Giving Birth is an sacred act. Yet so many seem to have forgotten that and now birth is treated as a medical procedure. It is almost a given, that women the world over will attend hospital in order to birth their babies. Women are told that hospitals are the safest place to be, when that magical time arrives. That time when you get to meet your baby for the first time.

Of course as a mother, we want what is best for our babies and for ourselves. We do not want to take any unnecessary risks and for this reason, so many put their faith into the medical system, because they believe that they know what is best for them and their baby. So they hand over the responsibility to the medical team.But what so many do not realize is that once you go into hospital to birth your baby, you are signing over your rights. The chances of you having a natural birth are minimal, as most women end up receiving medical interventions. Most women who have hospital births are routinely given a synthetic form of oxytocin, called Pitocin, before, during and after birth. It is used to induce and speed up the birth and to also prevent and treat postpartum hemorrhage.

Every woman naturally produces oxytocin, it is one of the hormones needed to birth our babies safely and to also help us bond with them and to help with breastfeeding. However when a mother is injected with synthetic Oxytocin, 'Pitocin', her body will no longer produce it naturally. The synthetic oxytocin, has been shown to increase the babies heartbeat and as a result ends up in further interventions being preformed. However that is not what I wish to talk about toady. Toady I wish to talk about a recent study by the National Center for Biotechnology Information, entitled:

Association of peripartum synthetic oxytocin administration and depressive and anxiety disorders within the first postpartum year.

So now, Pitocin is linked to Post Partum Depression, this is huge, yet it is not common knowledge.

This article was written in February 2017 and it is not something that is being shared with mothers to be. For mothers who have a history of depression or anxiety and who are administered Pitocin during or after birth they now have an 36% increased risk of Post Partum Depression. For women with no history of depression and anxiety, they have a 32% increased risk of developing Post Partum Depression. These are the figures that were released within the study above, but what about those women who go untreated and suffer in silence. The many mothers who are advised to just get on with it. The numbers, I imagine are much higher.

I recently wrote an article about suicide where I mentioned a woman I looked after in Australia, who was suffering with Post Postpartum Depression but was undiagnosed. She ended up jumping from a block of flats with her baby in her arms, she survived, her baby did not. She was being held under guard in hospital, as she was being charged with murder. I wrote how the society had failed her. I know she had a hospital birth and I imagine she would have been administered Pitocin, if not during birth then definitely after to deliver the placenta. Reading this article really shines a whole new light on the idea that Society failed her, that the medical system failed her. Failed her and how many other mothers?

Why are we not being told about this, this is huge.

This synthetic Hormone already has so many negative effects on the mother and baby and now this. Pitocin is administered so that a women's birth happens quicker, so that the actually act of birth is done within a time frame that is more convenient for the medical team. As a result the mother experiences far more intense pain and the baby is placed under unnecessary strain. This is knowledge that is already out there, but again is not being shared, it is something you need to research for your self. But now this, now this fake hormone is affecting the mothers ability to look after herself and bond with her baby. This results in breast feeding being very difficult and new mums feeling like failures and Yes at times feeling suicidal.

Yet it is not common knowledge. I think it is really important to realize that the medical professions do not always have your best interests at heart. Because if they did, they would not be administering Pitocin.

Birth is now a huge business, Obstetrics is the highest paid medical profession in the world. Pharmaceutical companies are making huge amounts of money out of birth. It is so important to be informed and to make informed choices, because otherwise you are placing yourself and your baby at risk.

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