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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37386235699322369822017-06-28T05:34:52.623+01:00Bella's Listbits and bobs, odds and sods, this and that, or simply some ...IzzY Jess Bellhttps://email@example.com://feedburner.google.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738623569932236982.post-48505598471398748822017-06-13T19:57:00.001+01:002017-06-13T19:57:27.060+01:00Viking SongIsabella S.https://firstname.lastname@example.com://izzyjessbell.blogspot.com/2017/06/viking-song.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738623569932236982.post-83616633034406336352017-06-06T18:28:00.000+01:002017-06-06T18:28:01.624+01:003 Starseed Quotes to Live By
"You chose to incarnate on this planet." -Abraham, through Esther Hicks

 "Expose evil or walk away." -Vispi and Ratoo, through Khorshed Bhavnagri

 "Under spiritual law, if you want help, you must ask for it." -Diana Cooper

 Read more Starseed quotes to live by:
https://kristaraisa.com/index.php/2017/04/26/7-starseed-quotes-to-live-by/

Isabella S.https://email@example.com://izzyjessbell.blogspot.com/2017/06/3-starseed-quotes-to-live-by.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738623569932236982.post-91108658766429973432017-06-06T10:53:00.000+01:002017-06-06T10:53:45.820+01:00London Westminster Attack Hoax 10 Questions

London Westminster Attack Hoax 10 Questions

Isabella S.https://firstname.lastname@example.com://izzyjessbell.blogspot.com/2017/06/london-westminster-attack-hoax-10.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738623569932236982.post-51568346057497228532017-06-04T14:09:00.000+01:002017-06-04T14:09:10.730+01:00announcement about the HPV vaccine
A public service announcement about the HPV vaccine that you won't see in the mainstream media: The HPV vaccine is one of the biggest scams perpetuated by the CDC and the pharmaceutical cartel... in this case GlaxoSmithKline and Merck.
 It was marketed by Merck as a vaccine for cervical cancer but that turned out to be a lie! The HPV vaccine has NEVER been shown to prevent cervical cancer in any study whatsoever! Merck's HPV vaccine is called Gardasil 9 and is supposed to prevent neoplasia, abnormal tissue growth for nine different HPV strains. However, what Merck doesn't tell you and your doctor doesn't either, is that there are over 200 different strains of HPV.

 So the HPV vaccine doesn't protect you against over 190 different strains of HPV. Of the strains the vaccine doesn't address, some of these strains are rare and there is a possibility that the vaccine can increase their prevalence, which can make the vaccinated person even more susceptible to HPV by as much as 60%. In addition, some of the other HPV strains have been shown to cause cancer. There's a lot more to this HPV story that's in this article below that's important for you to read.
 Don't just blindly trust your doctor when it comes to vaccines and certainly don't trust the pharmaceutical companies who are marketing this to doctors because they know patients trust their doctor. You may remember that Merck is the company that heavily marketed the arthritis drug Vioxx while knowing that it caused heart attacks and strokes in their studies. They hid this data from doctors and from the public. Vioxx is responsible from somewhere between 60,000 - 189,000 heart attacks and strokes, and over 55,000 deaths!! So are you going to trust the same company that is telling you their Gardasil vaccination is safe?
 And by the way they're giving this HPV vaccine in some schools without parental consent! And they're giving it to both boys and girls. So warn your child and send a letter to the public school to make sure that they do not give this vaccine or any vaccine until they speak with you. If your a parent I suggest you really get informed about vaccines and do not trust what you hear from the pharmaceutical companies, the CDC or your doctor as he/she gets their info from pharma.
 The best way to prevent cervical cancer is to eat a healthy whole food organic diet and stay away from toxins as much as possible. Iodine is a key nutrient to make sure that you're getting enough of.
 Here's the article for you to read
 Lead Developer Of HPV Vaccines Comes Clean, Warns Parents & Young Girls It's All A Giant Deadly Scam
 https://dailyhealthpost.com/hpv-vaccine-controversy/

Isabella S.https://firstname.lastname@example.com://izzyjessbell.blogspot.com/2017/06/announcement-about-hpv-vaccine.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738623569932236982.post-2563995273801792832017-05-17T12:33:00.000+01:002017-05-17T12:33:35.323+01:00Systemic Fraud - UK Elections

http://www.sandysteel.co.uk/

Isabella S.https://email@example.com://izzyjessbell.blogspot.com/2017/05/systemic-fraud-uk-elections.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738623569932236982.post-77668837447539462312017-05-05T17:25:00.002+01:002017-05-18T20:29:23.485+01:00self-publishing links
http://www.lulu.com/create/books

http://www.indiebound.org/
Isabella S.https://email@example.com://izzyjessbell.blogspot.com/2017/05/self-publishing-links.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738623569932236982.post-77515639109055007792017-04-30T17:40:00.000+01:002017-04-30T17:40:14.786+01:00Tdap and microcephaly

A study published in The National Center for Biotechnology Information reveals the the United Stated government has known since 1991 that a link between Tdap and microcephaly exists.

In light of this information, why are government officials set on blaming the recent microcephaly outbreak in Brazil on the Zika virus? Why is the fact that not a single known case of microcephaly been reported as a result of the virus in over 70 years?

The study, Adverse Effects of Pertussis and Rubella Vaccines: A Report of the Committee to Review the Adverse Consequences of Pertussis and Rubella Vaccines, found a link between microcephaly and the Tdap vaccine.

The following, written by Sean Adl-Tabatabai, sums up the findings of the research:

Among symptomatic cases, presumed causes are frequently grouped according to the timing of the suspected insult as occurring pre-, peri-, or postnatally. Prenatal factors are thought to account for 20 to 30 percent of cases. This category includes cerebral anomalies, chromosomal disorders, neurocutaneous syndromes such as tuberous sclerosis, inherited metabolic disorders, intrauterine infections, family history of seizures, and microcephaly (Bobele and Bodensteiner, 1990; Kurokawa et al., 1980; Ohtahara, 1984; Riikonen and Donner, 1979).

Among the earliest case reports suggesting a possible link between infantile spasms and pertussis immunization are those of Baird and Borofsky (1957). They described 24 children who had hypsarrhythmia and infantile myoclonic seizures and whose development prior to the onset of spasms was apparently normal. Nine cases of infantile spasms were reported to have occurred between 1 and 5 days after DPT vaccination.
Three of these nine children also had a history of perinatal complications that the authors thought might have been related to a risk of infantile spasms.

The authors also stated, on the basis of a review of published EEG tracings, that hypsarrhythmia was present in two of the affected children described by Byers and Moll (1948). Since these early case reports, additional cases of infantile spasms in association with pertussis immunization have been described in the literature (Fukuyama et al., 1977; Millichap, 1987; Portoian-Shuhaiber and Al Rashied, 1986). The time intervals reported between vaccination and the onset of infantile spasms have been from minutes to weeks (Melchior, 1971).

http://www.march-against-monsanto.com/1991-government-docu…/

Isabella S.https://firstname.lastname@example.com://izzyjessbell.blogspot.com/2017/04/tdap-and-microcephaly.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738623569932236982.post-53635716064406279262017-04-30T17:37:00.003+01:002017-04-30T17:37:44.373+01:00TDap vaccine and pregnancy

The TDap vaccine started to be given to pregnant women in 2011 and this is when fetal deaths started to outnumber infant deaths for the first time. There has been a study showing that TDaP vaccine increases rate of miscarriage by 16.7% in the third trimester. And since it's the third trimester it's considered a fetal death.

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/848656

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That is pretty significant, given that the U.S. has highest first-day infant mortality out of industrialized world, group reports
A new report reveals that the United States has the highest first-day infant death rate out of all the industrialized countries in the world.

About 11,300 newborns die within 24 hours of their birth in the U.S. each year, 50 percent more first-day deaths than all other industrialized countries combined, the report's authors stated.

http://www.cbsnews.com/…/us-has-highest-first-day-infant-m…/

The 14th annual State of the World's Mothers report, put together by non-profit organization Save the Children, ranked 168 countries according to where the best places to be a mother would be. Criteria included child mortality, maternal mortality, the economic status of women, educational achievement and political representation of women.
Because of their high infant mortality rates, the U.S. only ranked number 30 this year on the report, down five spots from the 2012 report. Save the Children CEO Carolyn Miles told CBSNews.com she was shocked to find that out that the U.S. did so poorly.

Isabella S.https://firstname.lastname@example.com://izzyjessbell.blogspot.com/2017/04/tdap-vaccine-and-pregnancy.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738623569932236982.post-36173379507173666852017-04-30T17:35:00.002+01:002017-04-30T17:35:35.023+01:00WHAT IS POLYSORBATE 80?
WHAT IS POLYSORBATE 80? 💫
Polysorbate 80 is a chemical used by physicians to open the blood-brain barrier, for the purpose of chemotherapy for brain cancer. The chemicals then bind tightly to the polysorbate 80 and the chemo can reach the cancer cells.
Polysorbate 80 is used in vaccines to reduce the surface tension of the chemicals, and increase the solubility of chemicals that normally would not be able to dissolve together (think oil and water). It also works as an emulsifier so the chemicals can disperse evenly upon injection. This sounds like a smart plan, right? The problem is, it also opens the blood-brain barrier and the brain is exposed to the chemicals like aluminum (a neurotoxin), formaldehyde (embalming fluid and a carcinogen), glyphosate (another carcinogen), etc. Since it increases solubility and absorbability, it makes it incredibly easy for the brain to absorb the toxins; the toxins bind tightly to the polysorbate 80 and flow right through the blood-brain barrier to do their damage.
So sure, you might eat more formaldehyde in pears than you may receive through a shot - but when you're digesting a pear, your brain isn't being exposed to formaldehyde in its full *synthetic* form and being damaged by the toxicity; it's being broken down in its *natural* form by your digestive system, which is equipped to handle it. Injection is very different from ingestion.
Credit: Allison Claire
Isabella S.https://firstname.lastname@example.com://izzyjessbell.blogspot.com/2017/04/what-is-polysorbate-80.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738623569932236982.post-13522633334337379052017-04-30T17:22:00.001+01:002017-04-30T17:22:12.892+01:00Measles

What exactly is measles?

