Michigan baby 'stranglings': Dr. Morley to benefit sheriffs' babies? (by educating sheriffs)

From: Todd Gastaldo (tgastaldo_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 06/16/04 

Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 03:02:17 GMT

MICHIGAN SHERIFF'S (via the Michigan Sheriffs' Association
rmeyering@michigansheriff.com):

Most babies are being partially "strangled" at birth. Sound crazy? Keep
reading. "Strangle" is my word - babies are being routinely cut off from
their oxygen prematurely - producing indications of "asphyxia sufficient to
cause brain damage." This is a ROUTINE obstetric practice!

According to GEORGE MALCOLM MORLEY, MB, ChB, FACOG (of Northport, MI?),
immediate clamping of umbilical cords (standard practice) produces
indications of "asphyxia sufficient to cause brain damage." You MIGHT just
be able to prevent a case of CEREBRAL PALSY!
http://www.cordclamping.com/acog-cp.htm

If Dr. Morley starts generating suspected child abuse reports - PLEASE don't
ignore those reports. Maybe you could all respond to THIS report from this
lowly DC? I'm hoping at LEAST that you sheriffs will tell your friends and
family about the massive OB baby "strangulation" crime I am reporting thanks
to Dr. Morley's essay (URL above). The best thing would be for you to
simply go into hospitals and stop the practice of immediately clamping
umbilical cords in Michigan. How hard can it be? Sheriffs in other states
could follow suit... Michigan sheriffs could put an end to the massive OB
crime NATIONWIDE by next week - by simply contacting their sheriff
colleagues in other states!

I've heard that paramedics and ambulance personnel are trained to
immediately clamp/tie cords - and (per Donna Young) 911 operators advise
people to immediately clamp/tie with "shoelaces." They should be contacted
too...

PREGNANT WOMEN: YOUR BABY'S UMBILICAL CORD

Everyone knows that babies breathe through their umbilical cords until they
start breathing with their lungs - i.e. - they get their oxygen through
their umbilical cords.

PLEASE read the gruesome umbilical cord pinching (baby asphyxiation)
experiment of George Malcolm Morley, MB ChB FACOG below.

Note that actual CLAMPING AND CUTTING THE CORD (as opposed to temporarily
pinching it shut) DOES cause "asphyxia sufficient to cause brain damage."

Do not let the OB immediately clamp your baby's cord.

Let it stop pulsating first.

DOES GEORGE THE OB SUSPECT CHILD ABUSE?

OPEN LETTER (archived for global access; see below)

George Malcolm Morley, MB ChB FACOG
P.O. Box 181
Northport, MI 49670
USA (perhaps an old address?)
Obgmmorley@aol.com

George,

Thank you for your quick response.

You have done a WONDERFUL job exposing rather obvious OB crime.
http://www.cordclamping.com/acog-cp.htm

You apparently agree with me that it is child abuse to PERMANENTLY produce
in neonates indications of (as you say) "asphyxia sufficient to cause brain
damage."

But apparently you haven't been reporting...

If you do agree with me, please report to the sheriff immediately in accord
with mandatory suspected child abuse reporting laws - and KEEP reporting
regularly until the OB crime ends.

REMEMBER: Filing mandatory suspected child abuse reports is EDUCATIONAL -
you are educating sheriffs about mass child abuse by OBs. (Female sheriffs
have babies and of course many male sheriffs have wives who have babies.
Even if sheriffs don't immediately act to help ALL babies, *their* babies
may benefit.)

REMEMBER ALSO: Filing mandatory suspected child abuse reports does NOT mean
you have to stop educational efforts not specifically directed at sheriffs -
but in these latter - why not begin encouraging other OBs to join you in
reporting to the sheriff - regularly - until the massive OB crime ends?

Two last notes:

1. Filing suspected child abuse reports is indeed MANDATORY (assuming you
suspect child abuse)...

2. No child abuse laws require the reporter to first determine if the
sheriff has been similarly abused. (Many sheriff's probably *were*
similarly abused - but where did you get this silly idea?)

George, please do the MINIMUM required by law to stop OBs from senselessly
producing "asphyxia sufficient to cause brain damage."

