Dear Friends:
    Dr. Odent has talked about the nocebo effect, an opposite to the placebo
effect, the idea of always looking to see if anything is wrong. This creates
to opposite of reassurance and comfort.
    There was a study that looked at 16,00 women; half got routine ultrasound
in labor and the other half got more ultrasounds looking for something wrong.
There were more fetal demises and problems in the more highly-monitored group.
    When women are intensely monitored, their babies can actually grow more
slowly because the constant testing stresses the mother, her adrenalin levels
stay up which reduces blood flow to the baby and impedes growth. There have
been other studies that show more IUGR babies in the monitored group.
    Wasn't it Barbara Katz Rothman that wrote about the tenative pregnancy,
which has become a serious of technological hurdles to jump (weekly testing)
instead of a time of joy?
    In craniosacral therapy, as well as many other disciplines, it is the
intention of the practitioner that matters. If the practitioner is always looking
for something wrong, that can create a situation where something will go
wrong.
    So with twins, I can not believe that interrupting a pregnancy can be
good if mother's BP is fine and her babies are growing. I know a woman that had
an unplanned homebirth of twins (3rd pregnancy) and she spoke about being glad
that the twins weren't diagnosed prenatally as she would have been risked out
of the birth center, and treated medically. She wouldn't have enjoyed her
pregnancy.
    Induction always means babies and mothers aren't ready for the big
passage of birth; then, it follows naturally they aren't ready for breastfeeding
either.
    warmly,
Nikki Lee RN, MS, Mother of 2, IBCLC, CIMI, CCE, craniosacral therapy
Adjunct faculty, Union Institute and University, Maternal and Child Health:
Lactation Consulting
Supporting the WHO Code and the Mother Friendly Childbirth Initiative

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