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Bradley Method students: Check your workbook
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In 1989, the Bradley Method Student Workbook in effect recommended closing the birth canal up to 30% ("the Bradley Classic") (!!) In 1991, after Bradley Method guru Jay Hathaway came to my home to learn the simple grisly biomechanics of semisitting delivery, he assured me that his Student Workbook would stop recommending "the Bradley Classic," closing the birth canal up to 30%... See Dear Mothering, Dear ICAN, Dear God... http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group...t/message/1166 Incredibly, in 1997, closing the birth canal up to 30% ("the Bradley Classic") was apparently still being recommended in the Bradley Method Student Workbook! BRADLEY METHOD STUDENTS: Please check your workbooks! The Bradley Method website has no email address published. I try copying them via and also via someone who is apparently a Bradley instructor Here is what I wrote in 2002 when I learned Jay Hathaway's Bradley Method was still apparently promoting closing birth canals in 1997... BRADLEY METHOD FLAW - see the postscript... snip PS My thanks to Laurie ) for recently resurrecting that 1994 (!) Bradley Method thread... http://groups.google.com/groups?q=g:...0mb-ck.aol.com Anna Fiehler ) wrote on that same thread (in 1997!): "The Bradley classes we took focused on knowledge of the childbirth process...My only gripe...the recommended delivery position, semi-reclining. They do talk about squatting too, but almost every tape and illustration in the book show the semi-reclining position." http://groups.google.com/groups?dq=&...D691AD.1B8D%40 mathworks.com END excerpt of Gastaldo's Oct. 27, 2002 post... http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group...t/message/1691 The next day - Oct. 28, 2002 - I noted that Lamaze also promotes closing the birth canal up to 30%... http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group...t/message/1692 Here is my 1997 post regarding the possibility that "the Bradley Classic" may cause postpartum pelvic pain... Search Result 19 From: Todd Gastaldo ) Subject: The Bradley "Classic" and PPPPain and adjusting babies' skulls and spines... This is the only article in this thread View: Original Format Newsgroups: misc.kids.pregnancy, sci.med, misc.kids.health Date: 1997/09/08 Misc.kids.health, Sci.med and Misc.kids.pregnancy posters, The Bradley "Classic" - reportedly no longer encouraged by Bradley Method instructors - is a fetal skull squashing delivery position that may also cause PPPPain. See below. There is also, of course, pain before delivery. It is estimated that 50% of pregnant women will suffer back pain during pregnancy; so it is good to see that nurse-midwives (CNMs) Benetti and Marchese [1996] are going beyond recommending heat, ice and drugs - they are recommending referral to chiropractors. See discussion below. PREVENTION of back pain... Some women suffer SEVERE pelvic pain following delivery. I think there may be a way to prevent much of this pain - just by preventing fetal skull squashing... This I discuss further in the body of this post. TREATMENT of back pain before, during and after delivery... I should caution readers that I start out by discussing a small minority of women who suffer SEVERE pain following delivery - some times for years... I say "small minority" only because I am guessing. There may be many and they may be suffering silently. The Norwegian women discussed below say it is a "hidden problem." I would like to hear from ANY women who have suffered as the following Norwegian women have suffered... IL Rist of the Norwegian Association of Women with Pelvic Girdle Relaxation reported in 1991: "Invalidity is a shocking experience. You cannot get out of your bed and you need nursing and help to everything like making food and washing yourself. You have constant, intense pains day and night, year after year..." [Rist IL (The Norwegian Association of Women with Pelvic Girdle Relaxation). A fight against pains and ignorance. Scand J Rheumatology 1991; Suppl. 88:17] Similarly, MC Jensen, a founding member of the Norwegian Association, reported in an abstract that from week 17 of her pregnancy "it became painful to walk"; after which "the pains increased." After delivery she remained in bed "with immense pains for 7 months." [Jensen MC. A patient's story. Scand J Rheumatology 1991; Suppl. 