Childbirth Joy Prenatal Workshops

01/25/2026

"...antidepressants double the risk of su***de, with no age limits, whereas psychotherapy is so effective that it halves the risk of a new su***de attempt in people admitted to hospital after a su***de attempt."

"Preventing su***de is paramount in treating depression, and it is bizarre that when a psychiatric textbook noted that the su***de risk is increased at the start of treatment with depression pills, it falsely claimed the same is true for psychotherapy.

It looks like an excuse for using harmful pills to postulate that therapy also increases the su***de risk.

There was no reference to this statement, but psychotherapy clearly decreases the risk of su***de."

"This is a sad but very familiar theme in psychiatry.

The worse the disease [ie severe vs moderate depression] the more the patients will be harmed by treatments that don’t help them."

No, it is an illusion that comes from two mathematical artefacts

01/24/2026

Background Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is a common complication of pregnancy, with significant short-term and long-term implications for both mothers and their offspring. Previous studies have indicated the potential benefits of vitamin D in reducing the risk of GDM, yet little is known abou...

01/24/2026

01/24/2026

Imagine a product so harmful, that despite $40+ billion in annual sales, it still needs financial immunity for the serious harms it causes; so objectionable it must be mandated; and so easily proven to cause serious issues that billions in tax dollars must be spent annually to convince people it's safe and censor, attack, target anyone saying otherwise. Only one product fits this insane reality...

01/24/2026

Any injection should be analyzed based on risk-benefit analysis.

Anyone who accepts an injection for themselves or a loved one without actually knowing what's in it and what it does and does not do is using magical thinking.

And magical thinking is not evidence-based.

Safety studies of the MMR vaccine are lacking in statistical power.

A review of more than 60 MMR vaccine studies conducted for the Cochrane Library states, “The design and reporting of safety outcomes in MMR vaccine studies, both pre- and post-marketing, are largely inadequate.”

Seizures from the MMR vaccine occur in about 1 in 640 children, which is about five times more than seizures from measles infection.

Read the full article:

https://physiciansforinformedconsent.org/physicians-for-informed-consent-releases-new-collection-of-educational-documents-states-mmr-vaccine-has-not-been-proven-safer-than-measles-mumps-and-rubella/

01/24/2026

Important to know for those planning a hospital birth.

01/24/2026

Most women who deliver by caesarean are not told they have received routine antibiotics.

"Prophylaxis" means preventative, and in this case, antibiotics are given to prevent potential infection of the uterus and/or incision site.

Hospitals are required to report their infection rates and extra attention is paid to antibiotic-resistant strains of infection (ie MRSA, etc).

If someone was planning a caesarean or one has been decided on in labour (defined as an "emergency" caesarean, but is extremely rare that it's an actual medical emergency), there is the potential to opt out of routine antibiotics assuming the absence of infection markers.

That's because, while the professional groups have determined that the benefits outweigh the risks when using a routine and prophylactic drug, the final decision rests with the patient to accept or refuse.

Having said that, it generally makes surgeons extremely uncomfortable to go against guidelines from their professional body as they highly dislike being an outlier, not to mention the potential for lawsuit if a grevious infection did occur, so expect significant pushback, which is why knowing what the research shows is critical.

Hospitals are graded on their infection rates and would bring considerable pressure to bear on any doctor who agreed with a patient to not provide prophylactic antibiotics. When a hospital's good grades on infection rates take a hit, top brass kick into gear to ensure they resume their prior grade. Hospitals like to provide excellent reports (rightly so) about the quality of care provided (ER wait times, readmission rates, mortality and morbidity, etc are all examples of metrics that hospitals are graded on). I assume is bonuses are awarded to CEOs based on metrics, administration are motivated to "encourage" particular medical practices. If bonuses are not provided, CEOs in Canada are paid through tax dollars and like to provide excellent metrics as a reason for their top salaries and perqs.

Also, doctors hate (rightly so) having hospital committees breathing down their necks, if only for the extra paperwork and meetings involved.

All this to say (thank you if you've stuck it through this far) that medical decisions are not just medical. Factors such as a CEO wanting a salary boost (or golf privileges), if there had been a recent outbreak of infections, access to FP care in the community, what the hospital's latest grade was, and an MDs history of fending off lawsuits all play a role.

None of these would have anything to do with a person's specific care, but they affect the care received.

