THEY'RE NOT LISTENING - not at the hospital where Amy E. Austin will deliver.
See below.
Amy,
If they showed a woman semisitting without mentioning that she was closing her birth canal up to 30% - then they aren't listening.
Obstetricians and midwives have LONG been promoting "alternative" delivery positions - right along with the delivery positions that close the birth canal the "extra" up to 30% - without mentioning this latter crucial fact (as apparently occurred in your clbutt).
Worse, in NORMAL births, some obstetricians and midwives allow women to labor in "alternative" delivery positions and then move them to semisitting or dorsal - close the pelvic outlet the "extra" up to 30% - at the worse possible time - as the mother pushes her baby out through her pelvic outlet.
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Still worse, in ABNORMAL births, obstetricians routinely move women to semisitting or dorsal (or keep them there) when babies get stuck and they pull with hands, forceps and vacuums - sometimes pulling so hard they rip spinal nerves out of tiny spinal cords.
Sorry for those "200 page e-mails" - but I think babies are worth it.
Mothers too.
Todd
Again...
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Semisitting and dorsal, standard medical delivery positions close the birth canal up to 30% - and when babies get stuck obstetricians KEEP women semisitting and dorsal - keep birth canals closed the "extra" up to 30%.
It's easy to allow your birth canal to OPEN the "extra" up to 30%.
See See ACOG's 2005 edition: How NOT to birth
See also: RNs: 'Sbreastches, episiotomy, and postpartum complications' (Maternal care learning needs)
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ALSO: Obstetricians are IMMEDIATELY clamping-cutting umbilical cords, thereby robbing babies of up to 50% of their blood volume.
Make sure you talk to your obstetrician about waiting until the umbilical cord stops pulsating before clamping-cutting. It would not hurt to wait until the placenta is born before clamping-cutting.
Retired obstetrician George Malcolm Morley, MB ChB FACOG indicates that EVERY CESAREAN BABY is immediately clamped-robbed of up to 50% of his-her blood volume.
HERE IS DR. MORLEY RECOMMENDING (FOR "EDUCATION" PURPOSES) **TEMPORARY** BABY STRANGLING ON THE WEB...
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"The umbilical cord is immediately closed between finger and thumb...The fetal heart rate-FHR will decelerate quickly to about 60 bpm...the color will change from purple-pink (normal at birth) to pallid blue (vaso-constriction and asphyxia.)...Few midwives or obstetricians will be able to observe, without interference, a deep, prolonged FHR deceleration on a non-breathing newborn for a period of 60 seconds.Ê Common sense will soon release the finger and thumb."
Dr. Morley MEANS well Ð but it is simply (obviously) illegal for him to encourage obstetricians to commit ÒlesserÓ child abuse in order to encourage them to stop committing greater child abuse - robbing babies of up to 50% of babiesÕ blood volume.
See Michigan Baby Strangler George Malcolm Morley, MB ChB FACOG
Todd
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