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WHY TAKE CHARGE OF YOUR LIFE/BIRTH?

As Gayle Peterson says in her great birthing manual “Birthing Normally” – so a woman lives, so shall she birth’.  

This means that if you are not comfortable in yourself, but need people to tell you what to do, reassure you, and act as experts before you do anything, you are run by fear and disempowered by life. This can be highlighted when pregnant - when you may revert to a child-like state and can’t let your body do what it is designed to do.
If this is you, what I have written here, and in fact any of my work, may be very confronting for you. 

If you naturally seek why and don’t accept but have to work things out for yourself you will be very happy you dropped by and started reading.
I assume that the reader wants a change.

CHANGE

Change is always about our own inner ‘stuff’ – not about what others have to do, should be doing, or what we think we want – it is about US making choices differently.
To assist you with this, I am taking a case from clinic yesterday and walking you through where you can make these changes – and all the time, please be aware that an inner programme and subconscious voices may be acting against whatever you are reading – as it is not normal in this culture at this time to go against what ‘experts’ say.
It is a human need to want to be included/ to be with the crowd – anonymous and safe in being so.  To stand out – to ask questions, to not accept as though it were correct, hospital policies, doctor’s advice or even what ‘everyone knows’ is to tread an often very awkward and sometimes very challenging path.
I wrote ‘Fetal Positioning Solutions’ as this issue has affected my life very deeply.   I myself was an OP baby and heard about my tricky birth all my early life, as it greatly affected mother’s ability to function as she ended up with a badly prolapsed bladder (gross neglect on the birthing teams’ part).  My own third child was also an OP baby and she replicated my own birth – without the maternal damage as I had assembled a more aware team about me.
Most women who come to me for labour induction actually have a baby not ready to come –as it is a non optimal position, and when baby is encouraged to be where birthing is then optimal, either nothing (nature has its own schedule) or very little outside help send mum off into an easy labour and birth.
FETAL POSITIONING - WHAT DOES IT MATTER?
ONE WOMAN’S STORY
As several of my babies were over 9 lb, I got rather worried about the size of the last one – so I went in to get a scan to see how he was going.  They then worried me about the lack of fluid around him, so I went home and drank LOTS more water.

