Newborn Child

Being born in ordinary, terrestrial conditions, the child experiences painful sensations, like his suffering mother. He is born, with difficulty overcoming the convulsive numbness and stiffness of the mother’s neuromuscular system. His entire body - muscles, joints, skull, and even the brain itself - are compressed and deformed. Such rough, mechanical effects on organs and tissues often lead to birth injuries. Labor pains are the pains of mother and child.

Special massage, baby yoga and dynamic gymnastics remarkably restore the physiological state and psyche of the child and mother. This entire complex was developed by I.B. Charkovsky and is an integral part of water birth.

In the hospital, the psyche of a tiny creature is traumatized. He feels his mother’s difficulties, and even his guilt for them, and he is constrained, not wanting her pain. Perhaps the mother feels not only her own, but also his suffering. Maternal anxiety, fear and despair are transmitted to the baby. These negative emotions are imprinted in his brain, body cells, and will slow down and distort his overall development for a long time.

But then the child was born. And what? His suffering continues. He is faced with a sharp change in living conditions, immediately and very different - oxygen, gravity, sound, light.

Neither dogs, nor cats, nor cows touch the umbilical cord while it is beating, writes Frederic Leboyer in the book For Birth without Violence, but man does the opposite. In maternity hospitals, they literally pounce on the umbilical cord and cut it as soon as the baby is born.

If a child were strangled by his own umbilical cord, then one really should, without hesitation, cut it in order to free the child and give him air. But with an ordinary, natural birth, quick cutting of the umbilical cord is completely unjustified. Under no circumstances should the baby experience a lack of oxygen at birth. Not for a moment. However, nature judged accurately. She made sure that during this dangerous transition the child receives oxygen from two sources, and not from one: through his lungs and through the umbilical cord. The two systems work together. One takes the baton from the other. The child, having been born, leaving the mother, continues to be connected to her by the umbilical cord, which pulsates for a very long time - four, five or more minutes. Receiving oxygen through the umbilical cord, protected from anoxia, the child can, without fear, without haste, get used to breathing of his own free will.

Cutting the umbilical cord immediately means roughly depriving the brain of oxygen, to which the whole creature reacts very strongly: panic, violent excitement, heartbreaking screams. We create the most significant stress. How much softer and gentler is the entry into life if the umbilical cord is intact! Harmonious and quick transition from one world to another. The blood, in turn, smoothly, without a push, changes its path... after a while the breathing becomes full and deep, free and joyful.

With intense oxygen exposure, oxidation occurs, and the baby’s delicate lung tissues, as well as the most sensitive, fragile neurostructures of the brain, seem to burn.

Immediately upon birth, the baby begins to feel the force of gravity. He feels like an astronaut under overload. Gravity crushes and compresses the tissues of his body, including the brain. Let us recall that in the mother’s womb the child was in a suspended state close to weightlessness. According to K.E. Tsiolkovsky, the gravity system has created an evolutionary dead end for humanity, a kind of gravitational block, and a further increase in the size of the skull, as well as the volume of the brain, is possible only on planets with less gravity.

Added to the pressure of earthly gravity is the constant static tension from tight swaddling, which is essentially unnatural and has no analogues in the animal world. On the contrary, after birth the child