Thanks.

Sincerely,

Your friend,

Todd

Dr. Gastaldo
todd@chiromotion.com

PS George, I'm assuming you are still in Northport, Michigan...

Here's the relevant Michigan law:

"722.623 Persons required to report child abuse or neglect...(1) An
individual is required to report under this act as follows...(a) A
physician...who has reasonable cause to suspect child abuse or neglect shall
make immediately, by telephone or otherwise, an oral report...Within 72
hours...the reporting person shall file a written report as required in this
act..."

BUT...

"The written report shall contain the name of the child and a description of
the abuse or neglect..."
http://www.michiganlegislature.org/mileg.asp?page=getObject&objName=mcl-722-623&highlight=

Obviously, oral reports can be made.

Written reports may be a problem...

If HIPAA confidentiality requirements deny access to names of children -
perhaps this requirement for the written report can be waived since most
children have their cords immediately clamped...

Although I think sheriffs everywhere are empowered to investigate reports of
suspected child abuse and neglect....

According to one website, the State of Michigan's Family Independence
Agency/FIA is responsible for investigating reports of suspected child abuse
and neglect.
http://www.michigan.gov/fia/0,1607,7-124-5452_7119-21208--,00.html

Mary L. Marois is the FIA contact in your county...

She is at 701 S. Elmwood Ste. 19, Traverse City MI 49684-3185

Her phone number is: (231) 941-3900

I will cc Mary via: fiaweb@michigan.gov

For Michigan, the Children's Protective Services phone numbers are: (231)
941-3900 (800) 937-5903

BTW, it is conceivable that your efforts might be amplified by protecting
adult medical students who are being taught to perform the crime by their MD
superiors...

Call Adult Protective Services (231) 941-3900 (800) 937-5903

My further comments are interspersed ####
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Obgmmorley@aol.com
  To: todd@chiromotion.com ; dyoung@pris.bc.ca
  Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 4:46 PM
  Subject: Re: On the upside of George's error to directing a hand-gripping
hand-seqeeez...

  Dear Dr.: Todd@Chiromotion.com:

  Thank you for your diatribe regarding finger / thumb occlusion of the
umbilical cord on a healthy neonate.

  ##### George, the folks at www.dictionary.com say:\Di"a*tribe\ (?; 277),
n. [L. diatriba a learned discussion, Gr. ?,

  ##### They also say: di·a·tribe n. A bitter, abusive denunciation.

  ##### I guess I am somewhat bitter; but it is hardly "abusive" of me to
point out that you are failing to read and understand child protection
statutes. As noted above, one does not - as you aver below - have to
determine whether the sheriff was similarly abused before reporting
suspected child abuse.

  From your various conflicting statements

  ##### If I have made what you perceive to be conflicting statements, point
them out and I will resolve the conflict if I perceive it. I concede that
if I do not perceive the same conflict you perceive - it may be because I am
biased. But then again, perhaps you are the biased one here. As I have
said, by failing to report child abuse, you are - first and foremost -
protecting your fellow OBs - not babies. I still believe this is the case.
You have a HUGE conflict to resolve. Do the MINIMUM required of you by law
in order to protect babies OR - continue NOT to do the minimum - in order to
protect OBs. Perhaps I have made conflicting statements - but you are
indeed conflicted - are you not?

   I am given to conclude that you have not had much personal experience
delivering babies,

  ##### One does not need much personal experience delivering babies to
discuss the FACT that you are failing to report rather obvious child abuse -
even as you laudably try to expose it by causing it temporarily - reversibly
you say...

  and even less experience and ability in rational analysis of the English
language, particularly in relation to the meaning of statements in relation
to the context of the whole. This disability is pronounced in Attention
Deficit Disorder in which the meaning of one statement is not correlated
with prior or subsequent statements.

  ##### Pejoration noted. I do not know whether my cord was clamped
immediately.
  ,
  The "finger-thumb" occlusion of the cord for 15 - 30 seconds is harmless
because it is REVERSIBLE.

