The birth event - one of two most important transitions in the human life - continues to be completely neglected and abused by the medical community. A lot has changed during the last 60 years or so, all owing to the hippie revolution which refocused the attention of career human beings. Many positive trends have surfaced, many medical professionals have started to see more than they had been taught in their schools. This is on the upside. In the European/post-European countries, at least, which we can see from the books published and available now.
The attitude of medical personnel to the birth event is a good example of why they should never be trusted. I purposefully overexaggerate this issue here - because the way the birth is experienced will determine the whole life of the new human being.
All sounds, lights, touches, voices, random interactions, breathing patterns heard, rushing or peaceful pace, everything is a new experience for the new human being. “New” like we don’t know how new. What we perceive as “new” is merely a quick adjustment and adaptation facilitated by enormous experience and knowledge accumulated within us. For the new human being, everything is a completely new universe in itself. He/she has never before heard the sound of air flowing around his/her body. Friction (and the associated resistance, strength, pressure, flexibility, elasticity, texture, changes over time and more) - our full-time companion throughout our life - has never been experienced in the womb.
Soundscape is an altogether different world, the only one to which the new human being was slightly introduced in his/her almost soundproof environment. But this was nothing, because there are no reference tables relating 9-month-long 24/7 external sound patterns to that deafening, untamed patchwork of unknown sounds coming from 360 degrees and constantly changing in time, amplitude, sound pressure, direction and color.
To add to the complexity of the experience, the baseline background sounds of the bodily systems in the mother-child ecosystem are completely gone. The new human being has come into this “world” at the expense of the permanent loss of the only sound environment he/she has always known. This is crucial, because hearing is the only sense which we cannot regulate, adjust or switch on/off at will. Hearing and sounds are the keys to the harmony or chaos in our life - everything is secondary.
Unfortunately, we are not aware of it even for ourselves. The experience of the new human being, both within the womb, and on transitioning between the two worlds - we simply have no idea what it is like. The only way to “touch” this experience is through acute intuition and awareness. And the problem is that both intuition and awareness are contaminated in different ways in different people. We call it “bias” or prejudice - but it really means that we are organically unable to remove ourselves from experiencing new phenomena.
The birth of a new human being is such a new phenomenon. If we are present in it, the whole event is prone to causing lifelong ripples due to our un-awareness and the mass glaciers of knowledge, “good” advice, habits, books and stupid references which “adult” people make to conception, pregnancy, and mother-child-birth.
In this context, the umbilical cord handling is merely one aspect of the new life. It is of immense significance, but its true value is appreciated only when the whole transition event is considered as oneness. Our (“western”) medical community is simply not ready for this attitude. Too much ego, too much money, too much power games, too much “I” and “me” in doctors, nurses and everybody else who feels “privileged” to be part of the medical community.
A lot of work is ahead.
By the way, it is possible to recover the birth and pre-birth experience from the depths of the adult mind. The stories told then are amazing proofs that we (adults) know really nothing about the complexity and simplicity of our own life. The most fun part is when you are asking your mother about the birth moment, relating what happened there or describing the faces you saw in the first minutes of your life here.
What a thoughtful comment. Sounds - yes - our culture pays almost no interest in sounds, either at birthing or any other time. Notice in society how sounds are made as though it's a "right" and imposed on everyone. There is no effort to decrease sounds from say machinery. WE do have much work to do but we are at least waking up and that is very promising. Who would want more of this torment once we realize there are simpler and better ways?
Some psychologists declare that an average adult is stuck at the mental age of a 4- to 5-years old kid. Meaning interpersonal skills, perception, interpretation, acting upon references, inferences and conclusions, etc. I have not found an explanation “why” in peer-reviewed literature, but this observations appears to be mercilessly correct. Taking jealousy as a benchmark: this attitude is not only revered. It is perceived and expected as a sign of a “mature” person who “cares” about the relationship. While in fact it is a carryover from the child’s “my toy” stage of development and - when persisting beyond pre-school age - it is always destructive and harmful.
