Breastmilk for adults

In 2002, 15 adults received donor milk...

"HUMAN MILK MAY BE A LIFESAVING THERAPY..."

"Donor milk has been used to successfully treat a number of medical
conditions in infants. This article highlights 3 such success stories
describing the use of human milk in cases of velocardiofacial syndrome,
very-low-birth weight, and failure to thrive. In 2002, more than 300 infants
and young children ***and 15 adults*** received donor milk from 6 milk banks
in
the United States and I milk bank in Canada. Donor milk is often used to
ensure optimal outcomes in full term or preterm infants until their own
mother's milk volume is sufficient to meet their needs. However, human milk
may be a lifesaving therapy for infants and young children with unusual
medical conditions."
--Tully et al.^^^ J Hum Lact. 2004 Feb;20(1):75-7. PubMed abstract
(***emphasis added***)


^^^Tully MR, Lockhart-Borman L, Updegrove K. Lactation Services, University
of North Carolina Healthcare, Chapel Hill, USA.

"...Milk bank[ing] mandates pasteurization and freezing of the donors' milk.
Most of the nutritional and immunological advantages of human milk are
preserved ..."
Riskin and Bader^^^. Harefuah. 2003 Mar;142(3):217-22, 237, 236. PubMed
abstract

^^^Riskin A, Bader D. Department of Neonatology, Bnai Zion Medical Center,
Haifa, Israel.


Breastfeeding IS immunization. (See LITTLE KNOWN FACT below.)

Vaccination is NOT immunization.

Vaccination is ATTEMPTED immunization, i.e., some vaccinated children are
NOT IMMUNIZED by their vaccinations.


LITTLE KNOWN FACT: Breastfeeding women scan their environments for
pathogens and manufacture IMMUNIZATIONS which they "inject" with their
breasts daily.

WHY aren't MDs telling the world that breastfeeding women are IMMUNIZERS -
esp. since breastfeeding
reportedly makes MD-needle-vaccinations work better?!

Why are ostensibly "pro-immunization" MDs missing this GOLDEN opportunity to
make the immunization rate *and* the vaccination rate skyrocket!?

Ask yourselves...

What woman is going to fail to at least ATTEMPT to breastfeed after being
explicitly informed that she can immunize her baby daily and that her
breastfeedings possibly make MD-needle vaccinations work better?

The relatively few women who can't or won't breastfeed should consider
breastmilk from breastmilk banks before going to formula; and breastfeeding
women who aren't already pumping should consider pumping and donating any
amount of this precious fluid that they don't use.

If we make the immunization (breastfeeding) rate and the vaccination rate
skyrocket, there will be PLENTY of milk banked for the few women who have
difficulty breastfeeding...

AND there will be more breastmilk to help adults...

Thanks for reading, everyone.

Sincerely,

Todd

Dr. Gastaldo


PS Pass the word...

Key IMMUNIZATION controversy is being SQUELCHED because parents aren't
being told that massive numbers of immunizations are being DENIED simply
because relevant cultural authorities (MDs) aren't telling the world that
women are natural IMMUNIZERS.

VACCINATION controversy is also being squelched: State laws must be
changed: MDs are endangering *vaccinated* children - by pretending that
vaccination equals immunization and by failing to report serious adverse
events following vaccination...

See Vaccination is ATTEMPTED immunization (Attn: Mitch Haas, DC at WSCC)
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group...t/message/2520

See also: Interviewing pediatricians ( immunizations and vaccinations)
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group...t/message/2519

Todd Gastaldo writes:

In 2002, 15 adults received donor milk...

That's not many out of over 300 million people.

Breastmilk is quite high in lactose, as I recall, and most adults are at
least slightly lactose-intolerant, so drinking significant quantities of
human milk may produce tummy upsets. It's not clear from your post
exactly what the benefit of breastmilk would be for adults over cow's
milk, and breastmilk is in very short supply and is not tightly
controlled for quality and consistency.

--
Transpose hotmail and mxsmanic in my e-mail address to reach me directly.

Pregnant women: For simple instructions on how to offer your baby an
"extra" up to 30% of pelvic outlet area at delivery, see the very end of
this post.

