A Picture Paints 1000 Words -- Comparing C-section and Homebirth Pics

From Someone, again.:

"No, homebirth is not always about the mother. One of my many reasons for homebirthing is the baby. I believe that it is a safer and more comfortable environment for both of us. Rather than being born into bright lights into the hands of strangers who will poke and prod him, vigorously scrub him, and lay him on cold surfaces, he will be born into a cozy room of dim lights and soft voices into the arms of his mother who will immediately take him to her breast.The risk of complications from C-sections are higher for infants, too. I'm surprised that you don't know that C-section babies are more likely to have breathing problems and a whole world of other issues associated with that birth."

From Safe Baby Partners:

And don't forget the cord cutting before the placenta is birthed so that baby doesn't get his or her placental blood and his or her lungs are forced to breathe in air before fully transitioned, and the coinciding "just in case" resuscitation, followed by eye ointment that interferes with mother-baby eye contact needed for the brain to set off necessary hormones for attachment and bonding, and the shots that come from no where and send them into further shock -- all done in the first minutes of life.

I am surprised too --- the literature abounds with the evidence of lung, asthma, ADHD, ear infections, headaches associated with cesarean birth, not to mention the psycho-social-emotional affects. Everyone but the obstetricians know this? Isn't that odd? Nor do they know of the brain studies and pure logic show us that the birthing baby is a fully sentient, conscious person with a brain that has a billion neurons -- the most in their entire life -- all ready wiring up based on EXPERIENCE with the environment?

Obstetricians seem to earnestly believe that women who choose homebirth are doing so for themselves and that this is "inherently" (to quote her) selfish. In order to justify drugs, interventions, cesarean section, and barbaric treatment in first moments of life, doctors must maintain that the laboring and birthing baby's brain turns into a blob during that "such a short time that it doesn't matter, yet most dangerous even of childhood." (Quoting Dr. Amy.) This is the same baby and same brain, mind you, that in the months before birth and moments after is clearly responding to mother, sounds, temperature, and negotiating the environment. Hmmmmmmmmm.

Three Cesarean birth photos and two homebirth photos follow:

Does this baby have no long term memory or feeling of the experience of her birth, obviously so horrific that her face is mmassively bruised, and does she have no memory (emotions) and no consequence of being separated from her mother for thirteen hours? Or being comforted by her daddy? Is that LOGICAL that the baby is not affected by any of this -- the tragic and the loving?

Or baby being protected by his father at the right -- he doesn't experience or remember this? The nurse who refused the parent's request to wait to do the weighing and measuring and bathing is literally trying to pry his hands from his baby's head while he is asking her, "to please slow down" and "please be gentle" (baby's head malformed from laboring). He refused to allow the baby to ride in a cart and insisted on carrying him. The nurse cried out, "Can he do that?" and the surgical nurse said, "Yes, it's his son."

Back in recovery dad holds him and comforts him and (right) when mom is ready we support baby and mom to do the "Self Attachment Sequence."

Or my own grandson, born by cesarean, her below. A masked stranger with gloved hands is holding him up naked in a cold surgicall suite. Is this baby not obviously FEELING something? Anger, fear, frustration? "GET YOUR HANDS OFF ME?" perhaps, or just "wheeeeere is my mama?" That's all a newborn wants -- to see, smell, hear, and be touched by his mama. She was in recovery on the surgical floor because OB didn't have a bed for her -- a planned cesarean for breech presentation even!? He is alone, naked until his dad had a fit and insisted they be together. FOR YEARS, he was terrified to have his mother out of her sight. Notice how red his face is compared to his body -- this is thought to be the effect of drugs in the healing field.

Animals in the wild treat their young with more respect.

TWO HOMEBIRTHS

Baby left was born at home in Chicago, IL and attended by midwives, nurse, and physicians from "Home First" www.homefirst.com as was his older brother.

Baby is less than half-hour old, no unnecessary interventions such as weighing, bathing, and shots have been done. He has just completed the self-attachment process -- mother supports baby to crawl to breast to attach.

Newborn boy (with big Sister) to right is the fifth child born at home to a physician who ran a Family Practice and Birth Center in Columbia, MO.
www.wholehealthcolumbia.com.

Compare his condition and expression to the first baby's -- how could birth experience not matter?