Measles is a short-lived viral infection that begins with a fever that lasts for a couple of days, followed by a cough, runny nose and conjunctivitis (pink eye). A rash starts on the face, hairline and upper neck, spreads down the back and trunk, and extends to the extremities. After about 5 days, the rash fades.

How dangerous is measles?

Measles is a mild and harmless disease that leaves a stronger, healthier child in its wake; most adults today who were born before 1965 got measles and have lifelong immunity as a result. Serious problems from measles are very, very rare.

http://www.activistpost.com/…/whats-really-behind-current-m…

This, by the way, was standard medical policy; measles was just a rite of passage. It changed when the measles vaccine came on the market in the 1960s. Suddenly this mild, beneficial rite of passage became a deadly disease.

Some MDs still don't buy the hype. As Jay Gordon, MD, former UCLA Medical Center pediatrician recently said:

This measles outbreak does not pose a great risk to a healthy child and quite frankly I don't think it poses any risk to a healthy child

How deadly is measles compared to the measles shot?

Dr. Anne Schuchat, director of CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, in an Associated Press interview in 2014 stated that there have been no measles deaths in the US since 2003.+

However, the CDC's National Vital Statistics Reports show 2 deaths associated with measles for 2009 and 2015.

Now let's look at this measles vaccine

Another government reporting agency, The National Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), reports 108 children died from the measles vaccine during a ten year period. But that may be a fraction of the real number because MDs often do not report vaccine injuries.

Death certificates, usually filled out by MDs, very rarely mention vaccination as the cause of death. They may write encephalitis or brain inflammation rather than vaccination even though vaccines can cause brain inflammation) on the death certificate. We don't know the real number of vaccine injuries and deaths. But they are most likely much greater than what VAERS reports due to underreporting.

"Pediatricians continue to defend vaccination to the death. The question parents should be asking is, 'Whose death?'" Robert Mendelsohn, MD

read more:

http://www.activistpost.com/2015/02/whats-really-behind-current-measles.html

Isabella S.https://firstname.lastname@example.com://izzyjessbell.blogspot.com/2017/04/measles.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738623569932236982.post-55603347688820818842017-03-03T12:53:00.000+00:002017-03-03T12:53:44.400+00:00Making money Online
Work from home making money online! Is this the dream? How many of us would love to work from home a few hours a week and make a passive income. But are we too late? Is the market overcrowded? Does it work or is it a scam?

A simple google search comes out with many posts on how to make money online with lists of other sites where you can make money some how... but it seems to me that the best way to make money online is to sell or tell others "how to make money online".

I am not going to sell you anything or tell you how to do it. I will instead report how I am doing, so keep checking for updated in this blog.

Amazon FDA
It is the same with Amazon FDA. Yes there are people that make a lot of money this way, but it seems that the best way to make money with Amazon FDA is selling others the information of "how to make money with Amazon FDA".

Me and my other half spend a lot of time researching "made in China" products from sites like Alibaba.com looking for that one niche product that could make us money but every time we found "the one" it seems that our margins selling it would not be worth it or there were a lot of other people already doing the same. We tried to do all this with a very small budget of £200 only as there were a lot people claiming that you could start with as little as $100.

From our research, we decided that with a small budget it will not work with Amazon FDA and also we did not like the idea of buying something very cheat that was also not very good quality in order to try to make a profit.

We may consider it in the future but only if we can allocate more money in order to get a quality product.

Affiliate links and Blogging
Now this is something I have considered many times over as I love blogging, but as my blog is quite random, it would require tidying up this blog and posting regularly.

But I think that writing articles for other sites may be more profitable as the platform will provided views. If you are running your own blog then its more work promoting it and keeping updated. Not passive income as you have to keep it up. I am looking into this, and will report it here.

Youtube
Youtube is my favorite social platform. When I really want to no longer google it, I youtube it. There is just so much you can do with a youtube account but again it seems like its a bit overcrowded.

I have started a channel for kids songs and nursery rhymes. I posted some of my own videos and have been also using creative commons material to create content for my channel. Views are picking up slowly and should the income from ads pay off, I will report it in this blog.

Isabella S.https://email@example.com://izzyjessbell.blogspot.com/2017/03/making-money-online.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738623569932236982.post-57394678604877902042017-01-23T13:38:00.001+00:002017-01-23T13:38:18.661+00:00how to stop deleting as you type

You can toggle between these two modes by pressing a key; if you don't think you'll ever use the over type mode, you can also permanently switch it off in Microsoft Word. Press the "Ins" key to toggle over type mode off. Depending on your keyboard model, this key may also be labeled "Insert."

If you have a small child, you will know how they can somehow change the settings on you pc, tablet and phone. My little one makes us laugh every time she changes some setting on the TV that we did not even know existed.

The other day she almost order something from ebay.

But my laptop keyboard is her favorite. She loves sitting with me and "work". So when she some how changed all the settings on my keyboard it took me a while to figure out some things. One being how to stop deleting as you type when trying to correct or change your spelling.

I tried the above by selecting the "ins" on the top roll of my keyboard but nothing happened. After some very annoying typing and re-typing, I noticed that my keyboard also have "ins" under the zero key of the number keypad. And it work!!

Problem solved and you do learn something new everyday. :-)

Isabella S.https://email@example.com://izzyjessbell.blogspot.com/2017/01/how-to-stop-deleting-as-you-type.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738623569932236982.post-65091899139195893202017-01-23T13:29:00.001+00:002017-01-23T13:29:20.011+00:00Subpals

If you have signed up to subpals and no longer want to use their services, the first thing to do is do make sure to remove access to your google account:

go to <a class="yt-uix-servicelink " data-servicelink="CC8Q6TgYACITCMbV86Kj2NECFSIIwwodk-UBdyj4HQ" data-target-new-window="True" data-url="https://security.google.com/settings/security/permissions?pli=1" href="https://security.google.com/settings/security/permissions?pli=1&pageId=105222203534089697916" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #167ac6; cursor: pointer; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">https://security.google.com/settings/...

search for SubPals and Press "Revoke Access"

When your youtube channel is new, you want to get views and subscribers fast, it's easy to fall on the trap of sub for sub. Especially now that youtube does not allow users with less than 100 subscribers to choose a custom URL for the channel.

So last week I searched on goggle ´how to get more subscribers on youtube` and Subpals was the first in the page. I got super excited when I saw their claims and the site. In retrospect it looked to good to be true. And usually I was research other peoples reviews first before signing in for something new, but for some reason this time I did not.

I signed up for the free package where if you like and subscribe to 10 youtube pages then you get 10 subscribers in 48 hours.

It seemed easy enough, but their site is so slow... also for some reason many of the pages loaded as video not available on youtube. And per my own count, I superscribed to 13 users as the page kept reloading and telling me I still was pending one subscription.

After I did all that none sense work, then I decided to search on youtube about subpals and found complaints and warning not to use it. Many claim that the site has been abusing their access to peoples youtube accounts and hijacking peoples profiles when they unsubscribe to the channels later.

I did get 10 subscribers pretty much straight away. The next morning I had already lost 1 subscriber, and after one week I lost another 5 subscribers, today I lost one more.

Furthermore I have not noticed any significant change of views for the recent videos posted.

I have not unsubscribe to any of the 10 or more channels (most of then kids playing minecraft) but neither have I watch any more of the videos they posted. I am just a dead subscriber to them as some people are to me. And that is actually a bad thing.

Apparently these can be very bad for my youtube channel, as youtube will be recommending my video to my subscribers but they will not watch the videos, this tells the system that my videos are not wanted by my own subscribers and youtube will stop recommending my channel and videos to others. I believe this to be true, as years ago I did all the sub for sub in another channel and got lots of subscribers but my videos got less and less views as time went by.

One of my youtube channel that only have a few subscribers but never had sub for sub, and get way more views and most of those videos don't even have proper tags.

This review is based on my own experience using subpals and sub4sub.

I have decided not to use subpals again neither to ask random people to sub for me if I sub for them. I does not do anyone any good. And to think that someone people even go as further as to pay for subscribers on youtube and likes on facebook. IS FAKE!!!! In the end of the day you don't really have followers to your work.

So instead I will keep posting my videos and let my channel grow organically!

Have you used subpals or sub4sub?? Tell about your experience in the comments below.

Isabella S.https://email@example.com://izzyjessbell.blogspot.com/2017/01/subpals.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738623569932236982.post-18451697406346903382017-01-02T18:56:00.000+00:002017-03-09T19:38:40.377+00:00Free Open Source Alternatives to Adobe Creative Suite

Software like Adobe Creative Suite are amazing, but also very expensive. So if like me you want to learn things like animation, video editing for youtube, or you just want to edit some holiday photos for facebook or instagram, would you pay for these very expensive packages???

Luckily there are plenty of free open source alternatives.

