In Italy, there was a recent great uproar in the aftermath of the tragedy of a 3 day-old newborn, who died in Pertini Hospital in Rome while rooming in and sleeping right next to the mother, and was reported by the media as having suffocated. There is surmounting evidence in the literature highlighting how the human major life events of birth in health systems have regressed to “dehumanizing” childbirth practices [6,7]. This is aggravated by the budget cuts and dire shortage of healthcare workers, that has negatively impacted the effectiveness of healthcare services. The decline in healthcare systems is mainly reflected by the lack of adequate perinatal care due to the widespread elimination of most of the psychosocial and ethical achievements in perinatal care that had been developed and attained in the last decades. This very critical issue does matter as well to caregivers, and in particular researchers and clinicians. Hundreds of research works, papers and reports, as well as many European projects, could risk to appear quite useless if they do not result in voices heard by the whole society, starting from the scientific community, patient advocacy groups, policy makers, managers, and so on. As women, clinicians and mothers, we understand now more than ever the real lesson of the pandemic: a mandatory change in childbirth culture, spaces and practices.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-26DOI: 10.24946/ijpls/2023.07.03
Milica Ćirović, Dorotea Janić, L. Jeličić
Certain stimulations in the prenatal and early postnatal period may have irreversible effects on later stages of human cognitive and emotional maturity. The period between conception and birth, and the first thousand days of life are the critical periods for establishing the basic foundations for child development. Recent research showed that the fetal auditory cortex becomes mature in the third trimester of pregnancy, indicating functional fetal hearing in this period. On the other hand, there are research findings indicating to which extent prenatal and early postnatal stimulation may improve cognitive and sensory-motor development, prevent deprivation, and even epigenetic widen the limits of human perception. The paper discusses the role of prenatal auditory development in child development, and also highlighted the positive effects of prenatal and early postnatal stimulation in the improvement of child psychophysiological capacity. In that sense, the paper points to the importance of prenatal and postnatal stimulation which may lead to healthy fetal and child development.
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Bonding is more than a lifelong process. It is a process that begins long before conception. In a broader context, this process begins with the dawn of the cosmos itself. Bonding is the linking process that bridges the prenatal and postnatal stages and prepares the child to connect securely and meaningfully with the world and life on earth. This article highlights aspects of bonding in the pre-conception and conception periods, as well as in pregnancy and birth, so that connections can be made to pre-, gestational, then peri-, and postnatal growth. A list of bonding support issues accompanies the consideration of parent and child development within the psychocultural, spatial, and temporal environments so that taking responsibility for personal health and growth at different stages becomes possible. In summary, bonding is about strengthening the life-enhancing polarity over the life-diminishing polarity.
{"title":"Bonding Goes Back to the Dawn of Cosmos","authors":"O. Gouni","doi":"10.24946/ijpls/28.12.22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24946/ijpls/28.12.22","url":null,"abstract":"Bonding is more than a lifelong process. It is a process that begins long before conception. In a broader context, this process begins with the dawn of the cosmos itself. Bonding is the linking process that bridges the prenatal and postnatal stages and prepares the child to connect securely and meaningfully with the world and life on earth. This article highlights aspects of bonding in the pre-conception and conception periods, as well as in pregnancy and birth, so that connections can be made to pre-, gestational, then peri-, and postnatal growth. A list of bonding support issues accompanies the consideration of parent and child development within the psychocultural, spatial, and temporal environments so that taking responsibility for personal health and growth at different stages becomes possible. In summary, bonding is about strengthening the life-enhancing polarity over the life-diminishing polarity.","PeriodicalId":258780,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Prenatal and Life Sciences","volume":"1154 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123646750","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-11-25DOI: 10.24946/ijpls/20.22.00.00.251122
D. Raković
Bioenergycorrection as an ancient way of correcting vital energy flow is well known in many multi-millennial traditions, having withstood the test of time to this day, with some modern modifications. On the wave of the expansion of integrative medicine since the mid-1990s in China, the US and Europe, some bioenergycorrection techniques have been subjected to scientific research and have been included in the curricula of medical schools therein. We emphasize that numerous transpersonal phenomena associated with consciousness and psychosomatic bioenergycorrection are phenomenologically well documented, and that their physical explanation should be sought at the very border of the existing scientific paradigm. Within our quantum-holographic / quantum-gravitational (QHQG) theoretical framework of the acupuncture system, consciousness, and vital energy, they are of a deeper quantum-gravitational origin, with exotic aspects of spatio-temporal tunnels and vital energy extended to acupuncture channels (of exotic vacuum-like refractive index!) with transpersonal quantum-entangling inflow of vital energy. It should also be noted that the healing effects on the patient's acupuncture system / consciousness are often blocked by quantum-holographically encoded spiritual personal consent to the disease as a form of (self) punishment (as evidenced by the subjects' experiences in post-hypnotic regressions), when prayers and self-love for oneself and others are necessary with the aim of ending (self) punishment - thus performing spiritual integration of the personality, i.e. dis-entanglement of transpersonal energy blockages, which triggers the process of permanent healing. Such spiritual indeterministic interventions by introducing new vacuum excitations of vital energy in the otherwise deterministic quantum-holographic evolution of collective consciousness (similar to the spiritually-excited and mentally-channeled Ayurvedic, Qigong, Reiki and modern experiences of local and transpersonal healing, thus non-Schrodinger imposing necessary essentially new boundary conditions!) - can permanently remove as a net effect the whole mutual conflict between two people, which is also the greatest source of freedom in optimizing life programs through spiritual cleansing. This significantly contributes to our understanding that even the most severe psychosomatic disorders have their roots in energy-informational blockages, and that healing begins by removing them - first by loving oneself, accepting oneself and forgiving oneself, which is then manifested by loving others and accepting others (e.g. spiritually dis-entangling / unleashing repentant-forgiving prayer)!
