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July 30, 2007
WaPo: Do It Yourself Delivery
Paul and Jenny Hatch - Jenny Hatchs Natural Family Site
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A Wonderful Conversation has been taking place on the internet: On Blogs, in Chat Rooms, and on news web sites discussing the pros and cons of Unassisted Homebirth.
Please click on this link
http://www.naturalfamilyblog.com/archives/cat_diy_homebirth_debate.html
for a complete overview of the various discussions that have been taking place the past few months. And thanks WAPO for adding another voice to the conversation!
Jenny Hatch
WWW.NaturalFamilyBLOG.com
Mother of Five, our last two sons born at home...Alone!
Printable Version of this Article:
Lynn Griesemers Unassisted Homebirth Site
The Griesemer Family
David and Laura Shanley - Laura Shanleys BornFree Site
The Shanley Clan
Laura Shanley and Mairi Breen-Rothman
Freebirth Movement Advocate; Certified Nursing Midwife
Tuesday, July 31, 2007; 1:00 PM
Debate the advantages and disadvantages of delivering a baby at home without the help of doctors or other trained professionals.
I would like to thank the Washington Post and Staff Writer Sandra G. Boodman for writing a great article on this topic!
Posted by Jenny Hatch at 11:52 PM
NYT: Op-Ed Contributor: A War We Just Might Win
"VIEWED from Iraq, where we just spent eight days meeting with American and Iraqi military and civilian personnel, the political debate in Washington is surreal. The Bush administration has over four years lost essentially all credibility. Yet now the administration’s critics, in part as a result, seem unaware of the significant changes taking place.
Here is the most important thing Americans need to understand: We are finally getting somewhere in Iraq, at least in military terms. As two analysts who have harshly criticized the Bush administration’s miserable handling of Iraq, we were surprised by the gains we saw and the potential to produce not necessarily “victory” but a sustainable stability that both we and the Iraqis could live with.
After the furnace-like heat, the first thing you notice when you land in Baghdad is the morale of our troops. In previous trips to Iraq we often found American troops angry and frustrated — many sensed they had the wrong strategy, were using the wrong tactics and were risking their lives in pursuit of an approach that could not work.
Today, morale is high. The soldiers and marines told us they feel that they now have a superb commander in Gen. David Petraeus; they are confident in his strategy, they see real results, and they feel now they have the numbers needed to make a real difference."
Amazingly Positive article from two Brookings Institutution members.
I wonder how long the drum beat of No Progress in Iraq will continue to pound over the next few months until Democrats are forced to accept that Iraq has in fact been improved by the Surge?
I could feel the thrill coming off the page at Iraq the Model as he documented the Soccer Win of his country this past weekend.
Such an amazing experience for that country to feel the pride and joy of a winning moment. Go read the post here, it was awesome.
Two big compelling news stories this week from Iraq.
It's all good!
Posted by Jenny Hatch at 10:47 PM
The cry should go up in Europe: more babies, please
The cry should go up in Europe: more babies, please
"Of all the bogeys you might have thought well and truly nailed in the past decade or so, the population control movement seemed most obviously to have a stake through its heart."
Posted by Jenny Hatch at 10:38 PM
WaPo: Midwives in Legal Limbo
"Athens, Ga.: What do you think about the free-birth movement? No mid-wives or any other medical professional, just the mother delivering the baby alone. I don't trust doctors or hospital at all. I think they're only out to charge you as much money as they can, without any regard to your health, so the free-birth idea appeals to me.
Kitty Ernst: I just read an article from Canada about this. Actually it has been going on for some time. I think we should have a system where women are not pumped up with fear and that would cover her no matter where she chose to give birth or with whom she chose or did not choose to be with her. I would counsel her that we are here if she needs us and educate her to the infrequent complications that may require medical intervention and then be available. There are few women in the U. S. that could or would take this leap."
Posted by Jenny Hatch at 10:22 PM
Hugh Hewitt: Hillary Clinton - 30 Letters
Letters from Hillarys Young Days:
Posted by Jenny Hatch at 9:07 PM
New Book by Wendy Shalit: Girls Gone Mild!
Wendy Shalit, author of A return to Modesty has written a new book called Girls Gone Mild. Here is the Amazon Link
And the web site/blog devoted to promoting the book: Go Here
Chapter one of the book in PDF
Book Overview: Go Here
Modesty Zone Blog: Go Here
Modestly Yours Blog: Go Here
These trends are really awesome! As a mother with two teens who have made the choice to stay chaste until marriage, I love the idea of the new rebels being those women who choose abstinance and virtue over the girls gone wild insanity.
Home Childbirth fits into this paradigm as well. One of the main reasons I chose to come home to birth and took personal responsibility for my own female health care was because I hated the contact I had with various doctors. Vaginal Exams, pressure to go on birth control, pressure to limit the size of my family, etc etc etc... By pulling away from the gynocological world, I have been able to feel a sense of wholeness and privacy that comforts my mother heart and keeps me away from the various practitioners who have blood on their collective hands. So much of a gyns practice is dealing with those diseases and unwanted pregnancies that accompany a girls gone wild society.
I am not too interested in even being on the same examination table or having the same vaginal speculums and fingers shoved into my body that have been probing into the diseased bodies of those women who have gone mad with sexual promiscuity. I don't want to be around the doctors, clinics, and various proceedures and drugs that are so prevalent in our society to deal with STDs, bastard children, and the complications from abortions and miscarriages.
I have not had a vaginal exam since I gave birth to Andrew almost eleven years ago. And I don't ever plan to have one, ever again. Saving my sexual body for my husband in all aspects of my fertility has felt right and taking the modesty principle into the OB/GYN side of my life has felt very empowering. And it is a theme from unassisted birthers. They tend to mention how wonderful it is while giving birth NOT to have all those exams and nurses and doctors checking and probing.
While I birthed my third child in the hospital I felt like every nurse on the floor popped their head in during the final moments of birth. I would not have been surprised if the janitors, food service people, and any assorted strangers had come into the room to watch me give birth. Too many people around tends to lengthen the process, and contributes to a woman feeling violated and overwhelmed.
Giving birth alone and not even having a camera on, contributed to the feelings of privacy and wholeness I experienced while I gave birth to my four year old in 2002. It was Jeannine Baker who challenged me not to video tape the birth. She told me that the very presence of a camera can have a terrible effect on labor for some women and with my sexual abuse issues, it was better not to have the birth documented.
I'm grateful for the whole modesty movement and am thrilled by women like Wendy taking the time to write and share.
Posted by Jenny Hatch at 7:57 AM
Fox Video: David Horowitz
David Horowitz on Hannity and Colmes
Posted by Jenny Hatch at 7:54 AM
NYT: Chief Mormon Explainer
This was an interesting article at the New York Times: Go Here
Posted by Jenny Hatch at 7:50 AM
July 28, 2007
Who and Why: Choosing a Do It Yourself Birth
Some of my readers might be interested to learn more about Freebirth by reading some of the discussion threads at Mothering.com. This is one of the only public Unassisted Childbirth Forums on the internet.
Here is a link to a post that includes links to several discussions about Freebirth.
Who and Why
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Why do you choose UC?
Posted by Jenny Hatch at 7:46 AM
Newsmax: Homeland General: Attack 'Could Happen Any Day'
Homeland General: Attack 'Could Happen Any Day'
"The U.S. military commander in charge of defending the U.S. homeland said Tuesday that he believes there are al-Qaida cells in the United States or people working to create them.
Air Force Gen. Victor "Gene" Renuart said that while the terrorism threat within the nation's boundaries has increased in the past year, officials have strengthened intelligence sharing, particularly in an effort to shore up weaknesses in security at U.S. ports.
"I believe there are cells in the United States, or at least people who aspire to create cells in the United States," Renuart said in an interview with The Associated Press. "To assume that there are not those cells is naive and so we have to take that threat seriously."
He added, "Am I concerned that this will happen this summer, I have to be concerned that it could happen any day."
Other U.S. officials last week said they did not know of al-Qaida cells in the United States.
Renuart, who took over the job as the head of U.S. Northern Command just four months ago, said that to counter the growing threat, the military also needs to create two more brigade-size units to be available to respond to nuclear, chemical and biological incidents at home - because currently there is only one. A brigade is about 3,500 troops.
Renuart's comments came in the wake of a national intelligence report released last week, which concluded that al-Qaida is using its growing strength in the Middle East to plot attacks on U.S. soil.
Port security has long been identified as a key weak point, including the need to scan cargo containers coming into the country by ship.
Renuart said officials are expanding their use of sensors and other technologies that allow them to track ships, including their location, their speed and other commercial information. And, while he would not provide details, he said there has already been "real payback" in terms of identifying vessels of concern and either checking or boarding them well before they got into U.S. waters.
"Because the national intelligence estimate talks about the vulnerability of ports, and because of the importance that we place on the movement of a variety of goods through those ports, finding ways to improve that is a really important element of our day to day work," Renuart said.
At the same time, he said it will be a year or two before he is able to pull together the military units he needs to better be able to respond to a chemical, biological or nuclear disaster in the U.S.
The units, he said, will be made up of active duty, reserves and National Guard troops. And while portions of the brigades will be located in different states, they will be expected to train together and be able to respond quickly to a disaster.
Overall, Renuart said that as the terror threat increases, the nation's ability to detect problems has also improved.
The intelligence report, he said, is a "summary of drumbeats, and the drumbeats are getting more prevalent out there. You cannot afford to ignore that." But he said, a few years ago, the nation was not as able to hear and interpret those drumbeats."