I have researched, downloaded and tried some of these softwares to replace Adobe Flash, Photoshop and Illustrator. I was also looking for an audio software. But not only do I want a free to use software, I was also looking for something that have plenty of tutorial videos on youtube.

No point having a free software if you don't know how to use it.

These are the free open source software I am using and recommend:

Inkscape

This software replaces Illustrator and its very easy to navigate. As it supports advanced Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) features, I would say it is perfect for beginners. These can be used for animation, websites, creating graphics for apps, and creating digital art.

GIMP
To replace photoshop, the best free open source software is GIMP. But I also like this software to make digital paints using the brushes features instead of using Inkscape, and I also prefer using GIMP for creating the background on my videos.

The background for the video below was created in GIMP, the cat was done using Inkscape.

This is for the channel I created, please Subscribe to Mia Kids Songs on youtube

Blender

An amazing software and highly recommend.

I am still using adobe flash, but I am determined to use blender for all my future work. Not only can this software handle 2D animations, but very good tool for those learning 3D animations.

You can also edit videos and audio files, and there is a good selection of tutorials available on youtube.

Below is my first 3D animation, the tutorial was easy to follow on youtube and very fun to make as well. But it took more than an hour to render a few seconds of video. So for learning Blender its OK using my laptop and it runs fine, but if I want to actually start making and publishing 3D videos I will need a hardware update.

Audacity

I am still figuring my way around Audacity, but its worth mentioning here for those looking for a audio software.

At the moment I am using no copyright songs available for youtube, but considering creating my own soundtracks so having a free audio software is a great start.

Last updated: 09 March 2017

Isabella S.https://email@example.com://izzyjessbell.blogspot.com/2017/01/free-open-source-alternatives-to-adobe.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738623569932236982.post-27717860737145673562016-07-28T15:19:00.001+01:002017-01-04T19:56:37.526+00:00Home made baby food
What to feed your little one? We all want the best for our children, and to ensure they have the best start in life. And food is a big part of baby and mum's day to day routine.

Time and money are precious, and we all want to manage it the best way possible.

I know that my little one will eventually come in contact with all the processed s**t that is sold as food. And I am not radical about my approach to food, but for as long as I can, I will only give her natural and unprocessed foods.

Now for me it was already a big disappointment when I could not breastfeed and was desperate to. But more on that in another blog. And being a fan of Dr Robert Morse, I knew I would give her fruits as soon as possible and take her out of the fast food formula she has been on from birth.

Again, my plan was to blog about each event as it took place, and tah dah!!!! My baby is 6 months old and this is my second post for Mum's Favorites blog.

Now it is recommended to only feed breast milk or formula to babies under 6 months old, and I am not advising you against it. But in my own personal experience, I started feeding my baby fruits from 4 months old.

It is simple enough, blend the fruit with a bit of water and feed it to her. Just Fresh fruit and water.

She is still on formula, I would say at the moment she is on about 60% formula and 40% fruit. So it is a process for sure and every child will be different. Mother's instinct here will help decide when it is the right time to introduce fruits. Her first fruit was pineapple.

I am hoping to get some videos done showing how I prepare the fruit for her.

As with everything else that concerns your baby, everyone will have a different option on what is best, what works and what you should do, what you should not. But it is up to you to decide what is best for your child, and what suits your particular lifestyle and budget.

Yes it will be easier to buy ready made baby food, yes it will be easier to use disposable diapers and disposable wet wipes, yes it will be easier to keep her on formula as long as possible... but what is convenience for me, may not be what is best for my baby, so it does take a bit of organizing your day and priorities. And never be to hard on yourself. I watch and ready tons of health advise online, and some of these channel and blogs make it look very easy, but in real life its not always so. So sometimes I have given her ready made baby food, and used disposable diapers and wet wipes, and baby formula is an option for many of us that, WANT TO, but cannot breastfeed. (will link the blog here soon)

Another point is the cost. Do you save money or do you spend more? I have not really done the math on this one. And being summer right now I can find all the fruit I want and need. Let's see how winter will affect it.

Isabella S.https://firstname.lastname@example.com://izzyjessbell.blogspot.com/2016/07/home-made-baby-food.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738623569932236982.post-35390967638680691952016-07-22T11:50:00.000+01:002016-07-28T15:21:36.584+01:00BT phone scam
A few days ago I receive a call claiming to be from BT. The person explained that there was high activity in my account and that they suspected that my computer had been hacked.

I am so angry at myself for not knowing from the beginning that this was a scam call.

They asked me to log in into my pc so they could tell me how to fix the problem or they would disconnect my internet in order to fix the problem.

They wanted me to log in into those sites that give remote access to another user. Can't believe I amongst did it, the security in my pc blocked the access and my baby started crying. I told the guy that he would have to call some other time and he was very pushy that it had to be done. My hero baby saved me on this one as she is my priority so I disconnected the call.

After feeding my hero, I texted my husband about this call, and straighten away he called me to say it was a bogus call. THEN the penny dropped. Of course they are not from BT. Still they called again and I said that I had reported the call to BT and the police, and he disconnected, which was I lie as I hadn't had the time to call BT yet.

But an hour later I get another call, same guy for sure, who said that he was calling back following my complaint to BT about a scam call. I pretended to go with it to see what he would say, and again he was asking to log in to my pc.

I let my frustrations out, in a control manner because my little one was near me. All the anger I felt towards him, and towards myself. I wanted to scream every swear word in the world, but held myself back.

I phoned BT to report the fraud call. And this is when I am angry again. They said they are aware this scam is going on and what I can do is buy some product from them they will block these calls from my line.

BT is financially benefiting from these type of scams and nuisance calls, they are fully aware that these low life parasites are impersonating them but don't appear to care or to take any measures to try to stop it.

Until a few days ago I would describe myself as computer savvy, but if I almost fell for this, for sure it must be others that may believe it too.

The problem lies in Fear. We are all to some extent programmed to respond to fear. It is a control program that runs all the time on the background of our minds. It tells us to obey authority, to be a good citizen and comply.

So in my fear of not having internet for a while, and my fear that my pc was hacked, I almost gave control of all my information to a low life parasite. In my eager to help and assist, I was ready to follow instructions given to me without asking why.

This has been a massive trigger for me. I had this idea of myself as being aware and in control, being streetwise and smart. But this has been good in terms of seeing how Fear has affected my better judgement of the situation. How easily I obeyed and complied without questioning.

When any "authority" real or fake tells you to do something, what the person in control does is ask questions. If I had asked a few simple questions the first time they called I would know for sure that they were dirty liars.

I am thankful that my pc security and my baby stopped me when they did. And I am also thankful for this experience, that I was given the opportunity to see how an insinuation caused fear in my mind and lead me to accept what I was told even when in reality I had a sense that the situation was odd but pushed the feeling aside in my eager to please.

IzzY Jess Bellhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com://izzyjessbell.blogspot.com/2016/07/bt-phone-scam.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738623569932236982.post-16112907009479273502016-04-26T12:06:00.000+01:002017-03-06T20:35:59.255+00:00Gardening in the Shade
What to plant in the shade?

Herb Robert - will grow in full shade, and has many medicinal uses

A garden can look amazing no matter the weather or how much sun you get. I am really into growing food, and I had a allotment for a few years, but now that I have my own garden, I was planning ahead to having my very own edible back garden.

I wanted it to look beautiful, have plenty of room for my little one to play and be edible. I was going to have dozens of fruit trees and edible perennials.

But then realizing that I don't have a allotment, but a limited space in the garden. And a lot of shady areas. Thankfully there are plenty of shade loving plants that I can explore.

My first task for the garden is to observe how much sun and where the sun is for the most part of the day. Its April end, so I will have a good idea of how much sun I will be getting.

I will be updating this blog step by step as I build the garden, so please come back to check out.

For now I am looking for herbs that can grow in the shade, and fruit trees will have to be in patio pots.

Isabella S.https://email@example.com://izzyjessbell.blogspot.com/2016/04/gardening-in-shade.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738623569932236982.post-45642031480864555702016-04-22T17:27:00.002+01:002017-01-04T19:56:25.685+00:00Being Mum
My first favourite to list in Mum's Favourites blog is: Being Mum.

And since you are reading this blog is because being a mum or dad is your favourite too.

As the excitement of being a first time mum built up, the plan was to start blogging from the birth of my baby and share this magical journey from the start ... my baby is 3 months old this week, and tah dah!!! Here I am writing my first post.

Anyway, in retrospect I wish I had started blogging from the beginning of my pregnancy.

As being a parent is a new experience for me, I have spent hours online searching for everything baby and pregnancy related, from what to expect when you are expecting, to what products are save for pregnancy, breastfeeding and your little bundle of joy.

And I am loving every second of it! It's exciting!