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Pub Date : 2022-11-24DOI: 10.24946/ijpls/20.22.00.00.231122
Rebecca Calleja, J. Calleja-Agius
Foetal Alcohol Syndrome falls under the umbrella of Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders which are caused by prenatal alcohol exposure. Foetal Alcohol Syndrome is characterised by craniofacial abnormalities, central nervous system abnormalities and growth deficiencies. Alcohol consumption during pregnancy is teratogenic causing issues in multiple aspects of neurological development in the foetus. It is a vital preventable cause of mental disability in the West. The main craniofacial abnormalities that are present in Foetal Alcohol Syndrome include a thin vermillion border, short palpebral fissures, and a smooth philtrum. Alcohol exposure can also cause various epigenetic changes in the developing foetus. This alters gene expression resulting in various abnormalities in different organs and may also affect future behaviour. Prenatal alcohol exposure also affects brain morphology and biochemistry. Alcohol alters survival, migration, and function of various cells in the brain. It also alters the Gamma-Aminobutyric Acid system, a vital neurotransmitter system in the brain. Brain neovascularisation is also altered with consequences on brain perfusion. This literature review shall highlight various effects of alcohol on craniofacial development, epigenetics, glia, the gamma-aminobutyric system, neovascularisation, and cell death in the developing foetus.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-21DOI: 10.24946/ijpls/20.20.00.00.211122
Elizabeth Levin
During the 1970s and 1980s a neologism "herstory" was introduced in attempt to encourage historians to make historical studies more female-inclusive. Nowadays, more and more questions are raised about the role of family and parents in shaping the future generations. Therefore, it is within a tiny family unit that the roots of enmity and cruelty should be sought [1]. In our earthly existence there is no closer relationship than the ties within the "Mother-Father-Child" triad. Comparing the 11th century with our days, we will discover why the lessons of that period are important to us today. In historical texts, complicated times are often simplified and reduced by chroniclers to a single factor that, in their eyes, overshadows all the others. It pays special attention to the 800-year parallels between the corresponding epochs and the similarities between metaphors and images characteristic of these eras.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-15DOI: 10.24946/ijpls/20.20.00.00.150322
Emel Güden, Evangelia Philippaki, H. Çoker, Maria Andreoulaki, Nezihe Neşe Karabekir, Amara Renata Eckert, A. Cotiga, A. Benli
ABSTRACT Purpose: The development process of midwifery in Turkey, Germany and Greece, which are home to different history and culture, has also gone through different paths. But the expectation of pregnant women is universal, and traditional midwives have acted on these universal expectations. The aim of this study is to go down the history path and trace the evolutionary process which took midwifery from the traditional phase of being community members supporting the birthing women to modern midwifery education. The study refers to the three countries Turkey, Germany and Greece. Materials and Methods: A literature review was conducted on the traditional midwifery, midwifery history and development of midwifery education system of all three countries by the team of authors as part of an Erasmus + Project [2018-1-TR01-KA202-059488]. The information contained in books, scientific articles, internet library, historical archives and gray literature was included in the research. German, English, Greek and Turkish references are included in the scope of the review. The collected data were converted into a standard shape format and converted into text. The findings obtained from this study are also presented in the project result report (https://projectfirsttouch.blogspot.com) has been published. Findings: Traditional midwifery has been a transfer of knowledge and skills from mother to daughter. Along with rituals influenced by religion, mostly herbal incense, tea and oils have been used in all three countries as auxiliary methods of pregnancy and childbirth. The maternity chair is an auxiliary tool with traditional use in all three countries. There are very few studies in the literature on the scientific effects of traditional methods. Conclusion: As with traditional methods of treatment, there should be evidence-based methods to help childbirth, and there should be methods that will not endanger the health of the mother and baby. More work is needed on this issue.
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