A Mother Thinks About Nuclear Survival
Posted by Jenny Hatch at 7:10 AM
July 27, 2007
A Canadian Doctor Describes How Socialized Medicine Doesn't Work
Investors Business Daily: A Canadian Doctor Describes How Socialized Medicine Doesn't Work
Privatize, Privatize, Privatize....come on....let's all say it together....Let the Market work its magic on health care. Privatize, Free Market, Privatize, get the government out of health care....Privatize Privatize.....PRIVATIZE!!!!
Posted by Jenny Hatch at 7:44 AM
Life
Tonight is stake temple night and Paul and I plan to attend. This past week has been a very spiritual one for us as a family. Last sunday Michelle received her Patriarchal Blessing from our stake patriarch. Paul and I have been on a spiritual high since that event.
Last sunday we also had four members of our family speak in church. I was the final speaker in Sacrament meeting - topic was Creating a legacy for future generations. And Michelle was the youth speaker. She was asked to speak about her pioneer heritage and shared a wonderful story from one of our ancestors from Norway who immigrated to Utah as a young mother. Andy was the main speaker in primary, his talk was also on his pioneer ancestry, and Ben was asked to participate in Sharing time telling stories about how his family helps him grow closer to Jesus Christ. We had spent saturday preparing for all of these talks. It was a good experience and I loved sharing my views with the members of the ward.
On wednesday night Paul and I were invited to attend our Stake Preparedness Meeting. Paul was recently called to be the Elders Quorum president and I am still serving as the Welfare Specialist. We had a good turnout from the stake and a woman from the State of Colorado had been invited to speak to our group about Pandemic Flu. She gave about an hour presentation and then opened it up for Q & A. The state of Colorado is working hard to prepare for pandemic scenarios, however I felt that typical government style they are gearing up to hand out fish to the people, rather than teaching them how to fish in terms of what is being done to mitigate,
She talked alot about flu vaccines and tamiflu. She also said the main thrust of their efforts was going to be in food boxes being passed out to those people who cannot prepare for a time of living in their homes for a couple weeks of isolation from the community. The state is encouraging citizens to have on hand a two week supply of food and water, and as many months of medicine as money and insurance will allow them to purchase.
I raised my hand and asked her if anyone had brought up the issue of healthy pregnant women giving birth in a hospital overun with sick people. She said they had spent alot of time talking about it but had not come to any sort of a conclusion as to what to do.
Later in the evening I pressed the issue again by stating that during the 1918 pandemic most babies in Colorado were being born at home and an infrastructure was in place to help those women with birth. Also, most mothers were breastfeeding. I told her that the thing people start screaming for after every disaster is baby formula and plastic diapers, and that if the state really wanted people to prepare for a pandemic they should be pushing breastfeeding and a supply of cloth diapers. She sort of balked when I said that.
She said that they were pushing for families to have baby formula, a two week supply, because during a time of stress, mothers may not be able to produce breastmilk, especially if they were eating junk foods in the form of foods that are easy to prepare without electricity. I backed away at that point and did not press the issue further, especially after a neonatal nurse spoke up and claimed that during certain illnesses breastmilk could be worse for babies than formula.
What I predict if we have a pandemic in Colorado is a whole bunch of dead babies.
Now maybe with even being born to educated parents at home and breastfed by a mother who has stored the absolute best foods for survival, (wheat and beans), and cloth diapered during weeks of isolation in the home during a pandemic, some of those babes will die from flu. But looking at the odds, I would guess that a mother who births in a hospital overwhelmed with flu patients and dead bodies, bottle feeds with limited supplys of baby formula, and is diapered with whatever bits of disposable diapers can be purchased, the babe who is welcomed into the world under such conditions will not do as well as the baby born at home.
But I guess we will have to wait and see. While I thought the power point presentation from this woman was well put together and she had her facts straight about infectious disease, I was extremely dismayed, but not surprised, that most mitigation efforts are going to be put towards chemical interventions and stockpiling of food for the poor.
What this lady does not realize is that EVERY family can store food and water. If poor families were to be educated about the financial savings from eating whole foods, taught how to prepare these simple foods, and how to store them properly, every family could easily put together a three month supple of grains, beans, and salt that could help them to weather any storm.
Costs for a family of four is about two hundred bucks. And her assumption that it would only be the poor who did not have any supplies is extremely short sighted. Many families do not have more than a week supply of food on hand because of dependence on restaurants and take out food. Some of the wealthiest people in our society have the most beautiful pantrys on the planet, that are completely void of nourishing foods.
If I was king of the world, or head of the Colorado State preparedness task force, I would immediately begin an education campaign focusing on proper food and water storage, rotation of whole foods into the daily diet, and the very simple principles of caring for the sick without chemicals. I would offer home birth classes and push breastfeeding and use of cloth diapers and menstrual pads. I would not even think about food boxes or vaccine or chemical "cures" as these measures would basically be akin to rearanging deck chairs on the titanic while the ship went down.
If we truly want to save lives and mitigate for future pandemics, the people of Colorado should be educated with what will truly help rather than wait for a time of raw survival, when survival of the fittest and the law of the jungle will ensure that those who are not prepared will drop like flies.
Here, once again, are my primers on Flu and Emergency Childbirth.
Emergency Childbirth during a pandemic
And a complete roundup of my provident living information is found in that catagory. Go here
Emergency Preparedness Catagory
I believe that those families and individuals who believe government is going to "save them" during a pandemic by handing them a box of food and a shot of chemicals in the arm are very naive. Yet this is what the state of colorado is preparing to do at this point in case of a pandemic. Being at the meeting just furthered my resolve and focus that individual preparations for a pandemic are the best forms of mitigation and relying on the government will be a fruitless endeavor.
It was a good meeting overall and the final hour we spent talking about communications and how we as saints can watch over each other better, especially if communications and electricity were cut off. I was chuckling as we talked remembering the winter storms of last year. The stake president had asked that we account for every person in the stake and give him a report. We were called by a total of seven people during the worst blizzard. The checks and balances of the mormon people is a wonder to behold.
Many of our members are ready with short wave radios and generators - to be a communication tool in case the phones are out. We have a whole crew of guys in our ward who are ready to go with that endeavor.
I'm looking forward to being in the house of the Lord tonight. It will recharge my spiritual batteries.
Posted by Jenny Hatch at 6:46 AM
NewsBusters: Sally Quinn: 'If You Talk to Dictators You Can Immediately Get Them on Your Side'
Sally Quinn: 'If You Talk to Dictators You Can Immediately Get Them on Your Side'
Here's what she said on this afternoon's "Hardball."
"SALLY QUINN: The fact is that the new word these days is 'dialogue.' [Ed.: New? Well shut Socrates mouth!] And so many of these dictators, quote, dictators [Ed.: we wouldn't want to offend Assad or Kim Jong Il] are really sort of shallow people who are looking for respect, and if you talk to them, you can immediately sort of get them down and get them on your side."
Mrs. Quinns attitude reminds me of the Zucker parody of Madeline Albright:
Posted by Jenny Hatch at 6:35 AM
Scientists link diabetes drugs to heart failure
Scientists link diabetes drugs to heart failure
The American Cycle of Botched, depressing birth, followed by raging depression, followed by anti-depressant use, followed by the pancreas being destroyed by those chemicals, followed by debilitating life long diabetes, followed by heart disease and/or manic depression is being played out in many many peoples lives.
If we go back to nature and trust birth works and then welcome the babes holistically, the cycle can be turned around from disease and disability to ecstatic joy and functionality.
Posted by Jenny Hatch at 6:30 AM
July 26, 2007
Telegraph: Ritalin poses child crime risk
Ritalin poses child crime risk
CHILDREN who use Ritalin for a long period of time could be more at risk of delinquency and substance abuse, a study has found.
"Doctors are suggesting children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) should take a break from medication after three years of use.
An American study - published in the Medical Observer _ has found that while drugs such as Ritalin can initially help sufferers, the benefit of prolonged use is in doubt.
Some children stay on medication until they reach 18, but researchers believe it may not protect them from all the symptoms.
Has your child been adversely affected by ADHD medication? Tell us your experience via feedback section below.
The US Multimodal Treatment Study of Children revealed the more days of prescribed medication, the more serious delinquency became.
In a cohort of 500 children with ADHD - followed for 36 months until they were 12 - researchers found 27 per cent were at a greater risk of committing crime, compared with 7 per cent among "normative" children.
Substance use also increased to 17 per cent in ADHD children - almost double the normal rate.
More than 30,000 children in Australia take Ritalin or a similar drug.
Jill Sewell, Associate Professor of the Royal Australian College of Physicians, said evidence suggested a break from medication was beneficial.
"Evidence shows that there is very clear benefit of taking medication for 12-18 months, but after three years it is not so clear," she said.
"Often in medications you do have to stop for a period of time to see if it is still effective."
Posted by Jenny Hatch at 7:02 PM
A Tale of Two Sets of twins
This past week two sets of twin girls were born to mothers who were planning and hoping for unassisted births.
The Mothering Forum at Mothering.com is one of the only public UC Chat rooms on the web. Most of the chats for Freebirth are private, so it is nice to be able to share some birth stories with a public audience curious about how Freebirthers interact with each other on the web.
I think these twin stories are awesome. And the number one reason is because they illustrate a couple of points.
First and foremost Freebirthers do not reject modern medicine.
If a family feels that they will be served by interacting with a midwife or doctor, they seek out whatever level of prenatal and birth care feels right for them.
