IMMACULATE BIRTH

The beauty of woman.

4-6-05

Birth... I

home delivery.

Because of the mother's diet the baby will be fairly small at birth and there will be no pain. Pain is caused by acid toxic matter attacking damaged nerves... if the body is pure... there is no acid toxic matter in the body to cause pain. The birth will be completely natural and watched over by the Child's Guardian Angels.

The husband and wife will deliver the baby at home. When the couple decide on conceiving the Christ Child they will immediately begin to educate and train themselves as midwives... and the care of newborn babies. During the actual birth process the husband will act as the midwife in the delivery.

During pregnancy the mother to be should have an examination by a midwife to make sure she is in the normal or low risk pregnancy category. If she is not, other arrangements for delivery of the baby will have to be made.

"Women have too long remained in ignorance of the most elementary physiological facts concerning childbirth, which they have left to medical practitioners whose education, relating to this as well as to other matters, has been very faulty."

" As a result of this ignorance, both mother and child have been the sufferers.
The high infant mortality today is sufficient evidence that the methods of
childbirth now in vogue are unscientific... for they are largely based on
superstition and tradition."

"A woman should give birth to a child as easily as a hen lays an egg, leaving
the process entirely to nature. This will be possible if she lives hygienically
during gestation; childbirth will then be a simple muscular expulsion of the
contents of the uterus."1

[Hygienic living in this case means remaining chaste during gestation and
while nursing the baby... and eating raw food diet... vegetarian or fruitarian.]

No mention should be made about the mother's diet, home delivery by the parents, or that the baby is the Christ Child to Anyone; particularly medical people, the obstetrician or the midwife, friends or family. Children's Service in many counties and states are very intrusive into family situations they do not consider normal. The conception and birth of the Christ Child should truly be a, "secret mission."

There are other reasons for keeping a low profile and not talking about the Christ Child. If the word got out that you claimed your child was the Christ Child... people would think that you are completely crazy... and you might well end up in the loony-bin and your child in a foster home. Other things that may or may not be a problem, that might arise over the years: birth registration, social security registration for dependent tax purposes, the child's raw food diet, home schooling, immunizations, lack of socialization for the child, child abuse for any number of reasons, drivers license, federal census, labor laws, and draft registration. Keep a low profile, be outwardly friendly and appear to fit in, while just minding your own business.

4-7-05

Excerpts From: For A Natural Birth, There's No Place Like Home,
by Mary Lou Singleton LM
http://www.thelaboroflove.com/forum/marylou/

The miracle of birth: it creates babies, changes women into mothers, and turns individuals into families. Being born and, in turn, giving birth are the most transformative and miraculous events human beings experience. Birth is a profound rite of passage and needs to be treated as more than just a medical event.

Every expectant family desires the safest possible passage through birth for both mother and child. When it comes to birth, most American families equate "safe" with the sterile, closely monitored, technological environment of the hospital. These families may be shocked to learn that giving birth in a "sterile" medical environment designed to monitor and control the birth process does not improve the quality or safety of birth.

In fact, study after study conducted on the issue has shown that for healthy women with low--to--moderate-risk pregnancies, giving birth in a hospital is actually less safe than giving birth at home with a trained midwife.

The familiar comfort of home makes it the safest birthplace for healthy, low-risk women. In the safety of their own homes, women are less likely to experience complications of labor, such as hypertension and meconium staining, which may be brought on by stress.

In nature mammals instinctively seek out quiet, dark, familiar places to give birth; their labors stop if their space is disturbed. Humans also birth best in privacy, and one's own home is the ideal place to create such surroundings. Most women innately choose to move around during labor, finding the most comfortable positions in which to give birth. At a home birth, midwives encourage such position changes and a woman's freedom of movement is limited only by the size of her house and yard.

The freedom to move about as desired decreases both length of labor... lowering the risk of maternal exhaustion, fetal distress. Whereas a woman's home usually contains only microbes to which she and her baby are immune due to to daily exposure, the hospital is full of disease-causing microbes, many of which are resistant to most antibiotics.

Birth is a family event and, with very few exceptions, happens most naturally and safely in the mother's home. Families who birth at home with the help of midwives generally report far greater satisfaction with the birth experience than those who have given birth in hospitals. Women who birth at home and the midwives who attend them understand that birth is as safe as life ever gets, and that attempting to control birth actually causes more complications than it prevents.

Midwives maintain the safety and sanctity of the natural birth process, mainly through the practice of non-intervention. When excellent prenatal care has been given... a mother is well-equipped to birth her baby with minimal assistance.

Midwives specialize in normal birth, they are quick to recognize any deviation from normal and to use the appropriate measures to help correct the situation. Midwives and families who birth at home are not anti-hospital, but feel that the hospital should only be accessed when truly needed.

Midwives trust in women's ability to give birth normally and they help instill and reinforce this same trust in the families they serve. Far from being a medical event which must be suffered in order to receive a baby, a midwife attended home birth is a joyful celebration of life and the family.

Mary Lou Singleton LM, of New Life Midwifery, is a mother, midwife, and herbalist who lives and practices in the Albuquerque area. She is the Secretary of the New Mexico Midwives Association and Regional Representative to the Midwives' Alliance of North America.

4-8-05

Birth... II

hospital delivery.

HISTORY
A Spiritual Analysis
Part III
Our Story

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As you begin to explore this relationship, you will also begin to recognize that many of your negative beliefs and feelings associated with your body, are simply the reflections of the predominant emotions and beliefs of the culture you happened to be born into. These programs have been deeply imprinted into your body and mind, and have been running for your entire lifetime. They've not only influenced how you thought, felt and acted, but even helped to establish the very parameters of what you could or couldn't experience.

I'm not writing about some esoteric fine point here, that for the most part remains a question for academic debate. I'm relating to beliefs about our biology that have left all of us deeply wounded and our bodies damaged and scarred. And this trauma began before we emerged from the womb.