Clinging to child-age psychological stages of development nicely explains why literally everything in the adult world is wrong. The 2019-2024 covidgate drama is a condensed presentation of these problems. In this approach, the most oppressive, demanding and ruthless ruling people are the most underdeveloped pre-school mental age kids, merely grown up and scaled up in size and weight. Bullying on steroids becomes politics and social expectations, all up to the point of readiness to destroy the other who is not conforming to the ideas of the strongest kid in the backyard.
Maybe this is why we deny children their right to be themselves: it’s too much for us because they reflect everything that we have not been able to grow beyond. This would explain why adults push children into their competitive damaged psychodrama at the earliest years - when the child does not understand why other kids have nicer toys.
Frankly, as an adult, I do not understand it either why I should pay the state over my entire lifetime for the “privilege” to have a shelter (aka house or apartment). Or why I should pay taxes three times over, once when I get my salary, then when I buy stuff, and then the third time when I get my taxed pension.
The state and the highest layers of politics are not based on some fancy social theories (those named with “-ism” or “-acy”) - they are all rooted in the extremely underdeveloped mentality of a 4-year-old kid (the self-appointed rulers and saviorts of the world) repressed by equally underdeveloped socially parents (us all).
It is not coincidental that my research into the boondoggle of vaccination was initially informed by my early research into childbirth before the birth of my first child. It became very obvious early on that the practice of birth in western medicine was completely ignorant and uninformed. It was my first eye opener. Fortunately, we had access to midwives and were able to avoid the vast majority of issues (although they really pushed ultrasounds, probably for liability reasons, and we managed to minimize those as well).
It wasn't until years later one of my vaccine research friends sent me a short word document explaining the physiology of birth and the effect of the blood flow after birth.
I quickly browsed through the videos and documents above and one point that I personally wasn't aware of that I rarely find anywhere mentioned is that the baby's heart changes from an effectively 2 compartment heart to a fully functioning four-chambered heart. Part of this includes new blood flows of which the cord blood plays a part.
It seems over the decades, the practice of medicine has converted from that of understanding physiology to following simplified rules without any underlying knowledge of what is actually going on. Only that can explain what can only be described as butchered medical practice.
Industrialized medicine is truly gruesome and I think your early tongue-in-cheek comment about vampires is close to the mark. Another thing that is done at birthing is the mother lying on her back to deliver the baby. This causes much longer labor times. This equates to oxygen deprivation to the baby. What long-term effects could result from this oxygen deprivation is anyone's guess because birthing is something that is just casually ignored. But birthing is a special process that has to be done with both feet on the ground. Aided by gravity, the baby's head pushes down on the pelvis which softens the pelvic bone thus allowing the smooth gliding of the baby's head through the birth canal. After delivery the pelvis bone returns to its normal hardness. All these factors are just starting to be known because men have dominated this area of medicine but they have very little clue about it and they don't seek women's input which essentially keeps the medical personnel ignorant.
My General Practioner who was also a Surgeon. As a child was my Doctor, then became my OB for 3 of my 4 boys. Son #2 the nurse delivered, labor was fast. He was 39 weeks, the size of a preemie due to the Cytomegalic Disease he was born with, and lived 33 days. #3 was a C-section due to his large size. #4 Back then had to be a C-section. That was 10 days in the hospital. #4, 3 days. Things had changed. My DIL will be facing the same issue on a Biniki C-Section on June 1. She has inquired about a natural delivery, they are going to let her try.
The birth event - one of two most important transitions in the human life - continues to be completely neglected and abused by the medical community. A lot has changed during the last 60 years or so, all owing to the hippie revolution which refocused the attention of career human beings. Many positive trends have surfaced, many medical professionals have started to see more than they had been taught in their schools. This is on the upside. In the European/post-European countries, at least, which we can see from the books published and available now.
The attitude of medical personnel to the birth event is a good example of why they should never be trusted. I purposefully overexaggerate this issue here - because the way the birth is experienced will determine the whole life of the new human being.
