Childbirth Joy Prenatal Workshops

03/09/2026

Getting a vaccine in pregnancy is nuts.

Getting a vaccine that hasn't had adequate testing or followup is a very bad idea.

And it makes zero sense to get diptheria or tetanus when it is not needed, but has to be taken because it's bundled with the pertussis (whooping cough).

Also, there's no testing on the impact on the maternal microbiome when taking a pregnancy vaccine. When the maternal microbiome is damaged, it can lead to serious issues in the baby (ie autism).

Is TDaP worth the risk? Do your research.

03/09/2026

The review's authors questioned whether studies establishing norms for labor progress conducted at hospital births—where results would be affected by labor management policies and study participants experience varying degrees of medical intervention—represented true physiologic norms. To answer that question, they compiled the findings of 43 studies of midwives’ reports of non-linear labor progress, i.e., “labor slows, stalls, pauses, or even reverses, but later resumes naturally,” in which these phenomena were considered to be physiologic and normal. They found that such occurrences were common, could occur at any point in labor, lasted from a few minutes to more than two hours, and could occur multiple times in the same labor.

The midwife authors believed labor lulls to be not just normal but functional. They served purposes such as protecting against fetal distress and uterine muscle fatigue by allowing mother and baby to regulate the intensity of labor, permitting recovery from the demands of the dilation phase before embarking on the expulsion phase of labor, and permitting the baby to shift into a more favorable position for birth. One event, labor reversal, in which the cervix closes back down, they attributed to a reaction to interruptions or to agitation arising in the laboring woman or birthing person.

Regardless of whether lulls have the benefits claimed for them, these reports establish that obstetric expectations of how normal labor progresses don’t match reality and that, as the study concludes: “Research on physiological labor patterns, including plateaus, is a matter of some urgency as it is a necessary precursor to efforts aimed at reducing unnecessary and harmful interventions.”

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03/09/2026

Interesting (and packed) presentation that focuses on mitochondrial health.

She covers concepts such as the maternal microbiome in pregnancy, low uptake of folate in the brain [avoid synthetic folic acid], as well as vitamins (esp D) and minerals (esp magnesium & zinc).

Leaky gut and poor GI health is extremely common in autism; gut health and brain health are connected.

She also touches on some harms such as toxins (heavy metals, phalates, pesticides), air pollution, and dairy. No mention is made of vaccines, but that's the third rail when it comes to autism.

Mention of cold plunges and red light therapy is made, although I can't imagine how parents could get a child with severe autism into a cold plunge.

Autism is a canary in the cold mine showing the damage of modern-day living (ie dead wheat that's fortified with folic acid and glyphosate) with all the pollutants we breathe, inject, and consume is particularly damaging to anyone with genetic weak links (ie MTHFR) and who is more prone to mitochondrial insult.

When her triplets suffered neurological regression, Nicole Rincon sought advice from the medical system for answers—only to be told her children had autism a...

03/06/2026

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03/06/2026

Just when I thought that we'd seen the very pinnacle of medical fraud, Dr Gideon Koren (an embarrassment to medicine and Canadians alike) has scaled new heights by making stories out of whole cloth.

The fact that Dr. Koren's MO is to blame parents for harming their babies is absolutely inexcusable.

Remove spaces:

https://natio nalp ost.c om/opin ion/colby-cosh-the-canadian-pediatric-medicine-researchers-who-made-it-up

03/06/2026

"Instead of asking, “Why would my doctor lie to me?” you begin asking, “What information environment is my doctor operating inside?

Who shaped that environment?

What incentives shaped which evidence was highlighted, which risks were emphasized, and which uncertainties were minimized?”

Statins as a case study — and why your health is not a priority.

03/05/2026

In my clients,I see a high rate of faster labours and reduced "failure to progress" with use of omega 3 oils.

03/05/2026

As I've been saying for a while, medical journals cannot be trusted any more. There are simply too many instances of fraud, some of which is criminal.

