Nurses, babies - and power

Todd Gastaldo · medicine forum Guru Wannabe Joined: 24 Mar 2005 Posts: 165

NURSES, BABIES - AND POWER

See below.

PREGNANT WOMEN: OBs are closing birth canals up to 30%.

It is easy to allow your birth canal to OPEN the "extra" up to 30%.

See THE SOLUTION below.

NURSES, BABIES - AND POWER

DAVE HOLMES, PhD ("Dr. Dave Holmes, RN") researches "the issue of the power
relationship between nurses and vulnerable clients...[and]....is also
interested in the control mechanisms used or deployed by nurses."

http://www.health.uottawa.ca/profiles/dholmes.htm
http://www3.sympatico.ca/holmesdave/

OPEN LETTER (archived for global access at http://groups.google.com)

Dave Holmes, PhD
School of Nursing
University of Ottawa
CANADA
Room: RGN3238
Phone: (613) 562-5800 ext. 8341
E-mail: dholmes@uottawa.ca

Dave,

Nurses aren't (yet) using their power to stop OBs from closing birth canals
up to 30%.

Babies - the most vulnerable clients at birth - are being harmed as a
consequence - sometimes killed.

Please deploy the control mechanism called speaking out.

Thanks.

Sincerely,

Todd

Dr. Gastaldo
Hillsboro, Oregon
USA
todd@chiromotion.com

PS DON'T FORGET: "For decades, nursing as a discipline has tried to
establish itself within the socio-professional and the socio-political
arenas...[Some nursing postmodern scholars] perpetuate...the status quo by
excluding alternative forms of knowledge that cross the boundaries of the
discipline of nursing." [Dave Holmes and Denise Gastaldo. Nurs Philos. 2004
Oct;5(3):258-67. PubMed abstract excerpt]

Dave, truth about birth is an "alternative form of knowledge" that cuts
across the boundaries of the disciplines of both medicine and nursing.

Nurses need to break their silence and expose the Four OB Lies...

PS Ã,Â THE FOUR OB LIES

OB LIE #1. After MASSIVE change in the AP pelvic outlet diameter was
clinically demonstrated in 1911 and radiographically demonstrated in 1957,
the authors of Williams Obstetrics began erroneously claiming that pelvic
diamaters DON'T CHANGE at delivery.

OB LIE #2. After Ohlsen pointed out in 1973 that pelvic diameters DO
change - the authors of Williams Obstetrics began erroneously claiming that
their most frequent delivery position - dorsal - widens the outlet.

OB LIE #3. After I pointed out in 1992 that dorsal CLOSES - and so does
semisitting - the authors of Williams Obstetrics - put the correct
biomechanics in their 1993 edition - but kept in their text (in the same
paragraph!) - the dorsal widens bald lie that first called my attention to
their text...

OB LIE #4. OBs are actually KEEPING birth canals closed when babies get
stuck - and claiming they are doing everything to allow the birth canal open
maximally. (ACOG Shoulder Dystocia video - also forceps and vacuum births
are performed with the mother in lithotomy.)

See Make birth better: Dan Rather, before you leave CBS...
http://health.groups.yahoo.com -/group/chiro-list/message/2983

I noted some of the OB lies in an Open Letter to the FTC years ago...
http://home1.gte.net/gastaldo/ -part2ftc.html

RELEVANT AMA PRINCIPLES OF MEDICAL ETHICS....

"[AMA physician[s] shall...strive to expose those physicians...who engage in
fraud or deception."

"[AMA p]hysician[s] shall...seek changes in those requirements which are
contrary to the best interests of the patient."

"[AMA p]hysician[s] shall...make relevant information available to patients,
colleagues, and the public..."
http://www.psych.org/psych_pra -ct/ethics/ethics_opinions53101 -.cfm

Relevant quote from the AMA website:

"[P]hysicians must strive to ensure patient safety and should play a central
role in identifying, reducing, and preventing health care errors. Ã,Â This
responsibility exists even in the absence of a patient-physician
relationship."
http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pu b/category/11968.html

AMA physicians are ignoring their own stated ethics - babies be damned.

