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"This means that almost one of four pregnant women is told either that she is incapable of giving birth vaginally, or that to do so would endanger her child and/or herself. Canada has a similar rate, but in Western Europe C-sections account for only 10 to 14% of all births. C-sections for severe preeclampsia (pregnancy induced hypertension leading to toxemia), severe diabetes, serious malpresentation, and chord prolapse (premature expulsion of the umbilical chord) may save the life of mother or child. Yet many C-sections are controversial." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"A banana covered in brown spots is the botanical equivalent of a hyperventilating mother giving birth. Certain climacteric fruits, such as bananas, avocados and pears, actually need to ripen off the tree—although they still must be picked at the right time. And if they aren't treated properly, they'll never taste right. Bananas turn gray from stints in frigid warehouses and produce sections. Pears are picked using precision calibrated ripeness gauges called penetrometers or potentiometers. After harvest, they then need to be cooled and stored until the optimum moment of edibility." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"The renewal of his long-standing friendship with Vitanyi was instrumental in giving birth to the Club of Budapest. There was a surge of interest in the work of the Club of Rome in Hungary following publication of its first report, The Limits to Growth (1972). This in turn raised interest in Laszlo's work, especially in the report he headed for the Club of Rome, Goals for Mankind (1977). Vitanyi in turn became Director of the Institute for Culture in 1970, where Maria Sagi was a researcher and later principal collaborator." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

"Women giving birth typically experience a surge of oxytocin. • It can help modulate immunity, which is often impaired in children with 4-A disorders. • It can help decrease and prevent constipation, a common disorder among 4-A kids. Magnesium also helps with this. Parents of autistic kids rate vitamin C very favorably as a treatment. In the 2006 Autism Research Institute (ARI) survey of approximately two thousand parents of autistic children, vitamin C was rated as follows: Symptoms improved: 41 percent No discernible effect: 57 percent Symptoms worse: 2 percent (generally diarrhea)." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"According to Super Baby, mothers who are excessively stressed or anxious during pregnancy run a higher risk of giving birth to babies with low birth weight, small head size, or impaired neurological development. If you feel overstressed, you should consider seeing a psychiatrist or therapist. I also found visualization techniques helpful during my pregnancy; there are many books on guided imagery available, including Staying Well with Guided Imagery by Belleruth Naparstek. Meditation, again, is an incredibly helpful way to control your stress levels during pregnancy." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.) "In 2003, the average age of a mother giving birth for the first time rose to a record high of 25.2, an increase of almost four years since 1970. Between 1991 and 2001 alone, the number of first births per one-thousand women aged thirty-five to thirty-nine increased by 36 percent, and by 70 percent among women aged forty to forty-four. While I think it's great that women today are waiting longer to start their families, prospective mothers over age thirty-five need to take stock of the risks they face during pregnancy, like developing gestational diabetes or high blood pressure." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.) "Greening Your Thinking In an ideal world, you'll take the first steps toward greening your baby even earlier, prior to giving birth and even prior to getting pregnant. Don't wait until you're already a parent to start changing your habits. The lives we lead before conception—the foods we eat, the place we live, our exercise habits—also play a huge role in the health of our future children. About half of all pregnancies in this country are unplanned, and most women don't discover they're pregnant until the sixth week." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"Some women who had taken the sedative during their pregnancies were giving birth to babies who were grotesquely deformed. The infants suffered from what is called pho-comelia, which comes from the Greek words phoke, meaning "seal," and melos, meaning "limb." The bones in the infants' arms or legs were so grossly short that their hands or feet appeared to sprout directly from their torsos like the flippers of a seal. Some of the babies also lacked openings for their ears or bowels." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"Because pregnant women are at risk of becoming choline deficient [45], and thus having increased risk of giving birth to babies with neural tube defects [55], the recommendation that pregnant women should attempt to consume diets adequate in choline content seems reasonable. In addition, because half of the population has gene polymorphisms that affect choline and folate metabolisms [61, 62], it is likely that different individuals may have different dietary requirements for choline and may need to pay special attention to choline intake during pregnancy." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"After giving birth to her spawn, she dies. At the Greek harvest ceremony called Thargelia, men and women used to beat their genitalia with wild fig branches thinking that would help fertilize fig trees. When crops were meager, humans wearing garlands of figs would be burned alive on fig-wood pyres to ensure abundant harvests. If only they knew they needed wasps. Unbeknownst to most of us today, some of the figs that we eat, such as the Calimyrna or the Smyrna, may contain wasp remains, although these insect husks are usually broken down by an enzyme called ficin." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"Pottenger cats experiment results Pregnant females often had difficulty giving birth and lactating; many died in labor. As time went on, females had more difficulty becoming pregnant. Normal sexual personality traits reversed; females became more aggressive, males tended to become more passive. In both sexes, physical characteristics became more neutral. Sexual interest between cats of the same sex increased. Kittens born of deficient diet mothers weighed, on average, 16% less than kittens born of raw diet mothers. Intestinal parasites and vermin were common." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"FACT A group of compounds called endocrine disrupters are getting a lot of attention as infertility rates skyrocket and more and more young women complain of having trouble conceiving and giving birth to healthy children. Endocrine disrupters mimic or block hormones that regulate many bodily functions, such as estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone—hormones that are key to reproductive health. Small changes to this intricate system of hormonal signals can translate to major health concerns that could be difficult, if not impossible, to reverse. 7:30 A.M." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"Indeed, research shows that many women who develop lupus do so a few months after giving birth to a child—a time when hormone levels undergo swift and dramatic changes. Yet the precise ways in which sex hormones influence autoimmune disease remain largely unknown. What researchers do know is that sex hormone balance is a crucial factor in the optimum regulation of immune and inflammatory responses and that hormones such as estrogen that women produce modulate the activity of proteins in our bodies, leading in ways we do not yet fully understand to a more reactive autoimmune response." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.) "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.)