But I am not here to advise you, I am sharing my tips and experiences, and I want to invite you do share yours too. So please tell me about topics that are important for you as a parent, share your tips and personal experiences:

These are some of the content I am suggesting as topics, but please feel free to write about what resonates with you and send it to me so I can share it here:

tips for getting pregnant

tips for dealing with morning sickness and nausea

tips for keeping in shape during pregnancy

home birth or hospital birth - share your birthing experience

what is your must have baby product

what is your must have pregnancy product

baby shower - presents ideas - what to give

first week with newborn baby

Isabella S.https://email@example.com://izzyjessbell.blogspot.com/2016/04/being-mum.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738623569932236982.post-54913280037773907312016-02-09T14:20:00.001+00:002016-02-09T14:20:27.624+00:00Giving Away Food for Free! - Food is Free LanewayIzzY Jess Bellhttps://email@example.com://izzyjessbell.blogspot.com/2016/02/giving-away-food-for-free-food-is-free.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738623569932236982.post-81576154838692962222016-01-11T12:07:00.003+00:002016-01-11T12:07:54.917+00:00Sally Clarke - DTaP Diphtheria vaccine

http://vaccination.co.uk/http:/vaccination.co.uk/why-we-have-not-vaccinated-our-children/

Monday 26 of January 1998 Sally Clarke's son Harry has his DTaP vaccination, (Stolen Innocence:
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the Sally Clark story

) Four hours later Harry was dead. Unfortunately for Sally Clarke she had no explanation for her sons sudden death. Clark was convicted of murdering Harry and his brother Christopher who was believed to have been a victim of Cot death a year earlier. Sally Clarke spent three years in prison and was finally acquitted by the court of Appeal in 2003, dying in 2005 of a "broken heart".

Soon after her conviction in February 2000 Sally Clark's family were contacted by campaigners on the dangers of vaccination. "They have no doubt that the DPT jab given to Harry four hours before he died is what killed him" (page 226). They support their view with a mountain of paper. "none of Sallys medical expert's will give this theory the time of day". The expert witness for the prosecution Paediatric consultant Roy Meadows said there was a one in seventy three million chance of two children in the same family dying of "cot death". Obviously Meadows had not been told of the "Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System" in the US which has recorded hundreds of deaths following millions of vaccines (in percentage terms small, if its your child 100%).

It is unbelievable to think that in 2000, Medical experts in the UK and Ireland would not accept that vaccines could cause serious neurological damage or death, with their checkered history. I guess this explains why they were not looking for it then and were convinced a mother would murder her two children, rather than consider the possibility, a vaccine being responsible. In America the risk is recognised, the data is collected and billions have been paid out in compensation. In the UK now the have a reporting system, which plays down the possible reactions to vaccines unlike in the US there is no mention of the possibility of brain damage and death. They also use the term, which the Irish Chief Medical Officer Brendan O Donnel used to Vera Duffy in 1973 before he realised he was talking to the "One"; its "one in a million", they love to say, to people who have not had an adverse event.

In April 2000 the Clark family found an expert in the US and commission Professor John Menkes, a paediatric neurologist to write a report on adverse reactions to the DTaP vaccine. The Clarks are encouraged by Menkes report which suggested that the vaccine was a possible cause of Harry's death ((page 228). This would surely be been enough to create reasonable doubt in the minds of any jury.

In August 2001 epidemiologist professor Tom Meade tells the Clarkes that he is prepared to make a full investigation of the DTaP vaccination. August 2002 Tom Meade's report says "vaccination could have killed Harry" (page 297). "he has no doubt that that the pertussis part of the vaccine could have killed the baby. I have seen Meades report and in the three years Sally Clarke was in prison there were 35 unexplained infants deaths days after receiving the DTaP vaccine. In his report Meade explains that a "cause of death" is not an exact science; it can only ever be a matter of opinion. He concluded "If the vaccine did not kill Harry, it would have exacerbated the effect of the bacteria Staaphylococcus aureus which was found in microbiological samples taken from Harry during the post-mortem". The fact bacteria was present in Harry's blood at the time of his death and could have contributed to the cause of death, was not revealed to the jury during Sally Clarkes original trial. Apparently the pathology report was "mislaid", this was the reason the second appeal in January 2003 was successful, rather than the effect the vaccine may have had and how the DTaP vaccine alone should have been enough for "reasonable doubt" in the minds of any jury. On top of the MMR controversy created by Andrew Wakefield at the end of the 90s, it would have been a disaster for vaccination uptake if DTaP had been suggested as a cause of death of two children in this high profile case. Nevertheless the DTaP vaccine was withdrawn from use eighteen months after Sally Clarkes release and replaced with the current five in one vaccine which does not contain the controversial preservative thimerosal (mercury)??

Sally Clarke, Verra Duffy and Rosemary Fox are not isolated stories, in fact 6 respondents to my survey had taken their child to A&E after the DTaP vaccine, that does not necessarily mean the vaccine was the reason these 6 children got sick, however one case stood out. A parent whose son had an immediate reaction to their first DTaP vaccine, she described on the response form how her "three month old son had extremely high temperature, went white, and then floppy and was rushed to Kingston hospital by ambulance and later diagnosed with sepsus and recovered. One month later he had his second DTaP jab and experienced the same reaction". The mother put two and two together, but doctors disagreed; " The evidence states the vaccine is safe, the reactions are coincidental" she was told? Despite these reassurances the parents declined any more vaccines, this parent was one of the few who actually knew what DTP, stood for. If you get punched in the eye and the following day the you have a black ring around the eye, you dont need "peer reviewed" evidence to conclude the punch caused the eye to go black.

Vaccine believers would say we are irresponsible parents, putting our children at "risk" by not following the "herd". I can only say I am doing what I believe is best for my children based on the information thats out there. I have no doubt the risk from the disease has been exaggerated and the risk from the vaccines minimised to promote a policy that is cost effective. The NHS is underfunded and does not have the capacity for GP's to go out and visit all the children that would be sick and contagious, if these diseases were common again. There is also a cost to the economy of parents who have to stay at home from work to look after sick children. There is no doubt vaccination has played a role in reducing morbidity of what were once called normal childhood illness, but there is no evidence children are now healthier or less likely to die from other illness because they have been vaccinated.

Isabella S.https://email@example.com://izzyjessbell.blogspot.com/2016/01/sally-clarke-dtap-diphtheria-vaccine.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738623569932236982.post-10107964627446097912016-01-11T11:49:00.002+00:002016-01-11T12:10:39.871+00:00MEASLES

http://vaccination.co.uk/http:/vaccination.co.uk/why-we-have-not-vaccinated-our-children/

If your immune system dose not have antibodies to recognise an infectious agent, chances are you will develop signs and symptoms of the disease regardless of how healthy you are or how many greens you eat. Measles is arguably the most contagious virus know to man, if you dont have anti bodies for it and are exposed to the virus in all probability you will develop measles, 90% of our class got it in 1964 (I was 7) we were off school for a few days, everything and everybody was back as normal the following week, hundreds got it, it was seen as a bit of a joke and important to get out of the way before adulthood,parties were thrown, to make sure everyone would catch it early. This is how measles was portrayed on TV So the risk of catching measles in those without antibodies is extremely high, while the risk of dying or having side effects is not in healthy well nourished kids living in a developed country with hood housing and sanitation. The UKs worst ever measles epidemic was in Jan/Feb 1959 with 61,000 reported cases, the Editorial of British Medical Journal that month (available in the Welcome Trust Library) described Measles as the most infectious disease known and "complications are extremely rare", now despite all the improvements in housing and nutrition's since that time we are told it is a "killer disease" and parents should protect children from it.

Thousands die from Asthma every year and a study Published in Thorax in 2001 showed that Adults who had measles as children were significantly less likely to develop Asthma as adults.
Isabella S.https://email@example.com://izzyjessbell.blogspot.com/2016/01/measles.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738623569932236982.post-74819920114716995802015-11-14T21:59:00.001+00:002015-11-14T21:59:13.990+00:00Why You Never Need A Tetanus Vaccine
Why You Never Need A Tetanus Vaccine, Regardless of Your Age or Location

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By Dave Mihalovic
 As with most vaccines, we have been led to believe that a tetanus shot is a necessity to protect us from a supposedly virulent germ that can lead us to our death. When we carefully consider some of the facts on tetanus reported in the medical literature, we find many contradictions, inconsistencies and even falsities in relation to actual facts on the bacteria that produces the neurotoxin. If spores of the bacteria have been found in vast numbers of wounds without producing any tetanus, then why is it considered such a threat at all?
 Tetanus is unique among the so-called vaccine-preventable diseases as it is not communicable and therefore the 'herd immunity' argument is not applicable. Tetanus as a clinical entity is linked to the bacterium Clostridium tetani, however this bacterium is recovered from a wound in only 30% of cases, and is often isolated from patients who have not developed tetanus.
 The tetanus bacterium is ubiquitous. It is not here today gone tomorrow. It is found on the surface of the body, in the mouth, in the gastro-intestinal tract, in house dust and clothing. It occurs extensively in cultivated soils. The organism lives as a harmless commensal in the gut of many animals, in addition to humans (rural residents tend to have higher rates of intestinal carriage than city dwellers). In spite of the ubiquity of the so-called cause, the incidence of tetanus is significantly low.

