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Createspace Word Templates BIRTH TRAUMA AND THE DARK SIDE OF MODERN MEDICINE ii BIRTH TRAUMA AND THE DARK SIDE OF MODERN MEDICINE Photo by Marcin Okupniak Exposing Systematic Violence During Hospital Birth and the Hijacking of Human Love By Jeanice Barcelo, M.A. Copyright © 2014 by Jeanice Barcelo All rights reserved. This book may not be reproduced in whole or in part, or transmitted in any form, nor be stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or other, without written permission from the author, except in the case of brief quotations by a researcher or reviewer embodied in articles or reviews. For more information, please write to Jeanice Barcelo at [email protected] or visit www.BirthofaNewEarth.com. Cover and interior design by Jeanice Barcelo Cover Photo: Newborn under blue lamp Marcin Okupniak, Dreamstime.com, ID 5078713 Printed in the United States of America by CreateSpace, an Amazon.com company Library of Congress Catalogue Number: 2014959798 First ePrinting, PDF, November 2014 Paperback edition, March 2015 ISBN - ISBN-13: 978-1505211115 ii I LOVE YOU MOM Thank You For Giving Me Life iii iv For my daughter Anastasia And for my son Alex And for the three babies that died in my womb For all the children who have incarnated into my family Who now carry the lineage of prenatal and birth trauma That permeates our entire family line For all the children who have ever been born And for all the children who have yet to be born This book is written for you It is written so that the whole world will know What is at the root of human suffering And what has caused the interference In the maternal-child bond And the breakdown of human love worldwide I pray that all my family members someday read this book And that all of your family members read it too So that all pristine humans Can break free from the technocratic spell And successfully give birth in love v vi __________________ Contents __________________ Opening Poem ............................................................... xi Forward ........................................................................ xv Introduction ................................................................... 1 Overview ........................................................................ 5 Birth Rape .............................................................. 5-13 Father Trauma ...................................................... 13-14 Postpartum Depression/Post-Traumatic Stress .......... 14-15 Maternal and Infant Mortality .................................. 15-16 Drug Use in Labor and Drug Addiction Later .............. 16-18 Induction ........................................................ 18, 22-29 Newborn Hats ............................................................ 19 Antibiotic Eye Ointment ............................................... 19 Swaddling ............................................................. 19-20 Epidural ..................................................................... 24 Cascade of Interventions ........................................ 26-28 Cytotec ................................................................ 29-33 Pitocin and ‘Pit to Distress’ ...................................... 34-40 C-Section .................................................. 40-47, 52-59 J. Marion Sims, The Father of Gynecology ...................... 45 Surgery without Anesthesia ......................... 45-54, 76-77 Twilight Sleep ............................................................ 48 Molestation of Anesthetized Women ......................... 48-52 Neonatal Intensive Care ......................................... 59-75 Umbilical Trauma ................................................... 65-70 vii Oxygen Deprivation Experiments on Preemies .......... 70-74 Babies Don’t Feel Pain ................................. 75, 116, 179 Medical Procedures Linked to Autism ............................ 75 Medical Kidnap ...................................................... 76-77 The AIDS Hoax ..................................................... 77-80 Caduceus and Pharmaceutical Sorcery ..................... 80-82 Circumcision – The Mark of the Beast .................... 85-163 Circumcision without Anesthesia ............................. 85-88 Circumcision and “HIV” ............................................... 88 Jewish Influence ............................................... 89-163 Circumfetish ......................................................... 92-93 Breaking the Mother/Child Bond .............................. 94-96 Nurse’s Testimony .............................................. 96-102 Surgical Mutilation and Social Control ................... 102-103 The Attack on Human Love ................................. 104-113 Missing Male Pheromones ................................... 107-112 Lifelong Effects ................................................. 113-118 The Autism Link ................................................. 118-119 The Master Plan ................................................. 132-140 Sexual Perversion and Pedophilia ......................... 144-163 Pornography ...................................................... 151-163 The Sexualization of Children ............................... 157-163 Common Core .................................................... 157-163 Summation .......................................................... 165-168 Home Birth Safer than Hospital Birth .................... 165-167 Jeanice’s Story ............................................................ 173 Stillbirth of Anastasia ................................................ 173 Haphazard Conception ........................................ 175-178 Discovery Shock ...................................................... 176 viii Traumatic Hospital Birth ..................................... 179-180 Mind control of Medical Students ......................... 181-190 Infertility Treatments ......................................... 190-194 Abortion ........................................................... 196-198 Aborted Babies and Satanic Science ..................... 197-199 Artificial Reproductive Technologies ..................... 190-200 Post-Mortem Sperm Retrieval .............................. 198-200 Abortion and Post-Traumatic Stress ..................... 202-203 PTSD and Premature Birth .................................. 202-203 Organ Donation, “Brain Death,” and Medical Murder ..... 206 Anastasia’s Birth and NICU Experience ................. 207-208 Traumatic Repetition ................................... 201, 208-230 Maui and the Healing of Birth Trauma .................. 210-218 Implantation Shock ............................................ 214-215 Toxic Womb Shock ............................................ 215-217 Annihilation Ideation ................................................. 218 Circumcision and Parasympathetic Shock.............. 219-221 Haunted Womb Shock ............................................... 222 Epidural ............................................................ 225-226 Tools for Healing Birth Trauma ............................ 230-231 The Remedy ....................................... 232-234, 308-321 Appendix A – The Dark Side of the CDC ...................... 237 Endnotes .................................................................... 247 Birth of a New Earth Curriculum ................................. 301 Men’s Program ........................................................... 309 Preparatory School ..................................................... 313 Poetry about Hawaii ................................................... 317 About the Author ........................................................ 327 Index ......................................................................... 331 ix x GATEWAY By Jeanice Barcelo I’m standing today at the gateway Between what was and what is to come Prepared to embrace my future Yet remembering where I come from Integration is happening inside me All my pieces are coming together Parts of me that were hiding in darkness Have come into the light now forever The road has been long and treacherous So many memories I kept from myself Wounded imprints from trauma in childhood Hidden poisons left rotting on the shelf The courage it has taken is enormous To lift the lid on the secret and unseen To understand what has locked me in misery To release it and finally feel clean Generations of wounded have come before me Passing their darkness onto their young Unwilling to examine their shadows Burying their heads and biting their tongues Their silence and denial offends me How dare they perpetuate their pain Why haven’t they owned up to their darkness? Instead of creating more and more of the same As a teenager I decided I had had it That I would NOT pass on the disease That I’d rather stay childless and single Until at last I had found the right keys To unlocking the doorway to divinity Putting an end to the lineage of abuse Saying NO to the lies of my elders And then finally untangling the noose xi The core of our pain starts in childbirth And gestation filled with loathing and fear Our own mothers handing over their power Taking drugs, smoking cigarettes, drinking beer And then birthing their babies in violence C-sections, inductions, and more Epidurals, anesthetic, and pain killers Separation that cuts right to the core Ridiculous attempts to create numbness To deny our culture of hate Birthing babies asleep
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