Second, the response to both of the mothers was also very indicative of how chat rooms welcome birth stories, no matter how the birth goes. The two birth stories were both greeted with wonderful acceptance and blessings, even though one momma had a section and the other had a freebirth.
Third, the bottom line for most freebirthing families is that the baby arrives safe, no matter where that birth takes place.
Here are the links to the various stories:
May I offer my hearty congrats to both families and pray that as women continue to get educated about proper nutrition for twins and what truly causes preeclampsia, they will be enabled to give birth in the most holistic way possible. The unique nutritional demands of a twin pregnancy can pose serious health risks to the babe if mother is not clued in to what she needs to eat daily to make healthy children. But this mother still built two very large twins and birthed her children in the way that made sense to her family - by c-section.
If you will search around the unassisted childbirth forum on mothering you can get a sense of how the women support and help each other.
Posted by Jenny Hatch at 6:50 PM
Day at the Park
I am really enjoying how quickly One True Media Works to upload video and still pictures. It has been fun playing around with it the past few weeks.
Here is another montage of yet another day at the park.
Posted by Jenny Hatch at 6:04 PM
GOPers Bail on YouTube Debate?
GOPers Bail on YouTube Debate?
Ruffini:
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Over the last few hours, I'd been hearing buzz that GOP candidates were going wobbly on the CNN/YouTube debate. I was dismissive. Given the huge earned media hit the Democrats got this week, the fact that even the highly partisan questioners acquitted themselves better than Chris Matthews did in the first debate, and the sponsorship of the powerful Republican Party of Florida, I didn't think the GOP candidates would make the political mistake of passing up it up.
I was apparently wrong. Rudy Giuliani is unlikely to participate, according to an official source.
And Mitt Romney wouldn't commit, dissing the "snowman question."
Mitt Romney didn't like some of the more frivolous trappings and told the New Hampshire Union Leader that "I think the presidency ought to be held at a higher level than having to answer questions from a snowman."
I would now expect numerous candidates to bail, just like they did at Ames, citing the lack of a frontrunner.
This is a big mistake. The Democrats are afraid to answer questions from Big Bad Fox News Anchors, and the Republicans are afraid to answer questions from regular people. Which is worse?
It's stuff like this that will set the GOP back an election cycle or more on the Internet. No matter the snazzy Web features and YouTube videos they may put up, if they're fundamentally uncomfortable with the idea of interacting with real people online, what's the point?
Having spent the better part of a decade working at the intersection of politics and the Web, I can't help but feel of a deep, deep sense of dismay that we're missing something so basic. This is EXACTLY why I am afraid that we will be outraised by $100 million or more in 2008.
Yes, some of the questions on Monday were trivial. Yes, they were partisan. (I expect many of the 9/17 questioners to be partisan Republicans.) Yes, they were messy. But so is democracy. And the fact that some place so much faith in the broken mainstream media over a benign format like this one says a lot about the difficult straits the Republicans are in right now.
Perhaps the rest of the field will prove me wrong."
I bet Ron Paul will happily participate in th at You Tube debate. In fact, my gut feeling is that the frontrunners in the GOP are afraid of another Paul Blowout on the web. He has a debate style, clarity of views, and no holds barred affinity for the Constitution that is very reminiscent of Alan Keyes, and we all know what the GOP did to Keyes during a key republican debate.
"In Atlanta in 1996, GOP Presidential candidate Alan Keyes was invited to a televised candidate debate in Atlanta, but when he did not place in the top several candidates in the New Hampshire primary voting, the invitation was rescinded, and he was arrested when trying to gain entry."
I'd be scared too.
Posted by Jenny Hatch at 5:28 PM
Fatherland, Socialism, or …er …uh …Something Better, Maybe?
Fatherland, Socialism, or …er …uh …Something Better, Maybe?
Our friends who live in post communist countries look at our Socialized Education establishment with horror and figure America has lost its soul. When we as a people allow marxists to spoonfeed cradle to grave socialism to our young people from preschool age up, something is very off in the hinter lands.
I pray America will not allow itself to become any more socialized than it already is. The entitlement generation is getting old and those of us coming along need to push hard for privatizing everything in our society before it all just melts into the great void of communist nothings.
Posted by Jenny Hatch at 4:40 PM
The Baig Family
My best friend Susan Baig just sent some pictures sharing her life. She gave me permission to share them.
Susan and Robert have six children, four born at home and the last three were born unassisted. They are a homeschooling family and recently purchased some land in Missouri where they are renovating a farm house. Here is a montage of the pictures they shared.
Posted by Jenny Hatch at 9:47 AM
Trip to Heritage Square
Yesterday I took the boys to Heritage Square in Golden Colorado.
We loved cruising around the go cart track, did that three times. Then we golfed on the putt putt course, and rode some kidde rides with Ben. We did the bumper boats, and spent some quality time in the arcade playing games. Ben loved the skateboarding video game that allowed him to stand on a board and pretend he was doing amazing tricks. Very interactive.
We listened to Brian Reagan in the car during the drive to and from the park. He was really funny. Here is a slide show I put together of the pics. When it became too hot to breathe we had a little water fight with our water bottles, that is why we are soaking wet in a couple pictures.
Posted by Jenny Hatch at 9:14 AM
Jeff's scout hike
Posted by Jenny Hatch at 6:51 AM
Incredible! George S Patton's New Speech-Iraq & modern world
George Patton on the War on Terror: (Profanity alert)
Al Qaeda faces rebellion in the ranks
Posted by Jenny Hatch at 6:42 AM
New Documentary: The Call of the Entreprenuer
A new documentary I can't wait to see.
Posted by Jenny Hatch at 6:34 AM
Front Page: Sicko Propaganda
Humberto Fontova, in his typical way, dismantles Castros Medical Haven for Michael Moore:
Posted by Jenny Hatch at 6:30 AM
WAPO: Shock Value
Shock Value - Electroconvulsive therapy on the upswing.
"The number of treatments in California -- one of the few states that have mandatory reporting -- increased from about 13,000 to more than 20,000 between 1994 and 2004. Although the District, Maryland and Virginia do not require such reporting, Johns Hopkins Hospital treats about 125 people with ECT annually, a number that has not changed much recently, according to Irving Reti, head of Hopkins's ECT unit; at Sheppard Pratt outside Baltimore, ECT physician Jack Vaeth says his service does about 60 treatments a week, an increase over the past decade.
While no one fully understands why ECT works, many psychiatrists believe that using an electric current to produce a "grand mal" -- or generalized brain -- seizure can "reboot" the brain when medications and psychotherapy fail. Just last week, a commentary in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) suggested that, despite its demonstrated effectiveness, ECT remains underused, primarily because of its stigmatized history."
Stigmatized history? Or the fact that it erases the memories of those who use it???
Sure you are not depressed anymore, we just turned your brain to mush and gellied up your tissues. You can't even remember who you are!!! But it was worth it because you are not depressed!!! What a load, this treatment should be BANNED!!!
I remember telling one of my therapists a few years ago that electroshock was on the upswing and he told me that I was wrong, it had been banned worldwide because it was ineffective. But the psychiatrists just keep on keepin on with failed treatments. Makes lots of money and shuts up those awful patients.
Wether you get a surgical lobotomy (which are also on the upswing, they just changed the name to cingulotomy, a chemical Lobotomy, or an electro lobotomy, the effect on the brain is the same. Major amounts of brain damage.
Recently a somewhat honest hearted psychiatrist made some public comments about his profession.
He said:
A Psychiatrist Airs His Professional Doubts
"Did you ever stop to wonder or ask yourself 'what am I doing?' I did and in many ways I wish I had not. As a Psychiatrist, I still do not know what our profession is trying to do. It seems we have a series of solutions and now we are trying to find the problems that they can solve. My observations are either anecdotal or part of research that I have done as a Psychiatric Auditor and are based on my 38 years experience in the field of Psychiatry.
Psychiatrists are treating two major populations: Adults and Juveniles. These populations are further subdivided into severe and mild disturbances.
I am not a Juvenile Psychiatrist, but I speak from impressions and my readings in the field. There is nothing more heart breaking than the severely mentally ill juvenile. We have increased our arsenal of medications, but in results and understanding, compared to other medical professions, our success rate is poor. Prevention is a distant dream.
The mildly mentally ill juveniles are a cause of concern to me. Psychiatry has waltzed into learning disorders with the crusading gusto that only psychiatrists seem to have. We are witnessing the 'medicinization' of a former outlawed drug. The criteria for using Ritalin far too often go unmet. There is no doubt in my mind that children that would not be given Ritalin by experts in the field are receiving it. No one can say with honesty and certainty what the effect of Ritalin use in juveniles will have on their brains as they age. Yet the Ritalin pushers have an almost messianic fervor for their 'solution'.
In the adult population, generally speaking, the influence of the Drug Companies is terrifying. Very few research projects disprove the efficacy of a drug when the trial is sponsored by the drug's manufacturer. Harmful facts that may be discovered are not disclosed. When they are, their importance and significance are downplayed. For example, one of the major, popular, new anti psychotic drugs actively and substantially increases the risk factors for heart attacks or CVAs. In all the adult population the major medical goal is to reduce these risk factors. Only severely mentally ill psychiatric patients are the exception.
It has been shown that after 10 years of illness a psychotic not taking medications is four times more likely to be symptom free than one that is taking medications. Read that again. You would expect the complete opposite. In spite of the hype, the quality of life in patients using the older medications are better than the new. So we are paying more, endangering more and getting less. Not very impressive is it?"