I wrote:

In 2002, 15 adults received donor milk...

See Breastmilk for adults
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group...t/message/2521



"Mxsmanic" replied:


That's not many out of over 300 million people.


True. But how many of those 300 million people have heard that breastmilk
contains IMMUNIZATIONS?

Breastmilk is quite high in lactose, as I recall, and most adults are at
least slightly lactose-intolerant, so drinking significant quantities of
human milk may produce tummy upsets.


True. But lactose-intolerant persons could be informed of the risks - and
they may not *need* "significant quantities" to produce a therapeutic
effect - whatever that therapeutic effect might be.

It's not clear from your post
exactly what the benefit of breastmilk would be for adults...


I had assumed that the immunizations and other immune factors in breastmilk
would work as well in adults as in babies.

I wonder if human milk works on adult eye infections?

"[T]opical application of breast milk as a prophylactic measure in neonatal
conjunctivitis is recommended."
--Pishva et al. Irn J Med Sci 1998; 23(1&2):55

Is human milk "lifesaving"?

The abstract I used said human milk may be a lifesaving therapy for "young
children," as in,

"Donor milk has been used to successfully treat a number of medical
conditions in infants. This article highlights 3 such success stories
describing the use of human milk in cases of velocardiofacial syndrome,
very-low-birth weight, and failure to thrive. In 2002, more than 300 infants
and young children ***and 15 adults*** received donor milk from 6 milk banks
in
the United States and I milk bank in Canada. Donor milk is often used to
ensure optimal outcomes in full term or preterm infants until their own
mother's milk volume is sufficient to meet their needs. However, human milk
may be a lifesaving therapy for infants and young children with unusual
medical conditions."
--Tully et al.^^^ J Hum Lact. 2004 Feb;20(1):75-7. PubMed abstract
(***emphasis added***)


^^^Tully MR, Lockhart-Borman L, Updegrove K. Lactation Services, University
of North Carolina Healthcare, Chapel Hill, USA.

Apparently, the doctor(s) who treated 15 adults with breastmilk thought it
might have a beneficial effect.

I wonder if it did have a beneficial effect on adults...

I will copy Tully, Lockhart-Borman and Updegrove and see if they know...

Copied to: Mary Rose Tully, MPH, IBCLC at:



It's not clear from your post
exactly what the benefit of breastmilk would be for adults over cow's
milk, and...

Cow's milk is EXCELLENT for baby cows - but adult cows normally don't drink
it.

Similarly with humans - so maybe adult humans shouldn't drink human milk?

BTW, I have seen controversy over whether humans - babies or adults - should
be drinking cow's milk.

Enough humans are doing it that it must be OK - even beneficial - right?

Something tells me though that humans should not be drinking **so much**
cow's milk.

I do like my cafe mochas though! : )

(Maybe I just like the sugar and chocolate - chocolate always made cow's
milk taste better for me - I never really liked cow's milk by itself.)

breastmilk is in very short supply and is not tightly
controlled for quality and consistency.


Excellent point if true...

Again quoting Riskin and Bader [2003] from my post:

"...Milk bank[ing] mandates pasteurization and freezing of the donors' milk.
Most of the nutritional and immunological advantages of human milk are
preserved ..."
Riskin and Bader^^^. Harefuah. 2003 Mar;142(3):217-22, 237, 236. PubMed
abstract

^^^Riskin A, Bader D. Department of Neonatology, Bnai Zion Medical Center,
Haifa, Israel.

Riskin and Bader's very next sentence was:

"Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infections in preterm infants, that were acquired
from mother's expressed breast milk, are not uncommon, and require further
attention."

I should have included Riskin and Bader's cytomegalovirus comment. Sorry.

Interesting quote from Poggensee et al. [2004]:

"Current infant feeding guidelines of UNICEF/UNAIDS/WHO for HIV-infected
women recommend the avoidance of breastfeeding or to breastfeed
exclusively." [Poggensee et al.^^^ Trop Med Int Health. 2004
Apr;9(4):477-85. Related Articles, Links

^^^Poggensee G, Schulze K, Moneta I, Mbezi P, Baryomunsi C, Harms G. German
Agency for Technical Co-operation, PMTCT-Project, Berlin, Germany.


