9 Months And 2 Lives

There is an opinion that the health and life of the mother and baby completely depend on how the birth goes. So the whole family begins, in the eighth month of pregnancy, to look for a good maternity hospital through relatives and friends.

But the act of childbirth is only the completion of an entire period of life called pregnancy. Without preparation for all 9 months it is difficult to influence him.

The famous Roman physician and philosopher Celsus called pregnancy two lives in one woman, emphasizing that from the first days after conception the baby feels and remembers everything.

A favorable psychological climate in the family, moral support from all its members and, above all, the husband during the entire pregnancy fundamentally determine the ease of childbirth and the condition of the newborn.

It has now been precisely established that during intrauterine development the fetus distinguishes between father, mother and other permanent family members. At the very least, it is frivolous to continue to burden a pregnant woman with the same number of everyday problems; she should concentrate as much as possible on communicating with the child.

Healthy children are born if pregnancy proceeds in an atmosphere of psychological safety, but quarrels negatively affect the condition of not only the expectant mother. There is evidence that dysfunctional relationships in the family can even lead to a halt in the development of an unborn baby. The child seems to refuse to go out into the cruel and aggressive world.

The psychological trauma that we inflict on a baby during pregnancy leaves a deep scar in his soul for life. Without knowing it, we ourselves provoke a social crisis in society, because aggressive and, often, unwanted children destroy the environment. And these are not empty words. Today in Russia there are about 300 thousand abandoned children and 90 percent of them have living parents! How can one talk about the civility of society and hope for stability?!

The second most important factor that determines how the birth will proceed is the state of health of the pregnant woman. It should be remembered that pregnancy and childbirth are not a disease, but natural, physiological states of the female body. Therefore, in a practically healthy woman, childbirth can proceed safely and without the participation of a doctor (as has often happened in the past). But here a number of problems arise. Life has undergone radical changes over the past hundred years. We have all been weakened by low physical activity, poor nutrition, and poor environmental conditions. In addition, our ancestors with many children, without knowing it, turned childbirth into a factor of natural selection. Weak and sick women and children were a burden to the family and society.

In a modern family, where the number of children rarely exceeds two or three, such behavior is extremely risky.

The more strange it seems that some parents are interested in alternative births - at home, in water, at sea, and so on. In the West, in such a situation, comprehensive examination and observation during pregnancy, a high degree of efficiency and continuity of medical transport and maternity hospitals serve as a certain guarantee. In our country, the consequences of such behavior are truly unpredictable... In addition, the theoretical justification for childbirth in an aquatic environment, supposedly the child swims from water to water, is untenable.

During childbirth, even before the baby is born, the mother's water breaks, so there can be no talk of any floating. Birth and the first breath are the culmination of a child's difficult and complex journey through the birth canal. This is extreme stress, but it triggers complex mechanisms that subsequently determine the baby’s resistance and vitality. Childbirth in water is completely upsetting and breaks the natural course of events. The child is born lethargic and weakened.

Let us repeat that childbirth is a natural process. In modern obstetrics there is a tendency to move away from the classical management of childbirth. In some cases, a caesarean section is performed unreasonably. Sometimes women in labor themselves, fearing pain, insist on pain relief during labor or a caesarean section.

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