Giving birth in Lakeland area...

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Permalink Reply by Tiffany Munoz on October 6, 2011 at 4:22pm

MandyJay - Yes, I am planning on no meds anyways so that's not an issue.  After so many recommended them (from here and other websites) I have called and set up a tour/appointment :)

 

Jennifer - thank you so much for offering those other two midwifes...I am definitely considering a midwifery service.  I was never much for the hospital setting anyways.

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Permalink Reply by MandyJay on October 6, 2011 at 4:39pm

Tiffany, just to add to the confusion, the two midwives I dealt with when my son was born were Marianne and Melissa (Melissa was nearing the end of her training then), the ones Jennifer recommended.  So either way... they're good people :)

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Permalink Reply by Terra Gouge on October 6, 2011 at 8:48pm

Tiffany, I'd also recommend going ahead and getting plugged into the Lakeland La Leche League.  It's all free.  Start going to the meetings and such.  They are full of breastfeeding knowledge and will be there pre, post and beyond in your nursing relationship.  I'm a member of ours down in our area and love it.  I failed [by my own ignorance with my first son], but was very successful with my second.  Yes it's hard work in those first 6ish weeks but so worth it.  We nursed for 3 years!
Here's the link to the Lakeland LLL group :)

www.lllilakeland.org

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Permalink Reply by Jennifer Sabin on October 6, 2011 at 9:56pm

Terra has good advice. The leaders for the Lakeland group are amazing. It would be 100% appropriate for you to start attending the meetings while you are still pregnant. They were an amazing resource to me when my second daughter had some feeding issues.

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Permalink Reply by carla parry on October 6, 2011 at 10:55pm

LLL of Lakeland has a lending library also with books on pregnancy,birth and breastfeeding.

Next meeting is the 3rd Tuesday at 630pm at St. David's behind the Mobile station off of Florida ave. We meet in the nursery.

Hope to see you there!

Carla

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Permalink Reply by DeEtte on October 7, 2011 at 5:56am

I lost a child at 5 days old back in the 70's because they did not routinely give the vitamin k shot. He bleed internally. It is a very serious issue and is quite common and the reason the vit k shot is given now.

 

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Permalink Reply by 18watt_fan on October 7, 2011 at 9:21am

DeEtte said:

I lost a child at 5 days old back in the 70's because they did not routinely give the vitamin k shot. He bleed internally. It is a very serious issue and is quite common and the reason the vit k shot is given now.

 

I'm very, very sorry to hear about that.

However,

Moms should be making sure they are eating foods high in vitamin k, like leafy greens, etc, especially while they are pregnant.

Newborns should be supplied plenty of NATURAL vitamin k by their mothers.

Humans do NOT have these issues when we behave properly with our diets and avoid toxins.

Humans (or animals) should NOT be relying on shots for their nutrition or immunity. It's making us weak and overly-toxic.

So what are humans going to do when pharmaceutical companies go bankrupt or some other disaster happens and these drugs/vaccines are no longer available?

What about all the knowledge moms and grandmothers used to have regarding health and treatment of ailments?

I'll post this again from Dr. Wallach on how birth-defects and other problems stem mainly from nutritional deficiencies:

BIRTH DEFECTS/PRENATAL NUTRITION:



http://www.kingmaker.net/eknowtrient-p-r.htm


Q: My next question is, my husband and I thinking about starting a family and we want to know the nutritional way to go.

A: Okay, that’s a great question. People always ask me when do children need to start taking vitamins and minerals, and the answer is when they’re still an egg is when you want to start them. And so we’ve learned in animal industry that we can prevent as much as 98% of all birth defects, even ones thought to be genetic in humans, simply by giving the females, especially the females, all known essential nutrients for that species, six months prior to conception. Build up that female animal’s body and stores of these essential nutrients so that the embryo implants in the uterine wall and develops in an environment that has optimal amounts, guaranteed optimal amounts of all the nutrients, and you will almost eliminate possibility of a congenital birth defect related to a mineral or vitamin or amino acid or essential fatty acid deficiency. To give you some idea of how successful this is, according to the University of California, San Francisco, right now in America 1 out of every 33 human babies in America are born with some kind of physical, emotional, or mental birth defect. 1 out of 33. In animals, it’s only 1 out of 500,000, if they are fed this commercial diet that has all the known nutrients in them. And so it is very very easy to understand that if we supplement young women and men who are in the child-bearing years with these nutrients, we’ll be able to eliminate, totally eliminate cleft palates, cleft lips, spinobifida, eye defects, heart defects, hernias of various types, club feet, no feet, web fingers and toes, muscular dystrophy, downs syndrome, cerebral palsy, cystic fibrosis, these are all preventable with proper pre-conception nutrition, so the earlier that a couple who wants to have normal healthy children, to have a wonderful, uncomplicated pregnancy, the earlier you can get on all 90 essential nutrients prior to conception, the better off everybody is.

