Childbirth Joy Prenatal Workshops

10/01/2025

I’m delighted to be joining the Whole Mother Show to talk about my book, Labor Induction: Why, When, and How. We’ll dive into issues you’ll want to know more about if you’re considering an induction.

https://wholemothershow.com/2025/09/15/henci-goer/

10/01/2025

"The team has produced 82 functional eggs, which were fertilised in the lab, although only 9 per cent went on to develop into early embryos, known as blastocysts, and all suffered from chromosomal abnormalities."

The stuff of nightmares. 💔

10/01/2025

Not new information, but it may be new to you. Research done on this topic usually happens in Iran, a country where dates are common in the diet. We don't know if this applies to Canadians or not. As dates are high in sugar, this advice should be considered carefully by anyone with blood sugar issues.

An incredible new study found that pregnant women who consume just 6 dates a day in the 4 weeks leading up to their due date were 74% more dilated upon their arrival to the hospital, had a 77% shorter first stage of labor and a 42% lower rate of caesarean sections.

Eating dates in the late stages of pregnancy lead to higher cervical dilation upon hospital admission because the fruit contains nutrients that influence oxytocin receptors, preparing the cervix and uterus for labor by increasing muscle response to oxytocin and other labor-supporting hormones. Dates are a rich source of energy from natural sugars and fats and also contain prostaglandins, which contribute to cervical ripening. Additionally, they provide serotonin, calcium, and tannins, which contribute to powerful uterine contractions.

Eating dates in the late stages of pregnancy shortens the first stage of labor due to their ability to stimulate the production of prostaglandins, which promote cervical ripening (softening and thinning of the cervix) and increase uterine contractions. Dates also contain tannins, which have a similar effect, and provide a natural sugar source for energy during labor. Some studies even suggest that dates can increase uterine sensitivity to oxytocin, leading to more effective contractions and a quicker and smoother labor process.

These actions are also the exact reason why women who eat dates in the late stages of pregnancy and far less likely to need a c-section!

The most common recommendation is for women to begin eating 6 dates a day starting in their 37th week of pregnancy.
PMID: 40322306, 21280989

SEE ALSO: https://www.pelvicphysio.co.nz/the-sweet-secret-to-a-smoother-labour-dates

10/01/2025

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"Somewhere, there’s a woman: 30 years old, no children. People ask her, “Still no kids?” She forces a smile. “Not yet.” Later, she cries… because she’s had miscarriages, because IVF didn’t work, because she’s tried for years, because her heart aches every time she’s asked that question.

Somewhere else, there’s a woman: 34, five children. People say, “Five? I hope you’re done!” They laugh like it’s funny. She laughs too, politely. Later, she cries… because she wanted a big family, because her Granny had 12, because she’s tired of the judgment, because people assume she’s irresponsible, because no one sees how much love and care she pours into her kids.

And then there’s another woman: 40, one child. People ask, “Only one? Didn’t you want more?” She smiles, “I’m happy with my one.” Later, she cries… because her one was a miracle, because she wanted more, because her body or life circumstances won’t allow it, because people don’t know the battles she’s already fought.

💔 These women are everywhere. They are our sisters, our neighbors, our coworkers, our friends.

Their wombs are not community property. Their choices are not public business. Their pain is not ours to poke at with casual comments and “funny” jokes.

So here’s the reminder:
👉 Whether it’s no kids, five kids, or one kid—it’s not your place to question.
👉 Respect their journey. Respect their story. Respect their silence.

Because you never know what tears are hidden behind that smile."

[Nadirah Angail]

09/29/2025

Despite being available for more than four decades, the evidence supporting the optimal approaches to interpretation and management of intrapartum FHR tracings remains inadequate. The current three-category classification system has clear limitations, particularly in the need for better refinement of category II FHR tracings. Five-tier classification systems have been proposed; however, data supporting their effectiveness are also limited. Although adjunctive tools have been developed to enhance FHR assessment and interpretation, none have been shown to improve perinatal outcomes. There is a critical need for large, prospective studies on FHR assessment and management strategies to provide clearer guidance and improve the care of pregnant patients during labor.

