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Old July 19th 03, 05:55 PM
Todd Gastaldo
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Default Ocean waterbirths: sharks are not the problem (if there is one)...

MAYBE OCEAN WATERBIRTHS ARE NOT SUCH A GOOD IDEA... See below...


HOSPITAL SHARKS called MD-obstetricians. Most MD-obstetricians are "nice"
sharks - but they are senselessly slashing vaginas en masse -
surgically/FRAUDULENTLY inferring they are doing everything possible to OPEN
birth canals - even as they CLOSE birth canals - up to 30%...


PREGNANT WOMEN: MDs are closing birth canals up to 30%. It's EASY to
allow your birth canal to OPEN the "extra" up to 30%!

Just roll onto your side as you push your baby out! BUT - see WARNING,
WARNING, WARNING at the very end of this post...



EPISIOTOMY - "Who cares about a little cut?" See Obstet Gynecol
2000;95:616-8, quoted below. The women who DIE from their episiotomies -
that's who. Most of the time episiotomies heal just fine - but the hospital
is a hostile microbial environment. Some women lose their lives - or "just"
their vaginas - to fulminant infections of episiotomy wounds in hospitals...
(My thanks to Rich Shewmaker (MD?) who justifiably points out the risk of
infection in ocean water births. See below and see SUSAN SCOTT, RN, quoted
below...)


SUSAN SCOTT, RN and CRAIG THOMAS, MD - please help stop hospital sharks
called MD-obstetricians from senselessly closing birth canals...



MAYBE OCEAN WATERBIRTHS ARE NOT SUCH A GOOD IDEA...

I noted a photo of an ocean water birth in the Black Sea...

See Hawaii: Ocean waterbirth vacations?
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=e....earthlink.net

CARA ) noted that the idea is impractical but said
(kindly)...

"...I think the idea is a good one, I can only guess that ocean water births
were common in early Hawaiian culture, but in this day and age, I don't
think it would work."

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=e...%40verizon.com

Cara,

Thank you for responding.

You wrote:

"This is highly impractical - first, there are no 'private' beaches in
Hawaii - giving birth in a public swimming area would
likely create quite a stir, and..."

I have been told that Hawaii includes islands which are quite sparsely
populated.

On more crowded islands - just as hotels have beachfronts - so too could
ocean waterbirth facilities.

You also wrote:

"...second, childbirth=blood=sharks. Tigers, great whites, and even reef
sharks would likely be
drawn to inland areas on a regular basis."

In Australia, they use nets to keep sharks out of public swimming areas.
Prvate ocean birthing areas could be similarly protected.

"And then there's the cost - living for a trimester in Hawaii (cost of
living in extremely high) is probably way more than most would care to
spend."

A celebrity or two giving birth in the ocean would attract other couples
with money.

Again, thank you for responding,

Sincerely,

Todd

Dr. Gastaldo


PS Rich Shewmaker (MD?) wrote: "Not a great idea. You'll introduce a lot of
bacteria... "
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=e...40ilhawaii.net

Susan Scott, RN says,

"[i]n Hawaii [risk of infection is]...bad, because bacteria thrive in warm
sea water. The most infamous of these bugs are staph and strep (which are
abbreviations of their long scientific names), but there are others..."
http://www.susanscott.net/Oceanwatch2002/jul05-02.html

Susan's husband, Craig Thomas, is an emergency physician.
http://www.susanscott.net/aboutsusan.htm

I'll cc Susan and Craig via ... Maybe they know
Stephen Graner, MD - another Honolulu emergency physician...

"It is established
obstetric teaching that a narrow pelvic outlet
predisposes to a difficult vaginal delivery..."
--Ass-Ärztin Dr. Andrea Froschauer-Frudinger et al. via
[Frudinger et al. Br J Obstet Gynaecol
2002;109(11):1207-12]

"NOW ANTENATAL FACTORS ARE BEING IMPLICATED"^^^

^^^Cowan F, Rutherford M, Groenedaal F, Eken P, Mercuri E, Bydder GM,
Meiners LC, Dubowitz LMS, de Vries LS, Origin and timing of brain lesions in
term infants with neonatal encephalopathy. The Lancet (Mar1)2003;361:736-42.

Frances Cowan, PhD and colleagues mention an interesting development:

"Until recently hypoxic-ischaemic events in the perinatal period were
assumed to be the main cause for early neonatal encephalopathy...[but now
antenatal factors are being implicated]..."

I suspect some MD researchers began FRAUDULENTLY implicating antenatal
events back in the 1980s - back when the public started learning of the
radiographic evidence that squatting opens birth canals up to 30%.

FACT: MDs began overtly LYING when in the early 1990s I began pointing
out that the phrase "squatting opens birth canals up to 30%" -
usefully translated - means MDs have been CLOSING birth canals up to 30%.

