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Todd Gastaldo  
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Newsgroups: misc.kids.pregnancy, misc.health.alternative, sci.med
From: Todd Gastaldo <tgasta...@earthlink.net>
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 19:36:50 GMT
Local: Sat, Sep 17 2005 3:36 pm
Subject: Dents in babies' skulls (and SJ Doc)
DENTS IN BABIES' SKULLS (AND SJ DOC)

SJ Doc, see the very end of this post...

Please help stop "the OB guys" (your phrase) from closing birth canals the
"extra" up to 30% at your hospital.

PREGNANT WOMEN:  It is easy to allow your birth canal to OPEN the "extra" up
to 30%.

See RNs: 'Stitches, episiotomy, and postpartum complications'
(Maternal care learning needs)
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/3725

LADIES: By allowing your birth canal to open the "extra" up to 30%, you
might just avoid an unnecessary episiotomy or c-section...

SJ Doc wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 19:42:57 GMT, Todd Gastaldo wrote
> yet again about "closing birth canals the 'extra' up to 30%"
> and some further stuff about *Williams Obstetrics* (McGraw-
> Hill; which edition, I wonder?).

> The first question - Jeez, I know I'm gonna catch it for this,
> but I just *gotta* ask - is just what the hell do you mean
> by this repeated goddam expression "closing birth canals the
> 'extra' up to 30%," anyway?

SJ Doc,

When I use what you call the "repeated goddamn expression" "closing birth
canals the 'extra' up to 30%" - I usually mention THE FOUR OB LIES - along
with a URL where one can read them...

Just in case you missed them...

Here are THE FOUR OB LIES...

OB LIE #1. After MASSIVE change in the AP pelvic outlet diameter was
clinically demonstrated in 1911 and radiographically demonstrated in 1957,
the authors of Williams Obstetrics began erroneously claiming that pelvic
diamaters DON'T CHANGE at delivery.

OB LIE #2. After Ohlsen pointed out in 1973 that pelvic diameters DO
change - the authors of Williams Obstetrics began erroneously claiming that
their most frequent delivery position - dorsal - widens the outlet.

OB LIE #3. After I pointed out in 1992 that dorsal CLOSES - and so does
semisitting [Gastaldo. Birth. 1992;19(4):230-1] - the authors of Williams
Obstetrics - put the correct
biomechanics in their 1993 edition - but kept in their text (in the same
paragraph!) - the dorsal widens bald lie that first called my attention to
their text...

OB LIE #4. OBs are actually KEEPING birth canals closed when babies get
stuck - claiming they are doing everything to allow the birth canal open
maximally - which is an indirect admission that they know they are routinely
closing birth canals the "extra" up to 30%. (See the ACOG Shoulder Dystocia
video.  Note also: forceps and vacuum births
are performed with the mother in lithotomy, closing her birth canal the
"extra" up to 30%.)

> On those few occasions when
> I had to sit there and get amniotic fluid all over my shoes in
> the course of a normal spontaneous (or pitocin induced)
> vaginal delivery,

I am sorry you got amniotic fluid all over your shoes; but sounds like - as
is customary for MDs - you had the woman semisitting or dorsal - closing her
birth canal the "extra" up to 30%.

Uteri can usually force babies through pelvic outlets closed the "extra" up
to 30% - esp. if they are chemically whipped with pitocin to contract
violently, as in,

> the fetal presenting part slid down the curve
> of Carus like a goddam battering ram, shoving past the non-
> generative contents of the pelvis with a "get-the-hell-outta-my-
> way" impact...

The fetal presenting part is usually the cranium - and when it's not the
presenting part - there is the breech danger of "trapped after-coming
head"...

The fetal cranium is quite compressible/"mouldable" - and with the brain
inside - well - I am concerned about the estimated 4.6% of brain bleeds in
"healthy" term neonates.

I am also concerned about the unexplained lesser motor and and perceptual
deficits discovered later.

