Keith wrote:

<< Might it not be the case that people of
chld-bearing age today are already damaged by the
malnutrition of their parents and the pollutants in
our
environment?  Further, that some artificial support is
the only way to overcome this damage.  I have myself
as an example.  I was born in the 1940s and would not
have lived through my birth had it not been for the
technology used on me in the maternity hospital.  I
was destined to die.  One of my sons was a
breach birth.  He also was destined to die (possibly
with my wife) had it not been for a forceps delivery.
>>


I was over 30 when I had my only child and he was born
in the full breech position.  It wasn't discovered
until he was too far along the way to do a C-section.
My ob-gyn was from India and had experience with
breech births so she was able to assist the birth with
nothing but her own hands -- later I found out that
modern day medical schools in the U.S. have stopped
teaching how to do anything other than a C-section for
this type of birth.  In my grandmother's time, we
would have died -- there would have been no pitocin IV
to speed up the long labor, so it's likely the
lengthy, unproductive labor alone would have killed
us.

From what I've learned about hypothyroidism since I
was diagnosed 2 years ago, it's very likely I was at
least borderline hypothyroid for most of my adult life
and probably during the pregnancy.  I grew up in the
'50s in an industrial city, lots of air pollution,
second-hand smoke from my father's cigars and
cigarettes (and then 10 years of second-hand smoke
from my husband), typical diet of the time.  My father
had severe rheumatoid arthritis, an autoimmune
condition as I have, and died at 67, and my mother had
heart disease and died at 72.

The progression from my maternal grandmother who had
11 children, only 1 died in infancy, all born at home
-- to my mother who had 5 children, all born in a
hospital and she thought it was great progress that
she was anesthetized during "the most painful part"
for all 5 births so she didn't have to suffer like her
mother -- to myself and my 2 sisters each having one
child (my two brothers, no children), my sisters
requiring C-sections -- could be seen as an example of
the increasing affect of poor diets and environmental
pollutants on successive generations.  My nephew is
autistic, my niece is dyslexic, and my son had mild
learning disabilities to which he adapted successfully
and will begin his junior year in college this fall.



Lynda Bryson
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