Drugs in Labour: What Effects Do They Have 20 Years Hence?
by Beverley Lawrence Beech

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“In 1984, Desmond Bardon suggested that a significant proportion of the millions of children and youths in the United States who are afflicted with significant mental and neurologic dysfunction are the victims of obstetric medications administered with the very best of intentions to the mother during labour and birth in medicalised maternity units. Not only have Bardon’s concerns not been addressed, but since that time even more women and babies have been subjected to high levels of drugs in pregnancy and labour, and little has been done to investigate the possibility that the huge increases in drug addiction and associated crime are a direct result of the drugs used on the labour wards. While various agencies work hard to pull the bodies out of the river, no one is investigating who is pushing them in upstream. It is time they did.

Beverley A. Lawrence Beech, honourary chairwoman of the Association for Improvements in the Maternity Services (AIMS), is a freelance writer and lecturer and lives in the United Kingdom.
This article was published ten years ago in 1998.
Nothing has changed. Not only don’t we know how much damage we are doing to our children, but no one is looking at the long term implications of this chemical nightmare.
The New York times reported this week however that Drug Companies are now going to be forced to look at suicidal reactions in a host of drugs as they study a variety of chemicals for human consumption.
These new rules are only for psychiatric drugs.
QUOTES:

“After decades of inattention to the possible psychiatric side effects of experimental medicines, the Food and Drug Administration is now requiring drug makers to study closely whether patients become suicidal during clinical trials.”

“The list of drugs that causes psychiatric problems is a very long one,” said Dr. Sidney M. Wolfe, director of Public Citizen’s health research group.

Medicines to treat acne, hypertension, high cholesterol, swelling, heartburn, pain, bacterial infections and insomnia can all cause psychiatric problems, effects that were discovered in most cases after the drugs were approved and used in millions of patients.

Some drugs cause depression so often that doctors prescribe antidepressants prophylactically with them.”

The FDA is such a fraud, if Vitamin C or St. Johns Wort had been making people suicidal or causing young school children to go on shooting sprees in the classroom, I think we can safely assume that the substances would have been banned. Yet it took a group of parents to pay their own way to DC to have three minutes each to testify to congress how anti-depressants caused their loved ones to take their own lives before even a black box warning was put on the dope.
It will be interesting to see how the whole birth mess plays out over the next few decades. I’m predicting it will take about fifty years for our world to finally step back and take an honest look at what the chemicals have done to our posterity during birth.
Until til then ladies, stay home when the babies are being born.
Jenny Hatch

A Study of Birth
Jenny Hatch

I love Lauries writing style. Check out this article, it is wonderful!
Safe Birth

Jenny Hatch

Anything that makes birth less traumatic for the baby is a good thing in my opinion. It would seem logical that this innovation would be greatly appreciated by those mothers who need to have a section.
Here is the link to the Natural Cesarean article in BBC News.
Doctors at Queen Charlotte’s hospital in London are pioneering “natural caesarean” births with the aim of making the surgery less traumatic for mother and baby.

Normally, after the incision, babies are delivered rapidly behind a screen. But in this case the parents, Sheri and Jason Tan, are able to watch the baby’s head emerge.

Queen Charlotte’s says the natural caesarean is now becoming an established procedure at the hospital.

When I gave birth to my second child by c-section, I asked to be able to hold her for a few minutes after the surgery, but the pediatrician wanted to suck out her lungs with the little tube, so I was able to give her a little kiss on the cheek and then they took her over to the station where the baby sucker was and that doctor just kept jabbing it into her throat. It felt like she was doing this baby torture forever, and after a few minutes she said she wanted to put her under oxygen in the nursery, so Paul carried her down to the nursery while I was stapled back together. When I arrived in my room after the surgery I told them to bring me my baby and I pretty much kept her in my arms or in my room for the four days I was in the hospital after the birth.
My husband or my mother stayed with me the whole time and I had a reasonable recovery. The most difficult experience of all, after having a knife in my belly, was walking up the three flights of stairs to our little third floor walk up apartment once we arrived back home.
By the time I was up to the third set of stairs I was bawling, Paul kept helping me lift my legs, and as soon as I made it into the apartment I did not come out again for three weeks.
We had a c-section after twenty hours of labor because I had refused to have an ultrasound during my pregnancy and it was discovered during labor that she was breech.

Jenny Hatch