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Not a fan of that kind of stuff, and don't believe in it (my 'painful births' were attributed to some 'unresolved fear' I had about becoming a parent or some shit 
) but most people I know like this aren't totally stupid and do take their kids to the doctor if need be. Of course, I live in Canada where parents are more likely to take their kids in - I found that a lot of my American friends at the time resorted to 'natural remedies' because they didn't have money to be taking their 5 kids in to the doctor unless it was serious. MOST parents aren't going to follow this blog to the letter. They'll try the natural stuff first and then take their kids in. Of course, anyone who follows this like gospel and makes stupid decisions because of it were probably likely to make idiotic decisions regardless.
Plus, I was talking about birth. Once the baby is out, there is a certain element of having to protect the child's interest and in that case, if a child is not receiving proper medical attention the courts can step in.
Please tell me I didn't just read that! 
Though sadly, I know people who think crazy shit like that. And yes, some of them are parents. The mind boggles.
Cali doesn't have a kid named Ulysses either
I would cry if it were her that did this. It makes my vision of
Cali a complete distortion....
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Where Jim Carrey was a grown adult and was still attached to his mother via umbilical cord and had to follow her where ever she went. Must have been where this woman got the idea. 
http://www.artble.com/artists/joshua_reynolds/paintings/the_infant_hercules_strangling_serpents_in_his_cradle
The Infant Hercules Strangling Serpents in his Cradle
Joshua Reynolds
Sir Joshua Reynolds' turbulent mythological masterpiece is a swirl of volatility, depicting an action-packed scene. The story is derived from the classical Roman myth, originally stemming from Greek mythology. Hercules' character had been adapted as it went through Roman culture and even early Germanic culture as well.
In this specific scene, Reynolds painted Hercules as a baby in his cradle fighting off the two snakes sent by Hera, Zeus' wife who was jealous of the infant.
tenta, which means to feel, and culo which means asshole.
So a "tentáculo" is an ass feeler or ass grabber.
Just something to ponder...
"Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis."
Jack Handey
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since even vegan animals chew off the cord, LOL. Have a lotus birth, fine, but don't make ridiculous statements like this. 
That's my favorite line of bullshit from natural birth nuts.
Well, excuuuse me. I would be DEAD, yes, DEAD and so would my now-grown child if I had not had a C-section. And anybody who thinks all women can deliver vaginally are full of shit. They can go to hell as far as I'm concerned. Excellent doctors and nurses saved my life and my child's life. C-sections are routine now and they save a LOT of mothers' and babies' lives.
You can't get a watermelon through a 3 inch pipe. End of discussion.
Or else it's too small for the baby's head to get through.
That's why you have to dilate to 10 cm to be fully dilated. Four inches and 10 cm are almost the same. It's a simple mechanical problem. You say that you have "studied this for years". I learned it from an obstetric nursing textbook. A good OB can tell by pelvic exam whether or not your pelvis is big enough. Mine wasn't. So that's why I had to have a C-section. My doctor told me I was not wide enough in the wheelbase to have a normal sized baby, let alone a big one.
My contractions got stronger and eventually stopped, because the baby was not being pushed out so my uterus was giving up. The baby was in distress. It was time for a C-section.
I am petite, and have narrow hips. So mine was necessary. One natural childbirth nut on this board INSISTS that all women can deliver vaginally and I argued with her because she didn't understand what I was saying. She insisted I must have a "deformed pelvis". 
Nope, I'm just a small woman.
And BTW when I went into labor I had NO dilation and NO dropping because the baby's head was too big to drop. I had a healthy 8 pounder which I thought was huge. I'm part of that 5% that would die otherwise. Women who have been maimed or died from C sections had incompetent doctors.
I don't think doctors want to do C-sections unless it's necessary or there is fear of hypoxia from distressed labor. You need a skilled surgeon.
I had all of mine, natural and at home and I don't consider myself "nuts"…
nothing weird, just wanted to be home… I did use the placentas for fertilizer under my squashes though 
only those with a vagina should weigh in on this. When your body is the one that is involved, then you should be the one to say, I'll cut this cord when the right time comes. Perhaps the revulsion comes from the fear of having a foreskin removed?
These people are completely and willfully ignorant of scientific facts, especially germ theory. Having grown up on a farm and seeing our dogs drag around the cow placentas and getting the full sensory impact of rotting placentas, their idea seems completely disturbed to me. Comparing a rotting placenta to a flower is beyond absurd. This article is full of pseudo-intellectual blather.
I googled the deaths from C-sections and came up with a death rate of 11 per 100,000 births http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/rare-tragic-11-deaths-100-000-c-section-deliveries-n-u-s-article-1.988408,while the death rate for vaginal birth is about 7 per 100,000 births. It certainly makes sense that c-sections would have more deaths as it is major surgery and is usually done when the mother and/or baby are having problems. Something like one in eight women died from complications from childbirth at the start of the 20th century. My grandmother died from infection after the birth of her fifth child in 1918. My other grandmother's first child was stillborn, because she was in labor too long. I bet she would have preferred a c-section to a dead child.
As someone who was bleeding out during childbirth, I can certainly state that a c-section was preferable to hemorrhaging to death. Oh, and it was unbelievably painful, too. Normal VBAC childbirth was a breeze compared to that. Watching the blood running off the bed, onto the floor is certainly not a memory I will ever forget. I was in a hospital with a specialist on call who showed up in less than 10 minutes to do an emergency c-section that saved me and the baby. We would not have survived if we were not in a hospital. I had no preconditions that would have indicated I would have a problem, either. No one plans to hemorrhage during childbirth.
Anyone who suggests I or any other c-section mother suffer from some sort of birth guilt about having a c-section is an idiot. I was and will always be thrilled to have survived and to have a live child with no brain damage. I suspect all the rest of my c-section sisters feel the same way.
No wonder the death rates for mothers is going up in this country, with this kind of garbage being fed to the naive, the gullible and the stupid instead of actual real medical facts. This is what happens when we let corporations and the nutty religions have too much control of our education system.