I appreciate his honesty, and wish more psychiatrists had the guts to do some introspection, you would think they would be the most honest in terms of "ANALYZING" themselves as a profession. But no, fearfully and sadly, many do not take the time to question all of the drug reps in the office, the perks, and the money rolling in earned off the tortured minds of the mentally ill. Here is a critique I wrote of a very pompous edict from the President of the APA a couple of years ago. He was publicly questioning certain practices in the profession.
I am a perfect example of someone who has healed holisticaly after psychosis. I had a post partum psychosis after the birth of my first babe, and was forced by the courts to take toxic drugs for 14 months. Then I went completely the other direction and used Sunriders Chinese Herbs, Nutrition, Shaklee Foods, and spent thousands of hours reading about the history of psychiatry, and quickly realized that a debate was raging and I was in the middle of it.
Since those days in 1989-90 when I was forced to eat toxic chemicals to make the chemicals in my brain "all better", I have not taken ONE PILL in the intervening years. Not one.
And I have given birth to four additional children.
I shudder to think what my life would have been like had I been on psychiatric meds for the past 16 years.
Posted by Jenny Hatch at 6:05 AM
News Target: Ritalin Stunts the Growth of Children
Ritalin stunts the growth of children
Posted by Jenny Hatch at 6:02 AM
ACOG Annual Meeting - San Diego - Why Do Men Have Nipples?
Fruit of the womb blog: Why do men have nipples?
Dr. Ken waxed eloquent on his blog after looking at the logo of ACOG
"The first thing that piqued my imagination today was the ACOG logo. I had never looked at it closely, but first thing this morning I had that opportunity as it was flashed up on 6 very large screens at the start of the opening ceremonies and the “President’s Program,” comprised of keynote speakers to kick off the scientific sessions. What I learned was that ACOG was founded the year I was born, in 1951. Well, so what? Being one of those people who truly believes that things really don’t happen by chance, that struck me as bearing some (unexplained) significance at a higher level as to the ‘bass ackwards’ way I ended up in my chosen profession to begin with (read one or two of my earliest posts on this site if you don’t believe me!). ACOG and I are growing old at the same rate, both in our 56th years! Fortunately, I am sure the society will long outlive me."
I think a better question than asking why do men have nipples is to query why the doctor in the ACOG logo is wearing a Superman Cape.
While the good doctor was musing about male nipples at his recent acog meeting, I wrote him a comment to be posted on his excellent blog. He did not post it, so for my readers pleasure I will post it here.
COMMENT NOT posted on his blog:
Doctor,
Men have nipples because they are fully capable of breastfeeding.
As a freebirthing woman who has completely rejected the goals, agendas, and darwinist philosophies of modern obstetrics, I just put together a montage on my blog, you might want to give it a look!
Freebirthers have realized a couple of things about childbirth that you evolutionary doctors seem to be quite ignorant of. Namely that birth is a sexual event and should be conducted privately in the bedroom of the couple involved in creating the child.
Jenny Hatch
WWW.NaturalFamilyBLOG.com
Posted by Jenny Hatch at 5:46 AM
No Silence Here - Bloggers Vs. Journalism
Bloggers Vs. Journalists
Posted by Jenny Hatch at 5:43 AM
CNN: U.N. suspends peacekeepers amid sex abuse charges
U.N. suspends peacekeepers amid sex abuse charges
More perverts posing as Peacekeepers at the UN.
Posted by Jenny Hatch at 5:41 AM
Chat Room Discussion about Freebirth
I participated in this chat at the Tilted Forum Project a couple of weeks ago. Page six of the chat had the most interesting exchange of information.
Posted by Jenny Hatch at 5:38 AM
Rixa blogging at The True Face of Birth
Pregnant Women are second class citizens
Rixa has some interesting insights about birth politics in the US.
QUOTE: (Yes, gun to your head obstetrics is happening in America)
"Ms. P was continuing her labor at home when there was a knock on the door. She opened the door to the local sheriff, who was a friend of hers and a member of her church. The sheriff said, "I'm really terribly sorry, Ms. P, but I have here a warrant for your arrest." Shocked, Ms. P said, "What on earth for?" The sheriff answered, "I'm terribly sorry. I don't know what the hell is going on. My orders are to take you to the hospital, in handcuffs if necessary."
Against her wishes and the repeated objections of her husband, Ms. P was taken to the hospital, taken to the surgery ward, tied down on an operating table, and given a forced C-section. The story doesn't end here. Ms. P and her husband sued the doctors and the hospital. However, in Florida a judge must decide if a case deserves to go to trial, and another local judge decided that Ms. P's case was not worthy of proceeding, so her case never went to trial—a shocking miscarriage of justice, given the serious violation of Ms. P's basic rights. Since then, Ms. P has had another baby, born vaginally at home with no problems. Needless to say, there was no visit to the hospital during the labor.
It is important that women in this country become aware of the danger to birthing women and join the movement to protect them. Ms. P's family's wishes were not honored, and her body was invaded against her will. Her human rights were violated.... Treating pregnant women in this manner goes against the Nuremberg Code and the Helsinki Accord, which explicitly state an individual has absolute rights over her or his own body and no medical treatment can ever be forced. Cases like this indicate a dangerous trend in U.S. maternity care toward totalitarian control of a woman's reproductive life by doctors.
Here is a link to the case of Laura Pemberton.
References:
Samuels TA, Minkoff H, Feldman J, Awonuga A, Wilson TE. “Obstetricians, health attorneys, and court-ordered cesarean sections.” Womens Health Issues. 2007 Mar-Apr;17(2): 107-14.
Veronika E.B. Kolder, Janet Gallagher, and Michael T. Parsons. “Court-Ordered Obstetrical Interventions.” NEJM 316.19 (May 7, 1987): 1192-1196.
Patient’s Rights: issues in Risk Management
Marsden Wagner. Born in the USA: How a Broken Maternity System Must Be Fixed to Put Women and Children First (University of California Press: 2006)."
Posted by Jenny Hatch at 5:27 AM
Shauna over at the Blog The Laundry Line
Shauna has some great insights into Home Making at her Blog The Laundry Line:
And her Natural Family Living Web Site
Posted by Jenny Hatch at 5:21 AM
Eve Magazine: Freebirthing Would you Lock the Midwives out?
Laura Shanley scanned the Eve Freebirth Article and posted the scan on her web site. Here is the link.
The Editor sent my copy in the mail on monday. She finished her article with my interview. I thought overall she did a good job with the whole tone, the stories shared, and the various quotes. However, I thought it strange that she titled my interview "Mum or Criminal?"
I wonder if she was writing an article on Abortion if she would even think of tossing around the words criminal when talking about those parents who choose to murder their little ones in the womb. I was telling one of my friends about this whole childbirth debate, and she made the comment that the very people who are the most threatened and upset by home birth are the ones who would completely support a womans right to have an abortion. I totally agreed.
She did get one thing right though, at the very end of the article she said:
"It seems that as the debate rages on, Freebirth believers are standing firm."
That is right. I will not be bullied, stereotyped, or threatened into backing down one inch from my stance that Freebirth is best for the baby.
Posted by Jenny Hatch at 5:09 AM
July 21, 2007
The Obstetric Wall
The Obstetric Wall
Obstetric Practice creates a wall between what is happening now in Childbirth and ultimate Divine Feminine Ecstatic JOY!
Song Provided Courtesy of the Rock Band Kansas. Go Here to visit the web site.
My all time favorite Rock band is Rush, but Kansas is a close second. I love this band! Thanks for the lyrics guys, they fit perfectly!!!
Posted by Jenny Hatch at 5:04 PM
Mothering Magazine: Pregnancy after Psychosis
Victory over Post Partum Psychosis
The author of this excellent and timely article contacted me about 18 months ago. She had read my story in Kathy Kendall Tackets first book titled Postpartum Depression, A Nurse's Guide. She asked if I would be willing to be a part of her article and I agreed. This huge article just appeared in the May/June issue of Mothering, and the digital version is up for those who would like to pay for it.
My story is included in a side bar titled, Pregnancy after Psychosis, and appears on page 61 of the magazine.
I was thrilled by the excellent information shared with Mothering readers and predict this article will go down as one of the best primers on Post Partum Psychosis that has ever been written. The fact that it was written by a mother who experienced Psychosis after the birth of her second child makes it that much more credible.
Sarah Fields, the author of this article, is expecting her third child right now.
She told me that the message of healing in my journal which was included in Kathys book really helped her gain some perspective while putting her mind back together after her hospitalization.
I was healed somewhat by reading her story of being able to continue breastfeeding, even while on meds, and the way that the hospital was so open to her husband and baby staying in her hospital room with her. They pushed a couple of beds together to make a big family bed right in the mental hospital.
Being forced to wean my daughter, compelled by a court order to take a cocktail of psychiatric meds and my six week hospitalization traumetized me just as much as the actual psychotic episode I experienced after the birth of my first child. I was also raped in the State Hospital by four orderlies the first night I was committed on a medical certificate. These horrors just put layer upon layer of trauma into the cells of my body, and made it very difficult to heal.
It comforted me to read Sarahs Story and realize that progress has indeed been made in how psychotic women are treated in mental hospitals. Being forced to take meds and stop nursing my daughter were complete injustices perpetrated by ignorant, power hungry professionals. My heart literally broke when the judge sentenced me to 90 days of forced incarceration in that evil state mental hospital in Pontiac Michigan and forced me to eat their dope.
