Baby Business: How the Practices of OBGYN Function as Dark Magic | Vital Roots 014

When I take a moment to peer into the popular culture around medicalized fertility & birth, I’m often left in a strong state of shock. Of course, in ways, emergency care is better than ever… but I’m not here for the chat about emergency and rare situations today. Yes, I’m grateful for the options that save woman and baby when life is truly threatened. My message is to state that there are more options, it is not only one or the other. Emergency measures are last efforts at saving lives when there were countless opportunities for preventative care. Preventative care has to be the model, though, and it is not. I’m unimpressed with the funnel-like structure that positions the entire unfolding of human Life as an assembly line business with unanimous, universal ‘care’ and treatment protocols.

I’ve been stewing in all of this for a long time now, and I finally have the clarity to write it down.

It’s time for me to question what has been normalized as the practice of obstetrics, gynecology, the fertility industry, and all the treatments that are deemed ‘safe’ and offered to women on a dizzying scale every single day. These offers are routinely positioned as the only hope, the best option, or completely normal – the presumptive next step in the process. Reminder: we’re talking about creating life here, a miraculous, mysterious dance between biology and the unseen forces of this realm. We’re talking about a woman’s unique quality of a reproductive cycle that is an unavoidable fact of female biology.

If this isn’t held as the utmost sacred, nothing else could be. For the record, I’m not a nihilist and rebuke it relentlessly. Life obviously has purpose: life begets life which adds to the complexity, beauty, and incomprehensible riddle that is this realm. For all we could reasonably actually know, it never began and it never ends. But maybe it did and maybe it does. The origins and fate of life will never be defined or known, it is impossible to prove such things from our vantage point. You’ve been sold dream-like speculation as Truth and consensus as fact. To act like you know is the same therapy as a child who clings to their blankie.

There is mystery out there but Science™ wants you to think it’s all been figured out already. When something’s figured out for you, you stop activating your curious essence. You forego asking further questions about the perplexing, unending, enigma that is existence itself. For if you were to question, you might just find something that wasn’t accounted for and that would be very, very threatening to the idea of a status quo.

My work revolves around supporting the physiological circumstances and outcomes that are possible when pregnancy is cared for through a holistic approach. If you remove all of the clutter, the rhetoric of fear and subservience to a white coat, and input nourishing, physiology aligned, supportive, and specified care, women tend to have manageable pregnancy and birth experiences. Let’s highlight that word specific for later.

As a result of my own journey trying to make a baby, I’ve been researching the standard of care provided by mainstream obstetrics, as well as the treatment approaches on offer for women (couples) with fertility challenges; I can tell you verbatim that the state of women’s care is overwhelmingly abysmal in this current, standardized allopathic OBGYN system where one path is near unanimously offered to all.

People are put through the funnel and that funnel these days leads you to the dark world of in vitro fertilization (petri dishes), artificial insemination, sperm / egg donors, hormone therapy, surrogacy, abortion shrouded by the illusion of choice, and commodification of the constituents of life itself. When the egg, sperm, and womb become that which can be bought and sold, we’ve achieved mass immolation powered by delusion. I think the plot has been lost.

The industry of obstetrics and gynecology is a deranged artifact of the Rockefeller medicine takeover of the early 20^th century. Specific practices, surgeries, treatments, and ideological approaches came through a group of psychopathic individuals who saw female physiology as too wild, a beast of sorts that needed controlling, sedation, and above all, fragmentation.

My perspective, based on the evidence that is a woman’s body and being, is that the less a woman ‘does’ to prod, poke, and test during her fertile years, the more her birth outcomes can be encouraged towards a variation of typical. Smooth birth is the result of full trust in one’s own physiological nature, strong intuition, initiatory expectations, education, attention to reality over wishful thinking, appropriate preparations, and proper nourishment and care throughout pregnancy. There is much more that can be added to the list that does not include constant tests and exams.

Many things can be resolved at all stages in the pregnancy and/or birth process to mitigate an emergency complication. What I’m getting at is the idea that to function with a narrow mind, skill set, treatment funnel, or political allegiance for job security ultimately leaves the unique woman without specific care and jeopardizes the amazing outcomes that could otherwise be hers if she was treated as sacred. The necessity of this treatment starts way back before a young girl even begins to bleed.

