Look into the eyes of a newborn and tell me differently

British Sunday Times article, referring to the non-consensual vaginal exams (and other violations) by medical students while a woman is under anesthesia:

"There is nothing to stop a woman bringing a legal action of assault. The only reason no one has done it is because they don't know what's going on." [130] http://upalumni.org/medschool/ob-gyn.html

This is also the case of women in labor and birth and is part of the history that makes birth so violating to women. It is why in doctors and nurses are notoriously numb to the humanity of their person in their care. It is why in teaching hospitals in particular, women are treated like objects and what would be grounds for criminal charges in any other setting. History. Indoctrination. Misuse of power. The insidious, ugly truth is that our current conditions and treatment of women in hospital birth is a long, slow brainwashing accomplished by drugging women, denying the consequences, and ignoring the lifelong consequences to her emotionally, psychologically, spiritually. The impact of the treatment of women on their ability to be healthy, intimate relationships and to fully mother her children is ignored. I can't scream it loud enough --- the human baby is grossly harmed in medically managed birth!!

What is totally ignored is the impact of this experience on the BABY whose birth it is. Everything a mother feels and experiences, her baby experiences -- at every stage and in every second of development, labor, and birth. The lack of respect of the human being coming in is absurd and unconscionable. The human brain at birth as billions of neurons -- the most we'll ever have -- and every one of them is perceiving the environment and biologically making connections based on growth or protection, fear or love, safety or danger. (www.brucelipton.com, www.candacepert.com, www.prenatalparenting.com, www.trauma-pages.org has cutting edge research in the area of consequences of violence on the early brain.)

Consider the last months of pregnancy. Every woman knows what science now confirms. This baby is a fully formed and conscious human being. David Chamberlain, author of the "Mind of Your Newborn Baby" identifies over twelve sensory functions that a gestating baby is capable of. How does our society then ignore that the laboring and birthing baby is not affected by the birth experience. Another crazy contradiction.

There is a divine design to the universe and everything in it, including birth. The compressive forces on the head and chest serve a physiological purpose. We now see that children born by cesarean have high incidence of respiratory and asthma issues -- the amniotic fluid is not forced out before they breathe. Duh.

And, what about the forces upon the head and the scull bones overriding to make the journey? Some these days would use this as the reason for justifying planned cesarean. I'll share a little information from the field of birth trauma healing. You can tell a cesarean born child and adult who was born without labor --- their foreheads are rounded, just like in the in utero pictures of the prenate. You'll also notice they might grind their teeth, have many ear infections, and in general, are "high strung" or wound, easily activated (sometimes agitated and irritated), and generally hyper active children. My grandson was born cesarean without labor. These children are also highly intelligent and he is very verbal and compassionate. Highly intelligent people sometimes don't have a high emotional or relational IQ and end up feeling like strangers in this world. What is the long term mixed bag of consequences of this current experiment?

It is pretty logical -- in a spiritual sense -- that a soul has a plan for this life and so a baby in the womb likely has a plan for their birth. A baby born breech also has physical and behavioral attributes as a result of his or her birth. Literally, the world looks and feels different to them. Our world is better because of diversity and differing perspectives of the world. Either way, a baby born breech vaginally or a child born by planned cesarean because of breech presentations is going to be a human being whose brain sees the world differently from a head-first, vaginal birth.

It's logical and physiological that moving through the pelvis with extreme compressive forces serves an important purpose for the brain and the body, regardless of litigation dictated medicine is forcing upon this numb, drugged population.

Of course, the human born by cesarean is a "normal" person and lives life just fine and appears to be normal. But.... really, what is the consequence of not acknowledging and respecting what is clearly a physiological design for birth (from conception forward)? Beyond what we think and say about the "safety" of cesarean, and how some even now say it is superior (because it eliminates the traumatic birth that IS hospital induced historically!!), it is not safe and it is not without consequence to the human race.

Wake up, America and get off the drugs. See what is happening to women and babies in birth.