Respect Nature

Respect Nature

By this time you would be thinking, I am completely against medical institutions and system. I would like to clarify and move forward, to be frank Doctors and Nurses are the ones who are working 24/7 saving humans across the world. Unlike other professionals, they don’t get a project plan to plan their work, every day they are facing unique challenges. Let me take this opportunity to thank every health worker for the sacrifice and contribution.

There is no ambiguity that science and medicine are helping mankind to sustain and live longer. The problem arises when we replace nature with science/technology.

If Government & authorities introduce a law, training on walking for babies as mandatory in pre-schools. May be in next few years/decades, we believe a baby can walk only if they go to school. Similarly, in child birth, I am only asking to look for all options and respect nature.

Humans are messy and imperfect, at medical institutions we work on perfecting the statistical data model, if average and standard deviations are not met, we consider them as disease and start treating.

Nature is not X vs Y linear graph, nature is complex. Still science is trying to understand nature. Likewise, child birth is not only physical treatment but and also it’s a combination of mind and body of two persons and bringing new life to earth.

 

I understand that there are three types of birthing and I tried to compare them on layman terms.

Types	C-Section	Normal Delivery	Natural Birth
Diet, Meditation  and Yoga/Exercise/ workouts during pregnancy	Matters to avoid any complications	To reduce complications and easing the labor	To reduce complications & to prepare body for natural birth, to bear the pain and reduce after effect.
Procedure (refer links for videos)	Surgical birth with high medical intervention	Vaginal birth with medium medical interventions	Vaginal birth with less/no medical intervention
Labor pain inducing	Not applicable	Synthetic pain induction: Prostaglandin insertion Pitocin IV	No synthetic pain induction. Waiting for pain to start naturally
Labor pain management	Regional Anesthesia / Epidural administration	Epidural administration	Massage, hot bag for spinal and pelvic area. Water births/hot shower
Delayed cord clamping	30sec - 3min	30sec - 3min	10min to 60min or Lotus Birth
Skin-to-Skin Touch of baby	With Mother: Rare With Father: Never	With Mother: Rare With Father: Never	Always after the birth with both Mother and Father
Breast feeding immediately after birth	Rare	Rare	Breast fed immediately after birth
Walking/Listening to music/Drinking during Labor	Never	Rare	Highly recommended
Father assisting labor	Rare	Rare	Always as a Birth Partner
Process time	~45min	1 – 2 hours	2 – 6 hours
After effect due to procedure	Maximum	Medium	Minimum
Cost	$$$$	$$$	$$
Stay at hospital after birth	5days	3days	1day
Practitioners population	Very high	High	Very low

 

Natural birth supersedes normal birth/delivery due to various advantages to mother and baby

#Flattenthecurve became people movement to reduce the exponential rise of COVID-19 spread in 2020. The world went under lockdown fearing spread of the invisible virus, nature started healing itself at most of the places. Climate/air quality was better after many decades. A lesson was learnt by mankind to stop exploiting nature and start respecting nature.

May be another #flattenthecurve movement is required to stop the rise of C-section cases and encourage natural births.

Come, let’s start respecting the nature….