DUH, DUMB DOCTORS CAN'T TOUCH THIS
Torturing Babies
Twin Saved Premie
This is an inspiring video, but it highlights how dumb the medical system is.
A Mom birthed premature twins. Both were in separate incubators. One weighed 2 pounds, the other 1.5 pounds. The larger one did well enough that he didn’t need the incubator any more, but the smaller one struggled. The doctor decided that he wasn’t going to make it, so he told the Mom to prepare for the end. She decided to put the healthier twin in the incubator to bid farewell to his brother, but she noticed that the dying one seemed to react positively to his twin’s presence. So she put them together more often and the smaller one finally pulled through after all.
I say the medical system is dumb, because it still apparently hasn’t learned the importance of human touch. I guess they still leave infants in separate cribs in the hospital nurseries. Jean Liedloff learned way back in the late 1960s the value of human touch when she lived for a few months with native Americans in the jungle in South America, i.e. Venezuela. She noticed that their kids never cried or misbehaved. She guessed that it had something to do with the fact that infants up to 8 months old or so were held constantly by anyone in the tribe. After about 8 months they would gradually increase their range of exploration away from their caregivers. Liedloff wrote a book about it, called The Continuum Concept and I think it inspired the Attachment Parenting movement.
A psychiatrist, Dr. Clancy McKenzie, made similar conclusions. He found that infants who don’t get enough mothering have the same EEG brainwave patterns as combat soldiers and others who experience life-threatening combat situations and develop PTSD, or post-traumatic stress syndrome. Infants are so helpless that being alone for a few minutes is as terrifying to them as is combat to adults and older kids. And the stress severely affects their physical and mental development.
I wish birthing and child rearing hadn’t been so much monopolized by the heartless, greedy medical system. There are very caring people in that system, of course, but their efforts are constantly being squashed there, IMO. They and we need to change the system. Eh?