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Women Explained by OBs


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.



This Web page is referenced from other pages containing related information about Hormones of Labor.

 




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