My wife is pregnant with our 1st baby, (a baby girl) and obviously I can't talk on the level with most of my friends and almost none of my family. I remember when Greg and his Mrs. Where expecting he had alot of great guest on. I was wondering if anyone had any pointers or practices to recommend when trying to get my baby out of the hospital safely and God willing avoid as much if not all of the poison tactics and products that they've brainwashed us into not imagining an alternative. Please respond to this topic with any suggested reading or listening and I will be extremely greatful. Thank God my wife is on board and is ready to start washing cotton diapers litteraly. Thank you so much and be safe out here.
Hey congratulations!
Can't recommend these books enough, no matter how you choose to go.
Freebirth by Sarah Schmid
And
Sally Fallons Nourishing traditions book of baby and childcare
For me it comes down to tapping into your own intuition and your own heart and being clear on your values before your baby comes. Have a plan, read as many birth story's as you can, the beautiful ones, the hard ones. Learn what is actually possible outside the industrial medicine view, learn how women have birthed for millennia.
Dr Jennifer Daniel's episode and Sally Fallon's epispde would possibly help in the values arena and preparation and just overall good info imho
Thank you so much @yonder. This is somewhere to start. I remember those episodes too so ill have to listen again and take some notes. As new parents and living in NYC they really have us up against the wall and even if we decided to wait on all vaccines we still have the bottleneck of school to contend with. Atleast we're informing ourselves to make the best decision and God willing everything will work out. Thank you again.
As far as the hospital goes, the two best things you an do is to have a printed birth plan that clearly delineates what you would and would not like. Have several copies so that you can give it to everyone who may be involved.
The second, and more important, thing is to make sure you are ready, willing, and able to say No. As many times as necessary. Even at the fairly alternative birth friendly hospital we had our first child at, where we had a birth plan printed and distributed to the Dr and nurses as well as two midwives actively advocating for us, me and the midwives still had to actively and verbally deny procedures multiple times. We had to fight the Dr, almost physically, to delay cord cutting, and we had to tell multiple people know to things like the eye goop and hep b shot.
So just be ready to say no.
My favorite book that wasn't mentioned in the first reply is Vaccination: A Thoughtful Parents Guide by Aviva Ram. Great, balanced, rational, book about the risks and benefits of most every childhood vaccination.