  ##### I suppose that strangling a child for 15 - 30 seconds is also
reversible - but that does not mean it is not child abuse. If you have
evidence for your claim that pinching the cord
  between thumb and finger to produce fetal [neonatal?] heart rate
deceleration "indicating asphyxia sufficient to cause brain damage" is of no
significance - please provide it.

  On release of the pressure, the child returns rapidly to normal.

  ##### Intentionally producing fetal [neonatal?] heart rate deceleration
"indicating asphyxia sufficient to cause brain damage" may or may not leave
the child "normal."

  It occurs naturally (sometimes more severely) in many deliveries when the
cord is around the neck.

  ##### Yes. Accidents do happen - accidents occur naturally. But we do
not CAUSE temporary asphyxia accidents "to EDUCATE" as you say.

  The correct treatment is to release the cord from around the neck; the
wrong treatment is to clamp and cut it -- THIS IS NOT REVERSIBLE. The
purpose of the "finger-thumb" procedure is to EDUCATE doctors and midwives
in correct cord management.

  ##### TRANSLATED: You propose TEMPORARILY producing indicators of
"asphyxia sufficient to cause brain damage" (child abuse) to expose *more
serious* child abuse - PERMANENTLY producing indicators of "asphyxia
sufficient to cause brain damage" - gotcha.

  This purpose and meaning is apparent in my following paragraphs that state
why the "finger-thumb" procedure is harmless and why clamping and cutting
the cord is harmful and may produce brain damage such as attention deficit
disorder.

  ##### George, for argument's sake, let us say that TEMPORARILY producing
indications of "asphyxia sufficent to cause brain damage" is not child
abuse - and only PERMANENTLY doing so *is* child abuse. WHY AREN'T YOU
REPORTING?!

  To correct the situation, I prefer educational methods rather than calling
the sheriff, as I do not know when the sheriff's cord was clamped.

  ##### George, what is best for babies is the preference. Besides, you can
do BOTH. I believe 100% of babies would want you doing both... One does
not - as you aver - have to determine whether the sheriff was abused before
reporting suspected child abuse to him.

  I hope you do not have difficulty understanding and correlating these
three paragraphs.

  Dr. G. M. Morley
  .
  #### Well, I don't understand how you can read the child abuse statutes
and decide you don't have to report unless the sheriff to whom you are
reporting has suffered similar abuse!

  #### As noted above, the first place to report is FIA - email and phone
numbers above.

  #### Thanks for reading,

  #### Sincerely,

  #### Todd

  #### Dr. Gastaldo (todd@chiromotion.com)

  In a message dated 6/15/2004 3:31:07 PM Eastern Standard Time,
todd@chiromotion.com writes:
    Donna,

    I agree that George is doing something.

    But George is NOT doing the minimum.

    As I just wrote to a woman whose baby has cerebral palsy bad...

     George the OB would call 911 if he saw someone strangling a person
OUTSIDE the hospital...
    (Actually, I hope he would rush over and stop the crime personally!)
    Why is George the OB failing to call 911 (report suspected child abuse)
as his fellow OBs strangle babies INSIDE the hospital?
    We both know the answer - George the OB is (first and foremost)
protecting OBs - not babies.

    When babies are being asphyxiated, you use the LAWS (and mandatory
reporting) designed to protect babies. That's step one. Sheesh.

    You are making excuses for George the OB instead of pointing out that he
is failing to do the MINIMUM required by law.

    Todd
      ----- Original Message -----
      From: Donna Young
      To: Todd Gastaldo
      Cc: Obgmmorley@aol.com
      Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 9:08 AM
      Subject: On the upside of George's error to directing a hand-gripping
hand-seqeeezing on the cord, he does know no clamping of the cord or cutting
it IS best.

      In defense to George's statement below, he is doing something,

      <snip>

      ----- Original Message -----
        From: Todd Gastaldo
        To: Obgmmorley@aol.com
        Cc: chiro-list@yahoogroups.com ; Donna Young
        Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 9:26 AM
        Subject: Clamping baby's cord - is baby still breathing through it?

        PREGNANT WOMEN: YOUR BABY'S UMBILICAL CORD

        Everyone knows that babies breathe through their umbilical cords
until they start breathing with their lungs.

