“Routine Positions in Labor Cause Unnecessary Birth Trauma…”
In vaginal births, 4.6% of term neonates suffer unexplained brain bleeds and up to 10% suffer neonatal encephalopathy. These injuries may be avoided by decreasing distortion of fetal skulls, from pelvic contracture at delivery. The popular semi-recumbent position places the laboring woman squarely on her sacral
apex. This closes her pelvic opening and creates a undue stress and difficulty in the baby’s descent.”
Labor posture. Gastaldo TD. Birth 1992 Dec;19(4):230
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgicmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=1472275&dopt=Abstract

Semisitting/birth-canal-closing is OBVIOUS criminal negligence: In
semisitting and dorsal/”lying on your back” delivery positions, gravity closes the birth canal up to 30%, a fact which has been known to medicine since early last century. For the simple biomechanics and for a radiographic cite and a clinical cite from the medical literature, see Gastaldo TD.
Letter. BIRTH. 1992;19(4):230-1.
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/toc/bir/19/4. Thanks to WileyInterscience,
FREE ONLINE ACCESS was recently re-instated.

OBGYNs are committing obvious sometimes-fatal mass birth-canal-closing/SPINAL MANIPULATION child abuse.

WORSE: OBGYNs are KEEPING birth canals closed up to 30% – keeping semisitting or dorsal when babies get stuck and forceps/vacuums are used to pull (1 in 10 births) – with OBGYNs sometimes pulling so hard they rip spinal nerves out of tiny spinal cords.

Regarding the 4.6% suffering unexplained brain bleeds, a more recent MRI study (Looney et al. 200_), found around 25% of babies birthed vaginally suffering unexplained brain bleeds.

DCs need to report – and urge others to report – even though law enforcement is looking the other way.

DCs need to KEEP reporting until law enforcement STOPS looking the other way.

Women should not have to ASK for the “extra” up to 30% of pelvic outlet area for their babies.

Most women don’t KNOW to ask.

In most jurisdictions, child abuse reports from DCs are mandatory when abuse is so much as SUSPECTED.

In most jurisdictions, child abuse reports from EVERYONE are encouraged when abuse is so much as suspected.

“Anyone who has reason to believe that a child has been or is likely to be abused or neglected has a legal duty under the Child, Family and Community Service Act to report the matter.”
http://www.mcf.gov.bc.ca/child_protection/reportabuse.htm

Reporting Child Abuse Helpline Number
For technical reasons the ministry has changed its Helpline for Children telephone number to 310-1234. This is a toll free number. It is a local telephone number anywhere in the province.

Over the next two years people calling the operator and asking for the old Zenith 1234 line will be transferred to the new 310-1234 number.

Call the Helpline when you have a concern about the safety and well-being of a child.

Duty to report abuse or suspected abuse
Anyone who has reason to believe that a child has been or is likely to be abused or neglected has a legal duty under the Child, Family and Community Service Act to report the matter.

How to report
Report to a child protection social worker in either a Ministry of Children and Family Development office, or a First Nations child welfare agency that provides child protection services.

Monday to Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., call your local district office (listed in the blue pages of your phone book).

Monday to Friday, 4:30 p.m. to 8:30 a.m. and all day Saturday, Sunday and on statutory holidays, call the Helpline for Children. Dial 310-1234 (no area code needed).

After Hours Line
For emergencies outside office hours (8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m., Monday to Friday).

•Vancouver, North Shore Richmond, call 604 660-4927
•Lower Mainland, Burnaby, Delta, Maple Ridge, Langley, call 604 660-8180
•For the rest of the province, call toll-free 1 800 663-9122