was they were done to facilitate childbirth because
doctors were trained this cutting enlarges the
birth canal. This myth for doing episiotomies routinely can be found in most Medical Manuals. Some of
the medical training
manuals are put out by the drug companies, like Merck. The drug manuals do not support natural birth
education or practice, but
have a conflict of interest to promote medical services and training that will use their products and/or
tools.
The harmful prone birth position (flat on the back or semi-sitting), leading
to an episiotomy, was convenient for the medical
persons to have control over the birth, but harmful to the mother and the child.
HORMONES THAT FACILITATE EASIER CHILDBIRTH:
Apparently, many of the doctors and other medical persons are not well informed
of the natural hormones that expand the birth
canal and also in the joints of the hips, such as relaxin and prolactin. These hormone mean the
mother is going to birth her child,
regardless of its size, naturally, in most instances. Other hormones beneficial in childbirth
are prostaglandins, oxytocin, estrogen,
and progesterone.
The medical persons were also misinformed that a cut rather than a natural tear
was better for the women. Not so, there are
no factual studies to support that myth. How could studies of no tears or small tears be compared
when doctors were routinely
cutting women who birthed in institutions? Most midwives were not licensed to do these operations,
but the registered-nurse-midwife is so trained. Therefore, the RNM is likely to practice this aggressive
care to the birthing mother, more so then the natural
birth midwives, who are not nurses.
The chemical drugs given the mother during labor and during the birth of the
child will logically cause interference of the natural
hormones. Sometimes the injection of oxytocin is known to cause extreme and harmful birth contractions.
The man-made
oxytocin has questionable preservatives in it like chlorobutanol, which is known to cause thyroid problems. The man-made
oxytocin is known to cause heart problems to the mother, elevating the blood pressure. The man-made
oxytocin risks the
increased contraction when also the natural oxytocin is being released. This causes the baby to
not get sufficient oxygen
because the mother is having long, harsher and close together contractions. She is unaware of
this fact, of suffocation to her
child and in particular, if the placenta pulls away from the womb prematurely. Her unawareness
is, particularly, if this is her first
child. The new mother has no previous natural birth experience and has not generally studied natural
child birth education and
practice over the routine "active management" procedures favored by most institutions and
their medical person's training.
NATURAL BIRTH EDUCATION AND PRACTICE:
The facts are if women are not drugged and birth in a logical upright or squatting position, or sideways birth, allowing nature to advance the child in the birth canal as to the natural event of birth, women would not tear, abnormally, nor have excessive pain in birth. Pain can be alleviated by warm water labor and freedom to change positions. Small tears would heal of itself. All women, in most instances need, is warmth, a clean room, clean towels to wrap the baby, and a friendly understanding person to be with her at all times. Natural birth education and practice does not need active management and the routine meddling in childbirth. In the pioneer days, c-sections were only necessary in 3 to 5 percent of all births. Deaths generally occurred as to unclean medical practices allowing for infections to get in cut cords or through cuts in the woman's body, that often led to excessive bleeding. Children died from the similar infections and weakness and lack of blood if the doctor was poorly educated and tied off the umbilical cord. Directives not to tie off the pulsating umbilical cord was written back in 1801 by Dr. Erasmus Darwin. Darwin warned if this was done more blood would be trapped in the placenta that otherwise ought to be in the child. It is just logical and only man interrupts the infant's circulation by premature tying off the umbilical cord. No other mammal, birthing in nature, interrupts the umbilical cord's function or the completion of the mammal's birth, the birth of the placenta.
ACTIVE MANAGEMENT TRENDS RISK INFECTIONS TO THE MOTHER AND THE CHILD
:
The risks to the birth mother if she is intentionally cut are that the chemicals on the doctors knives can spread an allergic reaction in the mother's blood system and thus the child's. Further, the instruments may not have been cleaned to perfection to kill all germs. I understand only pure bleach will kill the Heb C virus, for example. If the tools are treated with mercury substances that can get into the mother's and the child's blood stream on top of mercury being used in many vaccinations and flu shots.
These cutting tools, then, can spreading bacteria blood infections and toxins.
This is also true of tools used to clamp the child's
umbilical cord, which, in fact, does not need to be clamped, or tied, unless the cord tore or for placenta
previa. Many doctors
were rushing the child's birth by clamping or tying off the circulation system before the placenta was
naturally expelled. This is the
completion of the child's birth. The umbilical cord can be witnessed to pulsate even after the
placenta (afterbirth) expulsion and
may beat up to 20 minutes, particularly, for drugged babies.