During the six days before I went to court, I spent quite a bit of time singing patriotic hymns very loudly during my various stays in the seclusion room. This annoyed the employees, but it gave vent to my very frustrated state of mind. I suppose we never really appreciate what it means to be free until that right is taken away and we have to fight to get it back. The six weeks I spent in the hospital were a defining moment in my life. And because I was so young, only 21, and just beginning my adult life, starting my "mature" years with the stigma of mental illness was pure horror. After a couple of years it dawned on me how freeing this event had actually been.
So many people live their lives afraid of what others think of them. I don't. I honestly do not have that fear, and I believe it is because having been crazy, I know that it is not all bad.
As I have lived these past 18 years as a wife and mother, I have always been able to follow my conscience, even when doing so was a difficult choice, simply because I had no fear of others thinking I was nuts. And following my heart has taken me to amazing places as a woman.
When I was a teen I used to wear a button that said "why be normal?".
Normalcy tends to lead to conformity, which leads to a loss of freedom, which can eventually lead to slavery.
I'm not too interested in living my life as a slave. To anyone or anything. For 14 months I was a slave to the psychiatrists and their socerers chemical cocktail which deprived me of my health, my libido, my emotions, and filled up my body and mind with a toxic soup that took years to cleanse out of my tissues. (Haldol, Stelazine, Lithium, and Prozac)
Never Again!!!
May each mother find the healing she and her family so richly deserve, and may the truth set our world free from the conspiracies of very, very wealthy men and women, who are living most deliciously off the tortured minds of the mentally ill.
Posted by Jenny Hatch at 1:55 AM
Confederate Yankee: A Matter of lessening credibility
A matter of lessening credibility
The Yankee takes on the New Republic.
Posted by Jenny Hatch at 1:53 AM
Protein Wisdom: Everything that rises must converge: Vietnam edition
Everything that rises must converge: Vietnam edition
"From Breitbart TV (via Tom Maguire and Don Surber), here’s the Darling of Davos, John Kerry, laying out some Brahman truthiness for the proles on C-Span:
Sen. John Kerry said during a C-Span appearance that fears of a bloodbath after the US withdrawal from Vietnam never materialized. He says he’s met survivors of the “reeducation camps” who are thriving in modern Vietnam. An award-winning investigation by the Orange County Register concludes that at least 165,000 people perished in the camps.
Well, sure. But those were just the stubborn ones who refused to be “re-educated.” And sometimes you have kill off 165,000 people to save them.
Not to mention a couple million Cambodians — though the “war protesters” of that era, and their historical apologists, like to lay those deaths at the feet of Nixon and Kissinger in precisely the same way today’s anti-war crowd is angling to lay any Iraqi civil war and sectarian purge at the feet of Bushco, once they’ve forced a retreat and created a power vacuum."
More on this topic from Tiger Hawk: Reinventing history
"The Democrats, many of whom have labored mightily to compare Iraq to Vietnam in the hope of sustaining the "quagmire" narrative, find that the comparison is suddenly and maddeningly inconvenient. After all, Vietnamese and Cambodians suffered a great deal of violence and persecution in the years following the American withdrawal from Indochina and nobody -- other than Iranians, perhaps -- wants to see similar ugliness in Iraq.
Fortunately, John Kerry, who knows all about the advantages and disadvantages of invoking Vietnam for political ends, has hit upon a solution. Rather than admitting that there is a huge risk that violence will escalate in Iraq as it did after the American withdrawal from Indochina, he is reinventing the history of the earlier war and claiming that no such bloodbath occurred.
It will be interesting to see whether other Democrats follow Kerry off that cliff."
It will indeed...
Posted by Jenny Hatch at 1:48 AM
July 20, 2007
Cooking for seven people on a hot JULY day 2007
A Short video of my cooking adventures for the day. Too hot and tired to type out recipes...
And yes, I did have a fantasy of participating on the Food Network "Be the next food network star", even opened up the audition form. When I read....must be able to work 100 hour weeks and stand on your feet 12 hours a day....I clicked on out of the site....I love my naps and my family more than that.
We have enjoyed watching bits of the contest here and there though these past few months. I personally hope Rory wins on sunday because I do not want to see Amy leave her family just to be a television star.
Hey Amy, if you use One True Media, you can be on television on your blog!!!
Here are my cooking adventures for the day...
Posted by Jenny Hatch at 3:57 PM
White House: Fact Sheet: Implementation of the National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza
Fact Sheet: Implementation of the National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza
I'm glad the government is gearing up for the next pandemic, I think this effort is long overdue. However, in reviewing the materials, the focus from these professionals is, as far as as I could tell, almost exclusively on pharmaceuticals for prevention (vaccines) and treatment (antibiotics).
While I am sure this focus is thrilling for our friends at Big Pharma, for those of us not interested in using drugs or vaccines for our health care needs, yes, even during a world wide pandemic, all the effort, mitigating, and planning is much ado about nothing.
And as far as I can tell, nobody is talking about birthing women. Over at the Mass Medical Care with scarce resources web site - go here the most recent report includes information on:
The circumstances that communities are likely to face in an MCE.
Key constructs, principles, and structures to be incorporated into the planning for an MCE.
Approaches and strategies that could be used to provide the most appropriate standards of care possible under the circumstances.
Examples of tools and resources to help States and communities in their planning process.
Illustrative examples of how specific health systems, communities, or States have approached various issues in their MCE-related planning efforts.
While I am thrilled with the efforts put forward, no one is talking about the one million babies that could be born in American during a three month flu pandemic. If the hospital is over run with sick people, healthy women will not want to give birth in a hospital. America does not have enough trained midwives to help with those births.
The answer for that scenario is for parents to take personal responsibility for their own births, and to that end, Freebirth fits the bill. The last pandemic happened while most babies were still being born at home in 1918 and an infrastructure was in place to enable those women to birth at home. That structure has been carefully and systematically taken down in America and is also being replaced all over the world. Did you know that 50% of Chinese babies are born by c-section today?
I wish someone in the Government would start thinking about this topic, and instead of using precious resources to make loads of money for the makers of drugs and vaccines that probably won't work anyway, use those dollars to educate the American People in Provident Living and Pro-active realities around survival living.
Home Childbirth is one of the most important skills that families could realistically master ahead of time for mitigating against a flu pandemic and the harsh realities that would soon present to the birthing mothers of America as people start dropping like flies from a deadly virus.
But ACOG would have problems with that....wouldn't they.....And we don't want the doctors to get upset....so much lovely money and power is at stake.
Posted by Jenny Hatch at 12:45 PM
Ann Coulter: The Bumper Sticker that Blew Up
Which side are the democrats on?
Ann has another great column this week!
Posted by Jenny Hatch at 12:42 PM
World Net Daily: Deadly and Dangerous Psychiatric Medications
On the cover of this months whistleblower magazine was an expose on Psychiatric Meds.
This timely and informative story is available from WND. Go Here.
MANIA
The shocking link between psychiatric drugs,
suicide, violence and mass murder
"From Columbine to Virginia Tech, every time another headline-making mass murderer is discovered to have taken antidepressants or other psychiatric drugs, rumors and speculation abound regarding the possible connection between the medications and the violence.
Now, reports the July 2007 edition of WND's elite monthly Whistleblower magazine, the time for speculation and guessing is over. The evidence is overwhelming and irrefutable, says Whistleblower's groundbreaking investigative report: Mood-altering psychiatric drugs – taken every day by tens of millions of Americans, including millions of children – actually can push some users over the edge into mania, suicide and horrific violence.
The issue is titled "MANIA: The shocking truth about psychiatric drugs and their link to suicide, violence and mass murder."
To begin with, many of the most notorious mass killers in recent memory have been on, or just coming off, prescription mood-altering drugs. Remember these headline names?
Andrea Yates, in one of the most heartbreaking crimes in modern history, drowned all five of her children – aged 7 years down to 6 months – in a bathtub. Insisting inner voices commanded her to kill her kids, she had become increasingly psychotic over the course of several years.
Yates had been taking the antidepressant Effexor. In November 2005, more than four years after Yates drowned her children, Effexor manufacturer Wyeth Pharmaceuticals quietly added "homicidal ideation" to the drug's list of "rare adverse events." But "rare" is defined by the FDA as occurring in less than one in 1,000 people. And since, according to an Associated Press report, about 19.2 million prescriptions for Effexor were filled in the U.S. alone in 2005, that means statistically almost 20,000 Americans could experience "homicidal ideation" – that is, murderous thoughts – as a result of taking just this one antidepressant drug.
Columbine mass-killer Eric Harris was taking the widely prescribed antidepressant Luvox when he and fellow student Dylan Klebold went on a hellish school shooting rampage in 1999, killing 12 students and a teacher and wounding 24 others before turning their guns on themselves.
Luvox manufacturer Solvay Pharmaceuticals concedes that 4 percent of children and youth taking Luvox developed "mania" – a serious mental derangement characterized by extreme excitement and delusion – during short-term controlled clinical trials.
Authorities investigating Cho Seung-Hui, who murdered 32 at Virginia Tech in April, reportedly found "prescription drugs" for the treatment of psychological problems among his possessions. Joseph Aust, Cho's roommate, told the Richmond Times-Dispatch Cho's routine each morning had included taking prescription drugs.
So what kind of meds had Cho been taking? Strangely, his medical records have yet to be released to the public – authorities claiming it's because an investigation is still ongoing, although critics suggest the purpose may be to protect the drug companies from liability claims.
