Day 23:

Quick, hurry! It's almost 11o'clock! Only an hour left to write today's stuff!
Okay, so today wasn't THAT exciting. To tell the truth, it wasn't exciting at all. I did course work for my certification all day (after I slept in of course) then took Mira to the grocery store for some shopping. I got out and about too late to make it to the Natural Foods Store, but there's always tomorrow.

I made a vat of tuna fish salad, which turned out deliciously.  I put more sour cream than mayo in it so it's a bit on the healthier side as far as that goes. And I tried dates instead of sugar in my smoothie today and IT WAS YUMMY! I felt good about giving Mira some too, since there was no sugar, all fructose goodness.

Part of my training is reading and homework and essays and stuff like that, but part of it is watching videos of all different types. Some are about physiology some are about psychology, some are medical and some are theoretical. I watched one today that blew my mind, I loved it. It was about how the birth actually affects the human psyche. In our culture, in the last 75 years or so, the medical industry has claimed that giving birth is a science and it needs to be measured for abnormalities and dealt with clinically. Some psychologists, birth specialists and midwives are saying that isn't so. They say that the change in our birthing style is part of what has caused all the trauma to our teens, leading to a much higher teen suicide rate than ever before. They say it also adds to the inclined violence more prevalent today than in days past. They say, and there is research to back this up, that the infant (fetus, whatever) is responsive to stimulus inside the womb which tells us they have a sense of awareness even then. They claim that not only the trauma attached with a birth, but the first half hour after birth affect an infant so much that if these things have a negative affect it takes months if not years to make it right. They say that infants who are taken to a nursery still bond, just not with people, they bond with walls, with the bin they are placed in and with the machinery around them. These babies will have a much harder time creating personal relationships throughout their lives.
Isn't that interesting?
I believe it. It seems very accurate and it makes a lot of sense. The first hours we are entering and actually enter the world are our introduction to it. You never get a second chance to make a first impression and some people start out with a BAD impression that all they will get in life is cold machinery and metal, rough handling, slapping, and to be left alone. Pretty sad, no wonder some people turn out to be psychopaths.