It is not the bacterium itself that causes the development of tetanus but the toxins it produces under anaerobic conditions. "Under normal conditions, no disease will occur if spores are introduced into a wound."(J. Ark Med Soc Vol 80, No 3 p134) and "It is the compromised host, or traumatised patient, either by surgery or accident, who is most apt to develop tetanus." (J Foot Surgery Vol 23, No 3 p235).
 The clostridium tetani is relatively innocuous but it elaborates a certain toxin, tetanospasmin, the effects of which are hard to determine. Drs. Cecil and Loeb, in their Textbook of Medicine, say "Tetanus toxin fails to produce any recognisable pathological lesions in the tissues it affects, nor do any specific changes occur at the site of infection by the clostridium tetani."
 Let us consider some of the facts reported in the medical literature in 1920, Sir Leonard Hill said in a report to the Medical Research Committee, "Tetanus and gas gangrene bacilli washed clean and injected are innocuous." In 'A System of Bacteriology' Vol III, page 307, Drs Bosanquet and Eyre say "The bacilli are in pure culture incapable of vegetating in viro," ie of multiplying in the body. Furthermore, in the Official History of the War, Pathology 1923, it is stated "Tetanus bacilli have been found in 20% of war wounds although no symptoms of tetanus were present, " and "in 50% of undoubted tetanus cases the bacilli have been undiscoverable." In the same volume also appears clostridium tetani has been "cultivated from the wound of a man showing no evidence of tetanus, 882 days after it had been inflicted," and "it has been realised during the war that the tetanus bacillus or its spores may be present in vast numbers of wounds without producing tetanus."
 We may deduce from the above facts that we have, as the cause of tetanus, a bacterium which is (a) harmless in pure culture (b) incapable of multiplying in the body (c) absent in 50% of cases of undoubted tetanus (d) present in 20% of cases where no tetanus symptoms appeared and often remaining in the body for months or years without producing symptoms. This is certainly a peculiar cause.
 It is thought that whilst the bacteria themselves are somewhat feeble, their spores may remain dormant in the tissues for lengthy periods. If this is so, what are the factors which enable the spores to develop into bacteria and elaborate their toxins? What causes them to become active? Why do they remain dormant for long periods? As yet the answers to these questions are not forthcoming. They could supply the answer to the cause of the disease, in fact, all disease, for these questions obviously concern the host rather than the bacteria, and it is to the host that we must look for causes. Here we will find the cause of tetanus, not in some microscopic piece of protoplasm which we endow with almost omnipotent properties. Bacterial diseases, so-called, have a biochemical basis. The tetanus bacteria may be a factor in tetanus. The toxin may be involved in some way but that these are fundamental causes is nonsense, otherwise the disease would be more common, in view of the fact that the bacteria is so frequently found on and in our bodies.
 The geographical distribution of tetanus across the globe generally follows the areas of moist, warm climate and fertile soil — the highest rates occur in the developing world, particularly in countries near the equator.
 Most people associate tetanus with the wound from a rusty nail or deep puncture wound where it is difficult for oxygen to reach. These kind of wounds account for just over half of the cases in the developed countries, as other causes have been observed, i.e. middle-ear infection, tonsillitis, appendicitis, dental infection, abortions and in some cases there is neither a history of injury, nor a detectable wound! Also laboratory investigations frequently produce negative results.
 What is the real cause of tetanus? How may it be prevented, and how may a patient recover once tetanus has developed? The real cause of tetanus is not a germ, but dirt and filth. The bacteria are harmless when placed into a surgically clean wound. Tetanus develops when drainage of a wound is checked and dirt is retained in the tissues. The bacilli do not circulate in the blood. They remain at the point of entry and produce toxins. One of these poisons, tetanospasmin, is one of the most dangerous poisons known to man which occasions vigorous activity in the nervous tissues. The other toxin, tetano-lycin, occasions a breakdown of the blood cells. If good drainage is facilitated from the beginning, tetanus will not result from a wound. If tetanus has developed, an incision should be made to afford drainage, removing the foreign matter, and once the wound is drained and cleaned, the bacteria will not be able to elaborate the powerful toxins which are poison in the body. Once the poisoning ceases, the patient will start to recover. The ability to combat, destroy and eliminate the toxins will depend on the health and vigour of the patient. The patient suffering from tetanus should be put to bed, permitted to rest, kept warm and fasting should be immediately instituted. They should receive all the salubrious hygienic influences and the fasting should be continued until all symptoms have disappeared. Wounds should never be permitted to become pent-up. Drainage must be afforded, and if this is done, there is no danger.
 Types of Tetanus
 A 1940 text still provides some of the most valuable information on Tetanus that there is. It was written before antibiotics, and at a time when people had a very thorough knowledge of tetanus.

There are five kinds of tetanus.
 All can be preceded by nonspecific premonitory symptoms such as restlessness, irritability and headache.
 1) Subacute tetanus which is characterised by some degree of neck stiffness involving the muscles at the back of the neck; spasticity, as well as increased muscle stretch reflexes, especially in the lower limbs. Patients usually have brief nocturnal generalised spasms.
 2) Local tetanus (rare) where the contractions of the muscles are only in the area of the injury. These contractions can persist for weeks when treated by the traditional hospital method.
 3) Cephalic tetanus (very rare) which can often occur after otitis media with a burst ear drum, or removal of teeth or dental work, with inappropriate wound management. (But again, host conditions determine the outcome). Clostridium tetani can be found from swabs taken from the middle ear, but sometimes the entry point can be from the cone put in the ear by the doctor to have a look, or from fingers transferring tetanus spores into the ear. The main symptoms for this form of tetanus are in the head and face area.
 4) Generalised tetanus (most common sort about 80%) The symptoms start at the head and work down. Reflex spasms normally occur within 24 – 72 hours, known as the "onset time". First the person will find it hard to open their mouth; will have a stiff neck and have difficulty swallowing.
 5) Neonatal tetanus was eliminated from developed countries BEFORE either a vaccine or antibiotics were invented primarily because of basic cleanliness.
 Tetanus spores are everywhere in the environment. On your bookcase, in your back yard, in clothing and house dust and in your mouth and feces. Tetanus has been known to follow surgery and innocuous procedures such as skin testing or intramuscular injections of medications and vaccinations themselves.
 Clostridium bacteria are especially common in the intestines and feces of rats, guinea pigs, chickens, cats, dogs, sheep, cattle and horses. Approximately 5% of humans have clostridium tetani multiplying in their guts yet don't even know it, although the 1940 text puts that figure at 25%.
 Vaccines Do Not Prevent Tetanus
 A tetanus vaccine does NOT protect you from getting tetanus. While the medical profession likes to take the credit for ALL the decline of tetanus courtesy of a vaccine, this is simply NOT true.
 The proof of that lies with neonatal tetanus in the developed world, which DISAPPEARED well before the existence of either anti-toxin or a vaccine.
 If we look at the documented Tetanus Mortality England & Wales from 1901 to 1999, we find that the administration of tetanus vaccine is likely to be pointless and puts children especially at risk of adverse reactions to the vaccines.

Deaths related to Tetanus and tetanus incidents overall, sharply decreased long before the vaccine was introduced widely during World War II.
 Debate as to whether humans can develop circulating antitoxin against tetanus in the absence of vaccination is futile since evidence of natural immunity has been observed globally.
 Although there have been conflicting results, some studies in Brazil, China, Ethiopia, India, Italy, Israel, Spain and the USSR have shown substantial proportions of unimmunised populations with detectable levels of antitoxin. Specifically, up to 80% of persons in India and up to 95% of persons in a group of Ethiopian refugees had levels of antitoxin suggestive of protection. It is admitted by medical experts that this phenomenon has not been adequately studied, and yet it is apparent that when unexpected or undesirable findings emerge, rather than acknowledging the results, it is presented as an ongoing debate!
 The development of tetanus by a deep puncture injury is known not to induce any subsequent immunity, which then raises the serious question — how is a vaccine able to produce any long-term immunity? Proper and natural immunity is achieved by the ingestion of tetanus spores through natural entry, stimulating the immune system at all levels in an appropriate way. Critics of vaccination often highlight the fact that injecting foreign antigen into the body by-passes a branch of the immune system leading to a compromised host. Dr Viera Scheibner, a researcher on the ineffectiveness and dangers of vaccination, points out that any injection is a deep-puncture wound, so that is why contracting tetanus through a wound does not produce any long-term proper immunity because of the similar action to a vaccination, i.e. the by-passing of our multi-levelled immune system due to unnatural entry.
 With an obvious lack of understanding on this aspect, from the world health 'experts' of the day, it is surprising that their general conclusion is that 'even if natural immunity occurs in some populations, it can not be relied on to control tetanus.' In 1973, of the estimated one million tetanus deaths throughout the world, 60 to 90% were due to neonatals (in otherwords most tetanus cases). Clearly the most simple and effective way to reduce this problem would be improved hygiene in childbirth practices, along side obvious health improvements for the population at large.

