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Natural Childbirth
Dr. Archibald Leman Cochrane
made an important discovery in Canada in the late 70's regarding childbirth.
He considered what was important in medicine,
and researched whether it was backed up
concrete scientific studies
What he found was that in 60 000 articles,
only 2000 had scientific validity
The World Health Organization, over the past few years,
made the same kind of critical study and reached a number of conclusions.
These conclusions were presented in 1985 at a Brazilian conference
in Fortaleza, where 21 guidelines were suggested by the World Health Organization.
They were: There must be training of midwives for pre-natal care.
The support team should be multidisciplinary.
The practices of hospital births (including the caesarean section rate) must be made available to the public.
The healthy newborn must remain with the mother.
Procedures for observation of the neonate do not justify the separation the newborns separation from his mother.
Breastfeeding should be promoted before the woman leaves the delivery room.
There is no evidence to suggest that a caesarean section is necessary because another had already been done.
There is no evidence to justify the practice of shaving the *** area and enema.
Enema is the process of cleaning the intestines by introducing liquids into the *** and colon via the ***
The woman in labour and delivery should not be put in the lithotomic position
(lying on her back with her legs open) but should be encouraged to walk.
Each woman must decide freely whether to take this stance in her labour.
The systematic use of episiotomy (the cutting of the vaginal canal) is not justified.
Childbirth should not be induced for convenience.
During childbirth, the routine administration of analgesia is not required.
Usually, rupturing of the bag is not necessary.
Then the World health organization said that the rate of caesarean delivery in a country can vary from 5 to 15%
but anymore is unjustifiable.
The World Health Organization noted in 1996 that a pregnant woman at low-risk
with her first child at a teaching hospital may be attended by up to 16 people
for 6 hours of labour, and still be alone most of the time.
Many hospital ´rituals´,
are practices that encourage women
pto lose her femininity and dignity.
The use of wheel-chair, changing clothes, filling out forms.
But a woman in labour is living with oxytocin inside her
which has nothing to do with all this, so what will happen?
There are two important hormones.
The hormone in childbirth is oxytocin which is the same hormone of ***,
everthing that messes up the ***,
also destroys work done by oxitocin.
When you climb, oxytocin lowers your adrenaline.
It is just this hormone that gives the ability for fight and flight.
Adrenaline is increased and turns into oxytocin,
and therefore we understand
how easy it is to stop the labour.
Today you have the companion law,
which guarantees the companion remains with the woman in the delivery room.
Deprivation of the freedom of movement, the deprivation of the right to food.
The question of the enema, the intravenous line. The use of oxytocin,
which today has been scientifically proven
to increase the ordeal for the woman and baby.
Gynecological rings, regular breaking stock market information and a very cold air conditioning inside the room.
All of this combines to enhance the isolation and awkardness of the delivery room,
and in fact has nothing to do with childbirth.
The delivery has always been done in a vertical position, and there is no reason to change that.
This is the position more anatomically, physically,
and also hormonally adapted.
The hormones in birth are 13:
- Oxytocin, beta-endorphin, Estrogen, Progesterone, corticotropin releasing hormone,
Hormoniocorticotrófico-pituitary (ACTH), epinephrine, norepinephrine, cortisol, prolactin, relaxin and prostaglandin.
Think about how dogs give birth,
how cats give birth, we have the same mammal childbirth.
A female giving birth will find a hidden place,
hot, dark, where she knows she can give birth in peace.
And then what happens?! You mess up the mammalian condition for the labour.
"We will take the kittens to give birth in PetShops and we'll see what happens. "
Probably will not be a great success.
But, since 1957, in Sao Paulo, Brazil there has been an obstetric service
where the obstetric nurses would take the necessary tools to the house of the pregnant woman
accompanied by ambulances to make the delivery.
Only 3.19% needed to be transferred.
And yet the service was still terminated, even after not a single death.
And then, 10 years after the number of caesarean sections in hospitals was up 50 to 80%, right?
What happened is something very important.
