Ramiel  Nagel
AuthorCesarean Rate Is Too High
While nobody can no for sure what a healthy rate of cesaren births is, our country has crossed a thick black line in terms of violating women and children with the excessive and uneeded use of cesaren births. “The number of cesarean deliveries has increased from 5.5% of US births in 1970 to 29.1% in ... Continue Reading
Cesarean’s For the Wrong Reasons
“[H]alf of the Cesarean sections performed in the U.S. are unnecessary…decisions concerning the need for Cesarean delivery seem to be influenced more by social, economic, and physicians’ personal reasons, than by medical factors. This is well illustrated by the fact that those women who are at highest risk of pregnancy complications and who would benefit ... Continue Reading
Elective Cesarean Birth’s are Dangerous
Why would a mother elect to have a cesarean? And reasons why an elective cesarean is a bad idea. The rate of elective cesarean’s in 2003 was 2.5% according to HealthGrades. To control when the birth happens. The body triggers the birth process under two conditions. One is the condition of stress and overwhelm. If ... Continue Reading
When Cesarean’s are Really Needed
Drugs and medical procedure’s are not necessarily bad or wrong in themselves. They are bad and wrong when used inappropriately. In the 1970’s, the rate of cesarean birth’s in the United States, was 5.5%. There is no reason for this figure to be higher today. I believe with midwives who understand techniques for special birth ... Continue Reading
A Child Centered Birth Experience, A Natural Birth
The revolutionary book (online for free) that helped improve birth in the west. Dr. Frederick Leboyer points out the trauma that regularly happens as humans enter the world. The tiny creature, new to life, is born to loud sounds, blinding lights, placed on cold metal objects, and even poked and prodded. Birth needs to become ... Continue Reading
Keep the Umbilical Cord Intact
During birth, in order to decrease the size of the infant, Nature, in her wisdom, transfers a significant portion of the babies blood into the placenta. Thus, it is insane to cut an umbilical cord early, before the blood has completely returned to the baby and drained from the placenta. While it is arguable how ... Continue Reading
Breastfeeding and Child Abandonment
There is no reason to ever take an infant away from it’s mother. Usually emergencies after birth relating to an infants failure to thrive are preventable. Medical interventions, like drugs, and early umbilical cord clamping, and a failure to create a healthy internal environment prior to conception and during pregnancy, could result in a situation ... Continue Reading
Circumcision Is Violence and Male Gential Mutilation
St. Vincent Nurses Speak Out against Circumcision The Pain of Circumcision Charles Antonelli speaks out Doctors Speak Out About Circumcision
Our Modern Way of Living is Over
For thousands of years later, many times without assistance, Mother’s would perform the ancient right of birth. The birth was of little conequence because these mother’s where prepared, with role models as children on how to give birth, and with a special type of nutrition that ensured that their bodies where capable of an easy ... Continue Reading
Amazing Grace, Healing our Children
The life your child was meant to live is not supposed to be filled with suffering. Many causes of children’s suffering can be substantially reduced. Ideally a preconception health program is followed by both the father and mother, prior to conception. Then during pregnancy, and lactation, special care is taken with the diet of the ... Continue Reading