88:17.]) Jensen's 1991 report further stated that "the association has increased continuously and has shown that this is a comprehensive and hidden problem in Norway"... Yet, in the same issue of Scand J Rheumatology, Australian obstetrician Alistair MacLennan ignored this "hidden problem" possibility and made a puzzling reference to "the apparently high incidence of the problem in Scandinavian women compared to other nationalities." Obstetrician MacLennan offered no evidence that "other nationalities" had even looked for the problem. (Jensen indicates in her abstract that it is indeed necessary to look. She writes: "I was amazed and scared by the lack of knowledge and understanding in the [Norwegian] public health system." Perhaps the public health systems of other nations are similarly afflicted.) MANIPULATION to relieve severe pelvic pain Jensen mentioned that manipulation helped her, i.e., she is now "in pretty good health" and "the following kinds of treatment did help...manipulating the pelvic [sic]...training in hospital physiotherapy, acupuncture, autogenic training." [Jensen 1991] U. Akre of Ullevå Hospital in Oslo, Norway also mentioned manipulation, writing that, "In Norway, manual therapy is a system for examination and treatment of dysfunctions in the musculoskeletal apparatus...based on orthopaedic and osteopathic methods which have been further developed and systemized by Norwegian physiotherapists...The choice of therapy is determined by clinical findings." [Akre U. Training of the pelvic girdle muscles. Scand J Rheumatology 1991; Suppl. 88:23.]) Akre [1991] wrote further: "50% of women experience backache during pregnancy" and state that the pain "may theoretically have two biomechanical causes...1. Hypermobility; and 2. Hypomobility with subluxation in one of the sacroiliac joints...The treatment is different in the two conditions." As alluded to above, it is good that two CNMs, Benetti and Marchese [1996], came to the conclusion that CNMs should make referrals to chiropractors "when necessary"; but unfortuately, Benetti and Marchese [1996] gave no indication as to WHY it might be necessary for nurse-midwives to make referrals to chiropractors. [Benetti MC, Marchese T. Primary care for women: management of common musculoskeletal disorders. JNM 1996;41:173-87] CNMs branching into the management of musculoskeletal conditions should not restrict themselves (or their patients) to NSAIDs, heat and ice. Benetti and Marchese note that NSAIDs - non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs like aspirin and ibuprofen - are "relatively contraindicated in patients with...pregnancy" [1996:173]. Oddly, although they mention referral to chiropractors, Benetti and Marchese fail to mention spinal manipulation. To all pregnant women who are suffering spinal/pelvic pain, there are practitioners of all professional stripes who specialize in adjusting pregnant women. I am, of course, biased toward chiropractors. : ) (See my signature file.) ADJUSTING BABIES' SKULLS AND SPINES... Menkes' Textbook of Child Neurology [1995] cites Hepner's 1951 report that some facial nerve injury is evident in 6% of neonates, with the injury resulting from pressure of the sacral "prominence" - or pressure of forceps - against the facial nerve. [Hepner WR. Some observations on facial paresis in the newborn infant: etiology and incidence. Pediatrics 1951;8:494-97] Obviously, pressure from the sacral/tailbone tip being jammed up to an inch into the fetal skull could do the same thing. Dobson [1994], a chiropractic physician, suggests that most fetuses traverse the outlet with the left side of their face pressed in ("slanted") by the sacral tip - and that cranio-sacral therapy in infancy can help normalize the resulting "facial slant" apparent in so many faces. [Dobson J. Baby Beautiful: A Handbook of Baby Head Shaping. 1994 Heirs Press, 2533 N. Carson St., Ste 1585, Carson City, NV 89706.] Osteopathic physicians Peta Sneddon and Paolo Cosechi describe cases which illustrate the practice of osteopathy. Case #2 is Louis: "Immediately after the birth Louis' head appeared flattened and squashed...the latter treatments were aimed at lifting his frontal bone..." [Sneddon P, Cosechi P. Discover Osteopathy. Berkeley, CA: Ulysses Press, 1997] The German physician Biedermann [1992] used spinal adjusting to treat 135 babies referred to him by a pediatric orthopedist; and recently wrote in the medical literature that traumatization of suboccipital structures occurs during birth, giving rise to manipulable lesions and various conditions which he has observed to subside soon after manipulation of those lesions. [Biedermann H. Kinematic imbalances due to suboccipital strain in newborns. J Manual Medicine 1992;6:151-156. H. Biedermann, M.D., Surgical Department, University of Witten-Herdecke, Schützenstrasse 9, W-5840 Schwerte, Federal Republic of Germany.] According to Biedermann [1992], conditions which have yielded to a single upper cervical manipulation include neonatal torticollis, opisthotonus, asymmetric motor patterns, sleeping disorders, asymmetric development and range of motion of the hips, fever of unknown origin, and loss of appetite. Biedermann reports that manipulation and physiotherapy