Birth Photos home births and hospital births
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www.lotusbirth.com/doc/FEB2003Lotusbirth-953.htm September 2, 2004.
Birth Photos. Photo A, this little boy was a face up birth position delivery. He was also a successful homebirth for a VBAC, vaginal birth after a c-section. The mother believes, with hindsight, that the water bag, containing the amniotic fluid. would have been best not broken by the midwife. In this way, the posterior birth (sunny side up) would likely have been less painful and the little boy's hand may not have been injured at birth. Birth injuries are often followed with a jaundiced condition, many red cells dying too soon. The child was treated for infection that led to jaudice. Sometimes, infections are caused by the clamping and cutting of the cord, from the tool used or germs getting in tiny openings of the skin. For this little boy the umbilical cord was not clamped for 20 minutes, at the request and instance of the informed mother. It is believed by having more highly oxygenated blood, and natural nutrients of the blood, this child's birth injuries of minor bruising, did not cause serious complications. More birth photos are to follow. They will be showing the umbilical cord white/silver, limp and NOT pulsating when clamped. The umbilical cord is visually seen to pulsate for 20 minutes. It is the right for all parents to request, even for c-section babies (they can be removed intact) the medical persons are NOT to clamp the cord until after the placenta is expelled, or not at all. The parents can do this hours after the birth, or the next day. If babies have more blood, they have more oxygen. This helps them to heal faster from any birth injuries and have much stronger nutrients and immunities to fight infections that can result during the birth trauma.
Photo B. This birth photo of a little girl, is the older sister of the little, boy in
Photo A. The child is being held like a little rag doll. Her mother did not have
any choice of injections of Demerol (morphine). It was just done. This is also true of oxytocin, used
for fear of bleeding. The medical persons believe all
women are anemic and for fear of bleeding inject them all with oxytocin and this is followed with early
cord clamping Most babies start life then in an
anemic condition with low blood volume and low pressure, and their hearts beat harder, many having their
fetal bypass windows not sealing for a longer
time period.
In many cases, busy professional persons are often impatience with women in child birth and do not explain their intent of care or treatment to the mother and the child. The favored professional care of services and training is active management.
Many professional do not accept questioning or the declining of their intent of active management. Active management is totally opposite of natural primal birth tradition, now called Lotus Birth, where you do not risk infections by clamping or cutting the cord, ever, or accept drugs during birth. Active management is manipulating the birth by drugs and mostly this is for the time convenience of staff and doctors.
In this instance, Photo B, the child was early umbilical cord clamped. Note, the child is not wrapped in a warm towel, head to toe, before she is clamped. Hypothermia, cold, can cause the cord to stop pulsating sooner.Note that umbilical cord is blue near the child's navel, but as the blood bled own into the child's placenta, yet in the birth canal, it is getting white. Children, to be protected at birth, should be covered with a head-hooded towel at birth. This so hypothermia does not set in, and they do not get chilled and stop the transfusion from the placenta into the baby's expanding lungs.
In active management, the birthing mothers are frequently hooked up to a IV feeding tube, of Ringer's Lactate to prevent dehydration. The merits of that ritual is questionable to natural choices of movement and walking around an eating and drinking beverages, normally, have found labor advances much more smoothly for the mother.
In Active Management, what most expecting mothers are not told is the IV hook-up frequently becomes a convenient way to switch from the Ringer's Lactate to a narcotic birth. Often, women, if they accept the IV hook-up, have often requested no narcotics used in their child's birth. The Demerol, or the morphine is frequently mixed with oxytocin drugs and switched from the Ringer's solution to a narcotic solution and without permission. Mothers are often vulnerable by signing appropriate care forms and nurses, and doctors take that signing literally. Such imposing on the women may be challenged in either criminal and/or civil court, sometime in the future, if the victims come forward.
The morphine is used to numb the brain of the mother, so she is not fully aware of the harsher labor contractions, caused by the oxytocin drugs.
The oxytocin will cause harder and harsher labor contractions, the birth contractions close together, last 90 seconds. This can cause the child to go into distress. A distressed child is going to release many more hormones into his blood for survival and even stem cells, and interferon. The child will not get those benefits, for the child cord will be early clamped, and science will take the baby's deprived suspensions of the blood.
Sometimes the morphine does not work to promise a painless birth and the mother screams for a c-section, particularly, with the addition of oxytocin, causing long hard close together contractions.
The use of drugs during birth is called Active Management and it is contrary to Natural Birth. Natural Birth advocates payment of a birth Voucher to women, that they pay for Active Management procedures and to know their risks, but if they choose Natural birth, and it costs nothing but a rented hospital room, then the mother gets to keep most of her $3,000 Birth Voucher. If she goes for a c-section, of course there is going to be nothing left.
In warm water births, most mothers do not accept drugs, and want natural primal
births, leaving the umbilical cord not to be clamped or tied or cut off.
The challenges is on the active management as a professional declared universal trend and is herald
as the first choice of institutional births. (Reference,
Cochrane Collaboration Group, Active vs Expectant Management, S. McDonald, et al)
It is active management that leads to the harvesting of the newborn child as to any cause to do early cord clamping. The parents are not told about the placenta blood being secretly harvested, or how much blood was deprived their child. The placenta blood that can be up to 60 percent of the child's total blood supply* may be sold to the highest bidders by any of the medical persons at the birth ; the hospital lab, the private lab, or the hospital. (* see 3r to 7th Editions of Lippincott Nurses Manual of Practical Nursing).
The selling of the placenta, cord, and blood is mostly done without true informed consent or the parents having not been given a legal choice no clamping or cutting off the placenta's umbilical cord from the child. The removal of the placenta is merely a cosmetic removal, with risks of infection to the child this is done to, as is the cosmetic removal of foreskins. The circumcision trend is being stopped by better informed and educated mothers.
This little girl, Photo B was not crying immediately at birth. Such morphine (no consent given) medicated children at birth are called the sleepy-time babies. Nursing for this child was not allowed for a day. The mother was ill to her stomach following a no consented to injections of pitocin. Again, the doctors and now midwives are using oxytocin routinely for the fear all women are anemic and will bleed more then normal 4-cups of blood.
This neonate is now a young woman of twenty years old and is pursuing a professional career. This women has also experienced backaches, most of her life. I wonder if the doctor had supported the child's neck and body more gently, if the child would never had experienced pain, backaches, ever.
Prevention must be part of the rising costs of raising impaired and compromised children, by active management. In Canada, there are now one in sixteen babies having to be revived on active management teachings. The take from the placenta blood, deprived the child, is often stated to be from 60 to 180 ml of deprived blood per child by the Cells for Life cord blood bank, operating in Markham Ontario. This amount is reported by stem cell blood banks that are one of the fastest rising free enterprise industries.
Donna Young, Mother and Grandmother, Natural Birth Education, Box 504, Dawson Creek, BC, V1G 4H4
Canada
dyoung@pris.ca
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References of research: www.lotusbirth.com/doc/FEB2003Lotusbirth-110.htm
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Original Posted, September 2, 2004