I'll copy Poggensee et al. via

Thanks for reading everyone.

Sincerely,

Todd

Dr. Gastaldo


PS I am VERY interested in seeing the immunization and vaccination rates
skyrocket - and I think the best way to do this is to stop the obvious MD
lie of omission - urge MDs to start telling the world that breastfeeding
women scan their environments for pathogens and manufacture IMMUNIZATIONS
which they "inject" with their breasts DAILY.

See Vaccination is ATTEMPTED immunization (Attn: Mitch Haas, DC at WSCC)
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group...t/message/2520

See also: Interviewing pediatricians ( immunizations and vaccinations)
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group...t/message/2519

My PRIORITY though is stopping OBs and CNMwives from closing birth canals up
to 30%...

PROOF that OBs and CNMwives are routinely closing birth canals up to 30%...

The 30% is from the medical literature...

The closing birth canals part is simple biomechanics...

Jason Gardosi, MD, director of the British National Health
Service/NHS West Midlands Perinatal
Institute/WMPI writes of the semirecumbent
delivery position (semisitting):

"...the weight of the mother is in part taken on the sacrum which is
therefore pushed upwards, thus decreasing the antero-posterior diameter of
the pelvic outlet..."
http://www.wmpi.net/reviews/oe/oe_shoulder_dystocia.htm

The funny thing is, Jason Gardosi, MD also *recommends* semisitting (closing
the birth canal) - or used to!

"The second stage...You might want to remain in bed with your back propped
up with pillows...As you push, try to let yourself 'open up' below..."
http://www.preg.info/book/chapter11.htm

NOTE: Jason Gardosi, MD and his fellow British OB pal Malcolm Griffiths once
got me censored from an international OB/GYN listserv - but fortunately not
before two of my posts were archived thereon:
http://forums.obgyn.net/forums/ob-gy...9707/0128.html
http://forums.obgyn.net/ob-gyn-l/OBGYNL.9707/0153.html

Anyone interested in some entertaining obstetric reading, check out Jason's
1989 Lancet "randomised controlled trial of squatting" - where nobody
squatted...

See Sarah Key's huge balls (also: Kids can SQUAT motionless for hours)...
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/2084

MORE PROOF that OBs are knowingly closing birth canals...

According to the Merck Manual:

"When shoulder dystocia occurs...the mother's thighs are hyperflexed to
increase the diameter of the pelvic outlet..."
http://www.merck.com/mrkshared/mmanu...er253/253g.jsp

WHY are OBs and CNMwives (nurse midwives) waiting until the
head is
out and shoulders get stuck before giving the baby maximum pelvic outlet
diameter?

WHY are OBs and CNMwives forcing babies' heads through birth canals
senselessly closed up to 30%?
WHY are OBs and CNMwives KEEPING birth canals closed when babies' shoulders
get stuck?

(Merely hyperflexing the thighs does NOT get the woman off her sacrum. This
is BAD McRoberts maneuver. ON A POSITIVE NOTE: Gardosi et al.'s WMPI site
(quoted above) recommends a version of GOOD McRoberts
if the shoulders get stuck...
http://www.wmpi.net/reviews/oe/oe_shoulder_dystocia.htm)

LADIES: HELP PROTECT YOUR VAGINAS...

OBs and CNMwives are slicing vaginas (euphemism "routine episiotomy") -
surgically/FRAUDULENTLY inferring everything possible is being done to OPEN
birth canals - even as they CLOSE birth canals - up to 30%!

See Criminal medical CAM at Hawai'i's John A Burns School of
Medicine
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group...t/message/2256

WEIRD: In 1993, the authors of Williams Obstetrics published the correct
biomechanics at my request but they left in their text (in the same
paragraph!) the "dorsal widens" bald lie that first called my attention to
their text.

The "dorsal widens" bald lie was created when Ohlsen informed the authors of
Williams Obstetrics in 1973 that they were still claiming that the pelvic
diameters *don't change* at delivery!

