| Advice
for parents-to-be, pregnant women and their partners - and those
who take care of them
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| Dr Dietrich Klinghardt
MD - 04 April 2004 |
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| Adapted
by Dr Lothar Zieger MD DRCOG DFFP - 02 October 2006 |
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| Conception: |
| In the last 50 years, the sperm count
and quality have significantly dropped. The inability to conceive
for both maternal and paternal reasons is rapidly rising. It is important
to bear in mind that kinesiological diagnosis is highly individual,
as is the relevant treatment. No two cases will ever be the same!
Here is a brief list of common reasons for infertility that have been
found with Autonomic Response Testing (ART) and of treatment leading
to successful conception. |
| 1) |
Abdominal scar tissue: appendicectomy
and hernia scars are the most significant; they often block the motility
of the fallopian tube, decrease blood flow to the uterus and decrease
sperm production and quality. Treatment is with Neural Therapy. |
| 2) |
Chlamydia trachomatis: a commonly
under-diagnosed bacterial infection and one of the most common reasons
for not conceiving in the presence of normal hormonal tests. Often
the fallopian tubes are patent, but their mobility is impaired. Common
laboratory diagnosis is often false negative. Treatment on the physical
level is usually with Doxycycline, starting the week before planned
conception and for two weeks beyond. An alternative on that level
are the Enderlein remedies which succeed but take longer: Pleo Fort,
Pleo Nig and Utilin are the most important examples. |
| 3) |
Sperm allergy: the male partner
collects his sperm in a jar and it is established by ART whether there
is an allergy. Desensitisation is successfully performed with Mental
Field Therapy. Successes have also been reported with antihistamines
(e.g. anti-allergic cough syrup) or NAET, a special allergy elimination
technique. Long-term treatment with Pleo Sancom leads to a decrease
in allergic hypersensitivity which also relates to mould and other
allergies. |
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Low sperm count: it has been
shown that taking special preparations of Chlorella pyrenoidosa have
led to very significant increases in sperm count. |
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Toxicity: This is definitely
the most common case of both female and male infertility. A good detoxification
programme using for example NDF, Chlorella, Phospholipids with EDTA,
sauna therapy and lymphatic drainage is usually required. Prior removal
of amalgam fillings and root canal filled teeth may be required to
conceive, especially for the mother. It is easier and safer to detoxify
a mother before she becomes pregnant; however, it is still easier
and better for mother and child to detoxify during a pregnancy than
to start only after birth. |
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Other common factors involve
food allergies, unresolved emotional trauma, poor dental occlusion
and geopathic and biophysical stress. |
| Intrauterine problems: |
| 1) |
Toxicity: During pregnancy and breastfeeding large
quantities of toxins – up to a third of the mother’s total
body burden – are passed on to the foetus. Dental practices
should warn mothers not to have mercury containing silver amalgam
fillings (re)placed during pregnancy. A filling outgases 50% of its
high mercury content over the first seven years of its existence.
Women who have amalgam fillings in place should ideally have them
removed before conception. If the mother is already pregnant, amalgam
fillings can be safely removed provided this is done by a dentist
who is specially trained in safe amalgam removal. |
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Nutrition: It is known that the baby of a mother
with low folic acid levels in the first trimester of pregnancy has
a higher risk of being born with spina bifida or cleft palate. All
women should be tested if they would benefit from Folic acid supplementation
since it also prevents cervical dysplasia to a high degree. It is
no longer safe to eat most fish, especially tuna, salmon and all the
others higher up on the food chain where contaminants are concentrated
more than a million times. Organic salmon is no healthy alternative
since it contains only low levels of omega 3, having been fed organic
grains, a highly unusual diet for predator fish. Alaskan wild salmon
as well as some mackerel and sardines are some of the few fish still
safe to eat. The alternative is fish oil. Some fish oil producers
use a proprietary process which removes mercury and other metals.
However, they do not necessarily remove PCBs and other chemicals.
Good fish oil is absolutely necessary for the child’s brain
development. Studies indicate that if enough fish oil is consumed
in the last trimester the child is more intelligent and has less chance
of developing neurological disorders. The mother benefits, too, by
having a reduced risk of developing eclampsia or pre-eclampsia, less
post-partum depression and less complications during childbirth. In
addition, a number of studies have shown a great reduction in pregnancy-related
complications simply by taking a daily multivitamin preparation. Both
Italian and German studies strongly suggest that L-Carnitine makes
a significant difference in outcome: complications during pregnancy
as well as labour are greatly reduced; the child is often larger,
healthier and more intelligent later in life. A Finnish study from
the university of Turku on 169 children demonstrated how tooth decay
in young children can be prevented: if the mother chews Streptococcus
mutans-killing Xylitol chewing gum three times a day during pregnancy
and for one year afterwards, the child has virtually no tooth decay
until age five, as compared to a group which had regular fluoride
or chlorhexidine treatments. The WHO estimates that the global IQ
has declined by 10-15% over the last 15 years due to malnutrition,
including industrialised nations. Lack of vitamin A, Lithium, Iodine
and fish oil are most strongly linked to the decline. |
| Toxic building syndrome:
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| Many homes are toxic.
