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The New Coronavirus and the Future of BCG

by Michel Odent April 10, 2020

Between 1921 and the mid-1970s, Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) was identified and studied exclusively as a vaccine to prevent tuberculosis and leprosy (infections by Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium leprae). Let us recall that BCG contains a weakened strain of Mycobacterium bovis.

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The Conflict Between Humanity and the Virosphere

by Michel Odent March 23, 2020

With the permission of Michel Odent, we find it relevant to save from oblivion extracts from his 2014 book titled Childbirth and the Evolution of Homo Sapien”. The selected chapter is about “Homo sapiens and the Virosphere.” Published originally in 2014 (too soon!), this book is now understandable.

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The Future of Hypno-suggestive Methods in Childbirth

by Michel Odent September 17, 2019

A short course in hypno-suggestive birth methods as well as predictions for the future.

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Preliminary Phase of Labor: What Does It Mean?

by Michel Odent March 21, 2019

For a long time, many women have noticed that they are not as mentally sharp as usual at the end of their pregnancies. They mention anecdotes of memory loss and, occasionally, poor concentration. Their topics of interest become different. Their need for socialization may be reduced and reoriented. Read more…. Preliminary Phase of Labor: What Does It Mean?

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Is Labor a Complication of Socialized Birth?

by Michel Odent December 1, 2018

A great discussion of births during pre-agricultural times versus our current socialized birth, and the fetus ejection reflex. We need to go back to privacy for birthing women. Read more…. Is Labor a Complication of Socialized Birth?

Birth in the Age of Information Bombardment

by Michel Odent September 15, 2018

Dr. Odent argues that rather than relying on so much unfiltered information related to birth, women focus on what nature intended.

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A Turning Point in Our Understanding of Human Birth

by Michel Odent June 21, 2018

Just as we are learning about human nature from new perspectives, we are also at a turning point in our understanding of human births. Until now, the focus has been on mechanical difficulties. Countless textbooks have reproduced drawings showing the size and the shape of the fetal skull in relation to the maternal pelvis as a way to explain why the birth process cannot be easy in our species. If the main reasons for difficulties were mechanical, how to explain that, occasionally, women who are not special, from a morphological perspective, have their first baby easily within a few minutes, while others need a caesarean section after one or two days of tough labour?

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Doulas: A Global Phenomenon

by Michel Odent March 19, 2018

In order to feel protected during this time of neocortical inhibition, some modern women naturally prefer to rely on a doula. Read more…. Doulas: A Global Phenomenon

Midwifery in the Land of Utopia

by Michel Odent August 1, 2017

In the land of Utopia, the statistics are impressive. Whatever the place of birth—hospital or home—most women can deliver babies and placentas thanks to the release of cocktails of love hormones alone.

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Birth at Home vs. Birth “Elsewhere”

by Michel Odent June 1, 2017

From bacteriologic and immunologic perspectives, there are two kinds of twenty-first-century births: birth at home and birth “elsewhere.”

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A Turning Point in the History of Mothering

by Michel Odent March 1, 2017

Today, we have at our disposal a standardized and simple way to introduce a great variety of topics. We just need to explain why we are “at a turning point.”

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Homebirth vs. Hospital Birth, The Bacteriological Perspective

by Michel Odent December 1, 2016

Today, it is commonplace to present Homo sapiens as an ecosystem with a symbiotic interaction between the trillions of cells that are the products of our genes (the “host”) and the hundreds of trillions of microorganisms that colonize the body (the “microbiome”).