Forceps delivery supports

[Guest guest]

Dear Sonya;

Certainly there are both physical and emotional traumas involved. You

haven't shared if there are any manifest symptoms in the baby's

expressions? Is there much structural molding that shows? The

craniosaccral will be wonderful if she can also get that help. But

given my choices here, I would use a combination of (organic no

solvents in distilling either of course) oils probably frankincense

and the blend called Trauma Life, it is exquisitely gentle to physical

and emotional body and offering special trauma healing support. The

blend contains first frankincense! then sandalwood, valerian,

lavender, davana, spruce, geranium, helichrysum and rose.

Alternatively frankincense and geranium, or just geranium would be

helpful. The oils in the Gentle Baby blend, along with Frankincense,

would also be a very gentle deeper bonding enhancing choice, with a

number of very healing and skin-kind sweet florals in it.

 

Dr. Young applied and massaged frankincense all over his newborn's

head right after birth to help release the birth canal delay pressures

which otherwise so easily sets into cranial how do you describe it,

Janel, tightnesses and constrictions and perhaps emotional

conditioning. Forceps of course have to be a very intense experience

for Babies.

 

I like to talk from the heart about it with Baby, and put oil choices

under the their nose and see reaction. They then help to choose the

very best options. Fortunate little one to have you there!

 

So for the infant massage, I would be blending oils if it were my

baby, at least 1/4 part essential oils and 3/4 sesame oil the first

few times or however long I felt it was needed in terms of days,

weeks, etc, when working the head with those delicious loving circular

motions, offering the smell and talking with Baby about it before

beginning and during. I would also sometimes use the polarity therapy

neck points where all 5 tattwas cross at base of skull in back, just

lovingly holding for a while, supporting and feeling them, from behind

while baby is lying down.

 

Of course for this post I have to again give big disclaimer, DO NOT

USE IMPURE OILS ON BABIES, they are packed with petrochemical

pollutants, more than say any foods or vegetable/massage oils. A

bottle which says " 100% natural " can legally be 10% only essential

oil, and that oil can be synthetic even.

 

The Gentle Baby blend (or others) you have can be used in addition on

the feet, over heart chakra/chest, etc. If you can access the

frankincense or other oil/s will be good. Apply one on feet, then

head. I would start with a drop of the Valor blend holding the soles

for pulses first, so Baby will accept more into the emotional body the

higher vibration one/s as suggested combinations at top).

 

My Essential OIls Desk REference from www.essentialscience.net says,

under Trauma, ... " Essential oils, through their ability to tap the

emotional and memory center of the brain, may facilitate the

processessing and release of emotional trauma ina way that minimizes

psychological turmoil. Blends rec are Trauma Life, Hope, Forgiveness,

Release, ... and Valor. "

 

Supplements recommended therein (attend to the mother this way),

include antioxidants like vitamin C or amalaki and/or chinese

wolfberry/lycii; and Omega 3 essential fatty acids (flax oil...)

Expect also the use by mother of herbs such as jatamamsi, possibly

tagara (valerian) if sleep problems are manifest, ashwaghanda, brahmi,

and bala, balanced for her doshas and the baby's, would be very

valuable if she will use them. The mother's prenatal vitamin would

include good B vitamin support.

 

All the eoil blends above are safe for use with the baby, diluted a

little, on feet, back, head, but take care not to get on little hands

which go to eyes and mouth and might irritate temporarily. Remember

to use massage oil NOT water to wipe any accidental irritation like

this!!!. Blends are preferred in this case because they carry such a

well designed and broad spectrum array of influences, helping address

the individual need and balancing each other similarly to the reason

we nearly always use herbs in combination in ayurveda)

Did you receive the updated class notes on perinatal uses of essential

oils? There is much there about appropriate and safe use with babies.

 

Love,

Ysha

 

> I am working with a mom whose baby was pulled out with forceps.

Would you recommend using any e-oils for the baby like Gentle Baby?

How would I use it in this case?

> Sonya

[Guest guest]

I like to ask an adult to imagine that anything they would need or

feel is what a baby needs -- even more so. So, if we were stuck and

someone put metal clamps on our head and pulled us out, what would

we want? Our sculls are all bone and calcified. A baby's head is

soft, vulnerable and the forceps are often the " first touch " (cold,

metal, pain, invasion) when our first touch should be the mother or

father's touch. Even a gentle midwife is a stranger. The other end

of the spectrum is hard, cold, compressive forces so hard that it

pulls the baby through bone-to-bone stuck spots.

 

A doctor inserts rather thick metal blades into the space that is

already too small -- so it is the baby's scull that " gives " , not the

mother's pelvis. This creates a break in their relationship. The

forceps are often inserted blindly -- very vulnerable parts of the

scull are articulated and squeezed. The pressue on the head stays in

the head --- children who bang their heads are often trying to

relieve the pressure. Almost always, in addition the neck and

shoulders are also compromised as the baby is pulled. The spinal

cord system is distorted. My life long hip pain was associated with

my forceps birth.

 

For baby, child, or adult, I can see how the essential oils can

assist with the emotional aspects, but not with the structural

issues. The best therapy will include emotional and phsycial healing.