Cowan et al. write:

"Our findings show that more than 90% of term infants
with neonatal encephalopathy...without specific syndromes or major
congenital defects, had evidence of perinatally acquired insults...Reasons
for injuries of perinatal onset remain poorly understood."

Even if MDs (and MBs) are NOT causing neonatal encephalopathy by closing
birth canals - they should STOP closing birth canals...

I've often pointed out that the obivous massive MD birth crime (MDs
senselessly closing birth canals) becomes most obvious when one
realizes that MDs are slashing vaginas en masse (euphemism "routine
episiotomy") surgically/FRAUDULENTLY inferring they are doing everything
possible to OPEN birth canals even as they CLOSE birth canals.

See Squatting, Nurse Jenn's genital piercing, the Anti-Vagina - and
Kingston General's Human Mobility Centre...
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=e... earthlink.net

Nurse Jenn *wanted* her vagina modified.

I submit
that most women *don't* want their vaginas modified - at least not at
birth - and they certainly don't want their babies' brains modified by
MD-obstetricians senselessly closing birth canals...

Two Canadian MDs - Erica Eason and Perle Feldman -
recommend
"consumer
pressures" to stop the mass vagina slashing:

"[i]t is clear that episiotomy is a MAJOR contributor to trauma,
pain, and suffering in parturients. Changes in practice can be
effectively introduced through CONSUMER PRESSURES...Routine
episiotomy remains common even in teaching institutions. 'Who
cares about a little cut?' was a frequent comment from
obstetricians...Given the evidence, there should be widespread
abandonment of routine episiotomy "
Erica Eason, MDCM, FRCSC and Perle Feldman, MDCM, FCFP
Obstet Gynecol 2000;95:616-8. Emphasis added.

Whereas Erica and Perle recommend "consumer pressures"...

I recommend "consumer PRESSURIZERS" - THE POLICE...

I just want MD-obstetricians to stop their massive crime. I am in
favor of pardons in advance for MDs. MDs are just academic
prime cuts forced through this culture's most powerful mental meatgrinder -
medical school.

Thanks,

Todd

Dr. Gastaldo


Copied to: Frances Cowan et al. via


PS MORE obvious criminal negligence by MDs...

At the University of Hawaii Med School...

"Most first year residents finish the year having performed over 50 cesarean
sections as the primary surgeon."
http://hawaiimed.hawaii.edu/residenc...ms/obgyn5.html

Arrrrggghhh! This is obvious criminal negligence IF - as is the case all
over the world - women are forced into "failure to progress" on their
backs/butts - on their sacra - closing their birth canals up to 30%.

Cephalopelvic disproportion/failure to progress is often the reason given
for cesareans.

Sometimes cesarean section is necessary - but MDs are CAUSING cephalopelvic
disproportion/failure to progress - then "performing" cesarean sections
BEcause of cephalopelvic disproportion/failure to progress...

MDs are also forcing uteri to push with birth canals closed up to 30% - then
chemically whipping uteri to push VIOLENTLY - with oxytocin/Cytotec - with
birth canals senselessly closed up to 30%.

No wonder women beg for epidurals!

MDs also pull on babies' heads with their hands in most vaginal births -
with birth canals senselessly closed up to 30%.

In some institutions - in 26% of births (!) - MDs reach INSIDE the vagina -
with forceps/vacuum extractors - and pull babies out by their skulls -
through birth canals senselessly closed up to 30%.

Sometimes MDs pull so hard they rip spinal nerves out of tiny spinal cords!

Incredibly, MDs have blamed their bizarre birth-canal-closing behavior on
the West's loss of a fundamental human rest posture!

See Gardosi et al.'s 1989 Lancet "controlled trial of squatting" - where
nobody squatted...

See also: Chiro orthopedists and global UNREST - and babies...
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=e... arthlink.net

Please help stop MDs from closing birth canals.

Sincerely,

Todd

Dr. Gastaldo


PREGNANT WOMEN! It's EASY to open your birth canal an "extra" up to
30%!

Just roll onto your side as you push your baby out! PLEASE talk to your MD
about this NOW...

WARNING
WARNING
WARNING
WARNING: Some MDs will let women "try" side-lying and
other
"alternative" delivery positions - but they will move women back to
semisitting -
close their birth canals (!) at
the very worst possible moment (as the baby is coming out)...

See GASTALDO'S ABSTRACT - my invited poster presentation at a recent
obstetric congress co-sponsored by the American College of Obstetricians and
Gynecologists/ACOG. (NOTE: GASTALDO'S ABSTRACT is on the web: Search
"GASTALDO'S ABSTRACT
Paciornik"...)

Thanks for reading, everyone,

Sincerely,

Todd

Dr. Gastaldo




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