The throbbing in the cord is the child's heart beat as the cord continues to
transfuse blood from the placenta to the child's
body. The child's own means closes down the arteries (two) and the vein when the child, itself,
is satisfied. Hardly any blood will
remain in the placenta if not interfered with by hasty umbilical cord clamping. What the doctors,
and administration and ethics
boards have been allowing is the taking of the placenta and its contents and to sell it to the highest
bidders. This was done
without informed consent. The mother believing that appropriate discarding was burning, not allowing
genetic information to fall
into the hands of unknown persons. Nor, was she informed of the amount of blood deprived her infant,
and improperly and illegally
deprived sometimes up to 50 and 60 percent of total blood volume. This would lead to the need
of the child to be revived. One in
sixteen babies in Canada have been reported to require revival. (3)
Toxic poisoning to both the mother and the child can result, even to one or both of their deaths. Super bugs in hospital air, are always abound, requiring both mother and the child to be exposed to very strong antibiotics, because of cutting of the woman's body, injections of needles, and clamping of the child's umbilical cord. The infections to the woman can affect the mother's ability to nurse her child if the blood poisoning is first detected in her body, as to any episiotomy infection.
To quote a misguidance that is in most biology text books and manuals to doctors,
is as follows:
"Second Stage: Infant Emerges. During
the second stage of parturition, the uterine contractions occur every 1-2 minutes
and last about one minute each. They are accompanied by a desire to push, or bear down. As
the head gradually descends into
the vagina, the desire to push becomes greater. The head turns so that the back of the head is
uppermost when it appears (Fig.
22.17a-c). Since the head vagina may not expand enough to allow passage of the head without tearing, an
episiotomy is often
performed. This incision, which enlarges the vaginal opening, is stitched later and heals
more perfectly than a tear. As soon as
the head is delivered, the shoulders rotate so that the face is either to the right or the left. The
physician at this time may hold the
head and guide it downward, while one shoulder and then the other emerges. The rest of the body
follows easily.
"Once the infant is breathing normally, the umbilical cord is cut and tied, severing the child from the placenta. The stump of the cord shrivels and leaves a scar, which is the navel." (2)
What the facts are is that women who are drugged have likely their natural hormones
interfered with so they cannot know even
to push the baby through the birth canal. The doctors after cutting the women often use harmful
instruments to pull out the baby,
such as forceps or vacuum. Both can injure the arteries and veins in the baby's head. Also,
many doctors pull and twist the baby
with their own strength not knowing they damage the baby's spinal nerves and are causing internal injuries
to a child that cannot
express pain, nor are the internal damages seen until the child cannot progress in natural abilities.
Sometimes the baby goes limp after hasty umbilical cord clamping, that further
causes internal damages of deprived volume,
pressure and oxygenated blood. The brain does not tolerate blood pressure, volume and pressure
loss of oxygenated blood
deprivation as do other cells that are starved, also, of oxygenated blood by hasty umbilical cord clamping. The placenta and
placenta blood are sold to the highest bidders and this taking of the infant's deprived blood and the
placenta to be used by drug
companies, cosmetic companies, and research labs and the separation of blood components, such as stem
cells, is all being
done, for a long, time without informed consent. Most women do not have a signed birth contract
of what will not be done to her
body during childbirth, nor what will not be done to her baby, during birth or after birth.
It has been known since 1913 that flat on the back positions are harmful to
both the mother and the child. The Figure 22.17(a-c) in Inquiry Into Life, p 461, is the one of
the first biology textbooks to demonstrate a standing birth position. The author Sylvia S.
Mader is to be praised for this improvement of truth of easier child birth in a standing birth position. To quote her, "These
drawings show the woman sitting because a prone (supine) position for childbirth is not recommended
by many." It is just logical
for the doctors have known and it is x-ray visually demonstratable, as to human reasoning, that the
birth canal is being closed up
to 30 percent if the woman is imposed on and placed on her back, in a prone position to birth her child.
This is a control imposed by many medical doctors and ambulance medics and midwives,
and is contrary to logic. A prone
position is considered as a power play having control over the woman's body rather then the birthing
mother herself - she cannot
control her own child's birth. A prone position then gives ease of cutting the woman's body, and
this is often done by forcing the
woman in most institutional births to sign a paper for "appropriate care." This then
provides a rational that the medical persons
think they can just do anything to the mother's body without true informed consent and all risks told
and all options told the mother
for her own free will. An appropriate care form is no protection of civil or criminal liability to the
medical persons. It was not
allowing informed choice. The free will and choice in child birth is best established in a signed
birth contract, long before the due
date. A signed contract (birth plans are not as powerful) also serves as a waiver that the mother
is rejecting "active
management" while being informed of that process.