There are also unexplained baby paralyses and unexplained baby deaths -
Australian obstetrician Norman Beischer, MD once guessed that 10 to 15% of
stillbirths were just fine right before delivery.

Also noteworthy: In many births the fetal presenting part does NOT "slid[e]
down the curve of Carus like a goddamn battering ram"...

In many births, there is failure to progress "due to cephalopelvic
disproportion" obstetricians say - as they CAUSE cephalopelvic disproportion
by keeping birth canals closed the "extra" up to 30%.

Further regarding failure to progress - it is possible that there is
NEUROLOGIC inhibition of delivery when semisitting or dorsal because the
mother is on her sacrum being made to torque her sacroiliac joints exactly
the opposite direction they need to go to allow the birth canal to open the
"extra" up to 30%.

> that Carol Burnett once characterized as being
> "...like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head."

Pretty funny.

> If that canal was anything *but* open, how the hell did I
> manage to get my Size-8˝-gloved hand into the uterus...

If the woman was on her back or semisitting, she was on her sacrum - you had
her closing her birth canal up to 30%.  The grisly birth-canal-closing
biomechanics are simple.  See The Four OB Lies above.

You likely did not make a fist and try to shove it in.  More likely, you
tried to let your hand become as slim as possible.  The baby's skull is
FORCED to become as slim as possible - which may explain some of the
unexplained brain bleeds and dents (see the very end of the post).

You mentioned the Curve of Carus.  There is also the Waste Space of Morris -
the baby's skull is forced down the ischial rami because of the pubic arch -
probably nature's way of protecting the mother's urogenital apparatus.

Williams Obstetrics used to state that sometimes the pubic arch is so narrow
the baby's head is forced WAY down - forced to rotate around a line joining
the ischial tuberosities, as in this quote from the 2001 edition:

"In obstructed labor caused by a narrowing of the...pelvic
outlet, the prognosis for vaginal delivery often depends on the length of
the posterior sagittal diameter of the pelvic outlet (p. 56)...The posterior
triangle [of the pelvic outlet]...is limited at its apex by the tip of the
last sacral vertebra (not the coccyx) (p. 437)...With increasing narrowing
of the pubic arch, the occiput cannot emerge directly beneath the symphysis
pubis but is forced increasingly farther down...the ischiopubic rami.  In
extreme cases, the head must rotate around a line joining the ischial
tuberosities [!] (p. 438)..."

The pubic arch forcing the fetal head down the ischial rami is likely what
Harvard obstetrician AB Emmons, MD was alluding to when he wrote:

"[M]oving backward of the tip of the sacrum...enlarges the
available space not merely directly in proportion to the distance backward,
but more nearly by the square of that distance." [Emmons, AB. A study of the
variations in the female pelvis, based on observations made on 217 specimens
of the
American Indian squaw. Biometrika 1913; 9:34-47.]

The following was added to Williams Obstetrics at my
request (though the authors left in their text - in the same paragraph (!)
the "dorsal widens" bald lie that first called my attention to their
text)...

"It should be noted...that the increase in the diameter of the
pelvic outlet occurs **only** if the sacrum is allowed to rotate
posteriorly, that is,
only if the sacrum is not forced anteriorly by the weight of the maternal
pelvis against the delivery table or bed." [Cunningham, MacDonald, Leveno,
Gant and Gilstrap, Williams Obstetrics Appleton-Lange 1993:285, **italics in
original]

BTW, here is the reference for my 30% figure...

"[T]he outlet increases with moulding by approximately 20-30 per cent."
[Russell JGB. Moulding of the pelvic outlet. J Obstet Gynaec Brit Cwlth
1969;76:817-20.  NOTE:  In 1973, Ohlsen verified Russell's 20% figure on
Borell and Fernstrom's 1957 intrapartum x-rays.  See:
http://home1.gte.net/gastaldo/part2ftc.html]

NOTE:  JGB Russell demonstrated a MINOR (transverse) sacroiliac motion then
pretended his minor sacroiliac motion was more important that the MAJOR
(sagittal) sacral tip motion demonstrated radiographically by Borell and
Fernstrom.  For details, see http://home1.gte.net/gastaldo/part2ftc.html.