For most of us living in the last 60 years in the United States, our birth took place not in the tranquil comforts of home and family, but in a place of disease, pain and suffering... in other words, in a hospital. Our mother was not surrounded by the support and care of people who loved her. Rather, she was brought into a sterile environment of strangers, who for all their good intentions, remained distant and professional.

Without adequate knowledge and preparation about what her body was going through, she was frightened. And as the contractions increased, she gladly took the drugs the professional people offered, not knowing these chemicals would also affect her baby.

Throughout the long span of human development, women have always moved with instinctual wisdom into a squatting position, in order to use the natural force of gravity in their deliveries. Finding herself in an environment where instinctual wisdom is devalued by scientific theory, most likely our mother was not given the freedom to move as her body dictated in the birthing process. The professional people forced her to lie flat on her back, making her labor that much harder and longer.

Through this ignorance, the baby is put under tremendous stress by the difficulties of such a prolonged labor. In many cases the doctor has to intervene with forceps. He grabs the babies' head with his steel tools and forcefully pulls the baby out of the birth channel, many times injuring the child in the process.

In harsh contrast to the environment in which the newborn has spent the last nine months, she or he is now subjected to the most insensitive hostilities imaginable. Glaring light pierces the eyes, loud noises assault the ears, cold air shocks the skin. Sometimes, as a result of such a traumatic birth, the baby needs help to breathe. So he or she is held upside down and hit on the backside. The resulting shock is not from the blow itself, but from the forceful rush of cold air into the lungs for the first time.

It is important to realize here, that the first act of the baby's body in this new environment resulted in searing pain. Many babies simply remain afraid to take another deep breath for a long time afterward, and some remain shallow breathers for the rest of their lives.

We came into this world with pain and tears, simply because of ignorance. But the ignorance does not stop here by any means.

In the first few critical minutes after birth, the lungs are striving to perform an almost miraculous feat. They're struggling to come on line immediately at 100% capacity. They generally require 4 to 5 minutes to make this critical transition. During this time the brain depends on the placenta as a backup to keep it adequately supplied with oxygen.

This double source of oxygen from the lungs and the placenta, insures the young brain will get the necessary amount of oxygen during this critical transition. For at this time, even the slightest oxygen deprivation can permanently damage the brain. Once the lungs are stabilized and functioning at full capacity, the body in its instinctual wisdom will make the necessary adjustment. The heart automatically closes a valve, stopping the flow of blood into the umbilical cord and placenta. The blood is now directed to the lungs and the transition is finally completed.

Against the biological wisdom of millions of years that went into the design and evolution of this miraculous process, the medical establishment thinks it knows better. It is a widespread practice in this country to cut the umbilical cord immediately after birth.

In many cases the baby is already under tremendous stress as a result of a long and difficult delivery, and in some cases under the added disadvantage of the drugs given to the mother, and to this already stressful situation is added the premature cutting of the umbilical cord. Most often, this practice sufficiently tips the balance against the baby so that breathing becomes a serious problem. Intervention is required at this point or the baby would die.

It is a tragic fact, tragic because in most case it is preventable, that in a large percentage of all hospital deliveries even today, the baby requires resuscitation. In those first critical moments when the lungs are struggling to supply the brain with oxygen, the backup system is cut off. Consequently, the brain suffers oxygen deprivation which many times results in brain damage.

Unfortunately, this is one of the most dramatic and concrete examples of ignorance begetting ignorance. But the horror story does not end here. After such a traumatic delivery, the professionals determine that mother needs time to recover. So the baby is quickly cleaned up and carried off to another part of the hospital... the nursery. This one act, done so routinely in our institutions of modern medicine, probably is the most damaging single act of their entire birthing ideology.

We have begun to peer into the collective darkness of our pain, anxiety and fear. And we have discovered some of the trauma we suffered upon our arrival here: the unnaturally prolonged and difficult delivery; the introduction of drugs into the birth process; the forceful removal from the birth channel; the premature cutting of the umbilical cord, leaving the stress filled brain without adequate oxygen; the interruption of the bonding process, leaving us isolated and feeling abandoned; and in the case of male infants, the added violence of circumcision.

Having suffered and endured all that, Nature still has provided a means for healing to occur and development to proceed. Breast feeding her baby, the mother is not only providing the necessary nutrition the baby needs, but this one act more than any other, provides the psychic nourishment the baby needs for healthy development.

Having missed the stage specific opportunity of the bonding process immediately following birth, breast feeding that is continued over a long period of time, will do much to compensate for that missed opportunity. The breast milk of the mother not only provides nutrients to stimulate and strengthen the baby's immune system, but it is also now suspected that there are specific hormones in the milk that actually facilitate the bonding between the mother and child.

4-9-05

Birth... III

water baby.

Conscious Childbirth: A Wholistic Perspective
(Reprint of Costal Post, January 1, 1995, Story by Stephen Simac)
http://www.lightparty.com/Health/Childbirth.html

Each child in essence a recapitulation of the entire story of the history and development of life here on Earth. Each childbirth, from conception to delivery, is in fact a re-enactment of the nativity scene as depicted in the Bible. Each child, boy or girl, is a Christ child. Each mother is in reality one with "Mary," the Universal mother, Goddess, each father, "Joseph," is one with the Universal Father... God. The child, the son or daughter, a living soul, is in essence one with the Christos, the son... the central ego of humanity who is eternally one with the father/mother/God.

Infinite creative life intelligence working through its creative expressions, you and I, brings forth new life, so as to evolve and experience its understanding of itself. Each new incarnating soul has the power and potential inherent within itself, within the DNA coding of its cells to fully manifest the indwelling creative principle of life... to be fully creative here on Earth. Such is the inheritance and potential of every newborn child. It is within the context of this understanding that we need to examine very closely current birthing practices.

