'The cut above'/'the cut below' (c-section and episiotomy)

PREGNANT WOMEN: TO HELP AVOID C-SECTIONS AND EPISIOTOMIES...

Learn how easy it is to allow your birth canal to open an "extra" up to
30%...

See I ain't no Semmelweis, but...
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group...t/message/2591

"THE CUT ABOVE"/"THE CUT BELOW" (caesarean section and episiotomy)

"Brazil is known for high rates of unnecessary caesarean section ('the cut
above'), performed in over two-thirds of births in the private sector, where
30% of women give birth. The 94.2% rate of episiotomy ('the cut below') in
women who give birth vaginally, affecting the 70% of poor women using the
public sector most, receives less attention. A change in the understanding
of women's bodies is required before a change in the procedures themselves
can be expected."
--Diniz and Chacham [Reprod Health Matters. 2004 May;12(23):100-10. PubMed
abstract]

OPEN LETTER (archived for global access; see below)

Dr. Simone Grilo Diniz
Coletivo Feminista Sexualidade e Saúde
Sao Paulo, BRAZIL


Dr. Alessandra Chacham
Socióloga, doutora em Demografia pela Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
BRAZIL


Simone and Alessandra,

To help bring down the rates of caesarean section and episiotomy...

It might be helpful to understand that OBs are knowingly closing birth
canals up to 30%.

OBs CAUSE cephalopelvic disproportion then perform caesarean sections
BEcause of cephalopelvic disproportion.

For simple PROOF - and simple instructions on how women can allow their
birth canals to OPEN their birth canals the "extra" up to 30%...

See I ain't no Semmelweis, but...
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group...t/message/2591

BOTTOMLINE...

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

OBs are slicing abdomens en masse ("c-section") - surgically/fraudulently
inferring everything possible has been DONE to open birth canals - even as
they CLOSE birth canals - up to 30%.

Now - to be sure - allowing the birth canal to open the "extra" up to 30% is
not going to prevent all caesareans and episiotomies - but it can't hurt.

Please help stop OBs from closing birth canals.

Thanks,

Sincerely,

Todd

Dr. Gastaldo


PS1 With birth canals senselessly closed up to 30%, OBs are violently
pushing on tiny spines (with oxytocin and Cytotec) and gruesomely pulling
(with hands, forceps, vacuums).

Sometimes OBs pull so hard they rip spinal nerves out of tiny spinal cords.

Some babies die, some get paralyzed - most "only" have their necks
gruesomely wrenched.

ALL spinal manipulation is gruesome with the birth canals senselessly
closed.

And I do mean closed. To a baby with stuck shoulders - to a baby with a
trapped after-coming head - the birth canal is indeed closed.

Incidentally, when babies' shoulders get stuck, OBs KEEP the birth canal
closed - even as they say they are opening it maximally.

See ACOG birth crime video evidence
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group...t/message/2300

PS2 Prof. Dr. Moyses Paciornik, MD of Curitiba, BRAZIL was the OB who told
me about the bizarre birth-canal-closing behavior of OBs.

The grisly OB behavior was described in the medical literature long before
that...

See Attorney looking for 'credible' OB/GYNs...
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group...t/message/2360

Thanks for reading.

Sincerely,

Todd

Dr. Gastaldo