The following is taken from the Medical Press, Nov 3, 1948. "The not infrequent failure of tetanus anti-toxin prophylactically is indicated by the fact that deaths from tetanus occur in 7% of civilian cases and 50% of military cases, in spite of its use." From the Medical History of the Second World War, Medicine and Pathology, we note, "It is disappointing to find that the case mortality is the same as in 1914-18. There is still no convincing evidence that anti-tetanic serum possesses curative value." Many more such statements from strictly "orthodox" sources could be quoted to consolidate our claim that the serum is incapable of affording any protection against tetanus. However, we must now turn to another important aspect concerning the employment of the serum.
 Is there any danger associated with the injection of the vaccine, and if there is, does any test exist which can show the probability of the development of "allergic reactions" in a particular patient. There can be serious effects following the introduction of tetanus anti-toxin into the body and there is no valid method of revealing the possibility of these side effects beforehand. Most textbooks on bacteriology point out the 'fallibility of the intradermal sensitivity test." The so-called allergic manifestations may appear immediately following the injection or they may be delayed for 1-14 days. Early "reactions" to toxoid include anaphylactic shock, unconsciousness and death. The later reactions may be chills, fever, urticaria, angioneurotic oedema, swollen lymph glands, pains in the muscles and joints. The anti-toxin may prove fatal but there is also another hazard associated with the dangerous yet dramatic practice of transfusing blood. Dr Meyer in his book "Side Effects of Drugs," has this to say: "Six cases of transfusion reactions occurred in 8 recipients with blood of O donors previously vaccinated with anti-toxins (diphtheria and tetanus anti-toxins)."
 They refuse to blame the drugs, vaccine and sera for the "reactions" which follow their administration, but assert that the patient was "sensitive". All this means is that the drug was not to blame. The blame was the patient's. He or she was "sensitive". To a greater or lesser degree, we are all sensitive to poisons, that is, when poisons are taken into the body through any channel, an attempt is made to resist these poisons, to expel them or to neutralise them, to get rid of them, to destroy them. In the process of neutralising, expelling and resisting the poisons acute symptoms are the actions of the body, not the drug or serum, actions of the body defending itself against the poison.
 Tetanus Vaccine Ingredients
 There are 15 different tetanus-containing vaccines manufactured by various drug companies, which are licensed in the U.S. The tetanus containing vaccines are licensed for adults only; four are licensed for use as booster shots; one of the vaccines contains tetanus only and is licensed for use by persons age 7 years and older; and the rest are combination vaccines that may contain one or more of the following vaccines: pertussis, diphtheria, hepatitis B, Hib, polio, and/or meningococcal.
 As of August 2012, there had been 22,143 adverse events in children and adults reported to the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) following tetanus or tetanus containing vaccines combined with diphtheria vaccine (TT, TD, DT) and 67 deaths.
 Severe reported tetanus vaccine adverse events include shock; neuropathy; convulsions; encephalopathy; paralysis; Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS); and death;

The vaccine is made from the tetanus toxoid inactivated withformaldehyde. To produce the toxoid the bacterium is cultured in liquid medium in large-capacity fermenters. The medium consists of digestive enzymes of milk protein, allegedly free of contaminants, which is harvested by filtration, purified and detoxified. The vaccine also contains aluminium hydroxide or phosphate, which acts as an adjuvant (any substance used in conjunction with another to enhance its activity), and thimerorsal, a mercury-containing compound, is found in the ingredients of some of the DTaP formulations which is claimed to prevent bacterial contaminant overgrowth.
 The Risks of Tetanus Vaccines Outweigh Any Benefit
 According to medical literature, tetanus toxoid is one of the most potent vaccinations used routinely in children with protective levels being obtained with schedules that start in the newborn period. Apparently in contrast to the diphtheria toxoid, which is clearly impeded in the presence of passively transferred maternal anti-toxin, the tetanus toxoid has been considered to be minimally inhibited by maternal antitoxin. However, interestingly enough, studies in US have shown that infants have high levels of circulating tetanus antitoxin, well above the protective level, at 2 months of age before beginning vaccination schedules. (Barkin RM et al. DTP reactions and serologic response with a reduced dose schedule, J Pediatr 105: 189-94, 1984. — Barkin RM et al Pediatric diphtheria and tetanus toxoids vaccine. J Pediatr 106: 779-81, 1985).
 In one study 11 healthy subjects receiving the tetanus booster vaccine produced a lowering of the t-lymphocyte helpers/suppressor ratio such as might be seen in patients with AIDS. (NEJM,1984, 310:198-9. Eibi MM et al Abnormal T-lymphocyte subpopulations in healthy subjects after tetanus booster.)
 In an article on tetanus by Dr Kris Gaublomme, a medically qualified homeopath and vaccine researcher, he concludes with:
 'The overwhelming amount of literature on tetanus toxoid vaccine adverse side-effects and the severity of those complications make it absolutely impossible to ridicule them as rare and benign. Doing so could only demonstrate a profound lack of knowledge of the literature concerned. Some medical professionals insist on having adrenalin readily available when tetanus toxoid is administered, thus admitting that the vaccination is in fact a life-threatening medical intervention, even in apparently healthy individuals. This speaks for itself. Risking one's life by an intervention which is probably ineffective, to avoid a disease which will probably never occur, is not sound medical practice. All it takes, on a world scale, to avoid the majority of tetanus cases is clean scissors to cut the newborn's cord. Information, soap and peroxide might do a far better job than tetanus vaccine.'
 Drugs, vaccines and anti-toxins are a hazard to health. The sick cannot be poisoned into good health.

Other worthy scientific publications linking tetanus vaccines with disease:
 Griffin MR, et al, "Risk of seizures and encephalopathy after immunization with the diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis vaccine," JAMA 1990 Mar 23 30;263(12):1641-1645.
 Blumberg DA, "Severe reactions associated with diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis vaccine: detailed study of children with seizures, hypotonic-hypo-responsive episodes, high fevers, and persistent crying."Pediatrics 1993 Jun; 91(6):1158-1165. Vaccinations and Convulsions Citations.
 Baraff LJ, "Infants and children with convulsions and hypotonic-hypo-responsive episodes following diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis immunization: follow-up evaluation," Pediatrics 1988 Jun; 81(6):789-794.
 Gross TP, Milstien JB, Kuritsky JN, "Bulging fontanelle after immunization with diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis vaccine and diphtheria-tetanus vaccine." J Pediatr 1989 Mar;114(3):423-425.
 Jacob J, Mannino F, "Increased intracranial pressure after diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis immunization." Am J Dis Child 1979 Feb;133(2):217-218.
 Paradiso, G et al, "Multifocal Demyelinating Neuropathy after Tetanus Vaccine", Medicina (B Aires), 1990, 50(1):52-54.
 Walker AM, "Neurologic events following diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis immunization," Pediatrics 1988 Mar;81(3):345-349.
 Greco D, et al, "Case-control study on encephalopathy associated with diphtheria-tetanus immunization in Campania, Italy," Bull World Health Organ 1985;63(5):919-925.
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You are anaemic or have low iron levels... what are your birth options?
This page is aimed at women in the UK who are considering a home birth, but will also be relevant to anyone investgating anemia in pregnancy. It discusses when a woman is at higher-risk, and when supplements may be useful.
 This page in a nutshell:

The standard blood screening test for anaemia, the haemoglobin count (Hb level) gives a high rate of false positives - you can have a low Hb count as a normal variation of pregnancy, or it can mean that you are iron-deficient or have some other form of anaemia which can adversely affect your health.

 Haemoglobin levels alone are not enough to diagnose iron-deficiency anaemia. Nowadays there are more specific tests which should be used in conjunction with Hb counts.

If you are genuinely iron-deficient, you need accurate blood tests to confirm this, so you can start taking iron supplements and find the best one for you.

If your low Hb is not due to iron-deficiency, then taking iron supplements is unlikely to benefit you, and may have side-effects.

If you have slightly lower than average Hb but no deficiencies or other anaemias, then I cannot find any evidence that you are higher-risk.

Even if you are genuinely anaemic, you can still choose a homebirth - but make it an informed choice.

Severe haemorrhage is less likely at a homebirth, because of the reduced need for surgical delivery (caesarean and forceps/ventouse).

What's the worry about anaemia?
One of the routine blood tests in pregnancy is for iron-deficiency anaemia. This is because pregnant women need more iron than non-pregnant women - the baby needs iron, and if you don't have enough iron for both of you, your red blood cells may not be able to carry enough oxygen around your body. This can make you feel tired and sometimes breathless, as well as increasing the risk of a low birthweight baby.
 The main concern for labour is that, if you are genuinely iron-deficient, your blood will not be able to carry as much oxygen as it should. You are no more likely to haemorrhage, but IF you were to suffer a severe haemorrhage, you might be in more danger than a woman whose blood was able to carry more oxygen.
 It is partly for this reason that most hospitals recommend a hospital birth if you have iron-deficiency anaemia - so that you can have quick access to emergency support if you have a severe haemorrhage.
 Women who are iron-deficient are thought to be at higher risk of premature labour, although some sources dispute this [Lao, 2000]. However, this seems less relevant to the home birth issue, since most women would change their plans and choose hospital birth when faced with premature labour. Another concern is the possibility of a low birthweight baby, but this is something which can be screened for separately. If you are concerned about your baby's growth, please see 'Homebirth with a suspected small baby'. Both prem labour and low birthweight babies are issues which you can consider if they start to affect your pregnancy. Therefore it seems that the main concern for women with anaemia who are considering a homebirth, is what would happen if she had a severe haemorrhage - see the discussion of PPH risks below.
 Note that these are some of the risks of genuine iron-deficiency anaemia. However, many women who have a low Hb level, which is the inital screening test for anaemia, will not actually be iron-deficient; a low haemoglobin level frequently just means that your blood has become well diluted in pregnancy, which is a good sign. This is called ' normal haemodilution of pregnancy'.

What is 'normal haemodilution'?
Haemodilution literally means dilution of the blood. In pregnancy, your overall blood volume increases by up to 50%, but because your red blood cells don't increase in total volume by as much as the plasma, the red blood cells are spread more thinly. In some women, this 'dilution' is stronger than others - you can see from the extract below that estimates of the different increases vary according to which study you look at. In this situation, your haemoglobin levels might well be lower than average, but you would not see signs of iron deficiency such as a low MCV or Serum Ferritin, which are explained below.
 Here's an explanation aimed at family doctors, from the UK's GP Notebook:

During pregnancy:

there is an increase in the total blood volume, the plasma volume and the red cell volume during pregnancy. The total blood volume increases by about 30-40% by about 34 weeks of pregnancy

there is a relative increase in plasma with respect to red cells - 45% increase in plasma versus 18% increase in red cells respectively. This imbalance causes a haemodilution

Normal haemodilution is a good sign, and is not something that iron supplementation can 'cure'.
 Writing in the Journal of Family Practice, Alper and colleagues found that:

Standard obstetrical practice has included screening for anemia and the provision of iron supplements to anemic patients. This approach has been based on assumptions about anemia and iron deficiency that are not supported by the literature.
 "In our population of prenatal patients with anemia, only 54% had an iron deficiency. Diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to screening for anemia in pregnancy should be reconsidered and further evaluated to avoid unnecessary iron therapy."

