Spontaneous Creation: 101 Reasons Not to Have Your Baby in a Hospital

April 13, 2006
Jock,
Just received your email and I wanted to congratulate you on your new book. The world needs to hear about all of this to help the women and future babies of the world. I work on so many babies and children that have stressed their spines from birth trauma. That is the #1 trauma affecting people's spines so thanks for all the hard work and dedication.
My best to you,
Catherine Maloof, D.C.
www.drmaloof.com

Don't underestimate the influence you can have. Seventeen years ago I had my second child at home with midwives, and two years later a third baby at home. Since then, merely by offering a quiet, friendly example, I have educated fifty-seven women to the point of choosing midwifery care. Of those fifty-seven a whopping forty-two birthed at home.

In this day of too posh to push and celebrity cesareans, your book is exactly what is needed.

Aliss Terpstra, RNCP (Registered Nutritionist)
aliss@nutrimom.ca
Member, Ontario Midwifery Task Force 1984-1995
Board member, International Institute of Concern for Public Health, http://www.iicph.org
Research Coordinator, Fluoride Toxicity Research Collaborative, http://www.slweb.org/ftrc_staff.html

Thanks for all the references to my book, Jock! What a wealth of information you have in the endnotes alone!

Regarding your passage below, you write beautifully! I love "nature" births. . . . Good luck with your book!

(The below passage is excerpted from the
Preface of Spontaneous Creation, vol. 1)

House of nature

And yet, even at home, the rose-colored light of creation may be shy in coming. It may need a more fundamental setting, a less cultural stage. Margaret Mead writes of the women of one island culture:

"In their child-bearing on some green mountain-side, sometimes not even sheltered from the rain, they face their essential womanhood . . ."

Can you imagine giving birth in the rain? Or in the snow -- your baby's body steaming as it slides out into the world, snowflakes falling quietly all around you?

I believe it has been done in just this way by the ancestors of our race. Homo sapiens, or creatures very like Homo sapiens (those of the genus Homo), have survived the snowstorms of no fewer than 20 ice ages in the last 2.5 million years.

Wrapped in a thick animal-fur coat, an ice-age mother would have been significantly less cold than her half-naked sister birthing in a modern, air-conditioned delivery room. And her baby would have been less cold, as well, brought immediately to the warm breasts beneath the mother's fur-covered coat.

There is ice-age snow in our veins. Those who open themselves to nature can hear her soft snow-whisper: "Trust in me."