“You are your brain.”
--Dick Swaab, Dir. of the Netherlands Institute for Brain Research
I like to say, "You are your PRENATAL brain."
...brain function and behavior are critically influenced, even permanently modified in major ways, by the environmental condition that exist during development. How we think, reason and see are not just inherited characteristics. Brain function, behavior, mood, IQ, and emotional stability are not solely a product of our genes.”
—Peter Nathanielsz, MD (OB), PhD (Vet) in “Life in the Womb:
It is scientific and logical that physiologically the structures begun at conception and completed by the end of the second month of gestation DO establish the biological, hormonal, emotional, and mental foundation for who we are to be our entire life. Every experience thereafter, whether in the womb, laboring and birthing, or life long is part of one long continuum of brain development.
From conception forward, the baby (brain and body) has developed in the maternal relationship and response to the environment. You are your prenatal brain. The human baby's experience and feelings of safety, love, support, worth, being wanted, etc are established prenatally through infancy. From before conception, in the sperm and the egg, we are fully living tissues of our parents and influenced on a cellular level by their lives.
Presumably our soul exists before conception and coming from God, the Creator, the Source, has a consciousness as it prepares to come into this live union. From conception and during gestation, and in labor and birth there is not one second of time that is not critical in building the baby's brain and body. Every system and brain is literally built according to mother's physiology and hormones, her nutrition, her toxins, her life experiences, and her perceptions of herself, the baby's father, and the world.
Birth is the human's first physical experience as the baby leaves the warm, safe womb to become a physiologically independent being. Continuing from and building upon the prenatal experiences and brain development, the labor and birth experience creates the emotional, physical, and psychological foundation for being in the world. It is a lens through which our brain experiences the world and will wire up our neocortex during childhood. From the last trimester through the first year of life, the Limbic system of the brain is "online" and developing our earliest perceptions and memories of love and fear, the two basic emotions.
This is preverbal memory, the precursor to the baby's language. The expressions of the early development don't "just show up" when a child learns to talk. By the day of labor and birth the newborn brain has a billion neurons present already wiring up the neocortex. It is logical and scientific then that babies remember birth. The experience of labor and birth is vitally important in the brain development of the human baby. Those billions of neurons, BUILT during the prenatal experience, will be the foundation of the neo-cortex, thinking brain for life, unless we repattern it. We do this at any time during infancy through adult years, by acknowledging the early experiences and providing new experience for the brain to rewire.
The Other Side of the Glass
The Other Side of the Glass - Buy the film
I am grateful for and overwhelmed (in a good way) with the response to the trailer and the requests to purchase the film.
The intro is short so that fathers and professional caregivers can get the overview of the information now. Fathers/Partners will be inspired about how to advocate for the mother and baby -- whether with a doctor or midwife, or at home or the hospital.
Thanks again for your support for the film. My heart soars with gratitude.
Janel Mirendah
The intro is short so that fathers and professional caregivers can get the overview of the information now. Fathers/Partners will be inspired about how to advocate for the mother and baby -- whether with a doctor or midwife, or at home or the hospital.
Thanks again for your support for the film. My heart soars with gratitude.
Janel Mirendah
Saturday, May 20, 2006
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Review of the film
Most of us were born surrounded by people who had no clue about how aware and feeling we were. This trailer triggers a lot of emotions for people if they have not considered the baby's needs and were not considered as a baby. Most of us born in the US were not. The final film will include detailed and profound information about the science-based, cutting-edge therapies for healing birth trauma.
The full film will have the interviews of a wider spectrum of professionals and fathers, and will include a third birth, at home, where the caregivers do a necessary intervention, suctioning, while being conscious of the baby.
The final version will feature OBs, RNs, CNMs, LM, CPM, Doulas, childbirth educators, pre and perinatal psychologists and trauma healing therapists, physiologists, neurologists, speech therapists and lots and lots of fathers -- will hopefully be done in early 2009.
The final version will include the science needed to advocated for delayed cord clamping, and the science that shows when a baby needs to be suctioned and addresses other interventions. Experts in conscious parenting will teach how to be present with a sentient newborn in a conscious, gentle way -- especially when administering life-saving techniques.
The goal is to keep the baby in the mother's arms so that the baby gets all of his or her placental blood and to avoid unnecessary, violating, and abusive touch and interactions. When we do that, whether at home or hospital, with doctor or midwife, the birth is safe for the father. The "trick" for birthing men and women is how to make it happen in the hospital.
The full film will have the interviews of a wider spectrum of professionals and fathers, and will include a third birth, at home, where the caregivers do a necessary intervention, suctioning, while being conscious of the baby.
The final version will feature OBs, RNs, CNMs, LM, CPM, Doulas, childbirth educators, pre and perinatal psychologists and trauma healing therapists, physiologists, neurologists, speech therapists and lots and lots of fathers -- will hopefully be done in early 2009.
The final version will include the science needed to advocated for delayed cord clamping, and the science that shows when a baby needs to be suctioned and addresses other interventions. Experts in conscious parenting will teach how to be present with a sentient newborn in a conscious, gentle way -- especially when administering life-saving techniques.
The goal is to keep the baby in the mother's arms so that the baby gets all of his or her placental blood and to avoid unnecessary, violating, and abusive touch and interactions. When we do that, whether at home or hospital, with doctor or midwife, the birth is safe for the father. The "trick" for birthing men and women is how to make it happen in the hospital.
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