Blood Tests for Anaemia
The first 'screening' test for anaemia is the haemoglobin count, or Hb level. Until recently this was often the only test for anaemia which would routinely be given, which is perhaps why there is a 'hangover' effect and not all midwives are up to speed with the other tests.
 The following tests help us to tell the difference between normal haemodilution and iron-deficiency anaemia.

Haemoglobin levels
Here is more on haemoglobin from patient.co.uk:

"Red blood cells are made in the bone marrow, and millions are released into the bloodstream each day. A constant new supply of red blood cells is needed to replace old cells that break down. Red blood cells contain a chemical called haemoglobin. Haemoglobin binds to oxygen and takes oxygen from the lungs to all parts of the body.
 To constantly make red blood cells and haemoglobin you need a healthy bone marrow and nutrients such as iron and certain vitamins which we get from food."
The Hb result states how much of your blood, by weight, is haemoglobin. The result is normally given as grams per decilitre (100ml), or g/dLL, but it may also be given as grams per litre.
 What should your Hb level be?
 Mayes' Midwifery textbook says:

"The World Health Organization (1979) considers anaemia to be present in the pregnant woman when haemoglobin is 11g/dl or less. More arbitrary levels may be decided locally and usually range between 10 and 10.5g/dl"
In the UK, the most common definition of mild anaemia is an Hb level of 10 g/dl (100g per litre of blood) or less. Severe anaemia is usually defined internationally as 7g/dl (70g/L) or less, but to complicate matters, some studies define this as 'moderate' anaemia, and 'severe' as 4.7g/dll or less.
 In the UK, the NICE Guidelines on Intrapartum Care state that a haemoglobin level of less than 8.5g/dLL at the start of labour suggests a woman is at increased risk and should be advised to give birth in an obstetric unit rather than at home or a low-risk centre, and women with Hb of 8.5 - 10.5g/dl should have 'individualised assessment' to help them plan their place of birth (p11).

MCV: Mean Cell Volume or Mean Corpuscular Volume
MCV is a measure of how 'fat' or 'skinny' your red blood cells are, ie whether they really are deprived of iron or not.
 From Lab Tests Online UK:

"Mean corpuscular volume (MCV) is a measurement of the average size of your red blood cells (RBCs). The MCV is elevated when your RBCs are larger than normal (macrocytic), for example in anaemia caused by vitamin_b12 deficiency. When the MCV is decreased, your RBCs are smaller than normal (microcytic), such as is seen in iron deficiency anaemia or thalassaemias. "
Here's an extract from the NHS patient information database on Anaemia in Pregnancy:

Investigations Hb < 11.0g/dl 3
 MCV (mean cell volume): if < 76fl then probable cause is iron deficiency ...
Normal MCV (76-96fl) with low Hb is typical of pregnancy.
MCV doesn't tell the whole story, because it is affected by other things. For example, vitamin B12 deficiency can make your MCV higher than average, so it is possible that this could mask an iron deficiency. MCV is part of the Full Blood Count, which gives a good overall picture of your blood's health.

Serum Ferritin
The serum ferritin, or 'ferritin', test measures your body's iron stores. A healthy person has reserves of iron in the body so that you do not become anaemic if you have a short period where your diet does not provide enough iron. If you have genuine iron-deficiency anaemia then you would expect your body to have very little stored iron. On the other hand, if iron stores are high and diet adequate, then taking iron supplements is unlikely to be effective.
 Alper and colleagues published a very detailed article on using ferritin levels to determine iron-deficiency anaemia in pregnancy, in the Journal of Family Practice (2000). It says:
"Ferritin levels are considered the gold standard for the diagnosis of iron-deficiency anemia in pregnancy"
Lab Tests Online UK says:
If a blood count indicates that your haemoglobin and haematocrit are low, especially if your red blood cells are smaller and paler than normal ('microcytic' and 'hypochromic'), this indicates that you have anaemia due to iron deficiency. Ferritin and other iron tests can be used to confirm the diagnosis.
 What does the test result mean?
Ferritin levels are low in long-term iron deficiency, or if your body's protein levels are very low, as in some cases of malnutrition.
If serum ferritin is the 'gold standard', why don't we just test for that and forget Hb and MCV? Because ferritin levels can fluctuate for other reasons. In particular, they can rise in women with pregnancy-induced hypertension or pre-eclampsia, both of which are relatively common in the third trimester [Lao, 2000]. So serum ferritin can't be taken in isolation, but together with Hb and MCV levels, it can give you a good picture.

Other causes of anaemia
There are other reasons for anaemia besides iron deficiency, eg inherited conditions like sickle-cell disease or thalassemia - your midwife would probably already have considered these possibilities. Nonetheless it's worth checking - if you find out your Hb level and MCV, and your MCV is normal, then you could ask your midwife why she thinks you are iron-deficient, or indeed higher-risk in any way.

Anaemia Worldwide
Severe anaemia is a major problem in the developing world and it increases the risk that a baby will be born prematurely, or have a low birthweight. The risks are highest when the mother is anaemic in the first trimester of pregnancy as this suggests that her nutritional status before pregnancy was poor - her low Hb levels cannot be caused by her blood volume expanding ('haemodilution of pregnancy') because blood volume will not have expanded greatly at this stage. If a woman is anaemic in the first trimester because of poor nutrition, it may also suggest that she will not have a good diet or healthcare during her pregnancy. Many women in the developing world who suffer from anaemia may not simply be deficient in iron, but may also have malaria, sickle-cell anaemia or other blood diseases ('haemoglobinopathies') and some of the research into anaemia in pregnancy looks at different categories individually. However, you will occasionally see attention-grabbing quotes saying that women with anaemia have significantly higher rates of stillbirth. Where references are given, it often turns out that the source is a study looking at severely anaemic women in the developing world - not necessarily relevant to a woman in the UK with only mild anaemia.

Is low Hb dangerous if there's no sign of iron deficiency?
There seems to be no good evidence that a woman in the developed world with an Hb level of 9 or 10, and no other complicating factors, is at any increased risk of complications in labour, nor her baby at increased risk after birth. For instance, in a study of Swedish women, Stephansson (2000)found that anaemia was not significantly associated with risk of stillbirth in multivariate analyses, although high haemoglobin (146 g/l or more) was associated with an increased risk of stillbirth. Several studies have now found that the best outcome for the baby, in terms of avoiding low birthweight and prematurity, arises when the mother is actually mildly anaemic by standard definitions. For instance, Malhotra et al (2002) compared outcomes for women with 'normal' blood (Hb above 11g/dll) with those for women with mild anaemia (9 - 10.9 g/dll), moderate and severe anaemia (severe being Hb lower than 7g/dll). They found that:

"Women in Group II (mild anaemia) had lowest number of low birth weight and IUGR babies, no stillbirths and neonatal deaths, lowest induction and operative delivery rates. ... Mild anemia fared best in maternal and perinatal outcome. Severe anemia was associated with increased low birth weight babies, induction rates, operative deliveries and prolonged labor."

The Expert View
"A Guide to Effective Care in Pregnancy & Childbirth (2nd Edition) " by Enkin, Keirse, Renfrew and Neilson, is the UK's 'gold-standard' textbook on evidence-based maternity care and is generally respected by all midwives and obstetricians. Here's what it says on this subject:

The normal haematological adaptations to pregnancy are frequently misinterpreted as evidence of iron deficiency that needs correcting. Iron supplements have been given with two objectives in view: to try to return the haematological values towards the normal non-pregnant state, a strange objective when millions of years of evolution have determined otherwise, and to improve the clinical outcome of the pregnancy and the future health of the mother. The first objective can certainly be accomplished; the key question is whether or not achieving the "normalized" blood picture benefits the woman and her baby. Routine iron supplementation raises and maintains serum ferritin above 10 microgram/litre and results in a substantially lower proportion of women with a haemoglobin level below 10 or 10.5 grams per cent (below 6-6.5 mmol/litre) in late pregnancy. Routine folate supplementation as a haematinic after the first few weeks of pregnancy substantially reduces the prevalence of low serum and red cell folate levels, and of megaloblastic haematopoiesis.
 As yet, neither iron nor folate supplementation after the first trimester have shown any detected effect on the following substantive measures of maternal or fetal outcome: proteinuric hypertension, antepartum haemorrhage, postpartum haemorrhage, maternal infection, preterm birth, low birthweight, stillbirth, or neonatal morbidity. Women do not feel any subjective benefit from having their haemoglobin concentration raised.
 A possible advantage claimed for a high level of haemoglobin in pregnancy is that the woman would be in a stronger position to withstand haemorrhage. There is no evidence to support this claim. Indeed, as a low haemoglobin in healthy pregnant women generally implies a large circulating blood volume, it is at least possible that women with a low haemoglobin might better withstand a loss of blood....
 Whether routine iron supplementation causes any harm in well-nourished communities is still unclear, but it is clearly wasteful. The evidence suggests that, except for genuine anaemia, the best reproductive performance is associated with levels of haemoglobin that are traditionally regarded as pathologically low.  There is cause for concern in the findings of two well-conducted trials that iron supplementation resulted in an increase in the prevalence of preterm birth and low birthweight. Perhaps there is an adverse effect on fetal growth due to the increased viscosity of maternal blood that follows the iron-induced marcrocytosis and increased haemoglobin concentration, which may impede uteroplacental blood flow.
 An individual's haemoglobin concentration depends much more on the complex relation between red-cell mass and plasma volume than on deficiencies of iron or folates. The advent of electronic blood counters has given an opportunity for more appropriate criteria to be applied to the diagnosis of anaemia. Mean cell volume may be the most useful; it is not closely related to haemoglobin concentration and declines quite rapidly in the presence of iron deficiency. A low haemoglobin without other evidence of iron deficiency requires no treatment.