This requires a cultural overhaul and a revival, repair, restoration of all that the art of medicine can be. What would medicine look like if the institutions that train the good-willed desiring doctors honored a fundamental principal to develop practices that are Life-perpetuating above all else? An entire industry of health predicated on service to other and never service to the funding pipeline? Call me visionary but the silver lining here is that there are already many people dedicated to this philosophy working diligently to replace the current paradigm as it inevitably self-destructs under the weight of a humanity that just keeps getting sicker. My vision is not a mirage.

Let’s peak behind the doors at the OBGYN clinic.

First, I want to outline a bit of the routine schedule of ‘care’ that is pushed through obstetrics and the allopathic system of the birth business.

A lot of women don’t know the following and simply walk blindly into the office, gladly accepting anything and everything that is recommended to them… often the result is some form of traumatic experience, whether in pregnancy or birth; an experience that could be avoided without all of the unexpected, cascading interventions.

Standard ‘schedule of care’:

8-12 weeks: initial prenatal visit. Health history & first pelvic exam (um, metal speculum) PAP test if ‘she’s due’ – urine test – blood test – STD screening – many tests and screenings so the doctor can categorize her. First ultrasound ‘to detect the baby’s heart beat’.

Optional genetic screening for women over 35 (arbitrary ‘geriatric pregnancy’ age) – a schedule of blood tests and ultrasounds for throughout pregnancy. Used to be offered to women with a certain health history in their family, now it’s being offered to nearly every woman.

Every 4-6 weeks, prenatal visit until 28 weeks. Ultrasounds, urine tests, blood pressure tests.

15-20 weeks: The Quad Screen test, checking for spinal cord and genetic abnormalities. More ultrasound to ‘measure the baby’s organs and the placenta’. Lots of fear generated.

27 or 28 weeks: The glucose test for ‘gestational diabetes’ – essential a scam to try to categorize her as high risk due to gestational diabetes. She’s given an extremely sugary and syrupy solution and then her blood sugar is tested to see if she’s predisposed to gestational diabetes… Another pelvic exam (metal speculum). ‘Warning signs’ of preterm labor often discussed. Plans for labor may be discussed. Birth positioned as labor means birth is seen as back breaking work rather than a transformational and evolving physiological process.

28-36 weeks: Prenatal visits continue every 2-3 weeks until 36 weeks, meaning very likely an ultrasound at each visit. Checking the baby’s heart beat, growth, and position of baby.

36 weeks: Pelvic exam (speculum) and pressure to take a Group B Strep test. Screening for STDs performed once more. Checking on the baby’s position and if it is not positioned in a conducive way, exercises to shift their position will be recommended or a procedure called “external manipulation” may be suggested. Outcomes of this procedure should be heavily considered prior as there are many natural ways to flip a baby.

36 to 40 weeks: Baby is monitored, weight gain and blood pressure are checked. A cervical exam may be suggested to check for dilation (speculum…)

There are many things to consider about the standard schedule of care. This is a slim outline of what to expect from obstetrics, and with every year more tests or exams are suggested to women. Often these procedures and tests are presented as essential or mandatory, and many women comply simply out of feeling pressured by their doctor. Other options or approaches not discussed. After all, this is the business of birth…

How the Practices of OBGYN Function as Dark Magic

If you reference discussion around dark magic it is often highlighted that it is the intention behind the ‘magic’ that makes it malevolent or benevolent. Yet, this categorization is ultimately the result of arbitrary and subjective definitions. I’m not leaving this one up to subjectivity. Dark magic has to do with harm as the outcome, regardless of intention. Magic is defined as the appearance of impossible feats through tricks. Tricks inherently involve deceit and to be deceitful is iniquitous, antithetical to honesty, truth, trustworthiness…

Modern medicine at its finest, which is, surgical procedures and emergency medicine interventions could very well be seen as magic… especially now with all of the robotic tools, lasers, and computers running the show in the operating room. Yet, something is usually being remedied, repaired, or restored in successful surgeries. Many surgeries turn out to be unnecessary or malpractice yields traumatic outcomes, yes. With surgery, it is not about an appearance of an impossible feat, quite literally the impossible is made possible in many ways through surgical techniques and tools. It is the ultimate medical art, so, to be clear, surgery is amazing. It’s immeasurably life saving, though in many ways there are also consequences and costs that go unaccounted for in the development of certain procedures, protocols, and practices. The procedures and practices of gynecology and obstetrics are more in the vein of magic than any other discipline I can imagine beyond plastic / cosmetic surgery for aesthetics.