complement each other, with about 50% of cases requiring physiotherapy following spinal manipulation. ("[P]hysiotherapists," writes Biedermann, "report consistently that the[ir] treatment is simplified after manipulation.") Biedermann [1992] also stated, "Prolonged labor and the use of extraction aids are especially overrepresented" in cases of the syndrome he calls kinematic imbalance due to suboccipital strain, or KISS. The birth canal, he says, is "one of the most dangerous obstacles we ever have to traverse." Obstacles should not be place in birth canals. Women should be informed IMMEDIATELY that - at home or in hospital - with or without a licensed midwife - they can easily avoid obstetric tomfoolery that jams tailbones into birth canals - into fetal skulls. THE BRADLEY "CLASSIC" AND PPPPain - and possible PREVENTION... Bridget remarked on something Suzanne Powell wrote: In short, what Todd Gastaldo is saying is that sitting in a semi-sitting or semi-reclining position causes your tailbone (in lay terms) to be pushed forward into the pelvis. You can avoid this by using alternate delivery positions or by using the above positions in a birthing bed that has a "U" cut out of it (when the take the bottom of the bed off). He makes some valid points, but truthfully, how many of you actually kept reading his novel length post? Suzanne Powell I stopped reading it in the first confusing paragraph. Thank you for translating it into "English" I guess this gives more support to the positons that Bradley recommends - especially in early labor. The Bradley Method makes a most peculiar position recommendation - fetal skull squashing (the "Bradley Classic") - for the actual delivery. As suggested above, this peculiar delivery position recommendation may also cause severe postpartum pelvic pain (PPPP) in some mothers... According to Dutch researchers Mens et al. [1996], "Maximal flexion of spine and hips" during delivery might enhance the risk for peripartum pelvic pain (PPPP). [Mens JMA, Vleeming A, Stoeckart R, Stam HJ, Snijders CJ. Understanding peripartum pelvic pain: implications of a patient survey. Spine 1996;21(11):1363-70.] Unfortunately, Mens et al. don't state exactly what they mean by "maximal flexion of spine and hips." I suspect they may be referring to - and cautioning against - the fetal skull squashing "Bradley Classic" delivery position where the woman sits in maximal flexion - squarely (and only) on her buttocks/sacrum during delivery? (Semisitting delivery is also recommended by ASPO/Lamaze.) Norwegian physiotherapist N Bjørnstad similarly cautions against sitting on the sacrum at delivery, but does not mention prevention of fetal skulll squashing as a co-benefit: "Birth positions recommended are...various sitting positions where sacrum will not be locked against the bed...avoid unnecessary stretching of the pelvic ligaments and locking of the joints." [Bjørnstad N. Obstetric physiotherapy, observation and treatment (abstract). Scand J Rheumatology 1991; Suppl. 88:22-23. (N. Bjørnstad, Bjerkåsen 5, 1310 Blommenholm, Norway)] According to Bradley Method educator Stacey Yeaman, photographs of the fetal skull squashing "Bradley Classic" may still be found in current editions of Jay and Marjorie Hathaway's Bradley Method Student Workbook.[Personal communication with Bradley educator Stacey Yeaman 1996.] Ms. Yeaman told me she has not been emphasizing the "Bradley Classic" in her classes because it seemed to her that it would be hard on the coccyx. She seemed surprised to learn that the entire sacrum moves - if women would only get off it. Obstetrician Robert Bradley, MD himself, Founder of the Bradley Method, also seemed surprised to learn this. See below. I have found that MOST Bradley Method educators ignore the Bradley Classic. The Bradley Method is renown for its unmedicated birth record; and I am not disputing that the FACT that Dr. Bradley stood fast against routine birth medication amidst stiff medical opposition to his position. Dr. Bradley and his army of child birth educators are to be commended; and indeed, they are commended, indirectly, in the 1995 and 1997 editions of Conn's Current Therapy. Details on this for any who ask. A photo of the fetal skull squashing "Bradley Classic" may also be found in Doris Haire's paper, "The Cultural Warping of Childbirth" where it is termed "the physiological position for childbirth." (I responded to Ms. Haire's promotion of fetal skull squashing - and CNMwifery over direct entry midwifery - with an article titled, "Unwarping Childbirth," which I sent via California Governor Pete Wilson to his Maternal and Child Health Branch Chief Rugmini Shah, M.D.) The grisly "Bradley Classic" also appears in Susan McCutcheon-Rosegg and Peter Rosegg's Natural Childbirth the Bradley Way [NY: Penguin 1984], a book prefaced and "highly recommend[ed]" by