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"More than a third are repeat procedures based on the belief that a rupture in the uterine scar may occur if a vaginal birth is attempted, despite evidence that rupture occurs in only 1% of such births. Other conditions where C-sections confer doubtful benefit are dystocia (difficult labor), breech presentation and fetal distress. There are also risks associated with C-sections, most notably for the infant prematurity or respiratory disease and infection. Maternal mortality is two to four times higher compared to vaginal births." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"Sadly, not all birth stories unfold as textbook cases of joy. When my first son was born, the joy I felt at finally meeting him face-to-face was sullied by painful complications and an overwhelmed nurse-midwife. And many births, especially in the United States, are too scripted, too rushed, too public, and too medicated to inspire true, heartfelt joy. There are many other sources of joy as well. Perhaps your coworkers have just surprised you with a birthday party. Or you open a letter to find an unexpected bonus. Or you're out to dinner with new friends and delighting in their good company." - Barbara Fredrickson, Positivity: Top-Notch Research Reveals the 3 to 1 Ratio That Will Change Your Life (Get the book.)

"Injury to the cerebrum, occurring at birth or soon afterwards, results in a muscle/nerve dysfunction which is manifested as a lifelong paralysis of one or more parts of the body. _Causes_ Usually cerebral palsy is associated with a lack of oxygen during birth, a premature birth, or low birth weight. Low birth weight is related to premature delivery; for this reason, mothers who experience early contractions may be placed on medications to prolong their pregnancy. In recent years, it's been shown that low birth weight may be related to the expectant mother smoking or taking drugs." - Gary Null, Ph.D., The Complete Encyclopedia of Natural Healing: A Comprehensive A-Z Listing of Common and Chronic Illnesses and Their Proven Natural Treatments (Get the book.)

"As another example, a study of obstetric care provided by a sample of forty-three naturopathic physicians found the following: 1530 births were scheduled for home birth or birth in a clinic or birthing center. Eight percent were changed to hospital birth before labor due to risk factors and 7 percent were transferred to the hospital during labor due to complications. Total cesarean-section rate of all patients, including those transferred to the hospital prior to labor due to increased risk, was 6 percent." - William Collinge, The American Holistic Health Association Complete Guide to Alternative Medicine (Get the book.)

"Gestational diabetes occurs during pregnancy and usually resolves with the birth of the baby. While certain ethnic groups are at increased risk for diabetes, the following factors can raise anyone's risk: family history, being obese or significantly overweight, sedentary lifestyle, being over 45, having a history of gestational diabetes, or giving birth to a 9-pound or bigger baby." - Elaine Magee, Food Synergy: Unleash Hundreds of Powerful Healing Food Combinations to Fight Disease and Live Well (Get the book.)

"Yet mothers of infants with neonatal lupus are often surprisingly quite healthy and free of lupus at the time that they give birth. Over time, however, researchers working with infants with neonatal lupus began to notice that four or five years down the road, mothers who had been seemingly healthy at the time of giving birth were routinely developing either lupus or lupus-related Sjogren's disease, an autoimmune disease in which sufferers experience symptoms such as dry eyes, dry mouth, and difficulty swallowing." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"C-sections had no documented abnormalities on the birth certificate to justify the procedure.9 Most medical scientists estimate that between half and two-thirds of all Cesareans are needless. Two British researchers suggest that a rate of 6 to 8% would be medically indicated, which would save 20,000 surgeries in the United Kingdom and 470,000 in the United States.10 "It is reasonable to conclude, says health policy analyst Carol Sakala, "that a largely uncontrolled international pandemic of medically unnecessary Cesarean births is occurring." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"Klaus to study bonding and their work was instrumental to opening nurseries to parents and to allow parents of normal, full-term babies to be with infants during the first moments after birth. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, researchers found that women who had used doulas had shorter labors and fewer caesarean births. Recent research shows women who have doula support also have increased rates of breastfeeding, more positive mother-infant relationships and greater satisfaction with their birth experience." - Alan E. Smith, UnBreak Your Health: The Complete Guide to Complementary & Alternative Therapies (Get the book.)

"The results were clear: I was less anxious and better able to focus, whether I was at work considering my research ideas or teaching plans, or at home connecting to my husband or preparing for the birth of our firstborn. I even credit my budding skill in mindfulness with helping me endure the pains of labor and childbirth without medication.19 Yet despite my seeming success in learning mindfulness on my own through books and intermittent practice, I can attest that formal instruction makes an enormous difference." - Barbara Fredrickson, Positivity: Top-Notch Research Reveals the 3 to 1 Ratio That Will Change Your Life (Get the book.) "If you had the good fortune—as I did when my second son was born—to give birth in a nurturing environment with only the most supportive people present (for me, these were my husband and—only when needed—my nurse-midwife), the first moments that you held your newborn were perhaps the most joy-filled of your life. Sadly, not all birth stories unfold as textbook cases of joy. When my first son was born, the joy I felt at finally meeting him face-to-face was sullied by painful complications and an overwhelmed nurse-midwife." - Barbara Fredrickson, Positivity: Top-Notch Research Reveals the 3 to 1 Ratio That Will Change Your Life (Get the book.)