All sounds, lights, touches, voices, random interactions, breathing patterns heard, rushing or peaceful pace, everything is a new experience for the new human being. “New” like we don’t know how new. What we perceive as “new” is merely a quick adjustment and adaptation facilitated by enormous experience and knowledge accumulated within us. For the new human being, everything is a completely new universe in itself. He/she has never before heard the sound of air flowing around his/her body. Friction (and the associated resistance, strength, pressure, flexibility, elasticity, texture, changes over time and more) - our full-time companion throughout our life - has never been experienced in the womb.
Soundscape is an altogether different world, the only one to which the new human being was slightly introduced in his/her almost soundproof environment. But this was nothing, because there are no reference tables relating 9-month-long 24/7 external sound patterns to that deafening, untamed patchwork of unknown sounds coming from 360 degrees and constantly changing in time, amplitude, sound pressure, direction and color.
To add to the complexity of the experience, the baseline background sounds of the bodily systems in the mother-child ecosystem are completely gone. The new human being has come into this “world” at the expense of the permanent loss of the only sound environment he/she has always known. This is crucial, because hearing is the only sense which we cannot regulate, adjust or switch on/off at will. Hearing and sounds are the keys to the harmony or chaos in our life - everything is secondary.
Unfortunately, we are not aware of it even for ourselves. The experience of the new human being, both within the womb, and on transitioning between the two worlds - we simply have no idea what it is like. The only way to “touch” this experience is through acute intuition and awareness. And the problem is that both intuition and awareness are contaminated in different ways in different people. We call it “bias” or prejudice - but it really means that we are organically unable to remove ourselves from experiencing new phenomena.
The birth of a new human being is such a new phenomenon. If we are present in it, the whole event is prone to causing lifelong ripples due to our un-awareness and the mass glaciers of knowledge, “good” advice, habits, books and stupid references which “adult” people make to conception, pregnancy, and mother-child-birth.
In this context, the umbilical cord handling is merely one aspect of the new life. It is of immense significance, but its true value is appreciated only when the whole transition event is considered as oneness. Our (“western”) medical community is simply not ready for this attitude. Too much ego, too much money, too much power games, too much “I” and “me” in doctors, nurses and everybody else who feels “privileged” to be part of the medical community.
A lot of work is ahead.
By the way, it is possible to recover the birth and pre-birth experience from the depths of the adult mind. The stories told then are amazing proofs that we (adults) know really nothing about the complexity and simplicity of our own life. The most fun part is when you are asking your mother about the birth moment, relating what happened there or describing the faces you saw in the first minutes of your life here.
Thank you Dan 🙏
What a thoughtful comment. Sounds - yes - our culture pays almost no interest in sounds, either at birthing or any other time. Notice in society how sounds are made as though it's a "right" and imposed on everyone. There is no effort to decrease sounds from say machinery. WE do have much work to do but we are at least waking up and that is very promising. Who would want more of this torment once we realize there are simpler and better ways?
What a beautiful and informative comment. Thank you.
Children aren't valued in general in the "civilized world". They are commodities. Makes one question "civilization" altogether.
Thanks, again. Much to think about. Appreciated.
Some psychologists declare that an average adult is stuck at the mental age of a 4- to 5-years old kid. Meaning interpersonal skills, perception, interpretation, acting upon references, inferences and conclusions, etc. I have not found an explanation “why” in peer-reviewed literature, but this observations appears to be mercilessly correct. Taking jealousy as a benchmark: this attitude is not only revered. It is perceived and expected as a sign of a “mature” person who “cares” about the relationship. While in fact it is a carryover from the child’s “my toy” stage of development and - when persisting beyond pre-school age - it is always destructive and harmful.
Clinging to child-age psychological stages of development nicely explains why literally everything in the adult world is wrong. The 2019-2024 covidgate drama is a condensed presentation of these problems. In this approach, the most oppressive, demanding and ruthless ruling people are the most underdeveloped pre-school mental age kids, merely grown up and scaled up in size and weight. Bullying on steroids becomes politics and social expectations, all up to the point of readiness to destroy the other who is not conforming to the ideas of the strongest kid in the backyard.