What I am proposing here is an enlightened approach to New Age birthing practices based upon the following: The awareness that the incarnating soul, chooses its parent to be the vehicle for its new Earth experience. Parents do not own or possess their children, but through inner, subconscious agreements, sacrificial love and the desire for conscious growth have accepted the responsibility to provide to the best of their ability an environment and an education which fosters the evolving soul's journey in consciousness.

The psycho/physiological status of the mother is of crucial importance in the formation of the body of the incarnating spirit. It is highly recommended that the mother be supported and nurtured during this time of inner growth. Her thoughts, feelings, emotions, and nutritional status help create the form of the body of the individualizing ego, as well as being a determining factor in the psychological
make-up of the indwelling spirit. She is creating through the genetic inheritance of the father, along with her psychological attitude, the body of the newborn.

Through profoundly complex spiritually engineered and directed subconscious process, the body of the new child is being created within her. Her mental-emotional attitude has a direct and profound effect on these organic subconscious processes. Through awareness, her conscious attitude and actions can either facilitate or detract from the subconscious growth of the embryo within her womb.

It is at this time that the mother is in full blessedness and radiance as nature proceeds inexorably in her Great Work. Through sensitivity, common sense, applied knowledge, and aesthetics each and every parent is given the opportunity of providing an environmental milieu which will truly enhance the development of the child.

Through education, the expectant parents prepare themselves for childbirth. Childbirth is a natural process which does not necessarily have to be difficult and/or painful. Childbirth is a supremely natural event... and it is incumbent upon us to educate ourselves into this realization.

4-10-05

Birth... IV

Creative Childbirth.

Leading obstetricians and educators such as Frederick LeBoyer, Joseph Clinton Pierce, and Maurice Odent, M.D. have been educating their fellow colleagues over the past decade into a new awareness regarding a more sensitive approach to childbirth.

Today, a re/evolutionary birthing practice is being simultaneously pioneered in France and in Russia. This profoundly simple wholistic birthing technique is revolutionary in its simplicity and in its ramifications. In essence, it is a water birth ... the newborn is born into water... a water baby.

The fetus for nine months has been living in a celestial consciousness, a world of peace and quiet... fully supported in a protective aquatic environment developing and growing moment-by-moment... preparing for the emergence into a new life... it is about to make a dramatic transition into a totally new environment... a new world... from a water celestial environment into an air-breathing terrestrial environment. The physiological and psychological adaptation into this new environment is profound.

Being born is the premier event in everybody's life. Our initial experience upon entering into our new world, our new environment is indelibly impressed into our subconscious minds. The memory trace of these first moments are recorded and impressed into the newborn child's nervous system. The child's nervous system is an open template inordinately receptive to visual, auditory, gustatory, olfactory, and tactile experience. It only makes good common sense to provide the new being a positive experience coming into its new world.

The psycho/physiological consequences of a positive life enhancing introduction into this new world cannot be over-emphasized. This initial impression is carried through the terrestrial experience of the child. I believe as do others that our relative success or inability to successfully adapt to this world can be traced in
part to the initial birthing experience.

Upon delivery into this world we are an open book... let us create for this new Christ child a positive greeting... a life-enhancing experience which supports and mirrors the inherent inner awareness and experience of the newborn child. The newborn child, as stated, is living in a heavenly world, a world of profound beauty and peace, a magical, musical world, in communion with reality.

The divine plan for humanity is Heaven on Earth. Heaven is a state of consciousness, a frequency, a resonance that is peaceful and harmonious. Heaven on Earth shall be realized and expanded by the succeeding generations of water babies who have not been shocked out of higher consciousness. Mind you, this is not to say that because many of us have suffered traumatic and unconscious births, that there has been irreparable damage.

Fortunately, the Mind has the means to heal itself, however, it makes good sense not to inflict any unnecessary pain or discomfort upon the newborn child. In light of current psychological knowledge and our remembering of nature's implicit simplicity, we will move away from unnecessary drugs, harsh lights, rushed deliveries, and antiseptic, sterile environments.

I am not advocating a complete dismissal of technology, what I am advocating is awareness to the subtleties and inherent intelligence of nature acting through woman to return us to a state of awareness and respect for the sacred divinity of emerging life. As conscious sentient beings who have the unique ability of begetting life, it is time to apply our intelligence to all facets of our life. And what could be more important than ecological childbirths? The answer is there... Water Baby births.

The Process

The players are the mother, the father, the attending midwife, and/or attending physician. The mother is placed in an aesthetically pleasing environment, soft lighting with incense "frankincense and myrrh," with or without beautiful meditative or celestial music. The mother is placed in a tub of warm water which approximates in temperature of the amniotic fluid as found in her womb... 98.6 degrees F.

This serves two very important function: The warm water, soft lighting, beautiful music, and delightful aromas relax the mother, thereby facilitating and assisting in a natural and smooth childbirth.

By being born into water, the child's transition from the womb (Heaven) to Earth is hardly noticeable to the child. The child is given the opportunity of making a gradual, smooth, and subtle adjustment to the new environment. It is recommended that the umbilical not be cut immediately. The emphasis here is on allowing the delivery to unfold in its own time. There is no rushing of the process.

The next step is of profound importance and concerns itself with the concept of bonding of the newborn child with his or her mother and father. The initial loving contact (bonding) with the father and the mother is a necessary ingredient for ensuring and enhancing the psychological integration of the newborn child.

Current progressive psychological research is strongly alluding to the realization that much of the psychopathology and alienation as seen in our culture and in our world is in part due to our current birthing practices.

Unless there is a medical emergency which requires immediate technological intervention, the newly born child should in no way be taken away and isolated from its parents. The initial love, caring, compassion, and concern on the part of the delivery team has a profound impact upon the developing and emerging psyche of the newborn child. The process of bonding is simple.