ALSO WEIRD: Before Ohlsen stimulated their "dorsal widens" bald lie, the
authors of Williams Obstetrics were ignoring Borell and Fernstrom's 1957
RADIOGRAPHIC demonstration that the diameters DO change - and this MANY
years after (way back in 1911) J. Whitridge Williams, MD - the first author
of Williams Obstetrics - clinically demonstrated 4cm of AP outlet diameter
change!

For details: See my Open Letter to FTC at:
http://home1.gte.net/gastaldo/part2ftc.html


SIMPLE INSTRUCTIONS

PREGNANT WOMEN: It is EASY for you to allow your birth canal to OPEN the
"extra" up
to 30%.
Just roll onto your side as you push your baby out - or deliver on
hands-and-knees, kneeling, standing, squatting, etc.

BUT BEWA "Midwives...encourage...semisitting." (closing the birth canal!)
--Yale CNMwifery Prof. Helen Varney. Varney's Midwifery. Sudbury, MA: Jones
and Bartlett. 4th ed. 2004:839]

Some MDs and MBs will let you "try" "alternative"
delivery positions but will move you back to dorsal or semisitting (close
your birth canal!) as you push your baby out!

If your baby's shoulders get stuck OBs and CNMwives will KEEP your birth
canal closed!

Yale CNMwifery Prof. Varney (just cited) writes:

"In the event of...shoulder dystocia...the woman should be
in a lithotomy position..." (p. 839)

Talk to your CNMwife or MD or MB about this TODAY. (For further details see
"Criminal medical CAM," URL above.)

CNMwives/MDs/MBs: If you must push or pull - and sometimes you must - first
get the
woman off her sacrum - off her back/butt.

Thanks for reading everyone.

Sincerely,

Todd

Dr. Gastaldo

Todd Gastaldo writes:

True. But how many of those 300 million people have heard that breastmilk
contains IMMUNIZATIONS?

Breastmilk does not contain immunizations; it contains antibodies, IIRC,
which are not the same thing.

But lactose-intolerant persons could be informed of the risks - and
they may not *need* "significant quantities" to produce a therapeutic
effect - whatever that therapeutic effect might be.

I doubt that there is much of a therapeutic effect. Human milk has
essentially the same ingredients as all other mammalian milks; the basic
ingredients are always the same across all species, with the only
differences being in proportions and some trace ingredients.

I had assumed that the immunizations and other immune factors in breastmilk
would work as well in adults as in babies.

They probably would, but adults usually have their own antibodies
already.

Is human milk "lifesaving"?

In adults? I don't think so.

Cow's milk is EXCELLENT for baby cows - but adult cows normally don't drink
it.

Replace "cow" with "human being," and the statement is still true.

Similarly with humans - so maybe adult humans shouldn't drink human milk?

Maybe. But in that case they probably shouldn't drink cow's milk,
either.

I think the main reason people drink cow's milk is that it is much more
plentiful and easy to cultivate.

Something tells me though that humans should not be drinking **so much**
cow's milk.

I do like my cafe mochas though! : )

I've been drinking cow's milk all my life, and I haven't seen any harm
from it.

--
Transpose hotmail and mxsmanic in my e-mail address to reach me directly.

Pregnant women: For simple instructions on how to offer your baby an
"extra" up to 30% of pelvic outlet area at delivery, see the very end of
this post.


COW'S MILK ALLERGY See below.



In reply to: Breastmilk for adults
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group...t/message/2522

"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
...
Todd Gastaldo writes:

True. But how many of those 300 million people have heard that
breastmilk
contains IMMUNIZATIONS?

Breastmilk does not contain immunizations; it contains antibodies, IIRC,
which are not the same thing.


MDs have hijacked the word "immunization" - fraudulently equating it with
"vaccination."

Vaccination is NOT immunization. Vaccination is ATTEMPTED immunization.

The medical equation of vaccination and immunization lies at the heart of
medicine's fraudulent vaccination promotion which endangers vaccinated
children.

See Vaccination is ATTEMPTED immunization (Attn: Mitch Haas, DC at WSCC)
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group...t/message/2520

See also: Interviewing pediatricians ( immunizations and vaccinations)
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group...t/message/2519

Breastmilk immunizations are SPECIFIC immunizations - mom scans the
environment for pathogens and manufactures specific immunizations which she
"injects" with her breasts DAILY.