the now-retired founder of the Bradley Method, North American obstetrician Robert A. Bradley. Most recently, the grisly "Bradley Classic" appears in the 1996 edition of Susan McCutcheon's Natural Childbirth the Bradley Way [NY: Penguin 1996] - again recommended by obstetrician Robert A. Bradley. I mentioned Ms. Haire and the Hathaways above because Ms. Haire and the Hathaways learned several years ago the grisly biomechanics of the "Bradley Classic." Ms. Haire learned by phone and via surface mail; and Jay Hathaway learned by driving from Los Angeles to Sunnyvale in California for a personal demonstration on my living room floor, using Hathaway's model pelvis. In December 1991, Mr. Hathaway sat on my living room floor as I repeatedly demonstrated the biomechanics of the Bradley "Classic" using a model pelvis. Later that evening, Mr. Hathaway told me that he would begin telling all his instructors that the Bradley "Classic" denies up to 30% of pelvic outlet area. Six months later, however, three of his more prominent instructors still hadn't heard this information. I contacted Mr. Hathaway again when I learned that he wasn't educating Bradley instuctors as he had promised. (I learned this from Dr. Carolyn Wheeler of Los Angeles College of Chiropractic, who regularly invited Mr. Hathaway to speak to her obstetrics classes.) On the telephone, Mr. Hathaway casually dismissed the importance of EXPLICITLY INFORMING women that semi-sitting (the Bradley "Classic") denies fetuses up to 30% of pelvic outlet area and indicated he wasn't interested in any further discussion. Since Mr. Hathaway had just obtained Dr. Moysés Paciornik's address from me, and since Mr. Hathaway was simultaneously showing Dr. Claudio Paciornik's video "Birth in the Squatting Position" (and attributing to semi-sitting a squatting benefit), I decided to write and inform Dr. Paciornik of Mr. Hathaway's peculiar we-support-squatting-but-our-workbook-tells-women-that-semi-sitting-widens-t he-birth-canal" philosophy. Mr. Hathaway received a copy of my letter and immediately wrote to Dr. Paciornik (copy to Gastaldo) complaining that, after all, he (Hathaway) is in favor of squatting and even shows "Birth in the Squatting Position" to all of the instructors he trains. Mr. Hathaway told Dr. Paciornik that most of what Gastaldo said was true - but that he couldn't understand (and resented terribly) that Gastaldo had compared him with Williams Obstetrics co-author Norman F. Gant who told me he believes that most women don't really need the extra room. More on this below. Dr. Paciornik replied, gently reminding Mr. Hathaway that placing women in the semi-sitting position does force the sacral tip into the birth canal and possibly causes neurological damage. Soon after, Mr. Hathaway stopped accepting telephone calls from me. (I persisted in calling to insist that he should change the Bradley Student Workbook to warn students that the Bradley "Classic" narrows the birth canal. I also insisted that Hathaway issue a statement of clarification to the thousand Bradley instructors who still hand out the Bradley Student Workbook. As noted above, he reportedly included the Bradley "Classic" in his new workbook...) Through an assistant, Mr. Hathaway insisted that any further correspondence on this matter must be in writing, and that any correspondence with Dr. Bradley must go through his (Hathaway's) office. I again urged Mr. Hathaway, through his assistant, to inform Dr. Bradley of the pelvis-narrowing characteristic of the Bradley "Classic." A year later (1993), a Bradley instructor gave me Dr. Bradley's address and phone. That's when Dr. Bradley told me that he hadn't yet heard from Mr. Hathaway on this subject. As alluded to above, I noted in my letter to Dr. Paciornik that my experience with Mr. Hathaway reminds me of my experience with Williams Obstetrics author Norman F. Gant, M.D. When Dr. Gant called to thank me for pointing out that Williams Obstetrics was erroneously using Borell and Fernström to support a claim that the dorsal lithotomy position widens the pelvis, I asked him whether he would now begin advising obstetric students to encourage women to use alternative delivery positions. "Most women don't really need the extra room," he said. It astonishes me that Susan McCutcheon and Peter Rosegg heard nothing about the grisly biomechanics of the "Bradley Classic." Ms. Haire, Dr. Bradley and Jay Hathaway - all of whom were informed of the grisly biomechanics - are acknowledged in Ms. McCutcheon's 1996 text. Particularly noteworthy is the fact that obstetrician Robert A. Bradley himself failed to notify McCutcheon and Rosegg. Surprisingly, Dr Bradley himself was unaware that sacro-iliac motion occurs. He probably forgot that, years ago, he had been in attendance in New York City when Dr. Roberto Caldeyro-Barcia went over Borell and Fernström's work. Mr. Hathaway, who videotaped the presentation, showed my wife and I the video tape after dinner (after my demonstration to Mr. Hathaway on my living room floor; see above) and told me that Dr. Bradley was in attendance when Dr. Caldeyro-Barcia went over Borell and Fernstrom's work. According to Dr. Bradley's preface to McCutcheon [1996], the Bradley Method was preceded only by the late Dr. Grantly Dick-Read's childbirth method. [Childbirth Without Fear 1944] Bradley states he "had a wonderful visit" with Dick-Read - though he "did have a little bit of trouble with...