Also noteworthy:  Russell promoted placing women semisitting/closing birth
canals - even as he
reported the "20-30 per cent" figure - after which the authors of Williams
Obstetrics attributed to Russell the simple biomechanic fact (quoted
above) that I had called to their attention.  At the very least, they should
have quoted the original author of Williams Obstetrics who DEMONSTRATED the
simple biomechanics clinically - way back in 1911!

> on
> certain rare and scrotum-tightening occasions to seek out
> and gently remove retained placental cotyledons that were
> responsible for excessive third stage bleeding?

I am sorry your scrotum tightened.  If some of the babies whose births you
have attended were boys, it is possible that their scrotums tightened when
you forced them through birth canals senselessly closed up to 30%.

I am sure you never pulled on the umbilical cord to speed up third stage -
but my understanding is that some MDs have done this and it can cause
"retained placental cotyledons" and "excessive third stage bleeding."

> Are you referring to all the c-sections that the OB guys perform
> so promiscuously,

"The OB guys" are "promiscuously" closing birth canals up to 30% and KEEPING
birth canals closed the "extra" up to 30% when babies get stuck.  It's
massive criminal negligence. See the Four OB Lies above.

> or are you talking about episiotomy repair?

"The OB guys" are slicing vaginas en masse (routine episiotomy) -
surgically/fraudulently inferring they are doing everything possible to open
birth canals - even as they close birth canals the "extra" up to 30%.

Shiono et al. at NIH demonstrated in 1991 that episiotomized women suffer 50
times MORE severe tears clear to the anus than women who are not
episiotomized.

Yet "the OB guys" are STILL (in 2005) promoting the fraud that their
episiotomies are preventing severe tears clear to the anus.

See RNs: 'Stitches, episiotomy, and postpartum complications'
(Maternal care learning needs)
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/3725

> And what the hell is with this perpetual "extra" in quotation
> marks?  If there's any sense in this expression, it's sailing *way*
> the hellangone past anything I ever read or heard in school or in
> practice over the course of a fun-filled and occasionally terrifying
> life in the ranks of Them Wot Got Betadyne Stains on Their
> Sweatsocks.  

Yes, in medical school they are still teaching lies.  See the Four OB Lies
above.

I put the word "extra" in quotes because obstetricians fraudulently behave
as if the room is "extra".  When Williams Obstetrics co-author Norman F.
Gant, MD called me to thank me for notifying his publisher (then
Appleton-Lange) that he was promoting closing birth canals - he remarked
that "most women don't need the extra room."

> I know all about how the politically connected medicos

You are a perhaps-not-so-innocent beneficiary of the political connections
of organized medicine.

> have
> done every damned thing they can to restrict patient access
> to health care providers who charge lower fees for their services
> than licensed physicians do, including nurse practitioners, physi-
> cian assistants, and nurse midwives.

As I indicated, in the California Supreme Court's 1974 Bowland decision,
nurse-midwives (and abortion) became a political mechanism to stomp
homebirth midwives - both nurse and non-nurse.

>  It's the same with lawyers
> and their hatred for paralegals providing "boilerplate" legal
> services.  Every form of professional licensure throughout the
> history of civilization has been designed to allow established
> practitioners to get a chokehold on market entry and either
> create or preserve an oligopoly.  That's what licensing is *for*,
> government maundering about "quality of care" be damned.

Again, you are a beneficiary.

> No less an authority than Nobel laureate Milton Friedman stated:

> "There is no occupation so remote that an attempt has not been
> made to restrict its practice by licensure...The justification offered
> is always the same: to protect the consumer. However, the reason
> is demonstrated by observing who lobbies at the state legislature
> for the imposition or strengthening of licensure. The lobbyists are
> invariably representatives of the occupation in question rather than
> of the customers. True enough, plumbers presumably know better
> than anyone else what their consumers need to be protected
> against.  However, it is hard to regard altruistic concern for their
> customers as the primary motive behind their determined efforts
> to get legal power to decide who may be a plumber."