The child is initially held and makes first identification with the father... from this moment the child is given over to the mother for nurturing and sustenance. The breast feeding process is begun. Breast milk, besides being of the highest quality nutrition available to the child, is rich in antibodies and is essential for establishing and maintaining the integrity of the developing immunology system, i.e., the thymus gland.

In summation, the water baby in conjunction with breast feeding is the manifestation of wisdom and understanding. It is truly wholistic. It is a safe, simple, and natural process. The future will bear out the truth that this re/evolutionary technique may well be an initiating seed for bringing the Earth spirits who in their humanness remain consciously aware of themselves and their inherent Godliness.

Da Vid, MD Medical Director The San Francisco Medical Research Foundation 20 Sunnyside Avenue, Suite A-156 Mill Valley, CA 94941
Copyright ©© 1996. The Light Party.

4-11-05

Birth... V

Birth Without Violence.

Birth, even without any trauma, is a monumental transition for the baby. The baby needs the reassurance of contact, skin to skin, with the mother and the sound of her heartbeat and voice right from the beginning. The baby should be lain on the mother's stomach to be cleaned up and diapered. Then mother and baby still in full contact should be wrapped in a soft warm blanket as the baby is encouraged to nurse. All this time the mother should be cuddling and crooning to the baby welcoming it into the world.

The father, whose voice the baby will also recognize, should lay close to the mother and nursing baby and add his reassurance to them both. For some time the baby should sleep between the parents on a small rubberized blanket wearing only diapers so that all three have full skin contact. If the father is a deep sleeper and might roll on the baby... the baby can sleep on the opposite side of the mother.

During this transition period the mother should cuddle the baby continually against her skin and allow the baby to nurse on demand. When the mother needs a break the father can cuddle the baby or carry it around inside his shirt.The warmth, feel, taste and smell of the parents skin is very reassuring to the baby and is extremely important, particularly during the first few weeks. The parents should continue to talk, read, sing and chant to the baby just as they did before the baby was born.

In his book, Birth Without Violence, Dr. Frederick Leboyer outlines some of the following birthing practices. This French physician whose pioneering obstetric work has opened the eyes of many parents and doctors alike, has long insisted that newborns are keenly aware of their environment, and that the first few hours after birth are perhaps the most important of a child's life.

Dr. Leboyer presents readers with a series of birthing techniques which are designed to welcome the child to the world instead of dragging it in by the heels.

The moment the child emerges from the womb it
is placed on the mother's stomach with the umbilical
cord still intact. This is done, Leboyer tells us, both to
establish the postnatal bond between mother and child
and to provide extra oxygen until the child breathing
properly. Only after the cord has ceased pulsating is
it severed. "The infant has not been torn from its
mother," Leboyer explains. "The two have merely
been parted."

Anguished by no longer having soft, fleshy barriers
to press up against, newborns must now be given
assurance through the medium of touch, and are thus
placed in certain secure positions so that their spine
lengthens properly and their breathing is unrestricted.

Direct skin-on-skin contact is highly significant during
these moments, and the infant is lovingly cradled in the
mother's hands. "The newborn baby's skin has an
intelligence, a sensitivity that we can only begin to
imagine," Leboyer explains.

To accustom the child to human
touch, he suggests, the parents should rub
the infant's back in wavelike motions, massaging,
stroking, caressing, communicating security through
the affectionate energy of the fingertips.

After five or six minutes of stroking, the newborn
is next placed into a prepared bath of warm water...
ninety-eight to ninety-nine degrees... which Leboyer
believes is an ideal transition medium from womb to
world.

Many children at this moment, he insists, open
their eyes, reach out, even begin to play. Unlike the
crying, crumpled child of operating-room birth, the
smiling Leboyer baby has received loving signals from
its environment since the moment it first appeared.
It is no longer afraid.

Finally, the child is wrapped snugly in prewarmed
diapers and blankets and is allowed to rest. Here, in
contrast to the noisy perpetual motion of the womb,
"in silent astonishment—it tastes the unknown: stillness."

Studies of older children who have been birthed by the Dr. Leboyer method indicate that these youngsters are calmer, more content, and more socially adaptable than those born under the glare of the operating-room lamp. They have fewer problems eating and sleeping, reports indicate, and tend to develop excellent
relationships with their parents as the years pass.

Part of the benefit conferred by Leboyer's system is that mother and child are kept together after delivery and are allowed time to form an intimate unit. In the world of animals, when a newborn creature is separated from its mother
immediately after birth the mother will not recognize her offspring when she sees it again and will often reject it entirely.

Among humans the first few hours and days are of analogous importance, for it is at this time that the crucial process of bonding takes place. Joseph Chilton Pearce, in his well-known book on child development, Magical Child, defines bonding as a genetically based, hormonally activated event in which the mother and infant are psychically welded together during the first few days of life into a single symbiotic unit.

Such bonding, when it is properly carried out... when the mother continually nurses the child, caresses it, plays with it... can produce an almost supernatural communication between mother and child. Pearce points out how in Uganda
doctors and anthropologists report that native babies do not wear diapers, yet never seem to soil themselves.

When the mothers were asked why this is so, they replied that whenever their babies feel the call of nature they take them immediately to the bushes. The question was then raised, how do you know when a newborn child feels such a call?

How, the mothers replied, do you know when you have to go to the bathroom? You feel it. Being so well bonded that mother and child are like two persons in one body, the Ugandan mother literally feels the child's discomfort and quickly attends to it.

Further support of newborn sensitivity comes from recent scientific studies. William Condon and Louis Sander of Boston University, using high-tech measuring devices and films, found that "as early as the first day of life, the human neonate [baby] moves in precise and sustained segments of movement that
are synchronous with the articulated structure of adult speech." In more poetic terms, the child literally dances in synchronization to the rises and falls of its parents' voices.

***

Doctor Glas suggests that a bed be procured during the
child's early months to accommodate both parents and child.
"One could even consider building some sort of little cradle
into the big bed," he adds.