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Permalink Reply by Amanda Red on October 7, 2011 at 2:58pm

No suggestions just wanted to say congrats on the bundle of joy!

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Permalink Reply by 18watt_fan on October 7, 2011 at 3:07pm

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Ahhh, come on, Amanda - speak up !!!!

 

What are your thoughts on the excessive drugging/vaccinating of almost everyone on the planet?

 

Is our health/mental-condition getting better or worse?

 

Here's a website that should be engrained in all 7th-grade health students across Polk County:

 

http://www.vaclib.org/sites/debate/web6.html

 

THE BENEFICIAL NATURE OF CHILDHOOD INFECTION

 

In order to understand how childhood infection can actually be beneficial to a child's health, it is essential to have a clear understanding of the symptoms of infection and their real purpose. Whenever a child develops measles, chicken pox, whooping cough or any of the other common childhood infections, it will experience several of the following symptoms;

Fever - speeds up bodily elimination of toxic waste. No Appetite - when a fever is present, the digestive system shuts down thus removing the need and desire for food. Vomiting/Diarrhoea - the body's way of eliminating undigested foodstuff from the digestive tract. Tiredness/Lethargy - the body's way of forcing a sick person to rest thus conserving its energy for the vital tasks of cleansing and repair. Glandular Swelling - the lymph glands filter the blood for toxic substances. Swelling of these glands greatly increases their filtering capacity. Skin Rash - represents an elimination of toxic waste, the skin being a major eliminative organ. Mucus Elimination - also an elimination of toxic waste. Mucus is made up of the body's white blood cells which are the body's garbage cans containing toxic residue. A good example is the runny nose. Inflammation - serves the same purpose as fever, to cleanse and repair damaged or poisoned tissue in the body. In reality, the symptoms do not constitute the disease but the cure. In other words, measles is not the disease but the cure. Whooping cough is not the disease but the cure. Chicken pox is not the disease but the cure. The real disease is Toxaemia out of which the symptoms arise. This will explain the words of Hippocrates, who to this day is referred to as the Father of Medicine. Over 2000 years ago he wrote; "Diseases are crises of purification, of toxic elimination. Symptoms are the natural defences of the body. We call them diseases, but in fact they are the cure of diseases." By clearly understanding the true purpose of symptoms, the beneficial nature of childhood infections becomes readily apparent. These so-called infections serve to restore internal purity thereby promoting the health of the child. This will explain why natural health practitioners make no attempt to suppress these symptoms, instead they believe that the symptoms should be allowed to run their course so that complete detoxification is achieved. On the other hand, should these symptoms be suppressed by medical drugs or other suppressive measures, then the body will be forced to retain within its own tissues the poisonous wastes that it is striving to remove. This can not only result in increased suffering and complications, but it can lay the foundations for chronic disease in later life. If you know of a child who has ever suffered complications or died from a childhood infection, then find out how the child was treated, for in the opinion of many doctors, it is incorrect treatment including suppressive drug therapy that lies behind most complications and fatalities. In many cases poor underlying health is also a factor.

"It should always be borne in mind when thinking of complications, that they too often wait, not upon the original disease, but upon the treatment of it." British Naturopath and Author, Harry Clements

 

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Permalink Reply by Amanda Red on October 7, 2011 at 3:08pm

I am sorry for your loss- thank you for reminding us of why we need the vitamin k shot.

DeEtte said:

I lost a child at 5 days old back in the 70's because they did not routinely give the vitamin k shot. He bleed internally. It is a very serious issue and is quite common and the reason the vit k shot is given now.

 

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Permalink Reply by Amanda Red on October 7, 2011 at 4:28pm

Well- I have not done "extensive" research but I vaccinate my children if that gives you any idea of my thoughts on the mattter. Its not really about debate though. :)

18watt_fan said:

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Ahhh, come on, Amanda - speak up !!!!

 

What are your thoughts on the excessive drugging/vaccinating of almost everyone on the planet?

 

Is our health/mental-condition getting better or worse?

 

Here's a website that should be engrained in all 7th-grade health students across Polk County:

 

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