MASSIVE BABY BLOOD ROBBERY

Retired obstetrician George Malcolm Morley, MB ChB FACOG
indicates that OBs are robbing babies of up to 50% of their blood volume.

This is happening to EVERY CESAREAN BABY, according to Dr. Morley:

"ACOG's routine treatment (B138) of these depressed neonates is immediate
cord clamping to obtain cord blood pH studies. Ã,Â The child's only
functioning
source of oxygen - the placenta - is amputated together with 30% to 50+% of
its natural blood volume. Ã,Â Total asphyxia is imposed until the lungs
function, and the depressed (asphyxiated, hypovolemic) child starts its
extra-uterine life in hypovolemic shock... B138 was first published in 1993.
Every cesarean section baby, every depressed child, every premie, and every
child born with a neonatal team in
the delivery room has its cord clamped immediately to facilitate the
panicked rush to the resuscitation table. Ã,Â The current epidemic of
immediate
cord clamping coincides with an epidemic of autism...For the trial lawyers,
it is essential that the 'true genesis' of cerebral
palsy remains unknown, because that 'true genesis' (B.138) is a standard of
medico-legal care..."
http://www.cordclamping.com/ac ---og-cp.htm

In cases where the baby MUST be
resuscitated after birth - I am still wondering why pediatricians have to
sever the baby's access to blood and oxygen and rush baby across the room to
resuscitate. Ã,Â Why can't neonatal resuscitation stations be designed so
that
mother and baby can be wheeled underneath (or between) with baby's natural
oxygenation/transfusion device still intact? Ã,Â No one has answered this
question.

My thanks to Canadian Grandmother Donna Young for calling my attention to
the immediate cord clamping mass child abuse.

A GOOD SIGN: Ã,Â Oregon Health & Science University/OHSU - Oregon's only
medical school - stopped promoting immediate cord clamping and
birth-canal-closing/semisittin g delivery online
after I complained.

OHSU's link to the misinformation is now dead - or rather - one is re-routed
to
www.ohsuwomenshealth.com...

See Birth child abuse: Oregon's only medical school (OHSU)
http://health.groups.yahoo.com -/group/chiro-list/message/2986

(If anyone can find a page where OHSU is still promoting immediate cord
clamping and birth-canal-closing/semisittin g delivery, I would like to know
about it.)

PREGNANT WOMEN: By using semisitting and dorsal delivery, OBs are closing
birth canals up to 30%. Ã,Â Also, when babies get stuck, OBs KEEP women
semisitting and dorsal - they KEEP the birth canal closed the "extra" up to
30% as they pull with hands, forceps and vacuums. ANOTHER PROBLEM: Ã,Â By
immediately clamping cords, OBs are temporarily asphyxiating babies and
robbing them of up to 50%
of their blood volume - see the astonishing quote from Dr. Morley above.

THE SOLUTION:

1. Ã,Â To allow your birth canal to OPEN the "extra" up to 30%,
simply roll onto your side as you push your baby out - BUT BEWARE - some OBs
will let pregnant women "try" alternative delivery positions - but will roll
them back to semisitting/dorsal - close their birth canals the "extra" up to
30% for the actual delivery. Ã,Â Talk to your OB.

2. Ã,Â To allow your baby to have the "extra" up to 50% of blood volume, do
not
let the OB or midwife clamp the umbilical cord until it has stopped
pulsating and your baby is pink and breathing and not in need of
resuscitation.

NOTE #1: Ã,Â Allowing the birth canal to open the "extra" up to 30% will not
prevent all episiotomies or c-sections or forceps/vacuum use - but OBs have
no business closing
birth canals the "extra" up to 30% in the first place.

NOTE #2: There are rare cases where the OB must clamp immediately - but they
are indeed rare. Ã,Â OBs are routinely clamping cords immediately -
routinely
robbing babies of up to 50% of their blood volume. Ã,Â Talk to your OB
today.

I am in favor of pardons in advance for MDs. Ã,Â As medical
students MDs are TRAINED to perform obvious child abuse which sometimes
kills.

Thanks for reading everyone.

Todd

Dr. Gastaldo
Hillsboro, Oregon
USA
todd@...

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