This Clinical Practice Guideline includes an overview of intrapartum FHR monitoring
nomenclature and classification systems and provides recommendations for evaluation and management of intrapartum FHR tracings.

Read the guidance document now at: https://buff.ly/Hb7iDam

Want to hear directly from the authors? Listen to a discussion with the authors on the Green Room podcast. Available on all major podcast streaming platforms and at: https://buff.ly/oHgQtLC

09/28/2025

Knowing baby food is unsafe tells a lot about the overall safety of the food supply system for everyone.

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09/27/2025

The system is the water you swim in. Much like the proverbial fish who apparently don't know they are in water until they are out of it, doctors stop seeing the water/system early on in their training.

Marc Giradot came up with an explanation of how IM injections all go IV. It's simply a matter of timing. When someone tastes metal in the mouth within a minute of a vaccine, it's because it went IV immediately (blood circulates that quickly to every part of the body). When no immediate results occur, injuries are delayed with usually enough time that people don't connect the dots.

Marc is an engineer and put his training to use to understand what he calls the Bolus Effect. He understands how an injection into muscle actually works. I doubt many doctors and nurses understand and we know that they agreed to go along with the campaign to eliminating aspiration prior to plunging. If they really understood Marc's thesis, they would have been appalled at the extremely high chance of injecting a dose titrated for muscle directly into the bloodstream. Marc is able to think in an unhypnotized way BECAUSE he's not a doctor.

Dosing by mouth is higher than by IM injection. Dosing by IM is higher than IV. A little bit of arsenic by mouth can be tolerated. The same amount given IV push will quickly kill. That's the very definition of how to poison someone.

Parents with children injured by the MMR note onset of symptoms immediately, whereas parents with children who die a week after DPTP don't see a connection as readily.

Remember the 15 minute wait in Covid? That was to identify the people with an immediate IV reaction (they called it anaphylaxis, but it's basically poisoning). Plus it was to convince everyone that when you make it to 16 minutes, you
were fine (not true - many people who were injured took days to months for onset of symptoms).

Dr. Michel Odent was able to think outside the box because he was trained as a general surgeon first. He wasn't an obstetrician.

Dr. Michael Klein is a BC Family Practice doctor who writes about being trained by midwives in Africa before his med school rotation - once he hit that part of his schooling he knew something was off. He'd seen many women birth squatting so the lie that women need to be on their backs was obvious to him. Or routine episiotomy (something he was instrumental in changing), or not eating and drinking in labour, or all the other stupid protocols common in hospital birth units. Dr Klein is able to think about birth differently BECAUSE he's not an obstetrician.

I would love to see a course for doctors in their training on renegade doctors (and other professions) who made breakthroughs in their field. But we all know that teaching prisoners how to pick the lock on their cell isn't something the jail guards condone.

We live in a world that is heavily managed by a handful of people - they do this mostly by fear and when that doesn't work, by mandates. I have to hand it to our rulers (they refer 5o themselves as the "elite") - they're brilliant at it.

The medical system was established by Rockefeller in a slow enough process that it's usually only the old doctors and citizens who realize that change has actually happened. And then they die off or are ignored because they are seniors and they are being crabby about how things have changed. So those of us who didn't live through the changes and don't study history have no clue. I bet there are people today who have no clue about the Thalidomide tragedy.

Doctors are not taught their own history and have no clue as to the financial ties that pharna has with paying med schools and journals. If they ever do realize, they are trapped with debt and a huge amount of time invested. Their egos are flattered by the prestige given (that's taken a nosedive with Covid). They see leaving the system is a massive loss to their finances, reputation, and more. It takes massive courage to do so.

Plus potential doctors are selected for med school based on high grades and compliance. Whoever A Midwestern Doctor is, I bet the system is kicking themselves that he/she was ever admitted to med school. Same for Dr. Tom Cowan, Drs Samantha and Mark Bailey, plus the doctors who realized that diet is a primary driver of health issues (Dr. Jason Fung, Dr. Ken Berry, Dr. Shawn Baker, etc).

