Are some cranial anomalies caused by birth trauma?
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[3/4 of the way down a characteristically long post] > Well, OK, since people are still reading…
Lol! I was! — Alison http://www.theportico.co.uk
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PREGNANT WOMEN: Semisitting and dorsal delivery close the birth canal up to 30%. To OPEN your birth canal – just roll onto your side as you push your baby out! BEWARE: If you are on your side, many MDs and CNMwives will try to roll you into semisitting thereby CLOSING your birth canal up to 30% as you push your baby out. See Simkin et al. [2001], quoted below. Talk to your MD or CNMwife about this NOW – before your delivery. (One woman, quoted below, told her MD "like 3 or 4 times" – and he *still* didn’t get the message!) Onward… "[Did cranio-facial anomaly]…occur…during the birth process…[?]…Richtsmeier’s research touched upon…underlying cause…" –Melissa Hendricks, Johns Hopkins Magazine, June 1998 http://jhuniverse.jhu.edu/~jhumag/0698web/joan.html OPEN LETTER (misc.kids.pregnancy, misc.health.alternative, sci.med) Visiting Professor Functional Anatomy & Evolution/FAE Graduate Program Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine 725 N. Wolfe St. Baltimore, MD 21205 phone: 410-955-1697 http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/FAE/fae.html http://expertise.cos.com/cgi-bin/exp.cgi?id=405007 Hi Joan, What an *incredible* coincidence that you were an expert in the same cranial anomaly that little Faith was born with! Hitchhiking on Melissa’s phrase "Richtsmeier’s research touched upon…underlying cause"… It’s a longshot – but some cranio-facial anomalies may be caused by MD-obstetricians senselessly closing birth canals up to 30%. Regarding this latter matter: I recently wrote to Johns Hopkins Hospital Vice-President Beryl Rosenstein, MD: "Beryl, I think Johns Hopkins MDs (you, Seidel and Pathak) WAY underestimate ‘Ping-Pong’ depression fracture frequency in newborns. Don’t forget the neonatal ‘Ping-Pong’ fractures that pop back out before they are seen!" See Babies’ heads DENT like ping-pong balls http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&selm=nfYA8.3110%24U11.133562%40… d2.prod.itd.earthlink.net Joan, since "relationships among functional anatomy and behavior" are part of the "cornerstone" of how the faculty of the Johns Hopkins’ Functional Anatomy & Evolution/FAE view nature… http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/FAE/fae.html The FAE faculty will be interested to know that MD-obstetricians have said, in effect, that they close birth canals up to 30% because Western culture robs children of a fundamental human rest and delivery posture! See C
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