[Dick-Read's] assertion that 'a little gas or medication wouldn't hurt anything.'" [Bradley in McCutcheon 1996] Regardless of whether it was Bradley - or the Hathaways - who made a "Bradley Classic" out of jamming tailbones up to 4 cm into fetal skulls; it is a fact that Dick-Read saw nothing wrong with placing women semiseated on their buttocks at delivery. The Nov. 5, 1955 issue of the British Medical Journal carries a letter from Dick-Read promoting semisitting delivery over the left lateral position. Dick-Read believed the left lateral position and "exaggerated lithotomy" to be "the result of short-sighted teaching of an unnatural position." To make his point, Dick-Read invoked observations of "coloured races" living in Africa, made by "100 collaborators, including Government medical and administrative officers, missionaries, paramount chiefs, and aged settlers who appreciated the novelty of this investigation." Dick-Read also invoked various ancients - including Aristotle who he quoted ("The woman should lie on her back...between lying and sitting..."), Soranus of Ephesus, and Shipral and Puah "the Egyptian midwives to the Israelites." Dick-Read continued his attack on the lateral position by noting proudly that "the left lateral position was used and discarded by the great American obstetrician, Joseph de Lee, who stated his reasons for reverting to the dorsal position..." (de Lee was the fine fellow who established episiotomy as a routine obstetric procedure.) Dick-Read concluded: "My investigations throughout the past few years show that the large majority of peoples of the world of all colours employ for delivery the squatting attitude, with the body weight take either on the feet, knees, buttocks, or lower back...Surely this galaxy of opinion favouring the dorsal attitude thoughout the ages must have some foundation of good sense and purpose. There is ample evidence of this from obstetricians, midwives, and the women and mothers of our time who have experienced both methods adequately to enable them to arrive at a balanced conclusion..." [Dick-Read G. Position for delivery (letter). British Medical Journal (Nov5)1955:1142-3] Dick-Read's mention of midwives reminds me that prominent American midwife Ina May Gaskin told me that she agreed with Williams Obstetrics author Norman F. Gant, M.D. that "most women don't really need the extra room." I had called Ms. Gaskin upon discovering in the journal Birth that most of her births were done in the semisitting position. Ms. Gaskin had just co-authored (with Meenan and Hunt) in the Journal of Family Practice an article on a hands-and-knees method of handling shoulder dystocia which for some reason (known only to Gaskin et al.) would not be adopted by large hospitals. Gaskin et al.'s comment about hospitals not adopting the practice of opening the pelvis reminded me of Varney Burst's comment in her Sept. 24, 1996 letter to me that nurse-midwives would continue to encourage semisitting in hospital delivery rooms - to "enlighten" those rooms. (Attention Deborah Flowers, Midwife, 47 The Farm, Summertown, TN 38483. I thoroughly enjoyed our telephone conversation. Please ensure that Ms. Gaskin receives a copy of this Open Letter to Prof. Varney Burst.) Although Gaskin apes this ill-advised medical practice (semisitting delivery), she is on record in the medical literature using the same radiographic study I use [Borell and Fernström 1957] - and the same biomechanics - to encourage getting women off their tailbones when problems occur. The medical profession, by contrast, will likely NOT use simple biomechanics in its hospitals [Meenan, Gaskin and Hunt J Fam Pract 199_]. Instead, the medical profession actually recommends placing women on their tailbones when forceps become necessary. (The authors of the 1993 Williams Obstetrics cite a study in which 295 Residency programs in the U.S. and Canada responded. 