This document is US based:

https://www.obgproject.com/2018/08/29/acog-guidance-antibiotic-prophylaxis-during-labor-and-delivery/

Canada:

https://www.jogc.com/article/S1701-2163(17)30586-8/abstract

Remove spaces:

https://www.timminst od ay.com/lo ca l-ne w s/how-much-do-executive-salaries-impact-hospital-services-10924416

https://www.c b c.c a/ne w s/canada/toronto/ontario-hospital-ceo-contracts-show-car-golf-perks-1.1160474

ACOG has released a Practice Bulletin on the role of prophylactic antibiotics in labor and delivery. Timing is of paramount importance because the goal is to have adequate tissue levels before exposure to a pathogen.

01/22/2026

"Bhakdi’s first prediction:

viruses previously suppressed in the bodies of the now vaccinated would resurge in some individuals (ie toxoplasmosis].

A consequent prediction was that, as a result, rates of miscarriages and natal death, which is when a fetus dies in the womb after viability but before birth, would also rise.

Second: cancers.

Third: an ominous upsurge of tuberculosis."

Real Science Predicts

01/22/2026

Podcast about Depo Provera with OBGYN Dr Stu & Midwife Blyss & other wholistic GYN topics has dropped!! A super fun conversation! https://open.spotify.com/episode/4hPPB8ZXE4rH0TI8WTQFbe?si=IdlpvNNXSIm6STTUWtZOMA

01/22/2026

X post from Dr Urato:

https://x.com/i/status/2014310634721063245

"There is general scientific agreement that in utero SSRI exposure impacts fetal brain development.

Common sense, basic science, and animal & human studies all show this.

Twelve (yes 12) consecutive human MRI studies support this.

The studies are listed below:

#1 Zanni, G, et al (2025). Perinatal SSRI exposure impacts innate fear circuit activation and behavior in mice and humans. Nature Communications, 16(1), 4002.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-58785-4

#2 Koc, D., et al (2023). Prenatal antidepressant exposure and offspring brain morphologic trajectory. JAMA Psychiatry, 80(12), 1208–1217.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/2808722

#3 Moreau, A. L., et al (2023). Biological Psychiatry: Global Open Science, 3(2), 243–254.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667174322000209

#4 Campbell, K. S. J., et al (2021a). Prenatal antidepressant exposure and s*x differences in neonatal corpus callosum microstructure. Developmental Psychobiology, 63(6), e22125.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/dev.22125

#5 Salzwedel, A., et al (2020). Functional dissection of prenatal drug effects on baby brain and behavioral development. Human Brain Mapping, 41(15), 4123–4135.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hbm.25158

#6 Rotem-Kohavi, N., et al (2019a). Hub distribution of the brain functional networks of newborns prenatally exposed to maternal depression and SSRI antidepressants. Depression and Anxiety, 36(8), 753–765.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/da.22906

#7 Rotem-Kohavi, N., et al (2019b). Alterations in resting-state networks following in utero selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor exposure in the neonatal brain. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 4(1), 49-49

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S245190221830209X

#8 Lugo-Candelas, C., et al (2018). Associations between brain structure and connectivity in infants and exposure to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors during pregnancy. JAMA Pediatrics, 172(6), 525–533.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2676821

#9 Podrebarac, S. K., et al (2017). Antenatal exposure to antidepressants is associated with altered brain development in very preterm-born neonates. Neuroscience, 342, 252–262.

https://www.ibroneuroscience.org/article/S0306-4522(16)30646-7/abstract

#10 Jha, S. C., et al (2016). Antenatal depression, treatment with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, and neonatal brain structure: A propensity-matched cohort study. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 253, 43–53.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0925492716301585

#11 Salzwedel, A. P., et al (2016). Thalamocortical functional connectivity and behavioral disruptions in neonates with prenatal co***ne exposure. Neurotoxicology and Teratology, 56, 16–25.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S089203621630054X

#12 Knickmeyer, R. C., et al (2014). Rate of Chiari I malformation in children of mothers with depression with and without prenatal SSRI exposure. Neuropsychopharmacology, 39(11), 2611–2621.

https://www.nature.com/articles/npp2014114"

01/22/2026

Excellent article that also describes safe and gentle healing with homeopathy.

"It quickly became clear that vaccine injuries were pervasive in children and were disguised as many different illnesses and syndromes—allergies, asthma, hyperac­tivity, insomnia, diabetes, bowel and eating disorders, epilepsy, speech delays, sensory processing disorders, social anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), tics, autism and even death.

Something else that became appar­ent to us was that most vaccine injuries were delayed reactions, delayed on average by two to four months, an observation that has been confirmed from immunology."

By Anke Zimmerman