Women would be wise to know natural birth education and practice to avoid drugs
and cutting of their bodies to give birth to a
child. Women are much wiser to birth in warm water where the cold air will not cause the circulation
of the infant's umbilical cord
to stop by shock of the cold. If a warm water birth is not possible to the women, and the pioneer
mothers knew this secret and
practiced it, the woman should birth in the warmest and cleanest room possible. If a signed birth
contract is objected to the
mother's control of the birth, she is best to go back to the pioneer lady's freedom of birth, to birth
in her own home, at her own
convenience of her body and the child's own time schedule when he/she will be born. Natural birth
education and practice means
allowing the woman to have full allowance of her own body and her baby's hormones to work together,
mutually. In this way, the
contraction discomfort, that increase like bad menstrual cramps, are controlled naturally and within
her own means to adjust to the
discomfort.
It is better to take the natural discomfort of child birth then to damage the
mother and child for life through what is called "active
management" the custom and tradition of most institutional births. Ideally, if women fear
to birth without a doctor present, they
should consider a birth contract to birth in a hospital in a rented room, and the doctor or midwife
only allowed in, if needed. They
do this in some areas of Mexico, no doubt, more for financial reasons then for natural birth - without
drugs and meddling and
power plays of so many medical persons, who believe they must deliver a woman of her child. Not
so. Nature has designed a
mother's body to do just fine without all the technology and state-of-the-art traditions of today. The
increase in childbirth injury is
likely every other child. In some homes four out of four children have autism, in others it is
2 and 3 out of four, in twins, because
most are immediately cord clamped, or particularly the first child, they can be both impaired - not
because they were twins, but
because of the interventions and drugging of their births.
Only for medical reasons, not the fear of a doctor, should a c-section be performed,
and all babies in c-sections can be
removed with the placenta not clamped or cut. In this way, the c-section babies will get all their
blood transfused from the
placenta to the expanding lungs.
Another myth doctors use to excuse c-section babies who indicated lung problems was that the baby was born premature and did not have surfatant. (3) Not necessarily so. The baby's lungs have a fluid in them, naturally. Surely, this can be evident in the aborted babies.
This fluid existing in the lungs will be absorbed by the placenta blood flowing
into the lungs, during and after birth. The
placenta blood, if not clamped off, logically absorbs that fluid. This, again, is if the placenta blood
is not clamped off before the
blood can enter the expanding lungs.
Surfatant is an alleged chemical substance which is said to reduce surface
tension and permits the air sacs to open up and
admit air. (3) The blood from the placenta is "oxygenated" and the expanding lungs, logically,
must have constant volume and
pressure, and if you clamp the placenta cord, you have stopped that pressure and volume. This
is the same way you stop a water
pump of the intake hose with a pressure valve on the end that keeps the pressure consent from intake
to the outlet hose. A fetus
circulation system should not be interfered with by any medical person.
What happens when you have harsh drugs and low volume of blood is that logically,
the baby's lungs are being medically
damaged by lack of oxygenated blood by the current trend of doing early umbilical cord clamping, and
harvesting the baby's
blood for science, transplants, and taking the baby's stem cells and other immunities in the blood. The medical persons are
doing the baby/owner of the placenta blood a disservice. It is also likely criminal assault as it is
an unnecessary medical
procedure, like circumcision. It is certainly a charter violation for the child to have equal
protection and equal security of person.
No loving parent would wave an obligation of best care possible least risk possible, and such waivers
to allow the hospital to be
excused for endangering the child for the parent's request to store the baby's blood for another or
for the child's needs at a later
date are highly questionable, if they are legal to endanger the baby at birth.
The above is the research of Donna Young, Mother and Grandmother
References:
1. Elliott Robert D,.MD, FRCPC, Neonatal Resuscitation: The NRP guidelines , Department of Anaesthesia, Ottawa Hospital - General Site, University of Ottawa, Ottawa Web Site: http://www.anesthesia.org/winterlude/w195/w195_7.htm
2. Sylvia S. Mader, Inquiry Into Life, Ninth Edition, page 460, 2000
3. Shyrock, Harold, M.A.., M.D., and Mervy G. Hardinge, M.D., Dr. P.H., Ph.D., You and Your Health, Volume 1, p 59, 1985
4. More references of research are available at: www.lotusbirth.com/doc/FEB2003Lotusbirth-110.htm
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