Breastfeeding is powerful PASSIVE immunization - part of the immune system
of the mother/baby diad.

See Chiro vision! From breastimmunizations to childbirth!
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group...t/message/1496


But lactose-intolerant persons could be informed of the risks - and
they may not *need* "significant quantities" to produce a therapeutic
effect - whatever that therapeutic effect might be.

I doubt that there is much of a therapeutic effect. Human milk has
essentially the same ingredients as all other mammalian milks; the basic
ingredients are always the same across all species, with the only
differences being in proportions and some trace ingredients.


Perhaps there is no therapeutic effect on HEALTHY adults?

I had assumed that the immunizations and other immune factors in
breastmilk
would work as well in adults as in babies.

They probably would, but adults usually have their own antibodies
already.


Maybe adults whose immune systems are compromised could benefit...

Is human milk "lifesaving"?

In adults? I don't think so.


Again, maybe adults whose immune systems are compromised - maybe their lives
can be extended with breastmilk?

Cow's milk is EXCELLENT for baby cows - but adult cows normally don't
drink
it.

Replace "cow" with "human being," and the statement is still true.


I did, as in,

Similarly with humans - so maybe adult humans shouldn't drink human
milk?

Maybe. But in that case they probably shouldn't drink cow's milk,
either.

I think the main reason people drink cow's milk is that it is much more
plentiful and easy to cultivate.


I think humans crave CREAM AND SUGAR (ice cream, etc.) - and to get the
cream you've got to have milk - so you have to market milk and cheese -
dairy prods in gen'l.

Something tells me though that humans should not be drinking **so much**
cow's milk.

I do like my cafe mochas though! : )

I've been drinking cow's milk all my life, and I haven't seen any harm
from it.


I finally stopped drinking glasses of milk with meals. It might be my
imagination - but I think I am feeling better - but then again - I do drink
a cafe mocha now and then - and I suppose I get cow's milk in other things I
eat - so it prob. is my imagination.

As for harm from drinking cow's milk, two interesting quotes from PubMed:

#1 "Cow's milk allergy is the most common type of food allergy in infants.
Most infants develop symptoms one week after initiating the feeding of cow's
milk based formulas though sensitisation in utero and via mother's milk are
also possible..."
--Thaller et al.^^ Klin Padiatr. 2004 Mar-Apr;216(2):87-90. PubMed abstract


^^^Thaller T, Mutz I, Girardi L. Abteilung fur Kinder und Jugendliche, LKH
Leoben/Eisenerz.


I'll copy Thaller et al. via



#2 "The prevalence of food allergy increased worldwide in the last
century. In Chile we became aware of this increase 10-15 years ago, after an
epidemiological transition on health. AIM: To assess the most frequent
clinical presentations of food allergy, results of circulating
immunologlobulins (total IgE, specific IgE and IgG4 against cow's milk)... "
--Cruchet et al.^^^ Rev Med Chil. 2003 Mar;131(3):275-82. PubMed abstract

^^^Cruchet S, Faundez R, Laguna C, Araya M. Escuela de Postgrado Universidad
de Chile.

I'll copy Cruchet et al. via

Thanks for reading, everyone.

Sincerely,

Todd

Dr. Gastaldo


PS As I've previously noted...

I am VERY interested in seeing the immunization and vaccination rates
skyrocket - and I think the best way to do this is to stop the obvious MD
lie of omission - urge MDs to start telling the world that breastfeeding
women scan their environments for pathogens and manufacture IMMUNIZATIONS
which they "inject" with their breasts DAILY.

See again Vaccination is ATTEMPTED immunization (Attn: Mitch Haas, DC at
WSCC)
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group...t/message/2520

See also: Interviewing pediatricians ( immunizations and vaccinations)
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group...t/message/2519

My PRIORITY though is stopping OBs and CNMwives from closing birth canals up
to 30%...

PROOF that OBs and CNMwives are routinely closing birth canals up to 30%...