"We cannot recall in the past 40 years a single female patient of ours on vitamins giving birth to any child with a congenital defect. We have been able to advise them all that not only would they not harm their developing baby by taking vitamins, but that their chances of giving birth to a defective child would be greatly diminished. However, some of our patients have been told by their doctors that they must stop all their vitamins while pregnant. They still look upon vitamins as toxic drugs." - Abram Hoffer, PhD, MD, FRCP(C) and Dr. Jonathan Prousjy, DPHE, DSC, ND, FRSH, Naturopathic Nutrition: A Guide to Nutrient-rich Food & Nutritional Supplements for Optimum Health (Get the book.)

"This will prove to be helpful in the second stage of labor, and it may prevent a tear when giving birth. This exercise should be done daily, especially in the third trimester. • Stand with your feet about two feet apart. Squat down and end up squatting on the balls of your feet. Lean forward onto your hands, keeping your arms and back straight, and open your knees wide apart, pointing them to the outside. • Tighten your pelvic floor muscles, pulling them in as if you are trying to stop yourself from urinating. Hold for several seconds, and then slowly let go. Repeat three to five times." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.) "Besides HPV, other risks include early age at first intercourse, giving birth before age 22, cigarette smoking, low socioeconomic status, number of lifetime partners, and possibly, although not conclusively, oral contraceptive use. Women with five or fewer lifetime heterosexual partners had higher rates of regression of untreated CIN 1 and CIN 2 than did women with more than five partners, independent of barrier contraception method use (condoms or diaphragms)." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"She is tall, blond, athletically trim, and was only five pounds over her normal weight two weeks after giving birth. She looked terrific, which is relevant here only because she didn't see it that way. On the rare occasions when they went out after Carter was born, Stacy would try on a dozen outfits. "I thought I looked horrendous," she says. "No matter what anybody said, I didn't believe it in my heart of hearts." "No fooling around; it was nine or ten different shoes and shirts and pants," Tony says. "She saw a different person in the mirror." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.)

"BUTTERFLY RASH OF LUPUS Dark Patches on Cheeks If you have dark symmetrical patches covering your cheeks and the bridge of your nose, like a face mask, you have the classic sign of melasma (aka months of stopping these medications or giving birth, the blotches fade. Scaly Patches on the Face Scaly patches of discolored skin smack in the middle of your face are hard to ignore, and you shouldn't. They may be telltale signs of lupus pernio, especially if the patches are persistent. Lupus pernio patches can be flat or raised and usually also appear on the cheek, nose, lips, and ears." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.)

"The Hopi Indians gave their women an infusion of the whole buckwheat plant to stop bleeding after giving birth. Throw Me a Lifesaver! Rats and mice who were fed buckwheat flour had lower cholesterol levels, less body fat, and fewer gallstones than mice that were not fed buckwheat flour. Prematurely aging rats that were fed buckwheat flour had improved immune cell function compared to those who didn't consume it. A study done on diabetic rats found that buckwheat concentrate added to rat chow decreased their glucose levels by twelve to nineteen percent after eating." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.)

