For those who would like to prepare for water homebirth or ocean birth with us
Proper preparation is a key for a gentle and an unrestricted birth.
Most of us were born in hospitals. That is how our natural birth matrix is affected. The first feelings of a pregnant woman and her baby to be born are uncertainty and fear. Hospitals are associated with drugs, surgical tools, injections, cutting and suture. The most pernicious are injuries of feminine reproductive organs and elimination of connection between mother and baby. All these can cause prolonged labour and obstruct the most natural process in a woman’s life – giving birth to a new person, motherhood.
Medicines used during a delivery violate hormone balance and destroy the natural process of childbirth. These are affected in a negative way: preliminary period, birth pangs, and labor, giving baby the breast, the soft spontaneous birth of the placenta in unison with baby’s sucking the breast and the waking up of all the reflexes due to the activation of baby’s musculoskeletal system.
A baby has a natural ability to defecate and urinate. What’s unnatural is for a baby is to wet or soil the bed. An infant squatting in the parent’s hands develops his or her natural sexuality as muscles to be used in the future for lovemaking and procreation, are activated during defecation and urination in this position. A prone position doesn’t make the muscles work properly which later can cause frigidity and sexual weakness. Hospitals care neither about baby’s well-being from this point of view nor about mother’s sexual health. That is why women have to deliver babies in the most unnatural prone position. And babies have to wear diapers from the first day of life outside mother’s womb.
The tradition of swaddling babies is deeply rooted in the slaveholding system. A swaddled baby can’t move the legs or the hands. The idea was to train slaves from the cradle making them totally obedient and accustomed to no-freedom. Mothers were considered to be just a part of the work force; their children were raised to be slaves as well. Slaveholders didn’t care about love and sexual culture among slaves. Our family trees can still be affected and we should redress the errors.
Stimulation made to a woman delivering a daughter is imprinted not only in the girl’s subconcious but also in her body cells, as the womb has a retentive memory. When giving birth to her baby that daughter will need stimulation as well; without stimulation the process will be too passive. As a rule a girl born via cesarean operation is most likely to repeat her mother’s experience. In such case a midwife gets a mission next to impossible. For several hours or days she must “sanitize” the woman’s background to clean out all negative imprints and fears inherited from great-grand-mothers or imposed by parents, society, doctors, astrologers, healers and mass media. To accomplish this a midwife has to be a wizard, a shaman and a clairvoyant.
Having all these talents Igor Borisovich Charkovsky created the Russian Method of waterbirth. Together with us, his followers and disciples, Charkovsky introduced a holistic approach to birth preparation, obstetrics and the postnatal period of life which offers better opportunities for babies to integrate into the world and develop their God-given talents. The parents of such Indigo-children are encouraged to brighten their lives by practicing sports, Yoga, Chi Kung, meditation, swimming, winter swimming, studying traditions of ancestors and modern culture, praying, painting and playing music, strengthening will and spirit.
The Russian Method has many opponents who don’t believe in the availability of a free and gentle birth into the world; especially they discredit the concept of waterbirth. People, intolerant to the alternative idea of child-delivery exceeding the hospital limits, most often argue: “Do you mean to say that I’m a bad person because of I was born in an ordinary hospital?”
The answer is that there is no standard to compare with. All of us who were born in a hospital from the start of life here on the Earth suffer some damage and received limited possibilities to use our natural creativity.
Immediately after birth we lie under bright surgery lamps on the hospital table, later we were moved to the scales; often we had our air passages suctioned by a rubber contraption in the nose and throat. Our disinfected eyes couldn’t see. Our lungs were hurt by harsh inhalations. Without our mother, without her milk and kindness we were unable to integrate into the world. We cried only for help. There’s nothing of victory in that cry. Our mucous membrane is inhabited not by mother’s friendly bacteria, but by hostile hospital flora. Early umbilical cord cutting evicted us from our home and our transcendental information field. Later we were laid down on our back in a slave’s position. All of this destroys our immunity, inhibits reflexes and blocks the normal comprehension of life. Here’s a new ready-made client for the public health service!
Why must our children have to go through this?
They can be born at home into a warm bath or swimming-pool hearing the music of Vivaldi or the Optina Pustin’ choir. Some would prefer the Beatles or Pink Floyd. (tastes differ); it doesn’t matter!
Father is responsible for the music and photography, as well as for kisses and hugs.
The midwife is drawing and singing. Sometimes she may cook pancakes or make tea – whatever is necessary to support the cheerful mood of the would-be parents.
Taking turns with Father we give Mother a massage. If labor is prolonged we sleep in turn. But then we rejoice all together and bathe the baby. The first birth day we celebrate with Champagne or with tea and cakes. There are no limits for strawberries or pancakes with red caviar. There can be no predisposition to disease if babies are born in the wonderful snow-white lubricant called vernix , and if they have had plenty of Mother’s colostrum (the first breast “milk”) from the first seconds of life, if the umbilical cord was not cut before its time.
We follow the rules of Lotus Birth. The initial ritual of urine therapy includes washing the face and umbilical cord with baby’s first urine. We have a special basin to be used as a toilet bowl big enough for baby not to miss the target.
The little one stays naked. The infant does not feel cold because of moving and bathing all the time. Our baby lies on the stomach to develop creeping skills even while sleeping.
At nighttime the newly enriched family sleeps together covered by a light blanket. The bodies warm each other –they feel no cold. Father embraces Mother and their baby. There’s no place for jealousy. There is only love.
A woman delivers a child according to how she makes love! It’s a secret of midwifes. That is why sexual relations are not prohibited neither within pregnancy, nor after birth. Lovemaking helps to preserve the feminine reproductive organs from injury during the process of birth and after it.
Such secrets as well as many others are included in our program of birth preparation.
It is also possible to deliver in the sea. It’s for those who feel at home in the sea, who are not afraid of cold water and wind, who practice winter swimming and can walk barefoot in the snow. It’s for those who can communicate with dolphins and whales, for those who are thankful to their parents for everything and especially for the life in this delightful world full of wonders, who read a lot of books about pregnancy, natural birth, healthy living and often return to childhood.
Sometimes birth in the sea happens at night with millions of shining stars and the Moon as a guide. The sea is singing songs of the ancient civilizations. And the wizards of these cultures reveal secrets of life on our planet.
Afterwards we grow up under the Sun, sharing, giving, and being happy. And most important – go on loving!
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