>>Bonnie writes:

>Dear Susie:
>I question whether morning "sickness" is exclusively physical cleansing.
>You said that your nausea has been worse than with your two previous
>pregnancies. Why do some women that lead incredibly healthy and pure
>lifestyles still experience nausea? Could it be that it is not the same
>as traditional nausea but there for some other purpose? Hygiene
>questions that hormones could contribute to the mood swings and other
>experiences that typically happen to pregnant woman, arguing that in
>every case it's toxicity. But who's to say? These things may occur for
>some other reason and may not simply be the physical symptoms of an
>impure body. I believe that we are mostly spiritual beings, and as such,
>what we feed our physical bodies isn't EVERYTHING. I fear that often
>hygienic beliefs disempower women during an otherwise very powerful time
>in their lives.

Well said, Bonnie!! Blindly viewing every symptom as a detox is one of the
big blunders of raw dogmas (NH, instincto, fruitarian, etc.). I have heard
offruitarians "justifying" their loss of teeth as a "cleansing response"!

There is mention of morning sickness among "primitives", so if it is
"unnatural" it is at least not a completely modern invention.

Shelton's "The Hygenic Care of Children" probably shows him at his worst in
terms of logical leaps (and his own early Pain). A good place to start in
questioning the tenets of Shelton and NH in general...

Cheers,
Kirt