pregnancy, and better perinatal outcome

[Guest guest]

ayurveda, Todd Caldecott <todd@t...>

wrote:

> just so i'm clear: are you saying that if the couple has sex during

> pregnancy that the baby will be a sex addict? are you quite sure?

> i believe that perhaps the greatest Ayurvedic physician of all

time,

> Jivaka Komarabaccha, physician to Lord Buddha, was a bastard infant

> abandoned by his prostitute mother in a dust heap

 

BTW, Karna, the warrior from Mahabharata story was also abandoned

child! These are extreme examples where mother is forced to behave in

unnatural ways due to traditions of society.

 

 

If we meditate on what were the reasonings of ancients in propogating

certain traditions, most of these confusions will be clear. Re-

examining those traditions in modern fast life has become necessary.

This will need very length discussions, better avoided on this forum,

where brevity is essential. Just one point needs to be mentioned.

While some countries grant a full term maternity leave, in India,

just three months permissible leave forces a working mother to take

leave only at end. Where is the time for "Garbh Sanskara"? Even if a

music CD is available, no time for it!

 

This author does not suggest that sex during pregnancy will give

birth to a sex addict, but if parents keep fighting with each other

during pregnancy term, birth of a short tempered child has been

observed so frequently; thus mother passing her hormonal status to

fetus appears certanity. The fetus smiles with mother and becomes

depressed when she is pensive. We already have examples of babies

going through withdrawl symptoms due to anti-depressants taken by

mother during pregnancy.

 

Emphasis on keeping the pregnant mom happy, less burdened with

household chores and have adequate mental peace must have been the

object of all ceremonies in Indian culture (5th month, 7th month

etc).

 

A recent study suggests that prospective mother should engage herself

in activity which utilises her glucose levels rather than dhatus:

Brief abstract follows, since many members may not have access to

online jounals.

 

Gestational hypoglycemia confers favorable obstetric outcome

Source: Obstetrics & Gynecology 2005; 105: 1424-8

 

Determining the perinatal significance of hypoglycemia during a 100 g

glucose tolerance test in pregnant women.

 

Pregnant women who experience hypoglycemia during a glucose tolerance

test have a lower rate of gestational diabetes and lower neonatal

birth weights than those with higher glucose levels, study results

show.

 

Amir Weissman and co-workers from Rambam Medical Center in Haifa,

Israel, assessed a total of 805 pregnant women, 51 of whom

experienced hypoglycemia while undergoing a 100 g oral glucose

tolerance test. The remaining women without hypoglycemia served as a

control group.

 

When the group examined perinatal outcomes for these women, they

found that women who experienced hypoglycemia had a significantly

lower rate of gestational diabetes mellitus, at 9.8 percent, compared

with 28.6 percent in the controls.

 

Additionally, the newborns of the study group were, on average, 100 g

lighter than the newborns of women who did not experience

hypoglycemia.

 

The researchers comment that "even though all were at high risk for

macrosomia, there was actually a lower incidence of this complication

in that group without an increase in the rate of small for

gestational age infants."

 

They also note a non-significant reduction in the rate of infants who

were large for their gestational age, as well as associated cesarean

deliveries.

 

"Based on our study, however, the patient can be reassured that such

a phenomenon is not unusual, is transitory, and carries a favorable

prognosis in terms of obstetric outcome," the team concludes.

 

http://www.obgynworld.com/international/news/2005/Week_25/Day_1/Gestat

ional_hypoglyc.asp

 

 

Dr Bhate