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Tony Ryan's avatar

I was married to a mid-wife for 25 years and, because I helped her and her colleagues study for their exams and minded their kids on study sessions. When their certificates were presented an Honorary Midwifery Certificate was jokingly announced for me. Why? Because I have previously helped hundreds of ewes give birth; plus sundry other domestic animals. In the case of the ewes, in nature, this would not have been necessary but idiot farmers, profiting from meat/wool combos, bred Border Leicester ewes with Southdown rams, giving rise to lambs with heads too big to enable forelegs to advance and lead the way down the mothers' canal.

For some reason known only to sheep intellectuals, the ewes give birth on exposed ridges so that rain, snow, and sleet causes ultimate suffering to the poor farm hand at 5 in the morning. It was my function to intervene in incorrect deliveries wherein the front hoofs had not preceded the head on its journey as nature intended. I would lubricate my arm, manipulate the lamb back into the womb, link my little finger and thumb around the front legs, with middle fingers guiding the upper head surface, and work these into the passage, thus enabling easy birth, which then took place in seconds. I would do a dozen or so every early morning and again in the late evening.

I mention this ancient episode because it raises the speculation that this should work for humans too, in the instances of breech birth. That I suggested this to the midwifery students caused my wife to roll her eyes (I was her constant embarrassment), but others seriously weighed up my notion that perhaps, ancient midwives had small hands and the knowledge to rearrange babies who had lost direction. One later told me that discussions with African and European midwives had revealed this to be the case. By 2003, all documentary evidence of this disappeared from libraries, along with histories of actual democracies and of the amazing Irish Monks (the greatest of whom was a woman, which is why in the 7th century the Vatican introduced celibacy). The primary cause of this obstructionism was, of course, doctors, whose hands were too big to qualify.

After many children and grandchildren I conclude that today's midwifery and obstetrics is designed to produce children who will develop many profitable illnesses throughout their lifetimes; eventually to die when care investment outweighs profitability. Under the heading "The Autism Controversy" in the site "Australia Fights Back" (URL oziz4oziz.co/) is produced evidence that has thus far convinced every reader that not only is no vaccine safe, all cause injury, and that vaccines did not contribute in any way to dissipation of diseases. The evidence of the latter was the substance of every Public Health Exam curriculum taught from the 1880s until 1970. Vaccines never saved one single life.

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Jessica's avatar

I accidentally gave birth to my daughter at home and by the time the midwife got there, all I had to do was push. I was all over the room and used one of those giant balls to roll around on.

Had my second child in the hospital. That was so traumatic compared to home birth. Too many nurses poking and prodding and yes being stuck in that bed was horrible !

I tried to avoid all vaccines for my children but really didn't have anything to back up my instinct to avoid them and so years later the pressure from family and doctors wore me down till I let them :(

If only I knew then what I know now

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