"But if none of these alternatives is a possibility, the cradle
or Moses basket should be placed as near as possible to the
mother. She should always be able to listen to the delicate
breathing of the baby."

Some parents even believe that father and mother should
share their sleeping quarters with young ones throughout
childhood, or at least during the early years.

Deborah Jackson, a British journalist who has spent much
time studying families and interviewing parents on the subject
of early sleeping arrangements, presents convincing evidence
that a shared parental bed produces a sense of fearlessness and
peace in a child that can last throughout a lifetime.

Many childhood difficulties, Jackson believes, result from
sleeping alone. Even though parents may be lying in the next
room, to the child's immature way of thinking he or she has
been sent into dark, terrifying exile.

Studies made of youngsters in third-world countries who sleep
in the same bed with parents, Jackson describes, show that these
children are often free of the kinds of childhood insecurities
(nightmares, midnight waking, fear of the dark, insomnia, and the like)
that we in the West have come to assume are an inevitable part
of infancy.

Unlike the self-absorbed manikin or blank slate posited by modern psychology in the past, much recent evidence points to the fact that the newborn is a responsive and intelligent being who, if coaxed out gently, can relate to its parents with
joyous rapport from the start.

"The baby has a miraculous sureness in understanding us," Frederick Leboyer writes. "The baby knows everything. Feels everything. The baby sees into the bottom of our hearts, knows the color of our thoughts. All without language. The newborn baby is a mirror reflection in our image. It is for us to make its entrance into a world of joy." [A Christ Child is born.]

The above excerpts are from David Carroll's wonderful book, Spiritual Parenting.

4-12-05

Birth... VI

from the babies point of view... and the mothers.

It takes three to make a birthday. Most mothers, and a still increasing
number of fathers, remember the birth of their first child as the most
important experience of their lives. But the person for whom this day
is truly vital is neither of the parents, but the third person... the baby.

The baby is closely confined in a warm dark prison of exquisite,
neutral comfort. Everything around him is of the same texture and at
the same temperature as himself. Greasy vernix coats his skin; amniotic
fluid fills the spaces between his body and the walls of the womb.

But the baby is outgrowing his seed-bed. Soon your womb which has
nurtured him must reject him. Soon his body must start functioning
for itself while his dormant senses receive the full shock of stimulation
from the outside world. He must prepare for birth.

His exit from your womb will be down a tight elastic passageway
formed by the opened cervix and the vagina. The space available is
limited by the space between your pelvic bones. There is enough room
but there is none to spare. Just as a stake goes more easily into earth if
its leading end is sharpened, so the baby will get through most easily if
he enters the passageway with his smallest part opening the way.

His head has a smaller diameter than his hip girdle so, in a normal birth,
he will settle in a head down position. To help him further, if the way is
very tight, his skull has membrane-covered spaces called fontanelles
between the bones. Under heavy pressure these spaces allow his head
to compress a little, narrowing itself still further. The compression
works best if the baby's head enters the birth canal facing towards
your backbone. So his final position in readiness for birth will usually
be head down and back to front.

As the time for birth approaches and his position is settled, baby and
womb drop down together in your abdomen so that his head is
engaged in the basin-shaped bones of your pelvis, through the still
closed cervix. Now he is held still and quiet. His movements will no
longer kick the bar of soap off your belly in the bath. You can breathe
more easily too, with a little more room between the top of your loaded
womb and your diaphragm.

When labor begins, even the best prepared parents tend to be taken
by surprise. It is not that the beginning of the process is difficult to
recognize; it is that even the most careful words cannot describe the
overwhelmingly physical nature of the birth process nor prepare you
for the extraordinary feeling of having your body taken over by forces
which are outside your conscious control.

We are brought up to control and manage our bodies' functions, waiting for lavatories and privacy, holding back coughs and yawns, fending off sleep in
public... but childbirth cannot be controlled in this sense.

Once labor begins, your baby is going to get himself born with or
without your conscious cooperation. The contractions will go on at
their appointed rate and strength until the birth canal is fully open. The
muscles of your womb will push the baby down that canal and go on
pushing until he emerges.

You cannot call a time-out, decide to make a phone call or wait for the doctor, change your mind about having the baby at all. There is no way out of the experience except through it, because it is not really your experience at all... but the baby's. Your body is the child's instrument of birth.

But that baby is the point of the whole labor process. It is his
safe arrival with which your body is concerned. He, not you, is
the star of the show. It may help you as you labor if you can think of
him while your body strives to produce him. It will certainly help him
if you can consider his likely feelings from the moment that he
emerges.

Brutally forced through a tight passage from a soft, quiet, warm, dark
haven into a world of light and noise and texture, every bit of the
baby's nervous system reacts with shock. It is the shock of birth
that stimulates him to make the fearful effort to breathe for himself.

The placenta, which fed his circulation oxygen from your bloodstream,
has finished its work, but the blood still pulsing in the umbilical cord
buys him a little time. He must breathe, but if he can make this vital
transition for himself we can avoid the old brutalities of slapped
bottoms: we can wait on him gently and perhaps discover the beauty
of a first breath without crying.

If he is to breathe easily, his nose and mouth must be clear of amniotic
fluid and mucus. But if he can clear them himself, we need not torment
him with tubes. We are so used to routine suction for new babies that
we still sometimes forget how those tubes must feel to him.

Safely breathing, the baby needs time to rest and to discover that even
though the womb has ejected him, there is still comfort in his world.
Your belly, soft and slack now, forms an ideal cradle. On it, he can be
almost as comfortable as he was in it. There he can rest.

If all is dim and quiet, warm and peaceful, the baby will relax after his
traumatic journey. His breathing will steady. His crumpled face will
smooth itself out and his eyes will open. His head will lift a little and
his limbs will move against your skin.

