Child Birth in America is not as safe as you would think – Business of Being Born sheds light on this issue
Finally someone is exposing the fact that Americans have a lot to learn from other countries when it comes to child birth. The USA has the 2nd highest infant mortality rate amongst the developing nations and yet we are suppose to be so medically advanced. I think the over medical advancement place a major part in what is wrong today in so many hospitals when child birth is concerned. Since I’m European (born and raised in Finland), I come from a different culture where child birth is looked at as natural as can be. Midwifes play a huge part and natural births are encouraged. Women bodies were made to deliver babies the natural way as long as you let nature do it’s work. Once you start disrupting the natural process with medication etc, things start to go wrong. I delivered both of my children here in the US without pain medication because I wanted to have a natural birth, and I was looked at like I was from Mars. I delivered both times at the hospital and the staff was amazed that I didn’t want any pain medication and kept offering it. They did the typical pitocin type of birthing to speed up the process to keep the assembly line going but I was still able to deliver without pain medication. I’m so glad I did! The only mistake I made was not to have a midwife present at the birth and letting them give me pitocin. If I would ever do it again, I would definitely have a midwife and I might also consider home birth so that I wouldn’t have to deal with the hospital bullying.
Ricki Lake has made this amazing documentary, exposing the whole problem of current birthing process in the US. I can’t wait to see the whole movie. All women should see this so that they can be more educated about what really goes on when you go to deliver a baby. Here is the website address to his document.
www.thebusinessofbeingborn.com
In search of pretty hair accessories
Our daughter is 18 mos old and her hair has been growing like crazy. I chose not to cut her bangs because I wanted to grow her hair out. It has been difficult at times since her bangs are getting long. I’ve done the pony tail on the top of the hair for a while now because it’s the only thing she will let me do without pulling out constantly. Now that she is older, I wanted to find something pretty for her hair. I order a few hair clips and bands from a couple of websites and I received them today. Everything was packaged so nicely and everything looked so pretty. When Carissa (our daughter) saw them, she was in awe. She wanted to wear them in her hair too which was great. I can highly recommend these accessories if you are looking for something pretty for your daughter or for a gift. I ordered from www.lilsugarplum.com and www.out-to-tea.com.
Out-To-Tea Picture
LilSugarplum Picture
I also ordered matching hair bands for her and I and they looked so cute!
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Cry it Out (CIO) – the worse thing you can do as a parent
I just finished writing the About page and I wrote a lot about this subject because it’s something I’m very passionately against. No baby should be subject to this type of parenting and yet there are so many out there who are. It just breaks my heart that anyone could do this to their child. The result of CIO method being used are detrimental to a child to his emotional and physical development. Every time a baby cries, the stress hormone levels in the bloodstream go up and the longer the baby is allowed to cry, the more the stress hormones affect the child and his health negatively. Not only is CIO the most cruel way to treat your baby but also the most unhealthy for the child. The emotional scars left from CIO can last a life time and can show in adulthood with inability to trust others and form healthy relationships. The quickest way the negative affects of cry it out start to show when the child is diagnosed failure to thrive. Some people don’t understand that it’s not the nutrition that makes the babies grow, it’s emotional feeding as well which for a baby means responding to his cries promptly. The way you take care of a baby in the first 2 years of their life affects their whole life time. Next time a “good” friend of yours tells you to ignore your baby and his needs, you might want to think about what you are doing and the long lasting negative affects of it. We are suppose to be the smartest species on earth but at times I doubt that because it seems that animals can take care of their babies better than some humans can. I can’t imagine an animal abandoning their child just for the heck of it like humans do. The only time an animal might ignore their baby and leave it behind to cry is because it knows the baby will die or will not survive in the wilderness. Children’s rights are very close to my heart because children can’t defend themselves, especially newborn babies can’t, and if I can save just one baby from being subject to the CIO method by educating people about the detrimental affects of it, I will.Â
Happy New Year 2008
Happy to New Year to all the attachment parents out there! I wish you all the best in 2008!