"Causes_ Usually cerebral palsy is associated with a lack of oxygen during birth, a premature birth, or low birth weight. Low birth weight is related to premature delivery; for this reason, mothers who experience early contractions may be placed on medications to prolong their pregnancy. In recent years, it's been shown that low birth weight may be related to the expectant mother smoking or taking drugs. There is an especially high risk of cerebral palsy in drug-addicted mothers." - Gary Null, Ph.D., The Complete Encyclopedia of Natural Healing: A Comprehensive A-Z Listing of Common and Chronic Illnesses and Their Proven Natural Treatments (Get the book.)

"If you're talking about someone at birth, it's a different estimation than for someone who's already made it to 80. Also, if you want to consider health status, that plays a large role. Most people who make it to be centenarians when you look back, they were quite healthy at 80. Tom Perls: I used to equate living to 100 to picking all five numbers in the lottery: The odds are pretty small. If you have longevity running in your family paired with good health behaviors, your chances are greater." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.)

"INTRODUCTION An increasing amount of evidence supports the hypothesis that chronic illness in adult life may partially have its origins before birth [1]. In such cases prevention rather than treatment becomes the active principle in establishing long-term public health policies that will enable an overall improvement in the health status of the general population. Various nutrient deficiencies (docosahexaenoic acid, iron, protein/amino acids, energy restriction, folate, etc." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"In his mid fifties, Mexican by birth, he headed a mid-sized corporation of about 200 employees at the time of his stroke. Now, he could hardly talk. Stuttering, almost unintelligible, he began to speak haltingly of his pain, "I... It... i-is ... hard...." The family was Catholic and devout. During the evaluation, I learned that a priest from their archdiocese, who was a gifted healer, had been working regularly with the man. The priest even had a room in their house where he would stay over, but he hadn't been able to help." - Rick Levy and Lou Aronica, Miraculous Health: How to Heal Your Body by Unleashing the Hidden Power of Your Mind (Get the book.) "Remember subtle but powerful events like falling in love for the first time or the birth of a child. Be sure to consider events that have had an impact on you from a cultural or world perspective, such as Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the emergence of the internet, and so on. If you can think of more than five life-changing events, write them down. 3. What really jazzes you in life? Give this careful thought and write detailed answers. Has a particular passion had an important place in your world for as long as you can remember?" - Rick Levy and Lou Aronica, Miraculous Health: How to Heal Your Body by Unleashing the Hidden Power of Your Mind (Get the book.) "The first level consists of the outer distractions: traffic congestion, the weather, IPods, radio, TV, the Xerox machine at the office, the IRS, and even something positive like the birth of a new child in the family. The second level relates to bodily distractions: your backache, your stiff neck, your indigestion, and so forth. Even the effort to breathe and keep your heart beating requires your mental energy (though you may not be consciously aware of it). Meditation silences these first two levels of distraction by cutting off the "sensory telephones" to the outside world and to the body." - Rick Levy and Lou Aronica, Miraculous Health: How to Heal Your Body by Unleashing the Hidden Power of Your Mind (Get the book.)

"For with the sun, at once, So sprang the light immediately; nor was Its birth before the sun's. And Love hath his effect in gentleness Of very self; even as Within the middle fire the heat's excess.56 The meeting with the goddess (who is incarnate in every woman) is the final test of the talent of the hero to win the boon of love (charity: amor fati), which is life itself enjoyed as the encasement of eternity. 35 Standish H. O'Grady, Silva Gadelica (London: Williams and Norgate, 1892), Vol. II, pp. 370-372." - Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces Joseph Campbell (Get the book.)

"After the birth of self in the first chakra and the experience of "other" in the second, our ego brings us into an autonomous self that chooses to be separate. This progression is necessary; it is here that we begin to define ourselves in relation to the wider world and our role in it. In the third chakra we come to understand our purpose in life and the actions we need to take to fulfill this purpose. These actions require willpower in order for us to move forward toward our future in a conscious way, and so it is the function of the third chakra to engage our willpower." - Pam Montgomery, Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness (Get the book.)

"The government was reluctant to release names from the koseki, the family register system that is the Japanese equivalent of our birth registration system among other roles, but she had found a list of Okinawa's top 100 centenarians (there were some 700 among Okinawa's 1.3 million people) in the archives of a local newspaper. She figured we'd just look up their telephone numbers and start calling—but whether from hearing loss or tradition, many centenarians didn't have phones." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.)