        Read the gruesome umbilical cord pinching (baby asphyxiation)
experiment of George Malcolm Morley, MB ChB FACOG below.

        Do not let the OB immediately clamp your baby's cord.

        Let it stop pulsating first.

        RETIRED OB PROPOSES CHILD ABUSE TO EXPOSE CHILD ABUSE...

        PROPOSES ASPHYXIATING BABY - DENYING BABY USE OF ITS OWN BLOOD

        How can George Malcolm Morley, MB ChB FACOG know that pinching the
cord
        between thumb and finger to produce fetal heart rate deceleration
        "indicating asphyxia sufficient to cause brain damage" is of no
        significance?!

        George Malcolm Morley, MB ChB FACOG advises a GRUESOME experiment:

        "[Immediately after delivery t]he umbilical cord [is] immediately
closed
        between finger and thumb...[fetal heart rate/FHR] will decelerate
quickly to
        about 60 bpm and the cord vein between thumb and umbilicus will
empty
        completely into the child. If the child does not breathe or cry,
the heart
        rate will remain low, and the color will change from purple-pink
(normal at
        birth) to pallid blue (vaso-constriction and asphyxia.) Eventually,
the
        normal child will gasp and start breathing due to high CO2 levels;
the heart
        rate will increase, the color may improve, but the pallor will
persist.

        "Few midwives or obstetricians will be able to...[do this]...for a
period of
        60 seconds. Common sense will soon release the finger and thumb.
Watch the
        cord vein distend while the child receives the placental
transfusion. When
        breathing starts, the pallid, purple child will turn a ruddy pink,
the deep,
        prolonged FHR deceleration will rapidly recover, and in a minute or
two the
        Apgar score will be 10+. This ruddy-pink, squirming, bawling child
with an
        intact cord has a normal blood volume.

        "On the other hand...[some midwives and obstetricians]...following
the ACOG
        and trial lawyers' protocol, B138, may immediately doubly clamp and
cut the
        cord (distal to the compressing thumb) and send a sample to the lab
for cord
        blood gases; this child will be pale, somewhat slow to respond, and
may have
        some retraction respiration - this "normal" child is missing a large
portion
        of its normal blood volume.

        "In each scenario, a deep, long, [fetal heart rate/FHR] deceleration
        "indicating asphyxia sufficient to cause brain damage" will be
recorded on
        the monitor strip. In the first scenario, the effects are
temporary,
        completely reversed and OF NO SIGNIFICANCE; in the second, one may
have to
        wait until the child is in grade school to prove that the prolonged
        hypovolemia and subsequent anemia did not affect the integrity,
growth and
        development of the child's brain....
        http://www.cordclamping.com/acog-cp.htm (emphasis added)

        BIZARRE!

        Again, how can George Malcolm Morley, MB ChB FACOG know that
producing fetal
        heart rate deceleration "indicating asphyxia sufficient to cause
brain
        damage" is of no significance?!

        Crime is RAMPANT in obstetrics!

        PREGNANT WOMEN: Just before OBs clamp umbilical cords they
knowingly clamp
        BIRTH CANALS - up to 30%.

        For simple PROOF - and simple instructions on how to OPEN your birth
canal
        the "extra" up to 30%...

        It's mass spinal manipulation child abuse.

        MDs and MBs are violently pushing on tiny spines (with oxytocin) -
and gruesomely pulling (with hands, forceps, vacuums) - with birth canals
senselessly closed up to 30%.

        Some babies die, some babies get paralyzed - most "just" have their
spines gruesomely wrenched.

        All spinal manipulation is gruesome with the birth canal closed.

        See: I ain't no Semmelweis, but...
        http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/2591

        Immediately after this mass spinal manipulation child abuse, MDs and
MBs subject babies to MORE child abuse - asphyxiation sufficient to cause
brain damage via immediate cord clamping.

        MY THANKS TO...

        My thanks to Kelly Moscarello for sharing her home birth story (poor
little
        Bella!) and for urging me to again look at George the OB's
remarkable essay
        quoted above.