"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. FOODS THAT FIGHT DIABETES In general, diabetes research has found that many of the basic elements of a healthy diet—whole grains, fruits and vegetables, beans and legumes, and low-fat dairy—may also have a significant impact on diabetes." - Elaine Magee, Food Synergy: Unleash Hundreds of Powerful Healing Food Combinations to Fight Disease and Live Well (Get the book.)

"But don't stop drinking raspberry leaf tea after giving birth. This tea has tonic properties for stimulating glands responsible for the production of milk. Drink up to three cups a day. To prepare, steep one teaspoon of dried leaves in a cup of hot water for 10 to 15 minutes. Strain and sip. • Milk Thistle Lives up to Its Name Just like expectant mothers, new mothers often worry about the foods and drinks they ingest—and what effect those foods will have on the baby." - Bottom Line Books, Uncommon Cures For Everyday Ailments (Get the book.) "As a result, those who used both drugs had a markedly higher chance of giving birth, compared to those who took aspirin alone or no drugs. The belief is that the drugs help reduce blood clotting (as with heart patients), which it is believed might otherwise lead to miscarriage. Immune-System Treatments I A, n order not to reject a growing fetus during a normal pregnancy, the mother's immune system essentially turns off this rejection reaction in the uterus, letting the fetus develop." - Bottom Line Books, Uncommon Cures For Everyday Ailments (Get the book.)

"Given that the scientific consensus, even as acknowledged by the FDA, confirms that taking folic acid substantially reduces a woman's risk of giving birth to an infant with a neural tube defect, the public interest is well served by permitting the information about the folic acid/NTD connection to reach as wide a public audience as possible. Plaintiffs' Folic Acid Claim, regardless of whether it is ideally worded or entirely free from misleadingness, communicates this vitally important message." - Jonathan W. Emord, The Rise of Tyranny (Get the book.)

"As well, a March 2008 study in the science journal Environmental Health Perspectives presented evidence that mothers with a higher body burden of oxybenzone were more prone to giving birth to underweight baby girls. Low birth rate could make children more susceptible to coronary heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and other maladies once they are adults." - 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.)

"PREGNANCY DELIVERY • Guided Therapy for a Healthy Delivery Air raid of giving birth? Guided therapy is the ticket to fear-free delivery. A trained therapist can lead you through relaxing, thought-provoking sessions. During these meetings you discover the source of your anxiety and learn how to cope with the issues before the baby arrives. The number of sessions necessary depends on the patient?so don't wait until the week before your due date. Pregnancy and Natural Therapies Warning: Ask your doctor before starting any alternative or natural therapy if you are pregnant." - Bottom Line Books, Uncommon Cures For Everyday Ailments (Get the book.) "Herbal Salves During pregnancy and after giving birth, nipples can become sore, dry and even cracked. Herbalists suggest these soothing natural remedies for their moisturizing and cell-renewing benefits: Comfrey root ointment, burdock salve, vitamin E oil and aloe vera gel. All can be found in health food stores. Use according to package instructions; however, ask your doctor about using these remedies while breast-feeding, as they may pose a danger if your baby ingests them." - Bottom Line Books, Uncommon Cures For Everyday Ailments (Get the book.)

"Cooling further, these particles began forming stable relationships with each other, giving birth to the very simplest of atoms: hydrogen and helium. Matter had been born. It took millions of years, however, for more complex atoms to form. This could happen only when simpler atoms chanced to collide and combine. Over many eons, all the elements lighter than iron were created through this fusion process. But at iron, the chain stops. The synthesis of heavier elements (e.g., cobalt, nickel, copper, gold, and uranium) requires the input of additional energy." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.)

"New mothers discovered they were allowed only twenty-four hours in the hospital after giving birth. If the physician you had been seeing for years wasn't on the in-network list provided by your employer's managed care provider, well, too bad; you would just have to get naked in front of a new doctor. When your employer switched to yet another plan the following year, you had to look for a doctor all over again. Peabody began to feel as if there were a revolving door at the entrance to his office." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"Before and after giving birth, these mothers should assure that both they and their babies maintain optimal serum levels of vitamin D. Too many nursing mothers, especially African Americans, are providing vitamin D-deficient milk. Drs. Bruce Hollis and Carol Wagner have shown that 2,000 IU of supplemental vitamin D daily for nursing mothers falls woefully short ofachieving healthful serum levels in their babies.66 These researchers then established that 6,400 IU daily is necessary to maintain optimal blood levels in both the nursing mother and her baby." - Marc Sorenson, Solar Power For Optimal Health (Get the book.)

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