As a Traditional Midwife it is illegal for me to practice in many states. Traditional midwifery is the art and practice of providing natural and holistic childbirth-related health care. It includes techniques that have been passed down through the centuries, as well as modern, innovative techniques that are consistent with long-standing principles of midwifery. These midwives are women helping women in honesty, kindness, gentleness and understanding. They respect the preferences and desires of the women and families who request their services and encourage the active involvement of family members in the child-bearing process. In everything these midwives do, they promote respect for women and the sanctity of motherhood, family and home. Women have been taught for generations now that pregnancy is a dangerous medical condition, that birth is unbearibly painful and that choosing to birth in the safety and comfort of our homes is selfish and will certainly lead to the death of our unborn babies!
If we are going to win this WAR we must fully understand the enemy, and we must TAKE BACK OUR HEALTH! This Great Awakening is about us remembering who we are and taking back the power we have relinquished to the Beast System.
A War has been declared against all of Humanity by and through our corrupt Governments and the Medical Industrial Complex. In order to understand our current medical system and the monster it has become we must to take a look back at the history of medicine in the America. The business story of Western medicine, in the modern sense, starts with John D. Rockefeller (1839–1937). John is the mastermind behind the monster that is attempting to destroy and enslave humanity! During this same era (early 1900’s) scientists were doing groundbreaking work to understand the basic mechanics of life and human health. It was during this time that most of the essential vitamins were discovered, including B1, B2, Biotin, Vitamin C, Vitamin A, Vitamin D, etc. By identifying these vitamins science took a huge step forward and enabled simple vitamin remedies to cure conditions that were cause by vitamin deficiencies like scurvey and ricketts. And of course, scientists were also involved in research to re-create synthetic versions of these vitamins in a laboratory. In 1935, Vitamin C became the first vitamin to be artificially synthesized in Switzerland. Rockefeller was smart enough to see this as a big opportunity, with the possibility that vitamins and medications could be developed from petroleum. He saw the chance to control and monopolize multiple industries at once: petroleum, chemical and medical. And of course, petrochemicals were ideal from a business perspective because they could be patented, owned and sold for high profits. These industries still dominate our world today!
But there was a big problem with Rockefeller’s plan, natural and herbal medicines were very popular in America during the early 1900s. Almost one half the medical colleges and doctors in America were practicing holistic medicine, using extensive knowledge from Europe and Native American traditions. Rockefeller knew that to get total control of the medical industry he would have to expunge the competition. So to start Rockefeller used his vast oil money to purchase part of the German pharmaceutical company I.G. Farben. (you can look up this company’s involvement in WWII). Now that he controlled a drug manufacturing company he could move forward with his plan to get rid of the competition.

The medical community itself began to come under fire in the early 1900s, however the first full on assult was against midwifery. The Carnegie Foundation was awarded an endowment that was to be used “for the benefit of teachers in the colleges and universities of the United States, Canada, and Newfoundland,”. The Carnegie Foundation appointed a board of trustees who performed a brief review of colleges and universities and discovered that, “there was little unity of purpose or of standards,” among the schools. Before they bestowed the endowment on any schools, the board felt it was necessary for an impartial party to inspect the current colleges and universities to ensure they offered quality education. They hired Abraham Flexner, a former headmaster of a private Kentucky high school, who visited each of the 155 medical schools in North America. Using Johns Hopkins University as his exemplar, Flexner scrutinized the quality of the education that each school offered. The result of his effort is now known as the Flexner Report. In his report to the Carnegie Foundation, Flexner stated that there was “an enormous over-production of uneducated and ill trained medical practitioners,” which he went on to say was “in absolute disregard of the public welfare and without any serious thought of the interests of the public”. He felt the schools were more about profit than education. The Flexner Report spurred a transformation of medical education in North America. Within a decade medical education become more demanding and scientifically founded, and approximately one-third of the medical schools had closed or merged with other schools. Unfortunately, most of the remaining medical schools still did not offer education to women. As a result of the unremitting lack of opportunity, midwifery education was unable to keep up with the improvements in medical education.