"Since the birth of the microprocessor in 1971, microprocessor performance has increased 25,000 times. If this pattern continues, a personal computer of 2020 will be as powerful as all the computers in Silicon Valley in 1998. Fantastic? Yes, but if someone had told me thirty years ago that I would be carrying the entire computing capacity of Great Britain in a briefcase, I would probably have scoffed. Such extraordinary increases in computing power and speed will change how we communicate in ways that are impossible to even begin to predict." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.)

"The whole round of existence is accomplished within her sway, from birth, through adolescence, maturity, and senescence, to the grave. She is the womb and the tomb: the sow that eats her farrow. Thus she unites the "good" and the "bad," exhibiting the two modes of the remembered mother, not as personal only, but as universal. The devotee is expected to contemplate the two with equal equanimity." - Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces Joseph Campbell (Get the book.)

"Many believe that mangoes are both an aphrodisiac and an effective means of birth control. Throw Me a Lifesaver! HEART HEALTH: Fruits and vegetables high in potassium and antioxidants such as vitamin A, carotenoids, vitamin C, and flavonoids may help prevent or control hypertension and reduce the subsequent risk of stroke and heart disease. In addition, foods high in soluble fiber and pectin appear to lower the amount of cholesterol circulating in the blood. DIGESTION: Mangoes are a good source of fiber and contain enzymes that aid in digestion." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.) "Folate reduces the risk of neural tube birth defects, and may help to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease, certain cancers, Alzheimer's disease, and depression. Hazelnuts also contain the blood pressure-lowering minerals calcium, magnesium, and potassium. Hazelnuts are also a rich source of squalene, a plant chemical—also found in olive oil, wheat germ oil, rice bran oil, shark oil, and yeast—that has anticancer and cholesterol-lowering properties. Home Remedies Hazelnut oil has been used externally as a way to rid the skin of cellulite." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.)

"By the time of Kamada's birth in 1902, Okinawans got 80 percent of their calories from sweet potatoes. At age 18, Kamada entered into an arranged, political marriage with a man four years her senior. Their union produced three sons and three daughters. When the children were still small, Kamada's husband frequently traveled to mainland China and Palau in search of work. "Raising children by myself was a big job," Kamada admitted. "At times there was no income. I had to weave straw hats to make money on the side." She pantomimed pushing a needle through thick straw to make a tight weave." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.)

"Nearly all of these chemicals had been linked in animal testing to cancer, birth defects, hormone disruption, and other health disorders. (4) Though these tests did not specifically target ingredients found in cosmetics and personal care products, their results demonstrate the same principle: the toxins in the mother are passed also to the child. Once there, they inflict an unknown amount of harm. "For some of the chemicals, we know some safe levels for a single chemical in adults," commented Tim Kropp, a senior scientist with the Environmental Working Group. " - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"In order for us to live to our full potential, we would have to make all of the right choices from birth (or our parents would have to make all of the right choices for us). We would probably have to sacrifice where we want to live, what we want to eat, and what we do for work and play to achieve our maximum life potential. Of course, not only do we choose not to follow that path, it would be impossible even if we tried. But that doesn't mean we can't improve, enrich, and extend our health and our energy now without making drastic changes in lifestyle." - Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.)

"Whether it be the king's child about to be taken from the felicity of her established dual-unity with King Daddy, or God's daughter Eve, now ripe to depart from the idyl of the Garden, or again, the supremely concentrated Future Buddha breaking past the last horizons of the created world, the same archetypal images are activated, symbolizing danger, reassurance, trial, passage, and the strange holiness of the mysteries of birth." - Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces Joseph Campbell (Get the book.)

"What makes the human larynx different are some important changes that it undergoes early in life. At birth, the human larynx, like that of the apes, is high in the throat. In a child's first year, its speech is restricted and the sounds it makes are reminiscent of those made by young chimpanzees. But during the second year, the larynx moves to a lower position, carrying the base of the tongue with it. This change allows the tongue much greater freedom, so the child can begin to articulate a wide range of complex sounds. Speech becomes possible." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.)

"Miscarriage and birth defects, such as neural tube defects may be a result of untreated celiac disease. This could be due to poor nutrient absorption and depletion. Long term cases may also suffer from bone pain, malnutrition, edema and unexplained skin sensations, such as burning, tingling or pricking, strictures of the intestines and ulcer formation in the lower bowel. Some hypothesize that low spleen function causes immune complexes to go unchecked and bind in the intestines. The body reacts by mounting an attack on these complexes and damages the intestinal wall." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.)

"Brownstein comments regarding birth control pills: "/ have successfully treated numerous women who have many of the signs of hypothyroidism by simply having them eliminate their use of birth control pills" (p. 60). Although estrogen performs an important function during the childbearing years, its level should and does reduce following menopause. Even if a woman has had a total hysterectomy, and no longer has ovaries, her fat tissue, and even her adrenals are still capable of producing estrogen." - Dr. David W. Tanton; Ph.D., A Drug-Free Approach To Healthcare, Revised Edition (Get the book.)

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