Most common is electromagnetic pollution from mobile phone towers,
poor electric wiring in the home or nearby power lines. Cordless
phones have emerged as a major stressor in recent years. Electromagnetic
pollution is often the cause of childhood asthma, eczema, hyperactivity
and other behavioural problems and the cause of more severe illnesses
in adults. One treatment option is to turn off the fuses for the
bedrooms with excellent improvements in health-related parameters.
Cordless phones should be banned and frequently pose a significant
health risk. They broadcast a highly disturbing biological signal
to anything alive within a 30 metre radius, 24 hours a day.
Other sources of stress in a home include outgasing from carpets,
paint-fumes and biotoxins found in mould. Carpets should not be
used in houses unless they are completely non-toxic which is very
rare. Recently several studies have shown that flame retardants
(PBDs and PBDEs) were found in most mothers’ breast milk.
They also retard the development of a foetus or a newborn child
and are involved in the causation of many neurological illnesses
and cancer. PBDEs are found in all upholstered furniture, some clothing
and toys – required by law. The highest levels are found within
six months of purchase. The flame-retarding effect ceases after
six months, but PBDEs stay in the tissues of mother and child forever.
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| Cosmetics: |
| Over the last 20 years,
many publications have shown that almost no cosmetic product is safe.
The industry is poorly regulated and special interest has stopped
the propagation of any critical literature. A German physician published
a book on the cancer-causing effect of under-arm deodorants. He lost
his medical licence and his house was burnt down. This was in 1997,
not 1937. In 2003 a British biologist from Reading confirmed the findings:
there is a very significant link between the use of parabens and aluminium
compounds in deodorants and the development of breast cancer. This
link is significantly stronger than the link between oestrogen from
HRT and breast cancer. Only non-toxic cosmetics should be used. Any
toxin found in a mother is found in her baby in an even higher concentration.
Sauna therapy is a useful method to reduce the body burden of both
chemicals and cosmetic residues. |
| Allergies: |
| If the mother is sensitive
or allergic to certain foods but continues to eat them during pregnancy
the child is four times more likely to develop allergies in his/her
life. Asthma, eczema, hay fever, some types of hyperactivity, gluten
and gliadin sensitivities (with or without colitis) are all part of
this symptom complex. Before the mother can avoid those foods they
need to be diagnosed first. Lately, blood tests have been shown to
be quite unreliable. Clinically, excellent results are achieved with
ART testing and, based on the results, allergenic substances can be
diagnosed and the mother can be advised as to what to avoid. |
| Neurosensory stimulation: |
| Tomatis and many other
researchers have demonstrated that children can become more intelligent
later in life by stimulating them appropriately in utero. Mozart music,
transabdominal light stimulation (Dinshaw method), transabdominal
touch, dancing and maternal yoga have all been shown to contribute
to a neurologically healthy baby. |
| Psychological Interventions:
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| Mental Field Therapy
is an effective healing tool on the level of psycho-emotional blockages.
It involves focusing the mind on related issues such as, for example,
painful images of childbirth relayed by the client’s mother
or traumatic sexual experiences. Working with the client focusing
on the issues, one stabilises the client’s energy field with
a meditative technique and simultaneously taps those acupuncture points
which are related to the stressful memory. Most cramps, bouts of nausea,
excessive fatigue and a variety of other pregnancy-related symptoms
disappear within minutes using this approach. Perinatal psychologist
David Chamberlain (“Babies Remember Birth”) compiled the
evidence that the baby is a conscious sentient being from the moment
of conception. As adults we are able to retrieve, in hypnotic trance,
most memories of our earthly life from the moment of conception onwards.
Every pain, every emotional upset, every wavering of a parent about
the pregnancy is recorded in the mental field (not the brain) and
has an effect on the developing person from hereon. Thoughts or attempts
of abortion, the possible trauma of an amniocentesis, illnesses of
the mother during pregnancy, physiological problems such as vitamin
malnutrition all have an impact on the developing foetus – so
do all the good things: the love, the intimacy between parents, the
music that is played to the baby through the abdominal wall etc. The
baby is bathed in the energy field and mental field of its parents.
