Birth spikes and Gloria's midwifery mud

PREGNANT WOMEN: MDs (and midwives) 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.



GLORIA'S MIDWIFERY MUD...

"Just to be clear, Todd...
--Gloria Lemay, Midwifery Educator to Gastaldo
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/2070



Gloria Lemay, Midwifery Educator wrote publicly to Gastaldo:

"By 'birth spikes', I assume you are referring to ischial spines. Yes, the
bony female pelvis has ischial spines. ...[Todd, I know that this image of
babies being hurt by the mother's pelvis is monumental in your world]...*My*
greatest concerns at the moment are the rising Cesarean rate, the rising
epidural rate, and the induction epidemic in N. America. If we could stop
inducing, anaesthetizing, and cutting birthing women, the women would be
able to figure out how to position themselves for their birth dance."
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/2070 (*emphasis added*)

OPEN LETTER (archived for global access***)

Gloria,

By "birth spikes" I am referring to the SACRAL TIPS...

SACRAL TIPS are being senselessly driven into pelvic outlets and fetal
skulls because MDs place women semisitting and dorsal...

You indicate you are concerned about the rising cesarean rate...

The most common reasons given for cesarean sections are cephalopelvic
disproportion and failure to progress...

1. If you are *truly* interested in reducing the cesarean rate, you will
want to start telling women that MD-obstetricians are CAUSING cephalopelvic
disproportion and failure to progress then performing cesarean sections
BEcause of cephalopelvic disproportion and failure to progress.

You indicate that you are concerned about the rising epidural rate...

2. If you are *truly* interested in reducing the rising epidural rate, you
will want to start telling women that MDs are forcing uteri to push with
birth canals senselessly closed up to 30% - then - when things get tough -
MDs are chemically whipping uteri to contract VIOLENTLY - with oxytocin -
with birth canals senselessly closed up to 30%.

You indicate that you are concerned about the induction epidemic...

3. If you are *truly* interested in stopping the induction epidemic, you
will want to start telling women that - with birth canals senselessly closed
up to 30% - MDs are often inducing with CYTOTEC which - like oxytocin - also
makes the uterus contract violently.

No wonder so many women literally beg for epidurals!

You say that "the pelvis is flexible and yielding."

This is simply false when the mother is on her butt/back - which is in most
births - thanks to MDs and the midwives who ape them...

Again quoting one of your phrases: "I know that this image of babies being
hurt by the mother's pelvis is monumental in your world."

ARRRRGGGHHHH! Babies are not being hurt by the mother's pelvis per se.
Rather, they are being hurt by MDs whose standard birth practice is to force
the uterus to push with the pelvis closed up to 30%.

There is also routine gruesome PULLING by MDs. See PS2 below.

Thanks for writing,

Sincerely,

Todd

Dr. Gastaldo


PS1 Gloria, I mentioned SACRAL TIPS explicitly when I telephoned you a few
years back; and I mentioned them in the "Birth Spikes" post to which you are
responding:

"BIRTH SPIKES: Can Gloria Lemay still be saying that "birth spikes" don't
exist! 'Birth spikes' DO exist! By placing women semisitting and dorsal,
MDs and midwives are driving SACRAL TIPS up to 4 cm into birth canals -
CLOSING birth canals up to 30%..." (emphasis added)

See again: Birth spikes (Do Jamaican women birth on their butts/backs?)
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=e....earthlink.net

You also wrote:

"Just to be clear, Todd. I do not endorse semi-sitting or supine postures
for giving birth."
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/2070

GREAT - but you are STILL failing to mention sacral tips and the fact that
MDs are driving them into birth canals.

WHY?!

You also wrote:

"I am committed to conscious childbirth...when a woman is conscious, she
knows what position to give birth in and will naturally assume that
position."

Most women birth UNconscious - UNAWARE of the fact that MDs are driving
their sacral tips into their birth canals.

They are unconscious/unaware in part because "Midwifery Educators" like you
are failing to tell them that this is what is going on!

You wrote:

"The majority of women I have assisted seem to prefer all 4's, some squat,
some stand, rarely some are sidelying and, very seldom, some sit back in a
water tub with their bottoms off the floor. I do not control
or direct their natural body movements."

BRAVO GLORIA! But you don't assist most women! Most women give birth
semisitting or dorsal - closing their birth canals up to 30%!

An estimated 4.6% of "healthy" term babies are born with unexplained brain
bleeds.

Occasionally babies suffer unexplained paralysis and/or unexplained
deaths...

Please help stop MDs from closing birth canals.

Feel free to post this email to your website: http://www.glorialemay.com.


PS2 PREGNANT WOMEN (I say again): 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...

MDs KNOW THEY ARE COMMITTING THE CRIME...

"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]


PHYSICIANS ARE **LYING** - BABIES BE DAMNED...

Physicians are now saying, "*We* aren't doing it - babies are being damaged
BEFORE birth."

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]..."

[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.]

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 again: 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.

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


"[N]early 25% of all back pain patients were dissatisfied with their last
visit to the chiropractor..."
--Environics survey as reported by Dynamic Chiropractic
http://www.chiroweb.com/archives/21/17/05.html

Perhaps chiropractors need to focus on PREVENTION...

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"...)

Again, thanks for reading, everyone,

Sincerely,

Todd

Dr. Gastaldo


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