Put very gently to your bare breast, he may suck, discover a new form
of human togetherness and feel a little less separated. These are his first
contacts with his new world... let him make them without distress. These
are his first moments of life... let him have them in peace.

4-13-05

NATURAL CHILDBIRTH

" A pregnant woman in a perfect state of health does not need extra food. Overeating leads to a large, fat baby and a painful childbirth. The birth is also painful for the baby. It is its first introduction to pain and a response of fear is registered in its subconscious. Some brain damage is done because the skull bone is still relatively soft and exerts pressure on the delicate brain cells, as the baby exits from the mother."

"Adopting a more natural life-style, once the transition is past, will effect a complete absence of fatigue, clear-headedness, and improvement in appearance and unsurpassable health. Because you will become much slimmer, birth will be painless."

"If properly prepared for, natural childbirth will be a beautiful experience. You may benefit from specialized exercises to prepare your body for easy delivery. There are classes in such exercises which may be attended by both parents. Or they are described in books on natural childbirth."

"During the first delivery, it is wise to engage the services of a physician, midwife or nurse. Wherever it takes place, for the best health of the baby and yourself, refuse all drugs and anesthetics. Too, you will be awake to help the baby come into the world and to experience the joy of his or her arrival."2

4-14-05

Nursing infant...

spiritual bonding of Mother-Baby-Father.

"Give baby nature's perfect food — breast milk."

The mother's breast milk is the only food for the newborn baby. Her milk and nursing provides all the nutrients and nourishment and nurturing that the newborn baby needs for body, mind and Soul. The mother's breast milk, and her milk alone, helps create a bond between the baby and herself.

Nursing the baby should be quiet and unhurried, away from people, except for the father. Breast milk helps your baby develop a strong immune system and protects babies from illness. There are over a 1000 different components in mothers milk, many of which play a role in fighting infection.

Protein does not supply muscular energy; all it contains is building material with which to construct new tissues. As the child grows older, it requires less and less protein; at maturity, a minimum amount is needed. This is shown by the gradual diminution in the protein-content of mother's milk during lactation.

4-15-05

THE NATURAL LACTATION:
TWO AND A HALF TO THREE YEARS.

If a woman lives in chastity, and on a natural diet, during gestation and lactation, she (like all female animals who live in this way) will be able to nurse her young until their teeth have developed sufficiently to enable them to partake of solid food. In the human being this normally occurs at two and a half years of age, until which time it should be fed on nothing but mother's milk. The giving out of the maternal milk supply at the end of nine months is an unnatural condition resulting from improper diet and incontinence during pregnancy and the nursing period.

The conception of another child before the natural weaning of the last
one (which should take place as it approaches its third year) is harmful to
the mother, the infant and the embryo. The mammary glands extract the most
vital elements from the blood, thus starving the unborn child, while the enlarged blood supply to the uterus interferes with mammary secretion.

Therefore, there must be no sex relationships for three years after childbirth, during which time mother-infant-father should bond into a close family unit. Allowing a period of rest after lactation, and one of preparation before conception.

There should be a minimum period of five years between the successive births. The sex act, among married people, should therefore not occur more frequently than once in five years, and then only for the purpose of conception.

Observation will readily convince one that children who have had the
advantage of being nursed throughout the period fixed by nature... from two and
a half to three years, are superior to those whose lactation has been cut short
at the end of nine months or before.

The writer knows three sisters, all women of exceptional health, and mothers of gifted children, who were nursed by their mother, an Austrian peasant woman, until they were three years old.

Another woman who lived on a vegetarian diet nursed her child for two years,
after which she raised it on a diet of raw vegetables, fruits and nuts... giving
it no form of grain. The child, now five years old, is declared by educators
to be physically and mentally supernormal.

Dr. Tennan, the psychologist, after a recent survey of a thousand
gifted children in the state of California, has come to the conclusion that
superior mentality goes hand in hand with superior physical health, that the
child of high intelligence has become what it is as a result of better prenatal
and postnatal conditions, and that a greater number of supernormal children
have been nursed by their mother's and for longer periods, than those of
mediocre intelligence.

Cows milk is deficient in elements required for the adequate nourishment of
the infant's growing brain. Therefore, a baby fed on cow's milk has a starving
brain; its physical growth is over-stimulated, but its mental growth is retarded.

Mother's milk, since it is secreted from an organism with a higher brain-capacity
(whose blood contains elements required for the nourishment of parts of the brain
which are undeveloped in the cow), properly nourishes the infant's brain and,
therefore, children who are nursed by their mothers develop superior intelligence
than those that are bottle fed on cow's milk.

It is a well known fact that sexual intercourse during lactation induces premature menstruation, vitiates the quality and reduces the quantity of the milk, and brings nursing to a sudden end. This results from the escape of genital fluid, which is otherwise lymphatically absorbed and carried by the blood to the mammary glands, stimulating their secretion.

Genital fluid is very rich in phosphorus, the element required to build brain-tissue; and a loss of it reduces the phosphorus content of the milk, retarding the brain development of the child. The milk of the unchaste mother, like that of the cow, is deficient in elements required to build a superior brain.

This is so because of her loss of seminal fluid (by orgasms and by leucorrhea) and because of the resulting menstrual discharges. The dependence of the mammary glands upon this internally absorbed sex fluid is evident at puberty, when, due to an increased secretion and absorption of the latter, there is a rapid growth of the breasts, as well as of the brain and the entire body.

Menstruation is accompanied by the loss of this vital seminal fluid. After conception, the mammary glands commence to enlarge, in preparation to provide the baby with an adequate supply of milk. While the baby is nursing if menstruation begins again (because of premature sexual intercourse), the mammary glands diminish in size, lose their vital power and are unable to secrete nourishing milk.

Intercourse during lactation may lead to the poisoning of the infant
by the lymphatically absorbed male seminal fluid... particularly if the father
smokes or drinks. This male fluid, transmitted to the child through the milk,
has the tendency to transmit morbid sex impulses to it.

