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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you can still catch the mini-segments: Birth Orgasms: Women Speak Out - Is it possible to have an orgasm during childbirth? Women Who Prefer Home Birth - For some, delivering a healthy child doesn"t involve a trip to the hospital. [Note - the associated article says, "Modern medicine means not having to go through childbirth alone." It"s more accurate to say "Responsible modern medicine means reserving risky interventions for when the benefits outweigh the risks." I know lots of responsible women who give birth at home with the perfect birth team . . . their partner, their midwife and their doula. They are definitely not alone, and they have all the medical assistance they need, just like a woman giving birth with a midwife in a hospital! Savvy people know the difference between midwife-assisted homebirth and unassisted birth.] The Orgasmic Birth web site
also has a lot of great information about birth in general:
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The primal period includes fetal life, perinatal period and early infancy (from conception until the first birthday).
Primal health research includes all studies exploring correlations between the primal period and health and behaviour later on in life.
The Primal adaptive system refers to the basic adaptive systems involved in what we commonly call health. The nervous system, the endocrine system, and the immune system should no longer be separated and should be understood as a whole (e.g. the brain is a gland, insulin is a neuromediator, lymphocytes can release endorphins, etc..). We need a simple term such as ‘primal adaptive system’ to replace complex phrases still used in the scientific literature, (e.g. ‘psychoneuroimmunoendocrinologic system’).
The ‘primal period’ may be presented as the period of maturation of the primal adaptive system. Health is how well the primal adaptive system works (it is not the absence of disease). At the end of the primal period we are in a basic state of health called ‘primal health’.
In order to clarify the meaning of ‘hormonal set point levels’ we proposed
a comparison with a thermostat, which is set to a particular temperature
at the beginning of the day.
Welcome to WombEcology.com!
- This website focuses on the life period with the highest adaptability
and vulnerability to environmental factors - the period inside the womb.
Primal Health Research
Data Bank
Michel Odent, MD,
is the premier primal health researcher. He's the author of Primal
Health: Understanding the Critical Period Between Conception and the First
Birthday
A Baby Boon - by E.J. Mundell for HealthDay [4/18/06] - The odds of living to 100 and beyond double when a person is born to a woman under 25 years of age, compared with those people born to older mothers, according to one of the most rigorous studies conducted on the subject.
"It turns out that the whole phenomenon of firstborn order and longevity
is driven by young maternal age," said study co-author Leonid Gavrilov,
a research associate at the Center on Aging at the University of Chicago.
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