The gentlebirth.org website is provided courtesy of
Ronnie Falcao, LM MS,
a homebirth midwife in Mountain View, CA
The gentlebirth.org website is provided courtesy of
Ronnie Falcao, LM MS,
a homebirth midwife in Mountain View, CA
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The federal government now says it's OK for pregnant women and young children to be injected with mercury in the H1N1 vaccine. However, if there were more mercury-free vaccine available, they would recommend that pregnant women and young children get that instead. Don't be fooled! Thimerosal is a form of mercury! Autism rates dropping in California—is phase-out of thimerosal the reason? [from 2005] Current thinking is that only genetically vulnerable babies will be affected by the thimerosol . . . maybe even as low as 1 out of 200 or 0.5%. But if it's your child, it's 100%. Read this mother's story about her children's recovery from mercury-related autism. |
This picture was originally entitled "Women as Explained by Engineers", and somebody sent it to me as an engineer joke, but it seemed like such a great depiction of the way obstetrics (a male-dominated field) views laboring women - as if they have an on/off switch, and pitocin turns the switch on.
Midwives (a female-dominated field for sure) tend to have a better understanding of the psyche of the laboring woman, who is under the influence of a symphony of complex hormones.
Disclaimer - This is intended to apply to laboring women only - I certainly
do not intend to imply that all women are always like this.
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