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Originally Printed in: I.C.P.A. Newsletter January/February 2000

In one day's time I received two calls asking about the relationship between the administration of pitocin and neurologically compromised infants at birth and my intuitive antennas went off. Pitocin is a synthetic version of oxytocin the naturally produced hormone in the laboring woman.

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The history of medicalized circumcision is a fascinating study in Victorian medicine and anti-sexuality.1 The phenomenon of circumcising boys and girls for pseudomedical reasons was almost exclusively confined to the Englishspeaking world. American pseudomedical circumcision began in 1870 when New York physician Lewis A. Sayre treated a boy for paralysis by amputating his foreskin.2 The operation appeared to succeed. Thereafter circumcision was relentlessly promoted as a necessity for hygiene as well as a treatment for all sorts of illnesses, including masturbation, epilepsy, elephantiasis, insanity, asthma, alcoholism, hernia, premature ejaculation, penile cancer, cervical cancer, and virtually every other identified ailment3

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Research done over the past 13 years in Great Britain and New Zealand indicates that Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) is an environmental poisoning in the crib. In 1988, Barry Richardson, a British chemist specializing in deterioration and preservation of materials, and Peter Mitchell, a marquee specialist, were working on Mitchell's deteriorating marquee, awnings and party tents. Mitchell's marquee supplier told him that the chemicals in awnings and tents were the same chemicals that had been approved for use in baby mattresses. Mitchell also learned from Richardson that these same chemicals could be converted into nerve gas. Mitchell and Richardson decided maybe there was a connection here to SIDS. The research by Richardson began immediately.

Study shows why to avoid artificial rupture of your membranes and the importance of not bathing your new baby right after birth.

 

Often called “Natures Cold Cream” vernix, the white creamy stuff most babies are born with, and amniotic fluid have similar immune enhancing properties as breast milk. We have known for a long time that t

he immunologic properties of breast milk are what truly set it apart from any other form of infant sustenance. The body of a newborn baby is very vulnerable and it does not have inborn defense mechanisms to protect itself from the environment outside of the womb.

This study shows that the extremely popular procedure of “artificial rupturing of membranes” can take away the amniotic fluid's protective capability. This also holds true for bathing your baby in the first 24 hours after birth and not allowing the vernix to be absorbed into the baby’s skin.

The Epidural Epidemic
By: Jeanne Ohm, D.C., F.I.C.P.A.
Originally Printed in: I.C.P.A. Newsletter March/April 1999
Epidurals during birthing have become so routine, as mothers are being convinced that
pain during labor is unnatural. Convinced that they should not endure pain during the
birth process, mothers are set up to believe in a drug instead of their bodies' own natural
capabilities.

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