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"Gentle Birth Method"
Some how, I've managed not to have ever heard of this. It's a method by
a British Obstetrician, originally within the NHS (it's how water birth got started in the UK) and later at a small private hospital in North London. It's also the method followed by celebrities such as Kate Moss, Elle Macpherson and Gwyneth Paltrow. I had a bit of a book buying spree in Half Price Books and this was one of the ones I picked up. It gets to the tough stuff pretty quickly, diving right into how our western diet and life style grows our babies too big and doesn't leave our tissues in a good state for doing the job they need to do in labour. I think this is a much bigger issue than she makes of it, it's more of a chicken and egg question did labours get more medicalised because of this or did labours become like this because they were more medicalised? What you believe about that will strongly influence what you do about it and I'd probably be on the other side of the fence to her but not strongly, if you stick a woman flat on her back, don't let her drink and possibly give her drugs known to encourage fluid retention, of course she's going to have an odetemous cervix and vagina, quite possibly regardless of what she ate in pregnancy. Her main diet things are stopping wheat, refined carbohydrates and also red meats (and processed meats). Interestingly as I read through the reasons for stopping the wheat there was a lot that rang true with me, but I still have a hard time with the concept of cutting things out from my diet, I'm an everything in moderation kind of girl. In describing some of the tiredness and fatigue I've been feeling, I was saying to my husband that I didn't think my body was processing the food I ate as well as it could, there has been something different to my previous experience of fatigue this time around, a kind of limp feeling in the legs that screams give me fuel, give me something to burn. I think the picture looks rather like that of a few friends who gave up wheat with great sucess, I just wasn't realising. I have a harder time with the red meat, I'm not clear where the iron is going to come from if you cut that out, I probably need to study it again. I'm totally torn, there are a fair few indications for giving up wheat and it's not something I think I'd find very difficult as it's not a core part of my diet anyway and I'm happy tastewise with many other fibre/carbohydrate sources, it just totally doesn't fit with my world view, which needs much clearer reasons to do something like this. Another issue I have, which is really in the mind and not true at all, is that having had a low birth weight baby, I have a hard time conciously restricting food intake, even though really I know that it's caused by a placental problem and food intake can't really change that if the links are just not functioning properly. My normal weight baby was actually fairly chunky, 8lb8oz, which I know isn't enormous, but the way she looked wasn't quite right, she did look too big for her skeleton, rather than just a long baby with a big head, she was roughly average for both when the weight was above 75th centile. But I'm not convinced her weight was a problem, I don't think her shape could have caused her to be OP and being OP was definitely more of a problem than her size. Anybody here follow a wheat free diet? What made you decide to do that? How quickly did you notice any effects? Cheers Anne |
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