Konrad Lorenz, who won a Nobel prize for his discovery.
Many people have seen this in the science fair. If you imagine there are two different ducks and a baby duckling,
if the baby notices that something is going as soon as he leaves, he goes after it thinking it's mother.
Isso, ele descobriu uma coisa chamada "imprinting". O "imprinting" aparece em todos os animais.
He discovered something called imprinting. Imprinting appears in all animals.
which exist in all languages, is the first impression.
These two hours before sunrise and two hours after birth, both the brain and the blood composition,
will be repeated only once in life perhaps, or a few times in great mystical ecstasies.
Otherwise, those impressions there will create most of the values that are being placed in life.
Michel Odent a great, great obstetrician, said:
"pray effectively reduces the activity of neocortical super conductive and can help some people
achieve another reality beyond time and space, and absolutely truth."
The ecstasy that a woman can have is coming at the peak of oxytocin
there comes a bit of adrenaline and beta-endorphin and ecstasy.
So this possibility, the more natural the more imponderable women have,
is to give birth, it is easier it will be able to stay, that she should stay with the child with her.
And this situation will increase oxytocin and then she'll be able to better contracting the uterus
to remove the placenta and the uterus to contract more to slow the bleeding.
Then the procedure when the baby is born at the hospital, right?
Many people have no idea what these procedures involve.
What does a baby need? Look a kitten, a dog, look at any mammal,
they will be licked, and in permanent physical contact, right?
And in fact the hospital the first thing that is done is to take the child, put in a bath of cold water,
the temperature difference of 17C many times, right?
That's what I call, get a cold.
This information is complicated, brushing, the situation bore a child by giving injections of vitamin K,
which has a high colostrum concentration.
Attach a drip of silver nitrate, which has been a tradition since the 1920s
that has caused gonorrhoea blindness in children.
So far no use, imagining that all women have gonorrhoea,
today use silver nitrate as routine. And this causes blindness.
"Then when the child is born, he can see 30 cm,
the exact distance from the mother's chest to the mother's eye.
Imagine the baby excited to his mother´s eye,
know the voice, smell her scent, and then they are born blind.
They won´t be able to see anything.
There has been another important study on the comparison of delivery that was planned to be in the hospital
versus the delivery that was planned to be at home.
This study involved 1046 deliveries, was revised, and continues to be of extreme scientific validity.
Comparing one with the other, hospital delivery has a 5 times higher incidence
of increased maternal blood pressure, which indicates stress.
3 ½ times more meconium, which is stress in the foetus.
8 times more shoulder dystopia, caused by pulling the child out of his mother.
3 times more postpartum haemorrhage due to a rush to pull the placenta.
3 to 7 times more resuscitations were performed on the baby.
Four times more children had infections.
30 times more the baby had injuries.
Three times more hospital cesarean delivery compared with 2.7 in home births.
Analgesia in homebirth 5% versus 75% in hospital.
Three times more episiotomy in the hospital and nine times more tear,
which means cutting the muscles more often, including the ***.
When you do not have the issue of laceration 3rd and 4th grade,
the one that arrives in the ***, delivery done at home with his wife in an upright position.
The index of the child's death was the same.
The epidural. The epidural is derived from ***.
Then there is an important documentation by Lennart Righard of a video
that will is being cited at the end of this video here, which is important to be seen,
comparing a baby born under the effects of epidural,
which actually is a derivative of ***.
It stays two hours in the woman's body, but stays eight hours in the baby's body
because he is not able to eliminate it.
And then what happens, you put the baby to breastfeed, which usually means the baby comes out jumping
because the smell of the amniotic fluid is equal to breast milk.
Then the baby, if you put up on the mother's stomach, he goes jumping find the ***,
Then the baby, if you go and look at breast and breast and mother and you look at Mother lay on top of the womb, he goes jumping find the ***,
When a baby is born under anaesthesia if you put him on his mother's stomach, he´ll sleep,
for one, two, up to eight hours and will look completely disorientated,
he won´t recognise himself nor his mother´s ***, nothing.