The child starts out with the life experiences of the parents already
under his or her belt. While pregnant both parents often unconsciously
re-live their own pregnancy and MFT quickly reveals what happened
while their parents were pregnant with them. The partners go through
a variety of feelings and states which are more often related to their
own respective intrauterine time than to current time and space. |
| Birth: |
| There are many different
ways and methods of giving birth: the Leboyer method of gentle birth,
Lamaze, the Brazilian method of squatting, water births and the Caucasian
method of lying on the back. Home births in low-risk pregnancies generally
have a better safety record than hospital births. In the hospital
there is certainly an excess of epidural injections, episiotomies,
Caesarean sections and other interventions, which are often unnecessary
or become only necessary because the mother is stressed being in an
unfamiliar environment. There is a connection between epidural injections
at birth and drug addiction of the child later in life. There is a
connection between Caesarean sections and arthritis later in life.
Every intervention has a risk and should be used prudently. |
| The newborn period:
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Once the baby is born,
it needs to be handled gently. No slapping, no panicky washing of
the skin. Everything about birth is natural and not a medical emergency.
There are of course exceptions which should be prepared for and
kept in the back of one’s mind. The latter is the job of the
midwife or obstetrician. Once the baby is born it should rest on
mother’s stomach to bond. The role of the father should not
be about being a second mother. His role is to hold, nurture and
protect the space. Diapers should be chosen carefully. Plastic throw
away diapers have been shown to warm the testicles of a male baby
contributing to male infertility later in life.
The sleeping location of the baby is important. Most families
co-sleep with their newborns for the first 6 to 12 months. The benefits
of co-sleeping are not just about the ease of nightly feeding, but
also introduces the child’s independence to our world slowly.
The newborn still has a feeling of being part of the mother and
does not yet have a strong sense of ‘self'.
Sudden infant death syndrome has been linked in a number of studies
to a strange phenomenon: polyurethane and other plastic uses of
foam mattresses get soaked with sweat, urine and other bodily excretions.
There is an interaction of microbes, foam and bodily fluids which
creates toxic gases: thioaethers, mercaptans, hydrogen sulphide
and others have been detected. These gases are the same as the ones
used in combat during WWI to paralyze the opponents’ breathing
mechanism. They do the same in a newborn, especially when combined
with the stress of recent immunizations. These gases are heavier
than air. Baby cribs – often with crib bumpers – that
have a wooden frame which extends higher then the mattress often
create a bowl, in which the gases sit and cannot flow over to the
side. The alternative is mattresses made from cotton or natural
rubbers, which do not create these problems.
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| Vaccines: |
| The
vaccine issue has many layers. It is clear from an epidemiological
point of view, that the more people are vaccinated, the less the spread
of the related illnesses. It is also clear from clinical experience,
that many children have developed autism, hyperactivity, and asthma
or suffered severe brain damage within a few days of vaccination.
Vaccines are good for the community, but potentially bad for the individual.
The immune system of a child takes 24 months to mature and is very
vulnerable during this time. Many vaccines still contain ethyl mercury,
one of the two most toxic mercurial compounds. By the time the child
is six years old, the accumulated amount of mercury from vaccines
is clinically significant. No one escapes this damage. Today mercury-free
vaccine alternatives exist, but are not necessarily yet routinely
used – only by request. More information is available from Dr.
Tenpenny’s work and publications or at Dr Mercola’s website:
www.mercola.com. |
| Dental issues: |
| Significant progress
has been made in the prevention of dental caries and furthering proper
development of the facial structures and dental arches. As already
mentioned above, if a mother chews Xylitol chewing gum three to five
times per day during pregnancy and for the first year of life, the
child has no tooth decay in the first five years and there is still
a statistically significant effect at age ten – even if the
child never chews the gum! Xylitol is a sugar alcohol that inhibits
the growth of Streptococcus mutans, the bacterium responsible for
caries. Research in Japan showed that if pregnant mothers and their
children eat chlorella growth factor (CGF, a heat extract of chlorella),
the 20 children in the experimental group did not develop any tooth
decay for five years (in contrast to the control group who showed
a significant amount of tooth decay). The most startling finding in
the study was; children given CGF developed beautifully-developed
facial structures and dental arches, predicting a lack of facial pain,
jaw problems, neck problems, headaches, hormonal problems and more,
later in life. In a Japanese study on dogs, perfect dental arches
also predicted better general health, a higher life expectancy, higher
intelligence, more pleasant behavioural characteristics and a non-scoliotic,
perfect spine. |
| Television: |
| Only recently a study
for the first time confirmed a direct connection between early television
viewing and hyperactive behaviour. Do not use your television-set
as a baby sitter. Have the child paint, sing, play be interactive
with its new and ever changing three-dimensional world. “What
tomorrow’s children are to be will be determined by what today’s
parents-to-be choose to be.”
from the book “Welcoming Baby” by S. Colleen Graham
May we all acknowledge and honour our true responsibility as parents
and enjoy the light and joy our children bring to us.
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