Yep.

> Not that I agree much with the socialist sucking-up of George
> Bernard Shaw, but - like the proverbial stopped clock being
> right at least twice a day - he could occasionally catch the facts
> of a matter and fix them upon the printed page.  In his preface
> to *The Doctor's Dilemma*, he wrote: "The effect...is to make
> the medical profession a conspiracy to hide its own shortcomings.
> No doubt the same may be said of all professions. They are all
> conspiracies against the laity."

Keeping in mind your "scientific" medical religion's penchant for senseless
infant penis and adult vagina slicing...

I like this quote from Shaw:

"That any sane nation, having observed that you could provide for the supply
of bread by giving bakers a pecuniary interest in baking for you, should go
on to give a surgeon a pecuniary interest in cutting off your leg, is enough
to make one despair of political humanity."
--George Bernard Shaw, introduction to "The Doctor's Dilemma"

I also like this one:

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the
unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to
himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable
man."
-- George Bernard Shaw

> Politics aside,

LOL!  It's ALL politics!

>what is it that's getting your freak on about
>> obstetricians...OBVIOUSLY ILLEGALLY severing
>> umbilical cords by clamping/cutting immediately,
> f'chrissake?  

It's just that I don't think babies should be asphyxiated and made to
breathe through their lungs before they are ready - or robbed of up to 50%
of their blood volume.

See Cord clamping baby asphyxiation: Pediatrician not cheering so loud
now...
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/3896

I will always have "my freak on" as long as your religion is harming babies.

My religion - chiropractic - is just as religious BTW - but far less
harmful.

In this regard to this latter point, it is sordidly FUNNY to see MDs
shouting warnings about chiros GENTLY adjusting babies' spines all the while
remaining silent about the most prolific manipulators of babies' spines -
MD-obstetricians - GRUESOMELY manipulating most babies' spines - sometimes
pulling so hard they rip spinal nerves out of tiny spinal cords.

ALL spinal manipulation is gruesome with the birth canal closed the "extra"
up to 30%.

> And (yet again) what d'you mean by
>> ...closing birth canals the "extra" up to 30%
> so repeatedly that you seem to have a keyboard macro
> configured to do the job for you?

See the Four OB Lies above.

> Is there some kind of
> federal statute (reflected in some Title of the U.S. Code
> of Federal Regulations) by which the criminality of closing
> an umbilical clamp at a particular moment has been estab-
> lished?  

I don't know about federal law.  State law though is pretty clear.  The
common law doctrine of informed consent indicates that even a good medical
procedure performed without informed consent is a battery.

The battery is pretty obvious.

Here again (in case you missed it) is Dr. Morley's temporary baby
asphxiation experiment:

"[T]he umbilical cord [is] immediately closed between finger and thumb...The
[fetal heart rate/FHR] will decelerate quickly to about 60 bpm...the color
will change from purple-pink (normal at birth) to pallid blue
(vaso-constriction and asphyxia.)...Few midwives or obstetricians will be
able to observe, without interference, a deep, prolonged FHR deceleration on
a non-breathing newborn for a period of 60 seconds.  Common sense will soon
release the finger and thumb."
http://www.cordclamping.com/acog-cp.htm

I doubt very much that obstetricians trying this grisly baby asphyxiation
experiment are obtaining informed consent first...

PREGNANT WOMEN: To make sure your baby gets the "extra" up to 50% of blood
volume, do not let the obstetrician or midwife clamp your baby's umbilical
cord until it has stopped pulsating and your baby is pink and breathing and
not in need of resuscitation.  Talk to your obstetrician or midwife today.

> As for....
>> Chiropractors used to be trained to deliver babies - above
>> and beyond the didactic obstetrics course which most chiro
>> students still take.

