Contacting pregnant women to prevent birth trauma (ACC-RAC abstract)

ACC-RAC peer review chair Claire D. Johnson, DC, MEd, electronic submission
form please; preliminary abstract below...


PREGNANT WOMEN: For simple instructions on how to allow your birth canal to
open an "extra"
up to 30%, see the very end of this post.


OPEN LETTER (archived for global access; see below)


Claire D. Johnson, DC, MSEd
Peer Review Chair ACC-RAC
12th annual Association of Chiropractic Colleges Educational Conference
10th annual Research Agenda Conference
Las Vegas March 17-19, 2005.
562-947-8755, ext. 653


Claire,

According to Dynamic Chiropractic, the electronic submission form is
available by e-mail from the Peer Review Chair as of Feb. 14, 2004.
http://www.chiroweb.com/archives/22/14/02.html

Please send an electronic submission form.

If my publication of the preliminary abstract below renders my future
contributionn on the same subject not acceptable to ACC-RAC, so be it.

Hopefully you will share the information with pregnant women in your circle
of family and friends.

Thanks for reading.

Sincerely,

Todd

Dr. Gastaldo




ACC-RAC PRELIMINARY ABSTRACT: CONTACTING PREGNANT WOMEN TO PREVENT BIRTH
TRAUMA...

INTRODUCTION

Background. The chiropractic profession suggests that birth trauma can cause
the putative chiropractic lesion, vertebral subluxation. Obstetricians and
certified nurse-midwives are closing birth canals up to 30% (semisitting and
dorsal delivery) - see PROOF below.

With birth canals closed up to 30%, obstetricians and certified
nurse-midwives are gruesomely manipulating most babies' spines.
Obstetricians violently push on the tiniest spines (with oxytocin, Cytotec)
and gruesomely pull (with hands, forceps, vacuums) - sometimes pulling so
hard that spinal nerves are ripped out of tiny spinal cords. Some babies
die, some babies get paralyzed - most "only" have their spines gruesomely
wrenched. (ALL spinal manipulation is gruesome with the birth canal
senselessly closed up to 30%.)

Objective/Purpose. To cause obstetricians and certified nurse-midwives to
STOP closing birth canals and thereby prevent much birth trauma thereby
saving tiny lives and tiny limbs and preventing the putative chiropractic
lesion, vertebral subluxation.

METHOD

Non-spinal chiropractic adjusting (education):

Contact obstetricians, certified nurse-midwives and other health care
professionals in person and in writing. Inform them that obstetricians and
certified nurse-midwives are senselessly closing birth canals and need to
stop.

Contact pregnant women. Inform them that it is easy for them to allow their
birth canals to open the "extra" up to 30% just by staying off their
backs/buttocks as they push their babies out.

RESULTS

Contacting obstetricians and certified nurse-midwives has resulted in
publication, censorship, evasion.

Contacting law enforcement has yielded no response.

Contacting women has resulted in some women reporting that they stayed off
their sacra at delivery.

DISCUSSION

Censorship/evasion from obstetricians and certified nurse-midwives is to be
expected because it is an obvious crime for obstetricians and certified
nurse-midwives to knowingly close birth canals.

Obstetricians and certified nurse-midwives cannot simply stop the crime
because stopping it would be tantamount to admitting it.

Law enforcement is likely silent because it is the "community norm" to close
birth canals and because the medical profession is politically powerful.

The authors of Williams Obstetrics did publish the biomechanics at my
request - but they left in their text the erroneous (dorsal widens)
biomechanics that first called this author's attention to their text.

Chiropractic associations have so far remained silent.

CONCLUSION

Contacting pregnant women seems more effective than contacting obstetricians
and certified nurse-midwives in causing obstetricians and certified
nurse-midwives to stop closing birth canals.

Contacting pregnant women may be the best way to prevent birth trauma and
thereby save tiny lives and tiny limbs and prevent the putative chiropractic
lesion, vertebral subluxation.


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

The fact that semisitting and dorsal close the birth canal is simple
biomechanics.

See Gastaldo TD. Letter. Birth 1992;19(4):230.

Here's my source for the 30% figure...

"[T]he outlet increases with moulding by approximately 20-30 per cent."
--Russell JGB. Moulding of the pelvic outlet. J Obstet Gynaec Brit Cwlth
1969;76:817-20.

NOTE: In 1973, Ohlsen verified Russell's 20% figure on
Borell and Fernstrom's 1957 intrapartum x-rays. Ohlsen pointed out that the
authors of Williams Obstetrics were claiming that the pelvic diameters
*don't
change* during delivery (!) - so the authors of Williams Obstetrics decided
(erroneously) that dorsal delivery widens!

Interestingly, early last century, J. Whitridge Williams, MD, the original
author of Williams Obstetrics demonstrated MASSIVE amounts of change in
pelvic outlet diameter change at-term - and Borell and Fernstrom's 1957
intrapartum x-ray study accorded with the average amount of pelvic outlet
diameter change Williams found clinically...

See: http://home1.gte.net/gastaldo/part2ftc.html

Jason Gardosi, MD, director of the British National Health
Service/NHS West Midlands Perinatal
Institute/WMPI states the grisly biomechanics 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 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

Sorry to be repetitive but...

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)

Lithotomy position keeps the birth canal closed! So does semisitting!

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


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