The continued suppression of the midwife by the now very powerful medical community began to really take its toll. In the year 1900, physicians attended roughly half of all births, but less than 5% occurred in the hospital. By the early 1920s up to 50% of births occurred in hospitals. Birth was no longer considered natural, but was now viewed as a medical event in need of management by a physician.
Until this time, historically, all births occurred in the home. Midwives were not only the normal care providers for pregnant women, as it was considered indecent for a man to attend a birth, but they also provided the majority of medical care to the entire family. Midwives were considered such a vital part of the community that they were often provided houses rent-free
In 1920, Dr. Joseph DeLee, author of the most frequently used obstetric textbook of the time, argued that childbirth is a pathologic process from which few escape “damage.” He proposed a program of active control over labor and delivery, attempting to prevent problems through a routine of interventions. DeLee proposed a sequence of medical interventions designed to save women from the “evils” that are “natural to labor.” Specialist obstetricians should sedate women at the onset of labor, allow the cervix to dilate, give ether during the second stage of labor, cut an episiotomy, deliver the baby with forceps, extract the placenta, give medications for the uterus to contract and repair the episiotomy. His article was published in the first issue of the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. All of the interventions that DeLee prescribed did become routine.”
By 1935, physicians were attending the gross majority of births. While physician care and hospital birth became the norm, the number of perinatal deaths increased by 40-50% between 1915 and 1930. By 1945 midwife attended births had dropped to 5%, and by 1975 less than 1% of births in the U.S. were attended by midwives. As the government tried to eradicate midwifery, midwives, who were often illegal and practicing underground, continued to serve lower class women who were unable to afford medical care and would have otherwise gone without care. Oftentimes these midwives were untrained immigrants or the so-called Granny midwives of the deep south who were descended from slaves, and their lack of knowledge about hygiene and modern medical discoveries added fuel to the fire that midwives were uneducated and dangerous as care providers. Additionally, during and following World War I, immigration into the United States was limited. This not only limited the number of experienced midwives coming into the country, but also limited the primary source of people seeking midwifery care.

The tide began to slowly change in the late 1960s when a grassroots movement, spurred by increasing numbers of surgical births and interventions, had begun to move back toward natural birth and away from the over medicalization and lack of choice that was all too common in the hospital. This movement is widely accredited to Ina May Gaskin and "The Farm" Midwives. Birth in the hospital also began to change somewhat during this time as women wanted more from their birthing experience. Fathers began to be allowed in the delivery room, and women were left conscious during the delivery. However, a rise in lawsuits continued to influence doctors and encouraged them to continue managing the birth as a medical event, a continued driving force in the hospital to this day.
In the 1970s, the American College of Nurse-Midwives, which was formed in 1955, devised national standards for the education and certification of the Certified Nurse Midwife (CNM), much like the transformation exacted following the Flexner report. In 1971 ACNM issued a statement against out-of-hospital birth, which they rescinded in 1980 . CNMs began to gain numbers, growing to approximately 1000 CNMs nationwide by the end of the decade. CNMs are now recognized as primary healthcare providers by federal law and are licensed with prescriptive authority in all 50 states.
The reprofessionalization of the direct-entry midwife (DEM) did not begin until 1982 with the founding of the Midwives Alliance of North America (MANA). MANA established a board to develop a written exam based on the MANA Core Competencies. This board evolved into the North American Registry of Midwives (NARM), and the exam was the beginning of the CPM credential. In 1994 the first CPM credential was awarded, and by 2014 over 2454 CPM certifications had been issued. Currently, the number of women choosing homebirth is also increasing. To date, direct-entry midwifery continues to be unregulated in 21 states and is illegal in 10 of the 21 unregulated states . After hitting a low of approximately 1% In 1980, the number of babies being caught by midwives in the U.S. is now increasing.
The United States continues to have a higher Maternial and Infant mortality rate than any other industrialized nation and falls behind several 3rd world countries.
Although there have been leaps and bounds in the revival of midwifery in the United States, it is still a fractured system.
I believe that part of this Great Awakening is rebalancing the Devine Masculine and Feminine, we must also remember that our Creator gave us this magical planet and the cures for most illnesses can be found within nature. I understand that there is a place for "western" medicine, but aside from freak accidents and need for surgical intervention in real emergencies, 99.9% of ailments can be cured through diet and natural health practices!