>> Chiropractors trained and licensed in Oregon are trained and
>> licensed to deliver babies; though I don't think any of them do.

> I should sure as hell think so.  Ever think that maybe the
> plaintiff's bar has something to do about that?

I am pretty sure it is political medicine's fault.

As soon as people start realizing how badly/criminally medicine has mucked
up birth, I think there will be a resurgence of homebirth midwifery.

We will then have the best of both worlds available to women - true choice.

(If organized medicine had not anti-scientifically/anti-competitively hogged
up all "the clinical material" I am sure c-section would not be as safe as
it is today - so there is an upside to organized medicine's "scientific"
hoggish greed.)

> I knew a
> GP down in Cumberland County (probably retired by now)
> who used to do so many deliveries that he met with the
> obstetrics section of the Department of Surgery instead
> of with the rest of us in the Department of Medicine.  The
> joke was that the only way for a patient to get into his practice
> was to be born in it.  I don't want to think what the annual
> professional liability insurance premiums must be like for any
> primary care "provider" who might be insane enough to seek
> and secure obstetrical privileges at any hospital in any state
> in the present union.  The lawyers would be on the poor
> bastard like barracudas on a boatload of refugees.

You may be referring to the obstetricians' fraudulent "malpractice liability
insurance crisis" hoax.  There is a good book about it, written by a
lawyer/MD, Wachsman...

The obstetric hoax was coupled in California with the largest obstetric
malpractice liability insurer insisting at the legislature with the CMA that
obstetricians had to "supervise" homebirth midwives (without being present).

After the midwifery licensing law was passed - surprise, surprise - there
weren't any physician supervisors to be found - because malpractice
liability insurers wouldn't let them supervise those risky homebirths.  The
kicker was that PHYSICIANS owned the largest insurer - LOL! And the former
judge who served as the lobbiest admitted in a meeting of the Medical Board
that the liability insurer for whom he was lobbying had no data on risk of
homebirth!  It was slick politics.

>> I recently talked to an old EMT who used to pray for
>> maternity transports.

> Ah, yes.  That's symptomatic of something the EMT-P guys
> call the "Jolly Volly Syndrome."

I don't understand the phrase, "Jolly Volly Syndrome."

> We've got a bit of that in
> the volunteer ambulance corps hitherabouts.  "Good Sam-
> aritan" laws provide something of a shield, but from what I've
> been told the local corps are *very* particular about docu-
> menting in each case that they have done bloody *everything*
> necessary to get Mom to the nearest Emergency Department
> rather than break out the L&D kit in the back of the truck.

Understandable that they would document that.

> And you say that...
>> He was astonished to learn that he had been closing birth
>> canals the "extra" up to 30%.
> ...eh?  Well, jeez, I'll betcha he was astounded to learn that

> anybody could keep spouting that phrase without specifying
> just what the hell it means, too.

Hopefully you now know "just what the hell it means, too."

> And you're not familiar with Mencken's "Chiropractic" essay?
> The damned thing has been continuously in print (in Mencken's
> first *Chrestomathy*) since before the man died in 1956.  Just
> how the hell deep was the hole in which you were raised that
> you could not know about Mencken, or never have read that
> essay before?  You're a *chiropractor* and this little bit of prose
> is new to you?  Yeesh!

You falsely assume that the Mencken quote was new to me.

It was not.

Also, you snipped the part about your religion - medical "science" - denying
massive numbers of babies massive numbers of free daily immunizations.

Here is what I wrote again...

Pretty funny "Chiropractic" quote from HL Mencken...

> ----------------
> If a man, being ill of a pus appendix, resorts to a shaved and
> fumigated longshoreman to have it disposed of, and submits
> willingly to a treatment involving balancing him on McBurney's
> spot and playing on his vertebra as on a concertina, then I am
> willing, for one, to believe that he is badly wanted in Heaven.

LOL!  "...badly wanted in heaven" (!)

Thank goodness for surgery and surgical skill when necessary (the Founder of
Chiropractic said, "Look well to conservative surgery").

