Prof. Boog on Breech (cephalic version techniques)

PREGNANT WOMEN: OBs are knowingly closing birth canals up to 30%.

It is EASY to allow your birth canal to OPEN the "extra" up to 30%.

See the very end of this post.


PROF. BOOG ON BREECH (cephalic version techniques)

"[P]ostural methods...acupuncture...chiropractic
manipulations...hypnosis...it seems that their results may be favorably
compared with that of the external cephalic version, a much more complex
procedure, which is potentially dangerous..."
--Prof. Georges Boog. J Gynecol Obstet Biol Reprod (Paris). 2004
Apr;33(2):94-8. PubMed abstract

OPEN LETTER

Prof. Georges Boog
Service d'Obstétrique et de Médecine Foetale
CHU de Nantes
Hôpital Mère et Enfant
7, quai Moncousu, 44093 Nantes Cedex 1


Georges,

While it is nice to think that various breech turning procedures may work as
well as external cephalic version...

Maybe breeches don't need to be turned?

Maybe breech outcomes would be as good as cephalic outcomes if MDs and MBs
and midwives stopped closing birth canals up to 30%?

Just a thought.

Sincerely,

Todd

Dr. Gastaldo


PS MDs knew about what I am talking about early last century....

Harvard obstetrician Arthur B. Emmons, MD wrote in 1913

"[M]oving backward of the tip of the sacrum...enlarges the
available space not merely directly in proportion to the distance backward,
but more nearly by the square of that distance." [Emmons, AB. A study of the
variations in the female pelvis, based on observations made on 217 specimens
of the
American Indian squaw. Biometrika 1913; 9:34-47.]

And here's what was added to Williams Obstetrics at my
request:

"It should be noted...that the increase in the diameter of the
pelvic outlet occurs **only** if the sacrum is allowed to rotate
posteriorly, that is,
only if the sacrum is not forced anteriorly by the weight of the maternal
pelvis against the delivery table or bed." [Cunningham, MacDonald, Leveno,
Gant and Gilstrap, Williams Obstetrics Appleton-Lange 1993:285, **italics in
original]

Unfortunately, the authors of Williams Obstetrics left in their text - in
the same paragraph (!)
the "dorsal widens" bald lie that first called my attention to their
text)!!

According to Kitzinger [1993]

French obstetrician Michel Odent "would never risk a
breech delivery with the mother in a dorsal or semi-seated position." ("Our
only intervention will be to insist on the supported squatting position..."
[Odent quoted in Kitzinger S. The
Complete Book of Pregnancy and Childbirth. "conceived, edited and
designed" in London by Dorling Kindersley Limited; published in New York
by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. 1993:264]


QUESTION: If Odent would never risk a breech delivery with the mother
dorsal or
semi-seated, why is he silent as "[m]any doctors prefer to deliver
breech babies with the woman in the lithotomy position." [Kitzinger,
1993:261]

And why does Ms. Kitzinger herself unquestioningly advise
semi-sitting (closing birth canal up to 30%) as an option? [Kitzinger,
1993:261]

Georges, you mention the Hannah et al. recommendation that singleton term
breeches be taken by cesarean section.
http://www.reseau-naissance.com/rsn_...#reduire_siege

Don't forget: Because breech deliveries are performed in lithotomy, Hannah
et al. studied breech births with birth canals usually closed up to 30%.

See Hannah et al.'s term breech tomfoolery/Gherman et al.'s fetal radiation
fraud
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/1306

REMEMBER GEORGES : Obstetricians are KNOWINGLY closing birth canals up to
30%...

SIMPLE PROOF that OBs are 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 we letting OBs and CNMwives force babies' heads through birth canals
senselessly closed up to 30%?

(An estimated 4.6% of "healthy" term babies suffer unexplained brain bleeds!
And babies actually suffer DENTS in their skulls - "pingpong" skull
fractures - though most of these dents/"pingpong" fractures pop out.)

THE KICKER

OBs and CNMwives are
KEEPING birth canals closed when babies' shoulders get stuck!

The Merck Manual method for increasing the diameter of the pelvic
outlet - merely hyperflexing the mother's thighs - is BAD McRoberts
maneuver - and BAD McRoberts maneuver does not roll the woman off her sacrum
and therefore
does
NOT increase the diameter of the pelvic outlet!

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

WMPI/JASON GARDOSI, MD

Here are the simple grisly biomechanics of semisitting (and dorsal)
delivery clearly stated by Jason Gardosi, MD, director of the
British National Health Service/NHS West Midlands Perinatal
Institute/WMPI...

"...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

Incredibly, the just quoted WMPI site states the grisly biomechanics of
semisitting but then RECOMMENDS semisitting delivery (closing the birth
canal), as
in,

"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

WMPI/Jason Gardosi, MD is advising women to close their birth canals,
then saying: "As you push, try to let yourself 'open up' below..." (!)

ON A POSITIVE NOTE: The WMPI site does recommend a version of GOOD McRoberts
if
the shoulders get stuck...
http://www.wmpi.net/reviews/oe/oe_shoulder_dystocia.htm

LAUGHABLE: Gardosi says of himself:

"Developed new obstetric aid, the 'Birth Cushion', for studying squatting
during the second stage of labour."
http://www.obgyn.net/board/gardosi.htm

In fact, no one squatted in Gardosi's 1989 Lancet "randomised controlled
trial of squatting." (!)

See Edgbaston (UK) birth fraud (and 'the birth
cushion')
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group...t/message/2387

NOTE: At one time, WMPI/Jason Gardosi, MD and his British OB pal Malcolm
Griffiths got
me censored from an international obstetric listserv for protesting this
bizarre
obstetric behavior - but fortunately not before two of my articles got
posted...

See http://forums.obgyn.net/forums/ob-gy...9707/0128.html

See also: http://forums.obgyn.net/ob-gyn-l/OBGYNL.9707/0153.html

MY BEST GUESS (as to why MDs haven't yet stopped the massive obstetric
crime)?

Stopping it would be
tantamount to admitting it.

PARDONS IN ADVANCE FOR MDs...

As usual, I am in favor of pardons in advance for MDs (and MBs and anyone
else who is senselessly closing birth canals). MDs are just
academic prime cuts forced through this culture's most powerful mental
meatgrinder - medical school.

Pardons in advance will allow MDs to keep doing their valid medical work,
making money to pay the inevitable civil damages.

LADIES: 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.

BEWARE though: 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!

Talk to your MD or MB about this TODAY.

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.

Sincerely,

Todd

Dr. Gastaldo


Prof. Boog on Breech (cephalic version techniques)
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group...t/message/2435