The 30% is from the medical literature...

The closing birth canals part is simple biomechanics...

Jason Gardosi, MD, director of the British National Health
Service/NHS West Midlands Perinatal
Institute/WMPI writes of the semirecumbent
delivery position (semisitting):

"...the weight of the mother is in part taken on the sacrum which is
therefore pushed upwards, thus decreasing the antero-posterior diameter of
the pelvic outlet..."
http://www.wmpi.net/reviews/oe/oe_shoulder_dystocia.htm

The funny thing is, Jason Gardosi, MD also *recommends* semisitting (closing
the birth canal) - or used to!

"The second stage...You might want to remain in bed with your back propped
up with pillows...As you push, try to let yourself 'open up' below..."
http://www.preg.info/book/chapter11.htm

NOTE: Jason Gardosi, MD and his fellow British OB pal Malcolm Griffiths once
got me censored from an international OB/GYN listserv - but fortunately not
before two of my posts were archived thereon:
http://forums.obgyn.net/forums/ob-gy...9707/0128.html
http://forums.obgyn.net/ob-gyn-l/OBGYNL.9707/0153.html

Anyone interested in some entertaining obstetric reading, check out Jason's
1989 Lancet "randomised controlled trial of squatting" - where nobody
squatted...

See Sarah Key's huge balls (also: Kids can SQUAT motionless for hours)...
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/2084

MORE PROOF that OBs are knowingly closing birth canals...

According to the Merck Manual:

"When shoulder dystocia occurs...the mother's thighs are hyperflexed to
increase the diameter of the pelvic outlet..."
http://www.merck.com/mrkshared/mmanu...er253/253g.jsp

WHY are OBs and CNMwives (nurse midwives) waiting until the
head is
out and shoulders get stuck before giving the baby maximum pelvic outlet
diameter?

WHY are OBs and CNMwives forcing babies' heads through birth canals
senselessly closed up to 30%?
WHY are OBs and CNMwives KEEPING birth canals closed when babies' shoulders
get stuck?

(Merely hyperflexing the thighs does NOT get the woman off her sacrum. This
is BAD McRoberts maneuver. ON A POSITIVE NOTE: Gardosi et al.'s WMPI site
(quoted above) recommends a version of GOOD McRoberts
if the shoulders get stuck...
http://www.wmpi.net/reviews/oe/oe_shoulder_dystocia.htm)

LADIES: HELP PROTECT YOUR VAGINAS...

OBs and CNMwives are slicing vaginas (euphemism "routine episiotomy") -
surgically/FRAUDULENTLY inferring everything possible is being done to OPEN
birth canals - even as they CLOSE birth canals - up to 30%!

See Criminal medical CAM at Hawai'i's John A Burns School of
Medicine
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group...t/message/2256

WEIRD: In 1993, the authors of Williams Obstetrics published the correct
biomechanics at my request but they left in their text (in the same
paragraph!) the "dorsal widens" bald lie that first called my attention to
their text.

The "dorsal widens" bald lie was created when Ohlsen informed the authors of
Williams Obstetrics in 1973 that they were still claiming that the pelvic
diameters *don't change* at delivery!

ALSO WEIRD: Before Ohlsen stimulated their "dorsal widens" bald lie, the
authors of Williams Obstetrics were ignoring Borell and Fernstrom's 1957
RADIOGRAPHIC demonstration that the diameters DO change - and this MANY
years after (way back in 1911) J. Whitridge Williams, MD - the first author
of Williams Obstetrics - clinically demonstrated 4cm of AP outlet diameter
change!

For details: See my Open Letter to FTC at:
http://home1.gte.net/gastaldo/part2ftc.html


SIMPLE INSTRUCTIONS

PREGNANT WOMEN: It is EASY for you to allow your birth canal to OPEN the
"extra" up
to 30%.
Just roll onto your side as you push your baby out - or deliver on
hands-and-knees, kneeling, standing, squatting, etc.

BUT BEWA "Midwives...encourage...semisitting." (closing the birth canal!)
--Yale CNMwifery Prof. Helen Varney. Varney's Midwifery. Sudbury, MA: Jones
and Bartlett. 4th ed. 2004:839]

Some MDs and MBs will let you "try" "alternative"
delivery positions but will move you back to dorsal or semisitting (close
your birth canal!) as you push your baby out!