It makes sense that Robert Maxwell is at the epicenter of this scandal.

Remember, Maxwell had embezzled hundreds of millions of pounds from his own companies' pension funds.

His daughter was a chief procurer of minors for Jeffrey Epstein's trafficking to the rich and powerful.

Believe half of what you read in a medical journal and seriously doubt the half you choose to believe.

Elliot Overton on X:

"This man singlehandedly destroyed science as an institution

His name was Robert Maxwell, and he was the father of Ghislaine Maxwell

He turned scientific knowledge into a commodity, locked it behind a paywall, a created the system which breeds authoritarian, conformist scientists who are terrified to challenge established dogma

His system weaponized science for elite control

British jew, media tycoon, and Mossad agent

He was the first to turn scientific publishing into a ruthless commercial business, locked behind steep paywalls.

In 1951 he founded Pergamon Press, which launched hundreds of niche scientific journals - each a tiny monopoly in its field, demanding expensive subscriptions

Overnight, freely available public-domain scientific knowledge became gated behind high costs, accessible only to an “intellectually elite” class… the new “intelligentsia”

He called this setup “a perpetual financing machine.” and it became the template for the entire industry today.

This commercial monopoly on science extracts free labor from scientists, who work tirelessly to write papers, review work and edit manuscripts to further their career prospects - all at no cost,

The profit margins for scientific journals far exceed almost every other industry. The top publisher’s margins are higher than Google and Apple. Elsevier, for example, brought in ~ $1.4 billion profit in 2024 alone.

This is a huge business which artificially inflates the cost of knowledge dissemination - that is ironically funded in large part by the taxpayer.

Unfortunately the entire business model incentivises VOLUME over QUALITY: Careers, grants, and promotions tie to publication count in "prestigious" (high-fee) journals.

This means that researchers are penalized for publishing less, and are instead rewarded for pumping out high quantity with little inherent value.

In other words, there are tangible benefits to publishing junk science, manipulated data and fabrication.

This model disincentivizes and actively punishes genuine scientific curiosity, independent thinking, long-term/risky work, and controversial opinions or lines of research which challenge established dogma.

It breeds authoritarian, conformist, self-censoring scientists who are averse to risk.

Furthermore, it laid the foundation for a gated elite class of “intelligentsia”. Only those in the “club” at wealthy scientific institutions, who tow the party line, are granted access to scientific knowledge. Those who stray too far from the norm are shunned and expelled.

The ultimate result? A bloated, generic mess of low-rigor, irreproducible papers

This model, which still dominates to this day, facilitated the corporatization and weaponization of of science

What began as a relentless pursuit for truth was coopted and sacrificed for endless greed & elite control of knowledge itself."

https://x.com/i/status/2029244648464547996

03/03/2026

"Dr Adam Urato, a Massachusetts obstetrician and long-time ACOG member, says ACOG’s own conduct during the Covid-19 pandemic warrants scrutiny — particularly its support for Covid-19 vaccination mandates in pregnancy.

ACOG’s position reinforced employment policies that required pregnant women to receive the experimental injections or face consequences.

Urato says that period should not be forgotten.

“Many pregnant women were put into the awful position of being coerced into getting a medical intervention that they didn’t want,” he said, describing the mandates as “cruel and unethical.”

“Make no mistake, this was coercion. These women were threatened with job losses, restricted travel, and participation in society in other ways.”

He recalls that patients repeatedly asked about long-term effects of the vaccines.

“The real answer, the scientific answer, is that we don’t really know,” he said. “We’d never given mRNA vaccinations to pregnant women, ever before, in human history.”

He pointed to historical precedents in obstetrics such as diethylstilboestrol (DES), thalidomide and valproic acid.

“All were ‘safe and effective’ in pregnancy until eventually we discovered that they weren’t,” he said."

Last week, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) — the nation’s leading obstetrics body — withdrew as a liaison from the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP).

03/02/2026