Wouldn't it be interesting if these renegade doctors started their own medical schools and had access to hospitals and pharma as needed? (One can dream.)

So it's a matter of mass hypnosis of what we "need" in order to survive (i.e. Tylenol is "needed" to break a fever due to a new belief that all-fever-is-bad, fentanyl/cocaine combo to get through birth, TDAP and Covid vaccines to "protect the baby" etc).

And people don't realize how heavily doctors are hypnotized. Dr Gabor Mate talks about the punishing schedules of med school causing lack of compassion as healthcare providers (a patient complains about poor sleep and fatigue and the doctor internally recalls providing primary care with life-and-death consequences on a 24 to 72 hour shift on no sleep and has no sympathy for the patient).

Overwork and fatigue is also a recipe for breaking down the mind to create automatic access for installation of hypnosis. That's why the military has boot camp. It has less to do with physical fitness and more to do with creating immediate compliance to the demands of the system. As a hypnotist, I see this structure clearly, but few do.

People who are frightened are more likely to choose to give up their freedom if they believe they are being provided security. Women do this is huge numbers by agreeing to induction, hospital birth, epidural, planned caesarean.

Parents who are frightened of any fever in their child are parents who are easily manipulated by the system. I see a lot of parents on community posts who are terrified of the slightest breeze and happily give up autonomy if they believe they've been promised safety. I struggle to have compassion for those in that group who feel they can bully others into their choices ("just get an obstetrician, get the damned epidural, just give your kid the vaccines in order to protect my kid", etc). I've learned to stop responding so I stay mute in these conversations.

But what not many understand is that doctors are MORE frightened and have MORE to lose than their patients do. They mostly mask their fears through a professional mask but when their paradigm is threatened, the mask slips and they rage. Of all the doctors I've met in my life, I'd say that, as a group, obstetricians are the most frightened. They may go into this specialty because they are predisposed to fear, or it develops over time due to training, or a mix of both (wouldn’t THAT be fascinating research?). The OBs who were not as frightened got reputations of being an oddball.

This is a wide-ranging response because when the structure of the system is cut/burn/poison (surgery/radiation/drugs) that requires that the consumer is motivated by fear in order to buy in, it's corrupt system. As hospital birth units are famous for, you can change the wallpaper on the walls but leave the restrictive protocols in place - it's putting liquid paper on a spelling mistake on the printout expecting that this makes the change inside the Word document. That is, it doesn't work.

Rates of induction, caesarean rates, and other interventions will only continue to climb, I believe. It will probably level out at an 80/20 ratio of technological:natural because

Covid showed us the radicals among us are about 20% of the overall population. Interestingly, the closer we get to 80% technological birth, the more determined and radical the 20% become. That's partly why I think we are seeing a rise in the philosophy and practice of freebirth. (And probably explains the rise in homeschooling, living off-grid, etc.)

Just some thoughts.

09/27/2025

Researchers admit that, "it is not clear whether it is better for women with big babies to have their labour induced or to wait for labour to begin naturally."

And we know ultrasound weight guesses are often wrong. Studies show a 15% margin of error either way.

But what else can we learn from the research?

And, given these facts, why ARE many women told they need induction for a 'suspected big baby'?

I researched and wrote about these issues in my most recent book, “In Your Own Time: how western medicine controls the start of labour and why this needs to stop.”

I also discuss the research relating to older and larger women, to longer pregnancies, and to the now-amended suggestion by the NICE guideline writers that Black, Brown, Asian and mixed-race women should be offered early induction of labour.

Nowadays, most women will be offered induction, or find that it is raised as a topic of conversation, and many come under pressure to accept this.

Whether you want to agree to induction or not is up to you.

But if you’d like information to help you decide, I have two books and a website full of resources that can help.

You can find out about big babies (and lots more) in “In Your Own Time”, see https://www.sarawickham.com/time

For more on induction generally, see https://www.sarawickham/iol for resources.