Issue 36 - Winter 2012 - Article Resources

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR | Jeanne Ohm, DC
CONSCIOUS PATH | Healing Our Cultural Disconnect
FEATURE | Pre- and Perinatal Experiences for Health and Healing
PREGNANCY | Mind the Gap
BIRTH | Six Signs You Should Dump Your Prenatal Caregiver
INFORMED CHOICE | The Vaccine Safety Double Standard
THE OUTER WOMB | The Gut, Microbes and Poop
HOLISTIC HEALTHCARE | Shifting the Paradigm
NUTRITION | Nourishing the Terrain
GRATITUDE | Rejecting a Pre-Packaged Life
GREENER PERSPECTIVES | Elevate Your Harvest
PARENTING | Attention-Seeking Is a Big Fat Lie
TOUCH THE FUTURE | Does an Oracle Have All the Answers?
FAMILY LIVING | Painting Wet on Wet
MIND-BODY-SPIRIT | The Power of Color
COMMUNITY | “We just need to build more.” Ethiopia’s Beleaguered Orphanages
MIND–BODY–SPIRIT | Spiritual Stewardship and Planetary Health
NEW EDGE SCIENCE | Why Consciousness Is Not the Brain
WELLNESS LIFESTYLE | Peeling the Wellness Onion
A MOMENT OF TRUTH | You Say You Want a Resolution

Letter from the Editor

Jeanne Ohm, D.C.

Editorials

Healing Our Cultural Disconnect

Lisa Reagan

Cultural Creatives: www.culturalcreatives.org
Group Works: www.groupworksdeck.org
Group Works Card Deck: www.groupworksdeck.org/deck
Group Works Card Deck Activity Page: www.groupworksdeck.org/activities
The Art of Community: www.artofcmty.com

Pre- and Perinatal Experiences for Health and Healing

Kate White MA, LMT and Myrna Martin MN, RCC, RCST

Association for Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health: www.birthpsychology.com
Martin, Myrna: www.myrnamartin.net
Pre and Perinatal Insights with Myrna Martin, Part 1 of 4: www.youtube.com/watch?v=R26UdcFqZ4g
Pre and Perinatal Insights with Myrna Martin, Part 2 of 4: www.youtube.com/watch?v=71tw2cJuk7o
White, Kate: www.belvederearts.com

Mind the Gap

Kelly Winder

“9 Reasons Why You Should Choose Independent Birth Education,” www.bellybelly.com.au/pregnancy/independent-birth-education
“Caesarean Myths Exploded,” www.bellybelly.com.au/birth/caesarean-myths-exploded
CAPPA, Childbirth and Postpartum Professional Association: www.icappa.net
Coalition for Improving Maternity Services: www.motherfriendly.org
Easier Childbirth with Fetal Positioning: www.spinningbabies.com
Flamm, B.L. and J.R. Goings, “Vaginal Birth after Caesarean Section: Is Suspected Fetal Macrosomia (large for dates baby) a Contra-indication.”
Impey, L. and C. O’Herlihy, “First Delivery after Caesarean Delivery for Strictly Defined Cephalopelvic Disproportion,” Obstet Gynecol 92 (1998):799-803.
Ina May Gaskin on the Human Impact of Hi-Tech Birth: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GVYjcr4wrg
International Cesarean Awareness Network: www.ican-online.org
International Childbirth Education Association: www.icea.org
Jongen, VHWM, et al., “Vaginal Delivery after Previous Caesarean Section for Failure of the Second Stage of Labour,” BJOG 105 (1998):1079-81.
Maternity Coalition: www.maternitycoalition.org.au
Midwives Alliance of North America (MANA): www.mana.org
Optimal Fetal Positioning – Helping Your Baby Find a Good Position for Birth: www.bellybelly.com.au/pregnancy/optimal-fetal-positioning
Phelan, et al., “Vaginal Birth after Cesarean,” AMJOG 157 (1987):1510-5.
The Unnecesarean: www.theunnecesarean.com
VBAC.com: www.vbac.com
WeBirth Cesarean Statistics for Your Local Hospital: www.ourrealvillage.com/cesareanlocal