The perception of needing the services of an OBGYN is sold to women first and foremost through inversion, marketing, and messaging of convenience by targeting the known symptoms and issues that so many women suffer with. A relationship with a gynecologist starts so easily as the birth control pill sells itself, all the while the underlying root issue is never addressed and the trajectory of a woman’s cyclical wisdom is effectively altered forever. It is this exact approach that has obstetrics wrapped up in magic: the appearance of impossible feats through tricks. The offer that is displayed like a panacea but is actually poison with many side effects.

This is where my commentary on standard obstetrics and gynecological surgical procedures and treatments comes in. They are one branch of this modern medicine entity that seem to, in a twisted way, render more harm, trauma, and abuse than they do health, resolution, and restoration.

I’m going to discuss two extremely common gynecological procedures. To illustrate the underlying current of dark magic in current OBGYN practices, I need to highlight that women are put through ritualistic abuse whether the practitioners realize it or not. Intention doesn’t soothe when harm is the outcome. To visit with any general gynecologist right now, a woman is put through a variety of standard tests and procedures that breach her physical and energetic sacredness. This is the routine stuff I’ll touch on first. It’s so wrong and when you’re laying on that table with your feet in the stirrups staring at the cold metal equipment and half-used, limp tube of medical lube waiting for you… you know it’s SO wrong. You are connected to all the other women who also laid right where you are now. Mass trauma hidden so sneakily in the fabric of what society deems normal and routine. These sterilized tools literally are the instruments and talismans of ritual.

If you’re squeamish or not a woman you’ll want to prepare up for what’s to come. I won’t apologize or spare the details. Now is the time for us to look at this for what it is: ritual abuse of women.

It’s like this:

A woman goes in for her first-ever pap smear…

OK, first of all, the dark magic begins with the mere conception of such an idea that is then paraded as a cancer screening (cancer claimed to be caused by a virus, mind you) paired with a name that completely dehumanizes and humiliates a woman’s anatomy. The cervix, which is the literal autonomous portal that passes human beings from womb to world, is denigrated to the status of what you do with a booger. By the way, it’s standard for teenage girls to receive 3 rounds of an unknown serum ‘for HPV’ at this point. If they’re so Safe and Effective™, why do I need an annual screening for ‘abnormal’ cervical cells?

Also, what about the many many young girls who are still virgins at this appointment, and as such, why is a stranger putting a cold, clunky, metal speculum up the birth canal and swabbing their cervix? It’s painful and awkward and humiliating and extremely uncomfortable. A woman’s cervix is hidden way up there to be protected from creeps and apparently also strangers in white coats with foot-long cotton swabs. The resemblance is uncanny, isn’t it?

When you look up pap smear, OBGYNs have the balls to blog about it suggesting that when you tell your daughter about her first pap smear you should let her know that it will be ‘uncomfortable but not painful’ (whatever that really means) and it’s a quick test that isn’t a prolonged procedure. Yeah, a rape is quick and not a prolonged procedure either. This is the normalization of dark magic. How could anyone ever claim that this diabolical procedure doesn’t cause a woman harm? It’s routine, meaning annual as well. Ritual abuse. Any woman that is not desensitized knows it’s wrong in her bones.

One thing is for certain by its obvious anatomical nature and design: the cervix should only be touched in two circumstances and they both have to do with making a baby.

The saga of the IUD & being sold that not getting your period is totally awesome!

A woman makes the choice to get on the pill and after awhile reaches max laziness so she considers an IUD (intrauterine device). This device goes to the next level of trespass and goes where, again, no thing other than a baby and sperm should go. Same awkward and uncomfortable orientation as a pap test. A woman may not receive appropriate pain medication, sedation, or even be offered the option prior to an IUD procedure. For the record, extra strength ibuprofen isn’t enough when a foreign object is getting forced into the uterus.

IUDs render a woman essentially infertile for the time that she has the object inside of her. She has no expression of fertility and over time one of the most prominent side effects of an IUD (and birth control in general) is that the world becomes a very muted place and suicidal thoughts creep in. I wonder what the source of those thoughts really is? Of course, to restore a woman’s cycle and fertility, she has to go back to the OBGYN and go through the same awkward stirrup procedure and endure the removal of a foreign object from her uterus. The human body is so resilient.