But I wonder how many "shaved and fumigated" MDs unnecessarily relieved
children of their appendices and tonsils and unnecessarily killed children
in the process...

CURRENT "shaved and fumigated" MD craziness includes routinely asphyxiating
babies/robbing them of massive amounts of blood AFTER asphyxiating babies by
keeping birth canals closed the "extra" up to 30% when babies get stuck -
with "shaved and fumigated" MDs pulling on babies' spines as if involved in
a tug-of-war with longshoremen...

DJ Doc's Mencken quote cont'd:

> And if that same man, having achieved lawfully a lovely babe,
> hires a blacksmith to cure its diphtheria by pulling its neck,
> then I do not resist the divine will that there shall be one
> less radio fan later on.

>           -- H.L. Mencken, "Chiropractic" (1924)

Hmmmm...

1924...

Massive numbers of lawfully and unlawfully "achieved" babes are being denied
massive numbers of free daily immunizations because medical "science"
adopted infant formula in the early twentieth century.

Science has discovered that breastfeeding women manufacture immunizations
that reportedly make MD-needle-vaccinations work better...

American MDs are mostly silent about this discovery - STILL denying massive
numbers of babies massive numbers of free daily immunizations.

What woman - explicitly informed that she can IMMUNIZE her baby daily and
(reportedly) make vaccinations work better is going to fail to at least
ATTEMPT to breastfeed?

American MDs are ignoring a simple way to make both the breastfeeding
(immunization) and vaccination rates skyrocket.

Thanks for reading everyone.

Sincerely,

Todd

Dr. Gastaldo
Hillsboro, Oregon
USA
t...@chiromotion.com

I ALMOST FORGOT...

DENTS IN BABIES' SKULLS...

It will make a good subject line...

For every dent that does NOT pop back out - there are probably many that do
pop out - and therefore go unrecorded...

According to John Ogden, MD,

"The developing skull, especially in an infant, may be deformed
substantially without sustaining an OBVIOUS (emphasis
added) fracture when...compressed (p. 78)...

Note well Dr. Ogden's words "temporary" and "restoration"...

"[Elasticity of the skull]...allows significant TEMPORARY indentation of the
skull toward the brain, with RESTORATION of the contour after 'release' of
the deforming force... (p. 79, emphasis added) [Ogden J. Skeletal Injury in
the Child. Third Edition, NY: Springer 2000]

Dr. Ogden offers good news...

"Despite considerable depression of the bone, there may be little brain
injury (p. 79)."

And he offers bad news...

"[D]espite the seeming absence of specific osseous injury, severe injury to
the brain may occur...(p. 79)"
[Ogden J. Skeletal Injury in the Child. Third Edition, NY: Springer 2000]

Maybe obstetricians are causing some depression skull fractures with
instruments?

Olivier Dupuis, MD et al. wrote in 2005:

"...A depressed skull fracture is an inward buckling of the calvarial bones
and is referred to as a 'ping-pong' fracture...Fifty depressed skull
fractures were associated with an instrument delivery, and 18 depressed
skull fractures were classified as 'spontaneous.'"
--Olivier Dupuis, MD et al.^^^

^^^Dupuis O, Silveira R, Dupont C, Mottolese C, Kahn P, Dittmar A, Rudigoz
RC. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2005 Jan;192(1):165-70. PubMed abstract

DENTS IN BABIES' SKULLS CAN BE SERIOUS....

MD-obstetricians should not be closing birth canals the "extra" up to 30%.

MD-obstetricans should not be KEEPING birth canals closed the "extra" up to
30% as they pull with instruments.

And they should not be lying to cover-up the massive crime.  See The Four OB
Lies above.

Thanks for reading everyone.

Sincerely,

Todd

Dr. Gastaldo
Hillsboro, Oregon
USA
t...@chiromotion.com

I say again to SJ Doc...

Please help stop "the OB guys" (your phrase) from closing birth canals the
"extra" up to 30% at your hospital


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