12 Sep Creating Healthy Babies
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Since the beginning of time, all parents and grandparents knew instinctively what to do to create healthy babies. During the Industrial Revolution, corporations prioritized quantity over quality which included birthing cheap disposable people to expand the work force. It was better for the bottom line to grow workers with mediocre health and then sell back to them drugs and health care plans for profit rather than promote health and well-being. This is the largest moneymaking industry in the world today.
In the 60’s, some dissatisfied young adults began to revolt against this training and began remembering and relearning natural, back to the earth living.
Ida Mae Gaskin (and Dr. Spock) became one of the new authorities on having healthy children as her intentional community, The Farm in Tennessee, experimented with living off the land which included midwifing thousands of babies and training midwives across the country in natural pre-natal care and birthing. This was game changing in the natural birthing sociology.
With the utmost respect, I say thank you. And, unfortunately this movement emphasized vegetarianism and herbalism. This plant-based diet initially produced positive outcomes while rejecting the Standard American Diet in mother and baby health, but in the long-game produced negative outcomes which led Ida Mae on other natural midwives and health practitioners to embrace the medical model of giving drugs, antibiotics, and vaccines to treat symptoms.