If your baby's shoulders get stuck OBs and CNMwives will KEEP your birth
canal closed!

Yale CNMwifery Prof. Varney (just cited) writes:

"In the event of...shoulder dystocia...the woman should be
in a lithotomy position..." (p. 839)

Talk to your CNMwife or MD or MB about this TODAY. (For further details see
"Criminal medical CAM," URL above.)

CNMwives/MDs/MBs: If you must push or pull - and sometimes you must - first
get the
woman off her sacrum - off her back/butt.

Thanks for reading everyone.

Sincerely,

Todd

Dr. Gastaldo

FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME

TPFKAA has a serious unresolved issue...

I don't think a little wine is going to hurt the fetus - but TPFKAA makes a
good point - we don't know how much DOES hurt the fetus...

So maybe NO alcohol is the best advice?

Thoughts?

See below...

"TPFKAA" wrote in message
news:2004050916512016807%tpfkaa@anoncom...
On 2004-05-09 13:05:28 -0400, "Todd Gastaldo"
said:

See Breastmilk for adults
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group...t/message/2521

Let's see...first it was vaginas, then penises, and now breasts. I
really think ol' Todd has some serious unresolved issues...


TPFKAA,

Todd sure DOES have some serious unresolved issues!

VAGINAS: OBs are slicing vaginas en masse, surgically (fraudulently)
inferring they are doing everything possible to OPEN birth canals - even as
they CLOSE birth canals - up to 30%. (See the postscript.)

PENISES: OBs are ripping and slicing infant penises en masse - as
pediatricians run interference for them.

See Pediatrics is science! LOL!
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group...t/message/2525

BREASTS: OBs are lying by omission thereby denying massive numbers of
babies massive numbers of free daily immunizations.

Pediatrician Jeff says these aren't HIS problems - he's a pediatrician!
LOL!

Breastfeeding news from Sweden (also: Pediatrician 'responds' to
Gastaldo)
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group...t/message/2524

FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME

"TPFKAA" has a serious unresolved issue with alcohol...

TPFKAA says of alcohol consumption during pregnancy...

any *responsible* physician would caution that *no*
alcohol should be consumed by a patient who is pregnant or who is
attempting to become pregnant...[It's *not*] "OK" to drink during
pregnancy...
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=e...anon%40anoncom

Are most OBs "responsible" by TPFKAA's definition?

I'm wondering why most physicians - "responsible" or otherwise - are failing
to caution OBs that it's not "OK" to close the birth canal up to 30%....

Is TPFKAA a physician? A nurse?

I'm wondering why TPFKAA humorously trivializes MD-inflicted mass human
suffering instead of joining me in calling for an end to obvious MD frauds
that sometimes kill mothers and babies.

Why does TPFKAA trivialize my concern that OBs are lying by omission thereby
denying massive numbers of babies massive numbers of free daily
immunizations?

Why does he TPFKAA so vigorously protest a little alcohol but trivialize a
little pelvic outlet area denied?

Seems bizarre to me.

Thanks for reading,

Sincerely,

Todd

Dr. Gastaldo


PS PROOF that OBs and CNMwives are routinely closing birth canals up to
30%...

The 30% is from the medical literature...

The closing birth canals part is simple biomechanics...

Jason Gardosi, MD, director of the British National Health
Service/NHS West Midlands Perinatal
Institute/WMPI writes of the semirecumbent
delivery position (semisitting):

"...the weight of the mother is in part taken on the sacrum which is
therefore pushed upwards, thus decreasing the antero-posterior diameter of
the pelvic outlet..."
http://www.wmpi.net/reviews/oe/oe_shoulder_dystocia.htm

The funny thing is, Jason Gardosi, MD also *recommends* semisitting (closing
the birth canal) - or used to!