Six Signs You Should Dump Your Prenatal Caregiver

Cynthia Overgard, MBA, HBCE

CAPPA, Childbirth and Postpartum Professional Association: www.cappa.net
Doulas of North America, DONA: www.dona.org
HypnoBirthing of Connecticut: www.hypnobirthingct.com
Midwives Alliance of North America, MANA: www.mana.org
National Association of Certified Professional Midwives: www.nacpm.org
North American Registry of Midwives: www.narm.org
WeBirth Cesarean Statistics for Your Local Hospital: www.ourrealvillage.com/cesareanlocal

The Vaccine Safety Double Standard

Rev. Lisa K. Sykes, M.Div

Center for Personal Rights: www.centerforpersonalrights.org
Eli Lilly and Company, Thimerosal Material Safety Data Sheet: www.vaccine-tlc.org/docs/Thimerosal%20Material%20Safety%20Data%20Sheet.pdf
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Geier, D.A., Jordan, S.K., M.R. Geier, “The Relative Toxicity of Compounds Used as Preservatives in Vaccines and Biologics,” Med Sci Monit 16 (2010):SR21-7.
Geier, D.A., Sykes, L.K., and M.R. Geier, “A Review of Thimerosal (Merthiolate) and its Ethylmercury Breakdown Product: Specific Historical Considerations Regarding Safety and Effectiveness,” J Toxicol Environ Health B Crit Rev 10 (2007):575-96.
Geier, M.R., and D.A. Geier, “Thimerosal in Childhood Vaccines, Neurodevelopment Disorders, and Heart Disease in the United States,” J Am Phys Surg 8 (2003):6-11.
Health Care Without Harm: www.noharm.org
Ida-Eto, M., Oyabu, A., Ohkawara, T., Tashiro, Y., Narita, N., and M. Narita, “Prenatal Exposure to Organomercury, Thimerosal, Persistently Impairs the Serotonergic and Dopaminergic Systems in the Rat Brain: Implications for Association with Developmental Disorders,” Brain Dev May 31 (2012). [Epub ahead of print].
National Vaccine Information Center: www.nvic.org
National Vaccine Information Center, Informed Consent: www.nvic.org/informed-consent.aspx
“Prevalence of autism spectrum disorders--Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network, 14 sites, United States, 2008,” Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network Surveillance Year 2008, Principal Investigators; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. MMWR Surveill Summ 61 (2012):1-19, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22456193
Safeminds: www.safeminds.org
SCIRUS: For Scientific Information Only: Prenatal exposure to organomercury: www.tinyurl.com/d2lfxrv
The Coalition for Mercury-free Drugs, CoMeD: www.mercury-freedrugs.org
The Refusers: www.therefusers.com
The Vaccine Ingredient Calculator: www.vaccine-tlc.org
ThinkTwice Global Vaccine Institute: www.thinktwice.com
U.S. Food & Drug Administration, Mercury in Drugs and Biologic Products Listing: www.tinyurl.com/fdamercury
U.S. Department of Labor, Hazard Communication: www.osha.gov/dsg/hazcom/index.html

The Gut, Microbes, and Poop

Jennifer Tow, IBCLC

"New Science Shows that Infants are Born with Gut Bacteria-- How do you make it Healthy?" www.renegadehealth.com/blog/2012/05/04/new-science-shows-infants-are-born-with-gut-bacteria

Shifting the Paradigm

Jeanne Ohm, D.C.

DiMartino, Eric, D.C.: www.dimartinochiropractic.com
Dorland. Anderson, Douglas, Ed. Dorland’s Illustrated Medical Dictionary, 30th Edition. Saunders/Elsevier: 2003.
Healing Cancer: www.healingcancer.info
Jeanne Ohm, D.C. on Chiropractic and Family Wellness: www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2msxFCCRnY
Jeanne Ohm, D.C., Executive Editor and Publisher: www.pathwaystofamilywellness.org/item/jeanne-ohm-dc.html
New Healthy Ideas: www.newhealthyideas.wordpress.com
The International Wellness Directory: www.mnweldir.org
The NIH Common Fund, Human Microbiome Project: www.commonfund.nih.gov/hmp
Vaccination Liberation: www.vaclib.org