When reading through ‘educational’ materials regarding an IUD procedure, there’s not much talk about the long term side effects nor a suggestion that the IUD could permanently create scar tissue in a woman’s uterus and affect her Fallopian tubes. Things that should seem obvious but are not after years of conditioning and exposure to normalized insanity.

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This kind of story is routine in today’s industry of gynecology and is a story that encourages a destabilizing disconnection for women as they try to relate their innate physiological wisdom. An interventionist approach is foundational to this branch of the allopathic system, because as previously mentioned, women are positioned as near-animals that need to be controlled, sedated, and tamed. To disrupt a woman’s fertile development by truncating her cyclical journey through the use of birth control (there it is again) yields a population of women who find themselves lost, demoralized, and unwell. It’s like cutting a tree in half, effectively separating the canopy from the roots. Many forms of death and estrangement become imminent.

While these topics are sinister in many ways, I see glimmers of a future where the ritual abuse of women (and children) as the consensus norm passes by. This is a beast type system that has become acceptable through a rationalization process that positions its practices as the lesser of two evils. For example, it is often claimed that a cesarean surgery is better than the death of the mother and/or baby, yet behind that claim there is often little or no acknowledgment of the fallout that tends to follow such surgery… as if mere survival of mom and baby is the goal. Also, how often is the fear of death useful in convincing a woman that she needs a cesarean? How often is death not a threat because the surgery has become more routine than vaginal birth?

Why isn’t there a demand for preventative care that mitigates and ensures the overwhelming majority of babies arrive here through the birth canal, as is the physiological design?

Public vital statistics records show that the US and Canada are yielding upwards of 40% of hospital births as cesarean surgeries; remember that a cesarean involves laterally severing the multiple layers of a woman’s abdomen to then cut through the wall of the uterus to remove a baby with haste whether it was ready or not. Playing God. To know physiology is to understand that there is a profound signaling process occurring between the mom’s many complex systems and the baby’s own necessary, purposeful, and sovereign process of being born.

It should be clear that we have become too desensitized to consider how deeply this popular intervention fragments both the woman and her child. It is a form of ritual abuse to know that a woman could birth by her own means yet she is pushed into a surgical situation out of convenience, not emergency necessity. We are nearing this being the case for half of women who birth in a hospital.

When a first time mom is processed through the allopathic OBGYN model and goes through a cesarean, this industry effectively commits her to cesarean for all subsequent births. To defect away from that and accomplish a well supported VBAC (vaginal birth after cesarean) is akin to breaking free from a cult: generally, obstetricians want nothing to do with it and there is a general air that they aren’t even trained to offer such care. Women are looked down upon and shamed by the experts that they were supposed to be able to trust, simply because they desire to birth in accordance with their intuitive physiology; a situation which is many times exacerbated and even created by such experts.

A future where women are respected for their intuitive wisdom and physiological confidence requires not only a new structure of care but a revision of women’s health politics culture at large. While we may live in a time where the mainstream is pushing petri dish fertilization as the only antidote to an epidemic fertility crisis, there is also a simultaneous rising of the waters that belong to women and men who have had enough. A woman’s most fundamental uniqueness lies in her reproductive power and all women everywhere deserve to have this Truth restored. I’m not saying that a woman is defined because she has babies: she is defined by the fact that she could have a baby. Women are mystical and immeasurably precious because of this quality alone. Obviously the mass culture has forgotten the sacredness of simplicity.

A woman’s cyclical nature is her special power and the world we all live in now has done its best to ensure women are as disjointed from this power and Truth as possible. I see that this story has been told many times before over many different eras, yet I am confident that no era has achieved such pervasive and inverted delusion as the one we are in now. The gift of this process is that human spirit finds its way towards Truth against all odds and one candle can light the entire bundle. Many hurts have occurred but there is more yet to be written.

Thankfully, in front of us is incredible potential for healing as the visionary practices of restorative reproductive medicine push through the cracks of what once was to motivate a new industry of gynecological care; a model that acknowledges the trespasses and develops its procedures in full alignment and trust to work with the beautiful design of a woman’s physiology. Root cause treatment is the approach of the true harmonic doctor, one who is always seeking to draw a human back to its all encompassing center, its place of rest and self-regulation by design. To restore fertility is to restore the ever unfolding energy of life itself… for when there is fertility there is a future, and when there is a future anything becomes possible. And so it goes…

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