This makes the situation of breastfeeding very difficult, yet it continues.
Because ... for example if you put a sheep in anesthesia,
it does not recognize the baby as hers, there is a change,
and this is also observed in reports of women, when they have two, three children of different ways,
they say it is than one child they had a natural way,
without the least, with minimal intervention, the experience of motherhood with that child is different.
So this issue of the epidural is very important,
it is very important to know here in Brazil we have caesarean rates
in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo of 85%.
The joust is usually lower because there are 60.000 midwives in Brazil
and in the countryside of Brazil, and this balances to a lower number,
in general, Brazil is has a caesarean rate of 45%.
But in fact the city of Sao Paulo, the city of Rio de Janeiro, the great centres have excessively high rates.
Then there are six formal complications of caesarean sections, which are:
Umbilical cord prolapse, which means the cord came out first.
Placenta prevail, which is when the placenta is in front, blocking the baby´s exit.
Break the placenta, the placenta broke and there is an immense bleeding.
Presentation of the foetus appears to face the front.
Presentation comic where the foetus is lying on top of the exit channel.
And a heart attack, these are only 6.
And there are others, complications are questionable and depends on each experience.
Previous Cesarean Section.
Dystocia is a general name to say that labour stopped.
Foetal distress that is also something very vague.
Cephalopelvic disproportion that is not something that is consensus.
Ovarian cysts.
Problems of ruptured anterior sphincter, ***.
Breech presentation, meaning that the child is standing, or a woman who has a diagnosis of ***.
None of these universally justifies the use of caesarean sections to all obstetrics.
Then you watch this painting of birth over the centuries and note
that all figures are male in the birth, which is a caesarean section.
So it's very important to observe what happens to the mother, happens to the baby.
Caesarean sections increase the risk of maternal death by 4 times.
An elective caesarean, is up 3 times.
For the infant cerebral oxygenation is less postpartum.
50% of times, 50% more babies have Apgar score,
which is among other things a quality of oxigen, while the other 50% have a low Apgar.
5 times more likely to require respiratory assistance,
five times more likely to be admitted to a intensive care unit,
and increased risk of asthma, increased risk of rhinitis, increased risk of eczema.
Because .. when you are born, the middle of your nose, nasal mucosa, and as the lining of the mouth to the ***,
are aseptic, without any bacteria. The first bacterium which arrives will dominate.
If you are born near the *** of your mother, you'll get the bacteria from her body, for which she has immunity.
But if you are born in an operating theatre, you'll get bacteria that only God knows where it comes from,
and one thing is sure your mother has no immunity and you will not it through her milk.
So why these problems.
Complications of caesarean sections are from the alteration of the maternal bond,
which is a very serious problem.
more difficulty breastfeeding to be more durable,
greater chances of aggressive behavior and self-destructive,
to the point that we know that people born from caesarean section are much more
likely to be admitted to a hospital up to the age of 22.
Higher suicide risk in adulthood, more prone to criminal behaviour,
more chance of anorexia nervosa and bulimia, and more likely to abuse drugs.
A great discovery of a Swede Bertil Jacobson which was reprinted in several countries, cites more autism, and schizophrenia.
Then there is something else very important, when you reach the end of birth,
the child is being massaged, and what will happen?
This massage ends the reticular formation that is responsible for regulating sleep,
and depletes skin sensitivity.
Is it by chance that the generation born predominantly under cessariam section is the generation that attends rave,
who spends nights in front of a computer, which uses tattoos and pierces the skin.
Maybe this is to wake up the skin which is still asleep? It is a question that needs to be investigated.
Mothers after having a caesarean section also face higher risks, many things
such as the risk of losing the uterus following a hysterectomy, the risk of uterine rupture, the problem of infertility,
miscarriage, stillbirth, ectopic pregnancy, and several changes in the appearance of the placenta in the following pregnancy.
So the question of thromboembolism, the question of bleeding due to placenta previa
which has a problem during pregnancy.
In a nutshell, the intimacy of childbirth is essential to be preserved.