It is a remarkable fact that the new born of all other forms of life seem to have superior intelligence and ability than the human infant, who, because of its larger brain capacity, should, however, surpass them. This is due to the fact that the infant's brain cells have been paralyzed by its mother's unnatural diet and unchastity during gestation and lactation.

There is no reason why, at birth, the cells of the brain should not be as fully active and coordinated as the cells of any other organ, such as the heart. Through hygienic and continent living, a mother may endow her child with a brain all of whose cells are functioning at birth. It has been estimated that most children are born with brains in which four fifths of the cells are permanently dormant (having been impoverished, poisoned or paralyzed).

This paralysis of the infant's brain cells results in the baby's seeming inadequacy
as compared to new-born animals whose mothers live on natural food and are
chaste during gestation and lactation. Though it is universal, this condition is not natural.

Children born from mothers who lived in chastity and on a raw vegetarian diet throughout their lives, as those of Krishna and Jesus, were reported to have displayed adult intelligence not long after birth. This was due to the fact that their brains were nourished by sufficient maternal genital secretions transmitted before birth through the blood, and after birth through the milk.1

4-16-05

PSYCHOLOGICAL AND DIETETIC INFLUENCE
DURING LACTATION

As the mother may physically and mentally influence the development
of the embryo through her blood, so may she influence the infant through her
milk. Nursing is a spiritual as well as a physical feeding; therefore, it
is very important that every mother nurse her own child.

If the child is fed on cow's milk, it absorbs the animal qualities of the cow. If it is fed by a wet nurse, it will absorb her good and evil qualities. A mother who is not able to nurse her child should reform her way of living by eating simple, natural foods and by conservation of genital fluid; she will then be able to nurse it until it is old enough to eat solid food.

After the termination of nursing (between two and a half and three years
after childbirth) the infant should be weaned and raised exclusively on fruit. Fruit
will supply it with all the elements it requires for the formation of a strong, healthy body... even as grass supplies the needs of the calf.

The infant should never be given cow's milk. Cow's milk is unfit for baby food.
Mother's milk forms small, soft curds which are easily broken up and digested, while cow's milk forms large, tough curds which can only be digested by the four stomach system of the calf.

Since the calf's period of infancy is only two months, cow's milk contains more rapidly maturing constituents which cause the child to grow at an abnormally fast rate. Babies fed on cow's milk may appear large and fat, but their tissues are not healthy. Cow's milk contains an excess of indigestible casein and lime, and a too small amount of milk-sugar and potassium.

An infant is unable to digest cereal-starch in any form. Therefore, Zwiebach, bread, crackers and cooked cereals are injurious. Such foods only turn into carbonic dioxide gas and alcohol, and are liable to cause convulsions.

Water is not good for infants, for, whether boiled or not, it always contains a certain amount of inorganic matter which may settle as calcium deposits. Before weaning, the baby may obtain all the water it requires from its mother's milk; and after weaning, from fruit. [Distilled water?]

The child, like the animal, should eat by natural instinct. When hungry, it should go to the food-supply, and take the quantity and quality of fruit it requires. After the initial period the child should never be fed by its parent, nor forced to eat anything against its will; which perverts its nutritive instinct and is the main cause of children's diseases. A child raised on fruit and leafy greens will be physically, mentally and spiritually supernormal.

[The baby can be fed solid food (fruit) before it is able to chew, by the mother chewing the food, placing the chewed food on her fingers and then putting the food gently in the babies mouth. If the food being fed is an apple, a whole apple should be placed where the baby can easily see it.]

[The mother can help the baby learn to identify an apple by saying the word, “apple” often: “This is an apple.” Do you like the taste of an apple.” “Would you like to smell the apple?” “This apple is red.” And so on. Latter when the baby is able to chew it’s own food, the baby can choose what they want to eat, and when they want to eat, from a selection put out by the parents.]

[Green smoothies are perfect food for children of all ages, including babies of
six or more months old when introducing new food to them after mother's
milk. Of course you have to be careful and slowly increase the amount off
smoothies to avoid food allergies.]

The thoughts and emotions of the mother, previous to and during nursing,
through the glandular secretions which they induce, affect the chemical quality
of the milk and the development of the child. These secretions, transmitted through the milk, will accelerate in the infant the growth of those organs, ductless glands and brain centers which have been most active in the mother, thereby reproducing in the baby the psychological traits she has exercised.

During lactation, the mother should devote her time to the cultivation of the special talents which are to constitute the child's future life-work, which have been decided upon before conception, and which have been developed during gestation. The education of the child during the nursing period is more important than at any other time in its development... except the prenatal period, for the baby's brain is never as sensitive to nutritional, environmental and psychological stimuli as it is during gestation.

Psychic conditions in the mother exert a powerful influence on the secretions of the mammary glands. Worry, grief, anger, fear and irritation not only diminish the secretion of milk but change its character and chemical composition; so that it may become distinctly injurious to the nursing infant.

On the other hand, a pleasant and tranquil state of mind, combined with proper diet, will usually produce a copious flow of wholesome milk. Mothers should be especially warned against taking drugs and all kinds of stimulants during the period of lactation, for such preparations will impair the quality of the milk and will often prove fatal to the child.

In the same way that the mother's habits of thought affect the child's character, so does the food she eats affect the child's physical growth, health, and its mental characteristics. Especially during this period of nursing should the mother exercise the qualities she wishes to bring out in the child. This transmitted mental action will help bring forth the childs inherent genius.

A fat and heavy baby is generally the result of dietetic indiscretions on the part of the mother... the eating of too many cooked and concentrated acid- forming foods. Nearly all infantile diseases are directly caused by faulty nutrition and lack of hygienic care during pregnancy and the nursing period.

