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Natural Childbirth and Mothering Pioneers
In the 1960's childbirth without medication was not done. A drug called "Twilight" was given to mothers in labor, and all mothers labored at the nearest hospital. A majority of those babies were born blue due to stress from the drug and lack of response of the mother pushing.
It was considered indecent to breastfeed an infant. It was thought that the only people to even consider nursing babies were dumb, backwoods people. A nurse told me that it was vulgar to put a baby to your breast to nurse. The doctors told us, 'How can you know that your baby has enough milk unless you measure it?' 'You're endangering your baby when the milk is unmeasured.' 'People who breastfeed are letting their babies go hungry!'
In order to assure proper nutrition, these same doctors said you needed to feed babies according to their proven medical recommendations. Infants were fattened on doctor approved homemade formulas containing Karo syrup and pasteurized milk. These things occurred before the advent of manufactured artificial baby formula and disposable diapers.
Medical science had strayed too far from natural ways. Thinking mothers began to question their doctors.
I was one of those mothers in 1973 that was seeking to return to God's path for motherhood. I began to seek out answers. My questions were rebuffed by a doctor. I was treated as though I was dumb by the doctor. In the face of his arrogance, I stiffened with a certainty born of an ancient mother-knowing. "I WILL have my baby at home, and I WILL nurse! And if you call the Child Protection Agency on me, then I will run and hide and STILL give birth to and nurse my baby!"
My solitary experience did not turn the course of birthing options for women. Many voices are required for real change. _ Such change requires a widespread outcry. Rather than accept the latest recommendations, women in the 60's started writing books about how to give birth naturally, how to breastfeed effectively and how to bond with your baby rather than allow your little one to be carted off to a nursery. From those seeds grew the homeschooling movement. It is to those passionate, rebellious women we owe a debt though many books have since been published on the topic of natural childbirth and mothering. It was this same passion that made young mamas jump up and scream, "Yes I CAN!"
Now because a few courageous authors used their voices and their pens, blue babies and twilight births are a thing of the past. A doctor that claimed breastfeeding was vulgar or unsafe would lose all credibility. These first home-birthed, breast fed and homeschooled children are now highly educated and successful adults homeschooling their own balanced happy children. The results speak for themselves: A mother knows what is best for her baby.
Those books -- while not always written by believers -- were a valuable reference for mothers who desired to rediscover nature's way, like myself. I was able to benefit from their willingness to share their knowledge and experiences.
In writing The Vision by Debi Pearl, I hope to carry on their fine tradition. It is my desire to see those who come after me benefit from my writing just as I benefitted from those writers from the 1960's.
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