POSSIBLE LACK OF PLACENTAL FUNCTION
(The reason behind all the monitoring – which really could just be less expensively and far more usefully and less fearfully be translated into the advice below – and the massage into the pelvis for mum to have GREAT circulation to the uterus and hence baby).  You can change what is happening - through changing what is happening!
All the massage work I have here and all the loving well advice will avoids any need to panic – you look after yourself and baby is automatically taken care of.  You put work, finishing a project, quickly amassing whatever before baby arrives – and you are compromising your future health and your baby in all aspects.  YOU are responsible and the finances are NOT your goal – at present when very pregnant – baby and bonding well are.
Most do not understand that the amount of water needed in pregnancy is vast – and it starts us in the habit to then be able to make abundant milk.  Whatever comes out of baby is recycled from everything we have eaten and drunk – and baby needs lots of wet nappies daily - so start up a habit of large glasses – the bottle you carry around is for sips when moving about – the serious chugging that happens when feeding baby is easier and hence you get much more down – when from a glass. (And many left besides you as who knows how long this feed will be??)
Also – rest – and how does one do this with lots of kids already?  Early to bed.  Most women start staying up late simply to have time to themselves - this shaves off large tracts of regeneration and growing time for baby and also mum’s body to adjust and do a perfect pregnancy.  Sleep is as important as the water – we need both to be able to keep a vibrant and healthy life.
MUM SAYS – ‘They kept sending me home after telling me to come in to get induced, as they were too busy in the hospital and this went on until he was two weeks overdue’.
Baby was not moving as baby was lying on mum’s RIGHT side – back to back.  Also called OP and the staff all knew this – it is THE most likely reason for a baby ready to come, not arriving – not in optimal position to signal to the cervix it is time.  Why is this not noted and corrected?  No idea – but it is a major reason for failure to progress when finally started artificially and is also the most likely reason for ‘emergency C section’ – the cascade of interventions once labour is forced to start before the body was ready. IT is usually an ORCHESTRATED C SECTION – they set it up by intervening naturally.  Nature sets us up to WIN in birthing, not to be messed about with so we can’t enjoy mothering.
‘They then hooked me up to a drip, and this was THE WORST of all the seven births’.
As above – it is a horrendous labour when the body is bashing baby up against where it is not supposed to be – the sacrum usually - resulting in a back breaking labour, or at least non productive/very prolonged labour.  (Please go to ‘birth stories’ on this site and read what happens when we take charge the second time.  . . not so much run by the haze of hope and blind faith).  The contractions have to work so much differently as baby is not presenting easily and baby’s head has to be moulded so much more to fit through – and baby is unlikely to be having a great time either . . .
‘What following was me lying on my back to be monitored’.
THE worst position to labour in. And the most dangerous for baby . . ..  as it is the most likely to upset/distress /compromise baby.  The weight of the very pregnant and now contracting uterus is on top of the blood supply to the uterus/placenta/baby – who’s bright idea is THIS – of course baby will get distressed!!!!! As there is so less oxygen getting to him/her!!!!  Mum is also far more likely to get distressed as less oxygen to the uterus means it is working in semi starvation mode and THAT hurts - the pain is a  message to MOVE – and of course if you (unlike this mother) chose to have an epidural as well . .. baby is on its own to try to get out without you helping at all – of course they give up and need rescuing  . .. ORCHESTRATED all the way.
‘Labour as the WORST of all of my babies – I would NEVER do that again’.
Already large, this baby in totally the wrong position has to negotiate through a small passage (as he was back to back – ‘OP’) and she was not leaning forwards to help him move to her front – so he could fit through easier – as she was being monitored to see if he was going to get distressed (and of course the contractions are not normal and are savage and are beating him up from the inside - natural contractions do not hit hard and furious like the chemical ones do), and on top of this is the lack of blood flow as she is not upright and forwards) she was on her back which shuts the pelvis down at least 28% - so why is she not moving about (women in labour get automatically into which ever position is less painful and often into very odd ones - as that is their body and baby telling her how to release the blockage, so baby can descend).
‘I only used the gas and when because he was too getting distressed, he was vacuumed out of me’.
Of course got distressed - mum was NOT able to help him birth and eventually he was sucked out!!!
‘He was facing the wrong way, when he arrived’.
So where in this story is GOOD OBSTETRIC CARE?
Any woman birthing at home, with no help - or in the car on the way to hospital, or wherever she was – left to her own devices, she would have NOT been in the position this mother was placed – supposedly for safety reasons . . . .  she was made to be to monitor baby distress).  He would not have been hassled out and she would have automatically found the position to ease the pain (and what is pain there to say? – something is STUCK).
DUNCAN - THIS IS THE CUE TO ‘EASY BIRTHING’ JUST SENT THROUGH . ..
FURTHER HELP  ..  .
WHAT YOU FUEL YOURSELF DICTATES WHAT BABY /BREASTMILK/BODY/HEALTH/LIFE YOU GET.
This woman’s doctor suggested that if she didn’t want a big baby to concentrate on eating protein. This is excellent advice – knowing out all cereals is a great start to growing a baby - also for regaining your own health.  Our western diet is awash with fillers and that which our taste buds decree is wonderful.  Good nutrition is only not that simple. As these days marketing and selling THEIR product is the focus of food producers, not necessarily our health and the goodness of the product.
If you are at all worried about growing a big baby, please visit www.bigbaby.org.uk.
Eating in Pregnancy and Gestational Diabetes eBooks will be in line late next week.  Gestational Diabetes is very easily avoided – eat differently and get more exercise and rest and water.  The eBook explaining his in detail will be out on this site within a week.  DUNCAN Please sign HERE and we will email you when it is ready. 
In the meantime, be assured that if you stop eating or drinking ANYTHING with a sweet taste – anything including fruit, dried fruit, fruit juices, as well as what you may THINK I mean it will impressively alter for the better your blood sugar readings.
What we fuel ourselves is what needs altering.
Next – all gluten goes.  That is anything made with wheat, rye, oats (yes porridge) and barley.  Not that I am saying you have celiac disease, but that all are better without filing themselves with cereals - protein every three hours, lots of coloured vegies and some fat with all the water that is needed will make a great baby, and more importantly get you ready to eat perfectly to make great milk to feed baby.

SO WHAT DO I EAT?

We eat for many reasons in late pregnancy and when lactating, growing the best baby possible and redesigning our own body for the rest of our lives is the reason for standing on QUALITY not taste.  You will get used to lots of protein and fat and veggies – and your health will flourish and any illness and unwellness you are used to will be banned.
Protein every three hours – a little often. 
Full fat everything – as baby needs it as do you and your hormones. 
At least two and a half cups of coloured veggies daily.  Replace all cereals with veggies – red capsicum halved and eaten raw as the carrier for all the sandwich fillings - halve capsicum, spread with pesto, fill with cottage cheese, and top with smoked salmon and avocado . . .a great lunch.
EXAMPLES
1)    Celery stick filled with roasted cashew paste (available all health food sections of supermarkets) NEVER PEANUT BUTTER - instead of . . or there is also macadamia, almond . . .try it also on rice or corn crackers/cakes (the plain or seaweed ones – not the artificially flavoured and salted ones). 
2)    Try a piece of cheese (not yoghurt as it is TOO COLD and TOO SWEET – see later in info on eating). 
3)    Half an avocado with some canned fish . . . or anything else . . .
4)    Egg wrapped up in lettuce . .. . be adventurous
5)    At least do left over wok veggies with egg stirred through for breakfast  . . .left overs are invaluable made into rissoles/fritters  again – left over rice in the fridge doubles with egg as the binding agent instead of flour . . . it is very easy to think forwards - as you will need to anyway when baby is  a toddler and schoolkid – so start packing your own lunch box when you leave the house - it is far cheaper /healthier and way more interesting . . .
Women are designed to open and birth well.
IF THEY TRUST BIRTH
Left with a supportive support team, very large babies can slip out.
Worried about birthing PAIN – please read Birthing Easily. LINK – is what is sent by yousendit . . . .