        My thanks also to Canadian Grandma Donna Young for introducing
George the
        OB's website - I wish I had read that essay more closely a long time
ago.

        Donna has a petition: www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/102580814

        Oddly, missing from Donna's petition is the simple expedient of
calling upon MDs and MBs and midwives to simply report immediate cord
clamping as child abuse.

        SUSPECTED CHILD ABUSE REPORTS are in order from George the OB and
        any other MDs/MBs reading.

        MDs and MBs COUNT.

        MDs and MBs reporting immediate cord clamping (asphyxiation
sufficient to cause brain damage) as child abuse will finally get the
attention of DAs and attorney generals.

        MDs and MBs are true cultural authorities - unlike this DC who is
accused of "just wanting to get back at" organized medicine.

        I just want mass child abuse by MDs and MBs to stop.

        My focus has been stopping the mass (sometimes fatal)
birth-canal-closing SPINAL MANIPULATION child abuse by MDs and MBs mentioned
above.

        See again: I ain't no Semmelweis, but...
        http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/2591

        My new focus includes stopping MDs and MBs from causing asphyxiation
sufficient to cause brain damage via immediate cord clamping.

        I am in favor of pardons in advance for MDs and MBs. MDs and MBs
are just academic prime cuts forced through this culture's most powerful
mental meatgrinder - medical school.

        Step One is affording babies the protection of child abuse laws
designed to IMMEDIATELY protect them from harm.

        "TERROR AND SUFFERING"

        George the OB closes his essay:

        "To end this dilemma and the medico-legal terror and suffering,
patients
        should demand, and practicing obstetricians should provide, an
informed
        consent document stating that the newborn's cord will not be clamped
until
        all pulsations have ceased and until the child is breathing and
pink, and
        that resuscitation, if needed, will be done with the placental
circulation
        intact. A scalp or heel blood sample at birth to confirm
oxygenation status
        is just as valid as a cord blood sample. The practicing
obstetricians may
        thus be able to restore some semblance of dignity and respect to
their
        profession by discarding and ignoring the advice of their tort
counselors,
        academic peers, publishers and sub-specialists. The scarcity of
injured
        newborns and empty NICU's may have a very negative impact on various
        parties; the abundance of healthy babies will be welcome news to
everyone
        else....My letters published in the Green Journal, June 2001, asking
ACOG to
        provide an informed consent document for B138 remain unanswered, as
do
        formal complaints regarding B138 to ACOG and the AMA. These parties
have
        remained silent, and they have the right to remain silent; their
silence
        speaks louder than words. ACOG's report on cerebral palsy is either
a
        colossal error or a grotesque attempt to cover."
        http://www.cordclamping.com/acog-cp.htm

        George, OB criminals don't respond well to reasoning and logic.

        If they did, they would have stopped closing birth canals
immediately after
        I exposed the crime.

        See again: I ain't no Semmelweis, but...
        http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/2591

        CALL THE SHERIFF GEORGE

        If we saw men in white coats strangling people on the street - we
would call 911 - the sheriff.

        WHY aren't we calling 911/the sheriff to stop men in white coats
from strangling BABIES in hospitals?

        REPORT GEORGE. Urge other MDs and MBs to report. Keep reporting
until OBs stop causing asphyxia sufficient to cause brain damage.

        You might also report the grisly spectacle of OBs knowingly closing
birth canals up to 30%.

        See again: I ain't no Semmelweis, but...
        http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/2591

        Do it NOW George. (Immediate suspected child abuse reports are the
law in nearly every
        jurisdiction in North America.)

        FIRST report child abuse - THEN keep writing essays imploring OB
criminals
        to stop their crime - and be sure and encourage other OBs to join
you in reporting - and reporting REGULARLY - until the OB crime stops.

        I don't think you should be advising child abuse to help expose
child abuse
        though...

        I don't think you can know that pinching the cord
        between thumb and finger to produce fetal heart rate deceleration
        "indicating asphyxia sufficient to cause brain damage" is of no
        significance...

        Sincerely,

        Todd

        Dr. Gastaldo
        todd@chiromotion.com

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