 

When forceps, vacuum extraction, or pulling by hands (almost every

birth in this country) are used the psychological dynamic is that

an " outside force " has disrupted the physiologicl impulse and

biological need of the human to move from the womb to the world --

in relationship with the mother. This experience is imprinted on the

brain -- the brain at birth is already wiring up circuits based on

the experience and perception of the environmental experience. A

baby does not have command of the native tongue yet, but the

experience is there in the brain. Witnessing, as discussed before

and I never got to answer you yet, is about acknowledgeing these

experiences that may not have words. When we are just unable to

verbalize the experience, the fear, the feeling, it is a preverbal

experience. We are drawn to healing and often children and adults

will contiously experience bumps to the head -- attempts to relieve

the pressure.

 

Forceps -- and forcible, intrusive, engagement by caregivers creates

a dynamic of having one's boundary and process of completing birth

violated. This creates behaviors of looking for/creating difficult

situations, resisting help and support even when needed, all WHILE

resenting the assistant. Babies with forceps delivery are in pain --

often severe. Sometimes there are bleeds into the subarachnoid space

in the brain. Babies are in bright lights, it is noisy, and they

disassociate to get through it. They are in pain. Disassociation and

checking out are coping mechanisms. THroughout life, people with

forceps delivery will look for resistance in their life )my

colleagues website, www.pnri.net explains this) and appear

resistant, stubborn, driven, " play power games " which are really

just the behaviors of manifestation of looking for that outside

force -- while also resisting it. The drive is " to do it myself " but

can't. Children and adults are very disposed to being in abusive or

risky situations.

 

William Emerson, PhD, pioneer in the pre and perinatal psychology

and trauma healing field, www.emersonbirthrx.com has videos and

written materials about the psychological dynamics if forceps,

cord, and csection. The compressive forces are held in the brain.

Castellino, a chiropractor and student of Emerson, and co-developer

of his prenatal and birth trauma healing has seen migraine headaches

almost always have to do with forceps or other compressive force

during birth. We have very specific ways of supporting the person

releasing the trauma from the severe compression from forceps at any

age -- while experiencing what they missed in the relationship with

the mother.

 

One of the concerns I have in most mainstream therapies -- phsyical,

chiropractic, craniosacral, and medical is the practitioner's lack

of acknowledging the baby's experience, asking permission to touch,

and following the baby's lead, etc. If as an adult we were to

experience anything near what the birthing baby does, we would want

to talk and talk and talk about the experience and how it still

hurts. We would want someone to " get it " . Talk alone doesn't help

one to overcome most things -- we need the physical touch and the

expresssion from the body. This is critical for the person born with

forceps. A baby needs someone to witness what they experienced --

optimally, it is the mother and father. When the mother gets how the

experience was for the baby, the child doesn't have to spend his or

her life acting it out preverbally, and unconcsiously (because no

one validated it).

 

The essential oils are very important part of supporting the deep,

deep emotions of baby, mother, and father.

 

Thanks for the oppportunity to share more of my work.

 

Janel

 

 

 

ayurveda , " Ysha Oakes "

<AyurDoulas wrote:

>

> Dear Sonya;

> Certainly there are both physical and emotional traumas involved.

You

> haven't shared if there are any manifest symptoms in the baby's

> expressions? Is there much structural molding that shows? The

> craniosaccral will be wonderful if she can also get that help. But

> given my choices here, I would use a combination of (organic no

> solvents in distilling either of course) oils probably frankincense

> and the blend called Trauma Life, it is exquisitely gentle to

physical

> and emotional body and offering special trauma healing support.

[Guest guest]

Janel, my son was born via forceps. His, like most babies I have seen, were

attached to his cheekbones, probably because his head was tipped backwards

instead of chin down, if it were down he would come out, but when the head is

tilted back they are often stuck. So I wonder if this is why he has sinus

infections all the time. Vicky

 

 

[Guest guest]

Dear JAnel;

This information is SO valuable. A big, " Of course " , it makes perfect

sense.

 

BTW, therapeutic quality essential oils (hmm, some say they are on the

bottle and are not) have much more than emotional effects. Powerfully

anti-cancer, used now in surgery protocols without any allopathics (to

be published next year), but these are not relative to this issue.

Pain, bone, connective tissue, nerve damage, and auric field

protection are among others.

 

Frankincense is so long used in incense and churches for a reason,

it's ability to support against negative thought forms allowing more

receptivity to healing direction and impulses, among many other

properties, quite an issue when the auric field has been damaged by

trauma. I had the blessing of working for some time with an intuituve

healer/reader, who had invited me to use my oils in the sessions with

him. His reason - it probably multiplied effectiveness of the

sessions by 3 or 4 times.

 

Clearly it is most important to use what wisdom and tools we can in

this direction! Your followup post expresses also so deeply the heart

and communication factors important with babies, their parents, and

other support people. We need more therapists like you as well as

AyurDoulas on the planet!

 

Warm REgards!

Ysha

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> I like to ask an adult to imagine that anything they would need or