Michelle Odin is obituary birth
The French Great, Major Michel Odent, who died at the age of 95, has spent more than 50 years in promoting the understanding of natural birth physiology. Since the 1960s, it was “active management of work”, using artificial oxytocin and other technologies, has controlled obstetrics. Odnt reported his faults, and presented an alternative vision.
“In the seventies of the last century, the institutional nature was added to birth and tasted. Michelle Odent reminded us that physiological processes during pregnancy and childbirth should be respected, which is very important because things have gone large in the other direction.
Many of the practices that Odent defended is a rejected matter: birth pools and home -like birth centers common in the United Kingdom, for example, and it is widely acceptable that the mother is able to move in labor and need an insatiable time to connect with her child.
In 1962, Odent began working at Pithiviers Governmental Hospital, in a French town 50 miles south of Paris. He had been trained as a surgeon, but he was interested in obstetrics. When the director of the maternity unit stepped down, Odent, who was running the unit until 1985. He read the work of the French obstetricist Frédérick Leboyer and Russian Charkovsky, which was the foundations of water birth, and had similar ideas, but also had confidence in following it in provinces and notes. He defended squatting or standing for birth instead of lying down, after he saw women doing it when he was working in Algeria, and he turned a traditional delivery wing into a more comfortable room, with cushions and end blinds.
Anxiety about the pain of the background in labor, he got an inflatable row, then continued to install a birth gathering in its unit. After the 100th birth using this method, he wrote a prominent paper, underwater delivery, for the medical magazine The Lancet (1983), explaining how effective in reducing pain. In 1982, the BBC brought his methods to a wide audience with a documentary, again, about the unity of the tribe. It revealed the unit of the mother -like maternity, with dim lights, where a woman in labor can move freely and feel safe.
Odent had a great respect for the six midwives on the unit, which inspired some of his main ideas. It was found that a woman in labor takes advantage of a quiet special environment with only one experienced midwife, which says little and performs a frequent task such as knitting. In these circumstances, Odent was taught, that oxytocin – the “love hormone” is launched as it loves to call it – which stimulates uterine cramps. In a crowded work suite, with a team of people who examine it, a woman in labor is likely to feel tension, which produces adrenaline, which prevents oxytocin production. The lights were also not disrupted by an eccentric heresy: it encourages the release of melatonin, a hormone that works with oxytocin to facilitate birth. These were essential visions. “We always knew that” nature knows better, “said Janet, who managed the active birth center in London.
With the spread of news of Odent’s methods, pregnant women from all over Europe and the United States reached their desire to give birth to Pithiviers, and according to one of the observers, midwives reached the small town “by bus” to see its methods directly. The number of children born every year in the unit that was classified at the time of Odent, but he began to believe that it could be more useful as a researcher and a writer and was in demand a lot as an international speaker.
In 1985, Pithiviers left and moved to London. He spent the next forty years there, as he was looking for his ideas, writing and promoting. He also registered with the General Medical Council in the United Kingdom and continued to help with birth.
The deep belief of Odent was that the way you was born and your well -being in the “primitive period” (from pregnancy to your first birthday) has the effects of life. He established the London Health Health Research Center and a database to collect epidemic data and research its theories. He was a prolific writer, who composed many articles and 17 books, in 22 languages. writing Farms and obstetrician (2002) It is an invitation to the weapon, saying that agriculture in the twentieth century was very respectful of nature, using artificial fertilizers and pesticides, as well as birth became a “industrial” procedure with its wide use of the Caesarean section and artificial hormones.
Combining the roles of the philosopher, the gynecologist, and the martium on the ground from the motherland and the “love hormone cocktails” that deposit the natural birth. He felt that we were manipulating nature in our danger.
Odent may be controversial: for example, in 2009, it was recommended that parents remain outside the birth room if they are at all anxious so that their partners do not bother. He explained theories in his subsequent books that were suspected by some experts, such as his association with autism, loss of appetite and other psychological disorders to the artificial induction of work and cesarean section.
She was born in Brezls, northern France, and Michel was the eldest son of Madeleine (Ni Cherabantire) and Paul Odent. His father worked at a local sugar factory and his mother, who had a profound impact on his life, ran a nursery school and poetry books. He enrolled in school in the nearby Cremont, and a nine -miles in each direction, before moving to Paris, 18, to study medicine at Sorbon University.
After trained in surgery, Odent began in 1958 two years of military service in Algeria, where the war for independence from France was happening. He was working in a hospital in Tizi Ouzou in the Kabylie area, and from other things, a new technology for caesarean section. After returning home, Odent took a position as a surgeon in Pithiviers.
In 1957, Autnet was married to Nicole Tawa, who had two children, selfie and Christophe. They remained married, but they decided to separate. In 1983, Judy Graham, a British television journalist, met his home in Hampsted, north of London, and he had a son, Pascal, in 1985.
Odent was survived by Liliana, Nicole, Selfie, Pascal, five grandchildren, and two grandchildren. His son Christophe and his younger brother, Daniel, before him.