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Proven Wisdom in Birth and Mothering
Medicated labor and delivery was the norm during the 1960s. Laboring mothers were sent to the hospital and most were given a drug that was referred to as “Twilight”. The stress of being birthed by a mother unable to push effectively (because of the drugs) resulted in most babies being born blue.
Breastfeeding was a taboo at that time as well. It was thought that the only people to even consider nursing babies were dumb, backwoods people. I was told by one nurse that to suckle an infant was vulgar. The doctors told us, ‘How can you know that your baby has enough milk unless you measure it?’ ‘It’s too dangerous to feed a baby without measuring the milk volume.’ ‘Babies go hungry when they are breastfed.’
In order to assure proper nutrition, these same doctors said you needed to feed babies according to their proven medical recommendations. Following doctors’ orders, mothers fattened their babies with homemade formulas of pasteurized milk flavored with Karo syrup. This was before throw-away diapers and commercial baby formulas were being marketed.
Nature and medicine had parted ways. Doctors began to be questioned by mothers about their methods.
In 1973, I was one of those young women trying to find the path back to God’s way of motherhood. I began to ask questions. A doctor tried to dismiss my concerns. His arrogant attitude left me feeling dumb. In the face of his arrogance, I stiffened with a certainty born of an ancient mother-knowing. I informed that doctor that there was nothing he could do to stop me from having my baby at home, including calling Child Protection Workers. If I had to, I would hide to have my baby, AND I would nurse her no matter what he thought.
But wars aren’t won by solitary soldiers. Many voices are required for real change. _ Such change requires a widespread outcry. The women of the 60′s took matters into their own hands and started writing books on how to have a natural birth, how to nurse, and how to bond with babies instead of sending them off to a nursery. From those seeds grew the homeschooling movement. While many volumes on these topics have been written since then, the debt is owed to those first outspoken, even rebellious women who wrote passionately of their fight to restore a natural order to the process of welcoming babies into families. Those pioneering women gave other young mothers the confidence to shout, “Yes, I WILL do this!”
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 would be laughed out of his clinic if he told a mother it was vulgar and unsafe to nurse her baby. The infants born to mothers that first chose natural childbirth and homeschooling are now educated parents, homeschooling a new generation of well educated and well adjusted children. In the end when it comes to her babies, Mother knows best.
Those books — while not always written by believers — were a valuable reference for mothers who desired to rediscover nature’s way, like myself. I gained much from those dispensers of wisdom.
In writing The Vision by Debi Pearl, I hope to carry on their fine tradition. Just as I have gained much from the visionary writings of women who came before me, I hope that the information I share will be used by those who follow.
If you’re a new parent, you might like more tips on child training. No Greater Joy has written bestsellers like their Good and Evil comics that have helped thousands as well as publishing many articles on their website dedicated to helping parents bring up children they enjoy.
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