Meanwhile, the list of killers who happened to be taking psychiatric medications is long and chilling. Remember these headline names?
Patrick Purdy's 1989 schoolyard shooting rampage in Stockton, Calif., was the catalyst for the legislative frenzy to ban "semiautomatic assault weapons" in California and the nation. The 25-year-old Purdy, who murdered five children and wounded 30, had been on Amitriptyline, an antidepressant, as well as the antipsychotic drug Thorazine.
Kip Kinkel, 15, murdered his parents in 1998 and the next day went to his school, Thurston High in Springfield, Ore., and opened fire on his classmates, killing two and wounding 22 others. He had been prescribed both Prozac and Ritalin.
In 1988, 31-year-old Laurie Dann went on a shooting rampage in a second-grade classroom in Winnetka, Ill., killing one child and wounding six. She had been taking the antidepressant Anafranil as well as Lithium, long used to treat mania.
All very interesting, you may be thinking, but what do the drug companies say in their defense?
One of the most widely prescribed antidepressants today is Paxil, manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline.
Paxil's known "adverse drug reactions" – according to the drug's own 2001 FDA-approved label – include "mania," "insomnia," "anxiety," "agitation," "confusion," "amnesia," "depression," "paranoid reaction," "psychosis," "hostility," "delirium," "hallucinations," "abnormal thinking," "depersonalization" and "lack of emotion," among others.
With a rap sheet like that, no wonder pharmaceutical companies are nervous about liability lawsuits over the "rare adverse effects" of their medications. In 1998, for example, GlaxoSmithKline was ordered to pay $6.4 million to Donald Schnell's surviving family members after the 60-year-old man, just two days after taking Paxil, murdered his wife, daughter and granddaughter in a fit of rage.
But reporting the truth about the relationship between psychiatric medications and mass murderers is just the beginning. "MANIA" also reveals clear and compelling evidence that psychiatric drugs hurt children physically – causing shrinkage of their brains, damage to their hearts and other significant effects.
Perhaps even more disconcerting, "MANIA" exposes the federal government's bizarre preoccupation with screening all American school kids to see if they're mentally ill – a process that often leads directly to a prescription for mood-altering drugs for the child who didn't answer the questions properly.
"The problem," said David Kupelian, managing editor of WND and Whistleblower, "is that many Americans don't exactly trust the federal government to determine what constitutes 'mental health.'" Incredibly, as this issue reveals, there is even a government effort to proclaim an infant-and-toddler mental health crisis!
With the numbers of people taking prescription psychiatric medications in the tens of millions and growing every day, this issue will touch virtually every reader in a profound way.
"I think this is one of the most important and frankly mind-boggling editions of Whistleblower we've ever produced," said Kupelian. "The information in it could very well be life-changing – or even life-saving."
I'm wondering when the MSM is going to have the guts to take on this huge story.... With every other ad on television selling anti-depressants to the American Public, I guess it will be a while....don't want to make the advertisers mad, but if they were real journalists, they would take it on with a vengeance.
Please get this isue of Whistleblower and start educating yourself on the perils of psychiatric meds.
PS If you would like to understand how Psychiatric Meds fit into the whole scheme of things in terms of mind control and the whole Big Socialistic takeover of the world, as well as the role that Big Pharma is playing to help along the World Government Agendas, please watch this movie End Game Produced by Alex Jones.
(I don't agree with everything in this documentary, but the population control information during the last hour is spot on, and fits with many other things I have researched) The whole movie is compelling. As always one of the best ways to fight those who would seek power over our lives is to educate yourself towards medical self sufficiency and give birth at home alone, and then keep your kids away from doctors and fight every day to make a good marriage and family life for your loved ones.
Posted by Jenny Hatch at 12:08 PM
Childbirth, A Much better way birth stories: Mommy Blogger
A huge Blog that contains awesome information about homebirth.
Go Check it out!
Posted by Jenny Hatch at 12:04 PM
UK: Drugs for hyperactive children soar
If you knew that using drugs during your childs birth would lead to hyperactivity later on, don't you think you might be motivated to learn how to give birth without any drugs, typically called Natural Childbirth?
If hyperactivity is on the rise, why do we think more drugs are the answer?
Drug use soars
A LOST generation of children are growing up taking powerful prescription pills.
Super-strength drugs to tackle a severe childhood behavioural condition are soaring on Tyneside.
According to new figures seen by the Chronicle, the number of youngsters on medication for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, commonly known as ADHD, has doubled in Newcastle over the last two years.
Other areas are seeing an increase in the prescribing of strong stimulants such as Ritalin, Modafinil, and Dexedrine, as well as antidepressant Atomoxetine – which can all counteract hyperactivity.
The figures show prescriptions in the Newcastle Primary Care Trust area alone shot up from 2,284 in 2005-06 to 4,073 in 2006-07.
In North Tyneside, prescription numbers exploded from 528 in 2005/06 to 2,367 in 2006/07.
Gateshead, South Tyneside, Sunderland and Durham City also saw an increase in the number of prescriptions.
Children as young as six could be getting the drugs, and the rise in prescriptions has been blasted by a psychiatric health watchdog, the Citizens’ Commission on Human Rights, which claims children are being “drugged into submission”.
ADHD expert Paul McArdle, a consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist based at Newcastle’s Flemming Nuffield Unit, says the drugs can dramatically improve a child’s quality of life.
But he admits medicating the hyperactive is cheaper than other methods.
He explained: “With the right diagnosis and the right dose of medication, these drugs can help a child lead a more normal life and reduce a lot of the distress ADHD causes.
“There are other ways of dealing with children who have ADHD, such as specialist group work, but the investment needed for that is colossal and the funds are just not available.
“So we’re left with a real dilemma – medicate, or leave the child in an impossible situation where the future looks very bleak. One of the reasons for the increase in prescriptions could be that we are now giving out monthly doses of medication rather than previously, when we would prescribe around three months.”
ADHD severely affects around one in every 100 children in the UK, but many more are mildly affected – thought to be as many as 10%. There are thought to be more than one million adult sufferers.
The condition is caused by a dysfunction in the brain which leads the child to become overloaded with information which cannot be processed.
It is estimated that ADHD drugs cost the Newcastle PCT alone more than £198,000 in the past year and some argue they are not necessary and could even harm a child.
Brian Daniels, from the Citizens Commission on Human Rights, said: “Children do experience problems and upsets in life that may result in mental troubles.
“But to represent that these troubles are caused by chemical imbalances or incurable brain diseases that can only be alleviated with dangerous drugs is dishonest, harmful and often deadly.
“They mask the real cause of problems in life and debilitate the individual, so denying him or her the opportunity for real recovery and hope for the future.”
Mum Deborah Bennett, from Washington, has decided against drugs to treat her nine-year-old son Jack’s ADHD, despite being offered Ritalin and a way to cope with his uncontrollable behaviour.
Jack, a pupil at Maplewood School in Sunderland, which specialises in helping children with conditions such as ADHD, is prone to uncontrollable swearing and aggressive outbursts towards other children, and can seldom be left alone.
Deborah, 38, said: “I was worried about the effects drugs would have on him because sometimes they can make the children seem like zombies.
“Although the summer holidays are coming up and I’m concerned about how I’ll manage his behaviour, I won’t go for drugs – and I only would as a very last resort.”
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Drug makes family life better
WITHOUT powerful ADHD medication, family life for the Fosters would be fraught with difficulties.
Jordan Foster was just five when he was given Ritalin by experts to control the condition, making him the youngest child in Gateshead to ever be given the drug.
Consultants were stunned when they visited the Fosters at their home in Low Fell, and saw the unruly youngster dart around the house attempting to rip radiators from walls and hurl toys at them.
They immediately diagnosed ADHD and Jordan is currently on a slow-release form of Ritalin 12 hours a day.
The drug often causes the youngster, now nine, to lose his appetite, but mum Christine, 43, maintains they have never looked back on their decision.
“Jordan’s behaviour was very destructive and we couldn’t do anything together as a family,” said Christine, who also has sons George, 12, and Andrew, 18, with husband Frank, 49.
“I would end up taking Jordan out separately to Frank and the boys because someone needed to control him constantly.
“We could never go out for family meals because his behaviour would cause people to stare and tut at us.
“But since the medication started, things have changed a lot and Jordan is more stable. We know what he is going to do and how he is going to react.”
Electrician Frank and Christine were initially hesitant about giving Jordan such strong medication, but were worried the condition would disrupt the youngster’s education.
And to make matters worse, Jordan, a pupil at Lindisfarne School in Gateshead, has also been diagnosed with autism.
“Initially we just gave him Ritalin during school hours and it improved his concentration a lot,” added Christine, who now runs a counselling service for families with children who have ADHD.
“He can behave more like a normal little boy and make friends, whereas before, his behaviour and the noises he made scared the other children.
“Putting Jordan on medication was a very difficult decision, but it has so many benefits and our family life is now a lot better.”
But isn't that decision made so much easier simply because the drugs exist and are widely available?
Nutrition, gentle natural birth, and attachment parenting are the answer for this "LOST generation of children"
Posted by Jenny Hatch at 11:56 AM
More Trauma from botched hospital birth: Boy 14 = Cerebral Palsy
UK - Boy 14 damaged by his medical birth
Boy,14, £2.6m for injuries suffered at birth Jul 18 2007
A 14-YEAR-OLD boy left facing a lifetime of catastrophic disability by injuries suffered during his birth has won a £2.6 million compensation deal at London's High Court.