5% of the programs utilized outlet forceps, with half reporting their use in 5% of deliveries and one third reporting their use in 5% of deliveries or more... [Ramin S, Little B, Gilstrap L. Survey of operative vaginal delivery in North America in 1990. Abstract presented at meeting of Society of Perinatal Obstetricians, Orlando, Feb. 1992. Am J Obstet Gynecol 1992;166:430. Cited in Williams Obstetrics 1993.]) Even worse, in cases of breech delivery, obstetricians add a grisly step: An assistant helps to impale the after-coming fetal skull on the sacral tip. This is the "Mauriceau maneuver" illustrated in the 1993 Williams Obstetrics. (Fig. 25-7) (It is interesting to note that, in addition to this grisly breech delivery maneuver, the semi-sitting position itself is credited to Francois Mauriceau (1637-1709); though he apparently plagiarized the idea from Aristotle. [Dunn PM. Francois Mauriceau (1637-1709) and maternal posture for parturition. Arch Dis Child 1991;66:78-9. Address: Prof. Dunn, Southmead Hospital, Southmead Road, Bristol BS10 5NB]) An interesting Dick-Read coincidence: The "new/old" definition of chiropractic that I got published in the 1988 27th edition of Dorland's (reprinted in the 1994 28th edition) is quite similar to a definition of natural childbirth penned by Grantley Dick-Read, M.D. The "new/old" definition of chiropractic:reads as follows: "Chiropractic: a science of applied neurophysiologic diagnosis...based on the hypothesis that disease is caused by noxious mechanical, chemical and psychic irritants...treatment is the removal of these irritants by the most conservative means possible" Dick-Read's definition of natural childbirth reads similarly: "Natural childbirth means no physical, chemical or psychological condition likely to disturb...the natural phenomenon or parturition." [Grantley Dick-Read, M.D. quoted in Noble E. Childbirth with insight Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1983:38] Dick-Read's irrational "psychological condition" (support for semisitting) creates a dangerous "physical condition" (fetal skull squashing) which by its nature not only harms fetuses - but may also harm mothers. If Mens et al.'s "maximal flexion" delivery position is the same as "the Bradley Classic"; then Mens et al.'s hypothesis that peripartum pelvic pain (PPPP) is caused by "strain of pelvic ligaments" suggests a reason they found a higher frequency of PPPP in a population of women subjected to "maximal flexion." Women subjected to the "maximal flexion"/"Bradley Classic" delivery position have their sacra pinned to the delivery table as their legs and thighs crank down on acetabulo-sacroiliac lever arms [Gastaldo Birth 1992;19:230] which, in turn, strain hormonally relaxed sacroiliac ligaments in a direction exactly opposite what might be considered a "normal" strain at delivery. Interestingly, Mens et al. cited radiographic studies from the 1930s but failed to cite Borell and Fernström's 1957 radiographic study, when they referred to increased sacroiliac mobility during pregnancy as having been "observed in an anatomic study and in radiographic studies." Borell and Fernström's work is decades old but is still cited in the 1995 British Gray's Anatomy as evidence that "radiological pelvimetry has become a refined technique" (p. 671). British obstetrician Jason Gardosi, MD cites Borell and Fernström's 1957 work in the OB-GYN-List archive to support a point on which he and I agree: Many cases of shoulder dystocia are caused by jamming the sacral tip up to 4 cm into the pelvic outlet. See my posts in the OB-GYN-List archive... http://forums.obgyn.net/forums/ob-gy...9707/0128.html http://forums.obgyn.net/forums/ob-gy...9707/0153.html END Gastaldo's 1997 post regarding the possibility that "the Bradley Classic" causes postpartum pelvic pain... ONE LAST NOTE... It occurred to me to revisit the Bradley Method when... Heather (Proud mother of either Eowyn or George, who will be born sometime in September 2004) wrote: "I do like the Bradley method quite a bit. I just didn't like the fact that this instructor was obsessed with Pregnancy aerobics....[S]he tells me I won't be able to handle [birth] without the aerobics..." http://groups.google.com/groups?selm...&output=gplain Incredibly, the Bradley method used to be obsessed about a position ("the Bradley Classic") that closes the birth canal up to 30%. Most babies are deemed "healthy" after being born through birth canals senselessly closed up to 30%... But I wonder about the 4.6% of "healthy" term babies born with unexplained brain bleeds... I wonder about unexplained minor motor and perceptual difficulties found later in life... I wonder about the babies who are born with unexplained paralyses... I wonder about the babies who are born DEAD - unexplained: Australian obstetrician Norman F. Beischer, MD once guessed that 10 to 15% of stillbirths were just fine right before delivery... Most babies are born "healthy" - and allowing birth canals to open maximally obviously won't solve all birth problems - but WHY are we letting OBs and CNMwives close birth canals? Thanks for reading. Sincerely, Todd Dr. Gastaldo |
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