What can be more natural than childbirth? Preparing for them, the vast majority of expectant mothers hope that they will safely produce a healthy, strong baby. And their relatives - that they entrusted the life and health of the mother in a reliable medical hands.

However, in practice, these bright hopes come true not always. Now the birth is very rare without complications. This is confirmed by the doctors themselves. Among the most significant damaging factors of childbirth is the excessive use of medicines, the adoption by a woman of a posture that is not very natural for physiological births and the obstetric manipulations themselves.

According to statistics, the vast majority of births occur on weekdays. The explanation is only one: to strain on weekends, holidays and night time doctors do not really like, but they are helped in this by drugs that can not only stimulate, but also delay the ancestral activity. As a result, these drugs with "good goals" often have a negative effect on the fetus due to side effects. In addition, stimulation of labor, for example with quinine, oxytocin, often causes fetal hypoxia due to worsening utero-placental circulation.

And drug anesthesia leads to the weakness of the birth of a woman. As for the posture of a woman during childbirth, it is not a secret for anyone that the officially adopted "lying on the back" posture is convenient for monitoring the birth and carrying out of obstetrician manipulations. However, it is not physiological for either the mother or the fetus. Contraction of the abdominal aorta and inferior vena cava by the uterus leads to a worsening of blood circulation in the uterus, and hence in the placenta, leading to stagnation of blood in the pelvis. Consequences may be fetal hypoxia, premature detachment of the placenta and many other troubles. In addition, the fetus through the birth canals has to move not down, but up. And in fact at all times women gave birth either on their side, or on their haunches, or on all fours, and more often - they changed the position of the body, taking the most comfortable posture instinctively. At the same time, the force of gravity of the fetus and the weight of the uterus were added to the labor of the woman in labor, which, of course, facilitated the process of the child's passage of the birth canal. Birth injuries that make their mark on the child's future life are often obtained due to forced medical actions, which are used, most often, for the so-called weakness of labor in the parturient child, when the size of the child does not match the size of the pelvis of the mother, abnormal position of the fetus. As a result of their efforts, the child does not appear gradually, as foreseen by nature, but forcibly, with the neck and neck twisting, which causes, for example, displacement and dislocation of the vertebrae. Dislocations and subluxations of the intervertebral joints disrupt the blood supply to the brain. As a result, large arteries feeding the brain partially overlap, or hemorrhages occur in its tissue. Especially dangerous in this sense are births with the imposition of obstetric forceps on the head. Yes, and Caesarean section is not always without birth trauma, because all the same the child is extracted by sipping his head. And even the skillful actions of the medical staff do not guarantee that the cervical spine, the spinal cord, are not injured, and that there will be no hypoxia of the brain of the newborn.

In addition, doctors often excessively protect the crotch of the mother at the expense of the child's health, strongly bend and unbend his head, pull for it, rush to remove the shoulder girdle and legs, press on the uterus and so forth. It also traumatizes the cervical and lumbar spine of the baby. Well, and about hospital infections have heard all ... Of course, I would like to hope that the situation will change for the better. However, at the moment the state of things is the way it is.

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