Callum Halliday, of Hunter's Chase, South Godstone, was born by Caesarean section at East Surrey Hospital, Redhill, in May 1993.
But oxygen starvation has left him a victim of quadriplegic cerebral palsy, confined to a wheelchair and totally dependent on others for all his care needs.
His legal team argued that, had it not been for a negligent delay in his delivery, Callum would have escaped serious injury.
Through his mother Linda, Callum sued the hospital's managers,Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, who agreed to settle his case for £2.6 million.
The settlement was reached without any admission of liability by the NHS Trust.
Announcing the deal on July 10, Callum's QC, Simon Taylor, said the decision had been taken to do a deal as there would have been a real risk, had there been a contested trial and the trust found blameless, that Callum would have come away with "absolutely nothing".
Defence counsel Ben Browne QC, emphasised that no fault by medics had been admitted, but expressed the trust's "great regret" over Callum's injuries.
He told Justice Silber: "Anyone reading the papers in this case is bound to be struck by the enormous degree of affection and care shown to Callum by his parents and extended family.
"He has realised every bit of potential left to him, entirely thanks to the devoted care given to him by his family and we pay tribute to them for that."
How touching that the medics have such "great regret" for this oxygen deprived boy. I wonder how his life would have been if his momma had stayed home and been taught some deep breathing exercises to use during her labor to ensure that her child received all the oxygen he needed during the birth process. And how would it have been if instead of being in a smelly, toxic hospital, perhaps given an epidural that was in fact what may have disrupted the proper flow of oxygen to that childs blood stream, if his mother had been enabled to labor comfortably at home away from drugs and machines???
The funky breathing patterns of the modern Lamaze Method of childbirth has also been implicated in oxygen deprivation for babies. When a mother hyperventilates during her birth, the child tends to panic in the womb because of the disruption in proper flows of oxygen to his body. Women need to be taught deep, quiet breathing for labor, as is taught in Bradley Method childbirth classes.
Posted by Jenny Hatch at 11:46 AM
Hugh Hewitt: The Collapse of the Newspapers
Another battle in my favorite blood sport:
The collapse of the Newspapers
Ha ha ha ha Hee hee hee
Posted by Jenny Hatch at 11:40 AM
The Politico: Romneys new tv spot
Video of Mitt Romneys new ad for his campaign.... Go Here!
Posted by Jenny Hatch at 11:23 AM
Letters from Laura Blog: Unassisted Childbirth in the UK
Laura Shanley just traveled over to the UK to appear on a daytime talk show about UC Birth.
Here is her blog entry detailing her adventures.
"At last it was time for our segment! The three of us were led onto the stage where we met Richard and Judy just seconds before they said "action!" or "we're on!" or whatever it is they say when the cameras start rolling. I actually wasn't nervous but for some reason I don't remember much of what happened once we went on the air. Later that night I remembered that when I said to Richard, "The same consciousness that knows how to grow an egg and a sperm (can I say sperm?!) into a human being, knows how to complete the process" he said, "That's ridiculous." Overall the man was not receptive to our ideas!
But Julia and Natalie were brilliant (which is a word people use a lot over there but in this case it's true)! They talked about how empowering their births were, and the problems they endured in their previous midwife-assisted births. I managed to get in a few words about the dangers of hospital birth, as I was essentially put on the defensive. I barely got to talk about unassisted childbirth, although I believe I may have mentioned my breech birth.
And then before we knew it, it was over and we returned to the green room for wine and h'orderves. There was one sobering moment when I said to Julia that I would have liked to have told Richard that 2-6% of babies are cut into during C-sections (I rarely bring up hospital birth statistics during interviews but Richard was so ademant in his belief in the safety of hospital birth). At that point, Julia pointed to a scar running down her cheek and said, "How do you think I got this? The doctor who did my mother's C-section was drunk and cut right into my face." I only wish I would have had this information PRIOR to going on the air!
I'm looking forward to watching a tape of the show (one is supposedly on the way). I've heard from two friends, Patrick Houser and Veronika Robinson (who just happened to catch the show!) that all of us were "brilliant"! Veronika also wrote about it in her blog."
Thanks for sharing Laura!
Posted by Jenny Hatch at 11:17 AM
Business Week: When do you stop the presses?
Business Week: When do you stop the presses?
Ha Ha heh heh heh, snort, hee, hee, hee, ROTFLOL!!!!!
Posted by Jenny Hatch at 11:11 AM
Newsmax: Vaccines and Brain Disorders
"Is there a link between childhood vaccines and autism? The pendulum keeps swinging in opposite directions as this skin wrenching emotional and scientific national debate continues.
In the meantime, we continue to play risky "cocktail" roulette with the health of our children.
Generation Rescue commissioned SurveyUSA, an independent opinion research team, to interview parents in nine counties in California and Oregon.
Methodology closely mirrored that used by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to establish the national prevalence for neurological disorders such as "Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder," "Attention Deficit Disorder," "Asperger's Syndrome," "Pervasive Development Disorder," "Not Otherwise Specified," or "Autism."
Roll Call, a leading publication for congressional news and information, recently drew attention to this survey that showed vaccinated boys had a 2.5 times higher risk of neurological disorders than unvaccinated boys, and calling for a national study to explore these disturbing results.
Based on interviews of 11,817 households, involving 17,674 children aged 417, the data showed:
Vaccinated boys, compared with unvaccinated boys, were 155 percent more likely to have a neurological disorder (relative risk RR 2.55), 224 percent more likely to have ADHD (RR 3.24, and 61 percent more likely to have autism (RR 1.61).
All vaccinated boys and girls, compared with unvaccinated children, were 120 percent more likely to have asthma (RR 2.20).
Comments J.B. Handley of Generation Rescue, "For less than $200,000, we were able to complete a study that the CDC, with an $8 billion a year budget, has been unable or unwilling to do. We think the results of our survey lend credibility to the urgent need to do a larger scale study to compare vaccinated and unvaccinated children for neuro developmental outcomes."
At a press conference in summer 2005, Dan Olmsted of United Press International asked CDC Director Julie Geberding whether the government has ever looked at autism rates in the unvaccinated population.
She responded, "In this country, we have very high levels of vaccination . . . and I think this year we have record immunization levels among all of our children, so to (select an unvaccinated group) on a population basis that would be representative to look at incidence in that population compared to the other population would be something that could be done . . ."
Posted by Jenny Hatch at 11:06 AM
Domestic Goddess Blog: Homebirth Resource
I really like this womans blog:
Go check out her Homebirth Resource Page....awesome!
Posted by Jenny Hatch at 11:01 AM
WSJ: Happy Blogiversary
Ten Years!!!
"The consumption of blogs is often avid and occasionally obsessive. But more commonly, it is utterly natural, as if turning to them were no stranger than (dare one say this here?) picking one's way through the morning's newspapers. The daily reading of virtually everyone under 40 -- and a fair few folk over that age -- now includes a blog or two, and this reflects as much the quality of today's bloggers as it does a techno-psychological revolution among readers of news and opinion."
I think of myself as a blogging novice, but have to take the time to thank all of you who come in every month. This adventure of the past two years has been one of the most satisfying things I have ever taken on!
Total Traffic for Natural Family Blog as of today: (I started on July 4th, 2005)
Totals
KBytes - 3,4373,952
Visits - 148,625
Pages - 364,209
Files - 749,692
Hits - 960,734
For those of you who have come in as Unique Visitors (even writing the number 148,625 people is mind boggling to my sensibilities) and have bookmarked and come back and time or two....thankyou!
As I've said before, I am not a writer.
But I am a very opinionated mother. And now, a passionate blogger.
Let Freedom RING!
Posted by Jenny Hatch at 8:13 AM
The JAWA report: Iraqis and American Soldiers dancing in Anbar streets!
JAWA:
Iraqis/Troops Dancing in the Streets!
Celebrating the Anbar Awakening:
Go Watch this video at Jawa, its really cool!
Posted by Jenny Hatch at 8:10 AM
Breitbart: Valerie Plame's Lawsuit Dismissed
Valerie Plame's Lawsuit Dismissed
"WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal judge dismissed former CIA operative Valerie Plame's lawsuit against members of the Bush administration Thursday, eliminating one of the last courtroom remnants of the leak scandal.
Plame, the wife of former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, had accused Vice President Dick Cheney and others of conspiring to leak her identity in Plame said that violated her privacy rights and was illegal retribution for her husband's criticism of the administration.
U.S. District Judge John D. Bates dismissed the case on jurisdictional grounds and said he would not express an opinion on the constitutional arguments. Bates dismissed the case against all defendants: Cheney, White House political adviser Karl Rove, former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby and former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage."
It bothers me somewhat to even give this case space on my blog, and I know that this last parting PIFF from the moonbattery of Wilson and his wife will go on for generations to come in certain peoples minds and in certain places in the deep dark recesses of the media and on the web, but hopefully, outside of the perfunctory Olivery Stone movie, this whole farce is over.
More here:
Quote from Hot Air:
"For the reasons given above, plaintiffs have failed to state a claim upon which relief can be granted with respect to their four causes of action asserted directly under the Constitution. Furthermore, this Court lacks subject-matter jurisdiction over plaintiffs’ claim for public disclosure of private facts."
"So the AP has evidently mischaracterized the ruling, and this case is dead, dead, dead."
Maybe Mr. Stone can give it a good hollywood ending, you know, Bush is impeached for crimes against humanity, Cheney is assasinated by a disgruntled Halliburton employee, and Scooter is given a lobotomy for even daring to try to defend himself from these imbeciles.