Of fifteen babies who die during the first year, only one is breast fed. Over feeding with boiled and pasteurized milk, and the extensive use of artificial infant foods; lack and fresh air and injurious prenatal influences are the principal causes of this large infant mortality.

The new born infant needs no artificial food. It should be put to the
breast whenever it shows an inclination. The true mother will delight in the
privilege of nursing her child. It is highly important for the mother to be
guided by and to protect the infant's inherent nursing instinct.

In nature, the mother of young animals always has her breasts at their service, to which they go when they are hungry. The human mother should try to approximate this ideal. The only feeding schedule to follow is the infant's natural hunger.

This, of course, necessitates the mother's continual attention to the child. Mothers whose minds are diverted by frivolities follow an artificial feeding schedule so that they may come to their babies only at certain times. But this is to the child's
lasting detriment... for the human body is not a machine which may be fed according to the clock.1

During the first few months, the baby may sleep most of time... follow the lead of the child. Do not disturb the sleep with schedules or with unexpected visitors. The child will cry only when hungry or when sleep is disturbed.

As the child grows, he or she will discover the exciting things missed because of
sleep and will want to stay up later, but parents should initiate an hour for sleep which will make enough rest possible. It is a good practice to put the child to bed after meals, just as all animals do.

Have a definite time for bed in evening; enjoy a chat and read stories that will leave the child in a serene state. Better to read to a child stories of adventure, biographies, nature and travel stories than tales of Santa Claus or Snow White.

Let the child tell you goodnight stories which he or she makes up or has
created from the day's adventures. Give a child intellectual material for ethical
and mental growth. Read favorite stories many times. Act out some of them. Let the whole family share in this evening "read-in" as the last meeting for the day.

From the period of conception onward, the child is storing in the brain information from the environment and trying as much as possible to relate this information and make sense out of it. Do not fill the brain with silly baby talk, as many parents have a tendency to do.

There is no need to invent new words for sexual organs or to imitate the child's manner of speaking. Remember, the child is trying to imitate the language patterns of the adult. As the child develops, he or she will drop the baby talk.

The brain of a baby at birth, is already half as large as it will ever be, whereas the body has a lot of growing to do, so that from birth onward the intellect is much easier to work with. In conversation, answer questions thoughtfully and seriously. If you don't know the answer, look it up as soon as you can.

Keep the child's quest for information satisfied. The Chinese prepare the child early for the adult world. They talk to the child from birth onward as if he or she were already an adult; as a result the child's brain develops much earlier than it otherwise would.

During the early years, provide a safe, protected environment, minimizing danger. Hazardous objects should be out of reach of the child. In nature, there are fewer dangers, but still a child needs guidance in the art of survival.

Encourage creativity. Avoid factory-made toys, unless they are designed to develop imagination and skills to help the child to understand the natural world. Nature has much more to teach and recreate than most toys.

Of all synthetic pacifiers, television is probably the most pernicious, instrumental in spiritual, mental and physical deterioration of the growing child. Materialistic commercials equate love with food, possessions and sensuality.

Children are bombarded with details of violence, drugs, drunkenness and
war. All too often this view becomes the children's real world, distorting, even forming, their values and separating them from emotional involvement with people, creating a perverted view of God and nature.

When excess television viewing replaces outdoor life and creative activity, it can weaken the body and dull the mind. Watching the flickering screen can damage the eyes. It has even induced convulsions in some individuals.

Potentially, radiation can affect even future generations by altering the chromosomes of the growing child. I repeat, television is very dangerous.

Do not indulge the child. Independence of character and imagination and the capacity for love are built in a positive environment in which natural food is eaten and living is frugal. Hardship, participation in home chores, imaginative play and devotion to spiritual exercise will temper the spirit for heightened aspirations.

Let your family life reflect a moral principle. It is best held together by love for the sake of love. The good life can be best developed in the company of those who love and let you be yourself. Practice more and teach less.

Allow no violence in your hearts or your homes. Violence and cruelty are not part
of love. Instruct with love and reason, never by punishment. Train your children in the beautiful laws of God so that they may grow up emotionally secure with the wisdom to face all ordeals.

Free your homes from all crossness, all harshness, all sarcasm. If you see a fault or weakness in anyone, do your best not to judge, or mention it to others. For by talking about it, we give it power. Rather, discuss the problem with the person concerned when the time is right. Maintain a sense of loyalty to the family or group.

A poet has stated:

A child who lives with encouragement learns confidence.

A child who lives with praise learns to be appreciative.

A child who lives with acceptance learns to love.

A child who lives with recognition learns to have a goal.

A child who lives with fairness learns justice.

A child who lives with honesty learns what truth is.

A child who lives with friendliness learns that the world is a nice place in which to live.

Let your child spend the growing years in nature not in a polluted city. The youth of today cannot afford to repeat the patterns of their parents. We are starting a new age.

When man and woman are joined in a spiritual union, they have taken on a responsibility for their own growth. When you include others — children — into this union, you are expanding the partnership.2

You will be the guru of the child and the child will be your Master.

There is a good reason for every relationship formed and for every individual that you will encounter in your life. God has entrusted you with a particular child, not just any child. Just as much as he needs your guidance, so also you need the
guidance from the child. You are special. Your child is special. You are all together for a special reason. God has plans for every family.

Make the family an experience of inner unfolding. Do not set up any emotional traps. Be an open channel for perfection. Family is a very important vehicle for greater self mastery and discovery. Do not forget that you are not alone when you live in a family... share the joys as well as the frustrations, fill the home with laughter and adventure.

Let us in the future build our roofs under trees, permeable to the light of God, and in the light of the family, let each member unfold daily another petal of the perfect lotus so that we would give beauty and fragrance to the lives that surround us, and at the same time dwell in the mirth of our brothers and sisters.

Our mission within the next few generations to bring heaven back into the temples of our bodies, so that we would not know death, only planar transition, in the continuous evolving plan in the good universe where we can partake in the divine music.2

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