Maybe this is why we deny children their right to be themselves: it’s too much for us because they reflect everything that we have not been able to grow beyond. This would explain why adults push children into their competitive damaged psychodrama at the earliest years - when the child does not understand why other kids have nicer toys.
Frankly, as an adult, I do not understand it either why I should pay the state over my entire lifetime for the “privilege” to have a shelter (aka house or apartment). Or why I should pay taxes three times over, once when I get my salary, then when I buy stuff, and then the third time when I get my taxed pension.
The state and the highest layers of politics are not based on some fancy social theories (those named with “-ism” or “-acy”) - they are all rooted in the extremely underdeveloped mentality of a 4-year-old kid (the self-appointed rulers and saviorts of the world) repressed by equally underdeveloped socially parents (us all).
It is not coincidental that my research into the boondoggle of vaccination was initially informed by my early research into childbirth before the birth of my first child. It became very obvious early on that the practice of birth in western medicine was completely ignorant and uninformed. It was my first eye opener. Fortunately, we had access to midwives and were able to avoid the vast majority of issues (although they really pushed ultrasounds, probably for liability reasons, and we managed to minimize those as well).
It wasn't until years later one of my vaccine research friends sent me a short word document explaining the physiology of birth and the effect of the blood flow after birth.
I quickly browsed through the videos and documents above and one point that I personally wasn't aware of that I rarely find anywhere mentioned is that the baby's heart changes from an effectively 2 compartment heart to a fully functioning four-chambered heart. Part of this includes new blood flows of which the cord blood plays a part.
It seems over the decades, the practice of medicine has converted from that of understanding physiology to following simplified rules without any underlying knowledge of what is actually going on. Only that can explain what can only be described as butchered medical practice.
Here is the person who first put me onto the details.
http://whale.to/a/why_immediate.html
What is shocking from Hilary Butler's article is that they knew all the way back to 1940's that the practice was harmful.
An interesting article on the physiology of the heart at birth from Hilary's article.
http://www.hutchon.net/
Suzanne Humphries also writes about this in her book "Rising from the dead".
Thank you George. I've added some further bullet points to the bottom of the stack from these two articles.
Industrialized medicine is truly gruesome and I think your early tongue-in-cheek comment about vampires is close to the mark. Another thing that is done at birthing is the mother lying on her back to deliver the baby. This causes much longer labor times. This equates to oxygen deprivation to the baby. What long-term effects could result from this oxygen deprivation is anyone's guess because birthing is something that is just casually ignored. But birthing is a special process that has to be done with both feet on the ground. Aided by gravity, the baby's head pushes down on the pelvis which softens the pelvic bone thus allowing the smooth gliding of the baby's head through the birth canal. After delivery the pelvis bone returns to its normal hardness. All these factors are just starting to be known because men have dominated this area of medicine but they have very little clue about it and they don't seek women's input which essentially keeps the medical personnel ignorant.
I’ve only watched a few minutes of the first video. Good Lord, what is wrong with our medical community that we cut the cord within seconds?
The Cord was normally clamped and cut still pulsing, before idiots became OB's.
My wife is a midwife. No-one is clamping in Australia or NZ. Is this an Amercian thing?
Brits use the clamp method.
"...otherwise Cartel Medicine is the real consumer, and you are the consumed."
Amen.
My General Practioner who was also a Surgeon. As a child was my Doctor, then became my OB for 3 of my 4 boys. Son #2 the nurse delivered, labor was fast. He was 39 weeks, the size of a preemie due to the Cytomegalic Disease he was born with, and lived 33 days. #3 was a C-section due to his large size. #4 Back then had to be a C-section. That was 10 days in the hospital. #4, 3 days. Things had changed. My DIL will be facing the same issue on a Biniki C-Section on June 1. She has inquired about a natural delivery, they are going to let her try.