And of course, how can we forget the harbingers of truth themselves, the Wilsons?
Hmmm, a good Hollywood ending....
Valerie is ensconced in the White House as Head of the Thought Police in Hillarys Cabinet, and Ol' Joe himself is made Secretary General of the United Nations....Uhhh, can't do that, cause Bill Clinton has his eye on the job. Maybe Hill could make "Honest Abe Wilson" head of the "lost and secret files and documents" unit of her in house secret police force.
Nawwww.....
UPDATE: Movie about the Judith Miller part of this story is being cast and written....Ugghhhhh.
"'Truth' lures writer-director Lurie
Political drama parallels Plame case
By MICHAEL FLEMINGRod Lurie will next direct his script "Nothing but the Truth," a drama about a D.C.-based female newspaper reporter who outs a CIA agent and is imprisoned for refusing to reveal her source.
Cast is mobilizing for an October production start. Talks are under way for Kate Beckinsale to play the journalist, Matt Dillon the prosecutor, Vera Farmiga the CIA agent, Edie Falco (in her first role since "The Sopranos") the editor of the newspaper that published the story and Alan Alda the attorney who tries to free the reporter from jail.
Marc Frydman will produce and the Yari Film Group will finance. Bob Yari bought the spec script after working with Lurie on the Josh Hartnett-Samuel L. Jackson starrer "Resurrecting the Champ," which the Yari Film Group releases next month.
"Nothing but the Truth" parallels the case of Valerie Plame, whose status as a CIA agent was exposed in the media after her husband, Ambassador Joe Wilson, wrote a New York Times op-ed piece charging the Bush administration with manipulating intelligence to justify the invasion of Iraq.
Former New York Times reporter Judith Miller went to jail to protect her sources, and Lewis "Scooter" Libby, the former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, was convicted of perjury, making false statements to federal investigators and obstruction of justice. President Bush commuted his 30-month jail sentence.
Lurie, who tackled D.C. politics with his breakthrough film "The Contender," aims to start his pic well ahead of a WB project that will be told from the vantage point of Plame and Wilson.
Jez and John Butterworth are already scripting the Warner pic and Akiva Goldsman and Jerry and Janet Zucker are producing."
I'm starting to feel really nauseated just reading these words...bleeech....
Posted by Jenny Hatch at 7:44 AM
July 19, 2007
A Day at the Beach
I took six young boys to the Boulder Res today. Each of my three sons invited a friend. It was really fun. And yes, we listened to Weird Al's Albeuquerque four times in the car.
Here is a slideshow:
Posted by Jenny Hatch at 4:17 PM
July 15, 2007
JOYFUL Freebirth: Jenny Hatch Births Benjamin Hatch
NOTES on this slide show:
At the end of this slide show I am shown singing the song, Families can be together forever, and then a short clip from A German Requiem is shared. This performance was with the Broomfield Choral Festival. I am standing in the back row on the left. This particular text from Brahms Requiem is simply "joyful JOYFUL! Joyful, Joyful....Joy EverLASTING, FOREVER on their heads....shall be. Joy and delight shall seize them and posses them, and pain and sighing, shall flee, shall flee, from them....Joy and delight shall seize them and posses them."
I did a huge blog entry last summer explaining my interpretation of the requiem. Go here to read it.
I believe the Biblical Texts Brahms chose to use for this master choral work is simply describing the Divine Feminine as defined by Husband and Wife Unassisted Birth.
Here is the text of my blog post on Joyful Freebirth:
These past few weeks I have been forced to consider once again the difficulty that comes into my life with the Promotion of Unassisted Childbirth. As I have participated in a variety of news, magazine, and online conversations about childbirth, it has been a rude awakening to realize how truly controversial this lifestyle is.
I am so in the habit of socializing with people who have reconciled our life choices, and don't feel the need to give us any grief about it, that when I am thrust into a situation where that old hostility rears its ugly head, it is always a shock to my sensibilities to listen to and read the pure venom that is reserved for those of us who have pulled away from the Birth Machine.
I have spent some quality time these past few weeks participating in online forums, blogs, and talking to reporters about Freebirth. I am so in the habit of thinking of this as a valid and realistic alternative to hospital birth, that it is easy to forget my own long journey to home birth and give others the same grace and space to reconcile it in their own minds.
I realized during a recent chat that those I was talking to wanted me to erase all of their fears and phobias around birth with a wave of a magic wand. They wanted me to reassure and give them the words and evidence that would allow them to let go of all of their own programming around birth fears and give the evidence that would enable them to quickly shift to a new way of thinking. Wether they knew it or not, this is an impossible task to request of any one person, and the reason why is because those who give birth at home unassisted are working in the faith realm. And for those steeped in medical childbirth, they are so far removed from faith, working in the fleshy realm of the tests, drugs, procedures, and practices of birth that to ask a person of faith to "hand over" a testimony of birth is an unrealistic request.
It is as if an atheist asked a person who believed in God to simplistically and without any effort on the atheists part, impart a faithful testimony of God into their heart.
Life does not work that way. In the faith realm, even after years of difficult reprogramming of mental attitudes towards birth, filling the mind with new beliefs, thrusting out of ones life the people, attitudes, and philosophies that are frustrating the freebirth process (and this is in fact the main reason I took on the task of doing my own prenatal care), and doing every proactive thing possible in terms of nutrition and exercise....even then....
GIVING BIRTH ALONE IS A LEAP OF FAITH!!!
Paul and I were talking about this topic during the days leading up to Bens Birth. We had been in email contact with another LDS couple who were planning an unassisted birth, and the mother had written, "If I could only be assured that nothing bad would happen, then I think I could give birth alone." She shared with us how she had begged the Lord to assure her that everything would be fine.... and the heavens were silent.
The question is, Would it have been a leap of faith on her part if the Lord had told her before the baby came, that everything would in fact be fine; no worries, no problems?
Nope. The law that governs the universe is the Law of Opposites. If couples want to work in the medical realm where every step of the way they can be assured by technology that "everything is fine", I believe they are cutting themselves off from the potential JOY and fulfillment that comes with the leap. Wether they are aware of it or not, they also welcome into their lives the various pitfalls and iantrogenic problems that accompany technological birth.
With unassisted birth, it often feels like a couple is standing on the edge of a cliff, with rocks and briars in the valley below. When that husband and wife make the decision to stand away from the edge, grasp hands, and then take a flying leap into the unknown, it can indeed look to outsiders as irresponsible as any intentional jump off a cliff would appear. Yet if that same couple claims the scriptural promises that Faith will indeed proceed the miracle, and assume that God will be waiting with outstretched hands to catch them before they hit bottom, the pure joy and happiness that can be a part of that union of Father, Mother, and Heavenly Father working in harmony together is difficult to put into words.
This is birth. It is a life and death moment. A mother walks into the valley of the shadow of death to grasp her childs hand and walk with him or her into mortality. The veil is very thin and during this moment, just about anything can happen.
Modern Medicine would never have been able to make the obscene amounts of money from the pelvic goldmine if this were not the case. Fathers and Mothers would have never submitted to the level of intervention and costs associated with allopathy, if this were not the case. Heck, Anakin Skywalker would have never become Darth Vadar if this were not the case.
So the question must be asked, How is it possible for me to convince you in a matter of days, weeks, or just a few months that the way I give birth is "safe, best for the baby, best for the family, and best for a husband and wifes married life together", if it took me years of difficult work to get to the place where I myself felt comfortable with it?
How could I find the words to convince you, if after all these years, I have barely been able to convince my own husband? And I can promise you we have spent more hours talking and discussing birth than just about any other subject in our life together.
That request, that I convince you with just a few written words that unassisted childbirth is safe and desirable, is simply impossible to do.
The challenge I have for those of you reading is to do your own research, to logically and systematically reason it out in your own mind, to learn for yourself the facts of making a healthy baby, and then when the time comes, TAKE THE LEAP OF FAITH THAT WILL LAND YOU SAFELY IN THE WORLD OF PROACTIVE PARENTING. Asking that I prove this with a study or a statistic is simply impossible.
Yet, being personally responsible for this life choice will change everything in your life. Few things have affected me so profoundly as taking personal responsibility for my own life, my own health, and my childrens heath. The satisfaction and thrill that I have felt these past ten years since making the determination that this was what I was going to do, has brought amazing amounts of joy, pure spirit, pure love into my life. Conversely, and this is the law of opposites kicking in again, making this decision has also brought incredible amounts of pain and trauma into my heart.
I have reconciled my life choices. But many around me have NOT reconciled my life choices, especially as it relates to their own life experiences. Non conformity has a price. And it is up to each individual couple how much of a price they are willing to pay for that non conforming to societies expectations and rules of conduct.
Like it or not, we live in a world where technology is God. All of the civic laws, rules of conduct, expectations, and assumptions revolve around that reality. And when you step out of that reality into something completely different, it can make those around you assume that you have lost your marbles. Some individuals are better able to reconcile that rejection and reality. Some are not able, and often divorce or even death results. I have known several unassisted birthing mothers who simply died. No, not during the birth, but in the months after the birth, once the rejection from peers reached fever pitch, a couple of them have simply died. Mostly of heart attack, heart ache. I believe they could not reconcile the reality of the amazing joy and sacredness of the birth experience with all of the layers of dung being thrown at them afterwards by family, friends, social workers, doctors, and society in general.
So, how to do we go from a society