"The second stage...You might want to remain in bed with your back propped
up with pillows...As you push, try to let yourself 'open up' below..."
http://www.preg.info/book/chapter11.htm

NOTE: Jason Gardosi, MD and his fellow British OB pal Malcolm Griffiths once
got me censored from an international OB/GYN listserv - but fortunately not
before two of my posts were archived thereon:
http://forums.obgyn.net/forums/ob-gy...9707/0128.html
http://forums.obgyn.net/ob-gyn-l/OBGYNL.9707/0153.html

Anyone interested in some entertaining obstetric reading, check out Jason's
1989 Lancet "randomised controlled trial of squatting" - where nobody
squatted...

See Sarah Key's huge balls (also: Kids can SQUAT motionless for hours)...
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/2084

MORE PROOF that OBs are knowingly closing birth canals...

According to the Merck Manual:

"When shoulder dystocia occurs...the mother's thighs are hyperflexed to
increase the diameter of the pelvic outlet..."
http://www.merck.com/mrkshared/mmanu...er253/253g.jsp

WHY are OBs and CNMwives (nurse midwives) waiting until the
head is
out and shoulders get stuck before giving the baby maximum pelvic outlet
diameter?

WHY are OBs and CNMwives forcing babies' heads through birth canals
senselessly closed up to 30%?
WHY are OBs and CNMwives KEEPING birth canals closed when babies' shoulders
get stuck?

(Merely hyperflexing the thighs does NOT get the woman off her sacrum. This
is BAD McRoberts maneuver. ON A POSITIVE NOTE: Gardosi et al.'s WMPI site
(quoted above) recommends a version of GOOD McRoberts
if the shoulders get stuck...
http://www.wmpi.net/reviews/oe/oe_shoulder_dystocia.htm)

LADIES: HELP PROTECT YOUR VAGINAS...

OBs and CNMwives are slicing vaginas (euphemism "routine episiotomy") -
surgically/FRAUDULENTLY inferring everything possible is being done to OPEN
birth canals - even as they CLOSE birth canals - up to 30%!

See Criminal medical CAM at Hawai'i's John A Burns School of
Medicine
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group...t/message/2256

WEIRD: In 1993, the authors of Williams Obstetrics published the correct
biomechanics at my request but they left in their text (in the same
paragraph!) the "dorsal widens" bald lie that first called my attention to
their text.

The "dorsal widens" bald lie was created when Ohlsen informed the authors of
Williams Obstetrics in 1973 that they were still claiming that the pelvic
diameters *don't change* at delivery!

ALSO WEIRD: Before Ohlsen stimulated their "dorsal widens" bald lie, the
authors of Williams Obstetrics were ignoring Borell and Fernstrom's 1957
RADIOGRAPHIC demonstration that the diameters DO change - and this MANY
years after (way back in 1911) J. Whitridge Williams, MD - the first author
of Williams Obstetrics - clinically demonstrated 4cm of AP outlet diameter
change!

For details: See my Open Letter to FTC at:
http://home1.gte.net/gastaldo/part2ftc.html


SIMPLE INSTRUCTIONS

PREGNANT WOMEN: It is EASY for you to allow your birth canal to OPEN the
"extra" up
to 30%.
Just roll onto your side as you push your baby out - or deliver on
hands-and-knees, kneeling, standing, squatting, etc.

BUT BEWA "Midwives...encourage...semisitting." (closing the birth canal!)
--Yale CNMwifery Prof. Helen Varney. Varney's Midwifery. Sudbury, MA: Jones
and Bartlett. 4th ed. 2004:839]

Some MDs and MBs will let you "try" "alternative"
delivery positions but will move you back to dorsal or semisitting (close
your birth canal!) as you push your baby out!

If your baby's shoulders get stuck OBs and CNMwives will KEEP your birth
canal closed!

Yale CNMwifery Prof. Varney (just cited) writes:

"In the event of...shoulder dystocia...the woman should be
in a lithotomy position..." (p. 839)

Talk to your CNMwife or MD or MB about this TODAY. (For further details see
"Criminal medical CAM," URL above.)

CNMwives/MDs/MBs: If you must push or pull - and sometimes you must - first
get the
woman off her sacrum - off her back/butt.

Thanks for reading everyone.

Sincerely,

Todd

Dr. Gastaldo