What's wrong with taking iron supplements even if you don't need them?
There are questions over whether unnecessary iron supplementation may be harmful in pregnancy. Around 40% of women who are prescribed iron supplements are unable to tolerate them because of the severity of side-effects. It is possible that unnecessary supplementation may be harmful for the baby. [Lao, Tam and Chan, 2000, and see also Alper, 2000 for further refs]. Recently there has also been high-quality research which found that pregnant women who were not iron-deficient had a significantly higher risk of developing high blood pressure if they were given iron supplements (as ferrous sulphate). There was also a higher risk of having a low-birthweight baby [Ziaei et al, 2007 and RCOG press release]. Dietary experiments with pregnant rats have also shown harmful effects for both mother and offspring [Ward et al, 2003]. It is important to note that these studies only looked at mothers who had a 'normal' haemoglobin level and thus their results may not be applicable to women with lower Hb. We do not know in what circumstances the benefits of iron supplementation outweigh the risks, because the risks appear not to have been well studied. It is likely that it was considered unethical or impractical to include women with lower Hb in the study group because standard management is to supplement with iron where low Hb is found. However, now that it is relatively cheap and easy to obtain more specific blood tests, it is to be hoped that researchers may start to consider women who have lower Hb but who are not iron-deficient. The Cochrane Review of evidence on treatment for iron-deficiency anaemia in pregnancy found that:

..it is unclear if women and babies are healthier when women are given iron for anaemia during pregnancy. It also remains unclear what the effects of treatments given by different routes and in different populations are; therefore, it is not possible to draw a well-informed balance of benefits and harms for the differing levels of severity of anaemia.
Michel Odent, obstetrician and natural birth supporter, writes in an article on the value of antenatal tests:

 The regrettable consequence of routine evaluation of hemoglobin concentration is that, all over the world, millions of pregnant women are wrongly told that they are anemic and are given iron supplements. There is a tendency both to overlook the side effects of iron (constipation, diarrhea, heartburn, etc.) and to forget that iron inhibits the absorption of such an important growth factor as zinc (18). Furthermore iron is an oxidative substance that can exacerbate lipid peroxidation (free radicals) and might even increase the risk of pre-eclampsia (19).

How can I raise my iron levels?
Lots of women have a diet which is plentiful in iron, but still for some reason do not absorb enough of it. If you are convinced that your iron level is genuinely low then it is worth taking action to increase it. Before you do this, however, please read 'Is the problem really iron deficiency?'. If you are not deficient in iron then the best-case scenario is that taking iron supplements will give you expensive bowel movements; however, if you take prescribed iron supplements then you may end up with unpleasant side-effects including nausea, constipation, etc..
 The iron supplement usually prescribed on the NHS is ferrous sulphate, because it's a very cheap way of getting a high dose of iron. You can also get ferrous gluconate and ferrous fumarate on prescription, which may cause fewer side-effects.
 The British Society of Gastroenterology guideline on iron deficiency anaemia explains:

"Iron therapy Treatment of an underlying cause should prevent further iron loss but all patients should have iron supplementation both to correct anaemia and replenish body stores (B). This is achieved most simply and cheaply with ferrous sulphate 200 mg twice daily. Lower doses may be as effective and better tolerated and could be considered in patients not tolerating traditional doses. Other iron compounds (e.g. ferrous fumarate, ferrous gluconate) or formulations (iron suspensions) may also be tolerated better then ferrous sulphate. Ascorbic acid (250–500 mg twice daily with the iron preparation) may enhance iron absorption. We recommend that oral iron is continued until three months after the iron deficiency has been corrected so that stores are replenished." [1]
Two iron supplements which are popular with pregnant woman are Floradix and Spatone. Both can be bought from health food stores like Holland and Barrett, and often from Boots, as well as from plenty of online retailers. Midwives and mothers on the Homebirth UK egroup have reported very rapid results from Spatone raising Hb levels.
 Spatone has a section on its website for health professionals which cites some impressive research showing that it is absorbed incredibly quickly into the bloodstream and is extremely effective at raising blood Hb levels. It's actually only a form of naturally iron-rich water - even tastes like rusty water.
 The real bonus of this, and other forms of 'natural' iron like Floradix, is that they don't usually cause any gastric symptoms; the NHS iron supplements are cheap and nasty, and while they give you a massive whack of iron, it's in a form which is hard for your body to absorb. The unused portion can cause diahorrhea, constipation, nausea, you name it - which is why there is such a market for less offensive alternatives.
 There are four studies on Medline of the effectiveness of Spatone and they all seem to confirm the manufacturer's claims, which you can find on the 'health professionals' section of its website (www.spatone.co.uk).
 Some GPs have prescribed Spatone for pregnant women on the NHS, if they suffer adverse symptoms from the other iron supplements.
 All iron supplements are allegedly most effective when taken with vitamin C as it helps absorption of iron (eg take in/with a glass of orange juice), and avoid tea as tannins hinder absorption.

Does a low Hb level mean you're more likely to haemorrhage?
I've trawled through Medline, the international database of medical research, and found nothing on correlations between low Hb antenatally and risk of haemorrhage. Not surprisingly, there are papers showing that a low postpartum Hb level is associated with having had a PPH. This is like saying that cars with dents are likely to have been involved in accidents than cars without dents. However, that does not mean that your car is more likely to be involved in a crash in future, just because it has a dent already!
 Another view, less commonly heard, is that a woman can be said to have had a PPH if her Hb levels fall below a certain level after the birth. Thus she might lose only 100ml of blood, but still be said to have haemorrhaged because her postpartum Hb level was, say, 8 - even though it was, say, 8.5 before the birth. This is not the way most women think of postpartum haemorrhage, and if we are trying to screen out emergency transfers to hospital, it is probably not most relevant.
 The extract from 'A Guide to Effective Care in Pregnancy and Childbirth', above, explains that Hb levels in pregnant women are generally lower than in non-pregnant women, but that this does not mean that low Hb levels are a problem. Iron supplements can normally raise Hb levels in pregnant women to the 'normal' level for non-pregnant women, but there is no evidence that raising the Hb levels in this way benefits mother or baby at all.
 The UK's NICE Intrapartum Care Guidelines include women with Hb of 8.5g/dl in their list of women at higher risk of PPH (p254), but the supporting text (p250) states that only one study was included on this topic and it found no difference in rates. I assume that NICE included women with low Hb in this category because of the possible increased dangers to them of severe blood loss, as mentioned above:

Anaemia
 "A cohort study was conducted in New Zealand in 1996 comparing haemoglobin levels at 4 weeks prior to birth on PPH (blood loss 600 ml or greater within 24 hours of birth).578 [EL = 2-] Although the study reported no difference, the analysis did not control confounding factors and hence was inconclusive."
Some years ago, I asked doctors and medical students on sci.med.obgyn newsgroup if there was any evidence that low Hb levels might increase the chances of post-partum haemorrhage. These were the responses:

 I am studying obstetrics at the moment... I know of no evidence to this effect. The mechanisms of PPH are uterine atony, lacerations, and retained products. None of these should be affected by anaemia, though I guess a general aplasia of marrow could lead to thrombocytopenia as well as anaemia.
 The reason why haemoglobin levels are low is because the plasma volume increases, while erythrocyte production doesn't increase so much. Hb levels are measured as a concentration, not as an absolute amount. Thus there is a normal 'anaemia' associated with pregnancy, which causes no problems. Of course one can also get folate/iron deficiency or malnutrition which causes a genuine anaemia.

 Richard Cavell

This myth has been around a while...I've never seen any evidence...
 It also depends on definition...if your definition of PPH is need for transfusion, then maybe it's true since if you start with a lower Hgb, you can suffer less blood loss before you need a transfusion. If your definition is strictly how much you bleed, then starting Hgb is irrelevant...

Adam Newman, MD
 (Postpartum haemorrhage is defined in most countries as blood loss over 500mls, but some midwives and obstetricians prefer to look at the condition of the individual woman, and consider her blood loss to have been excessive if she is showing syptoms suggesting that, regardless of how much her measured blood loss is. While this is good for individualised care, it's not helpful if you want to collect data, make comparisons, and so on!)
 It seems that it is probably irrelevant to 'risk out' a woman from home birth because of her Hb level. Such advice is probably due to an incorrect understanding of the implications of low Hb levels.
 Some people suggest that, while the actual risk of haemorrhage doesn't increase when Hb levels are low, if a mother with low Hb does haemorrhage, she might find it harder to recover. This reflects the point made above by Dr Newman. However, there appears to be little evidence to support even this. For example, in the section from 'A Guide to Effective Care in Pregnancy & Childbirth' by Enkin, Keirse, Renfrew and Neilson copied below,

"A possible advantage claimed for a high level of haemoglobin in pregnancy is that the woman would be in a stronger position to withstand haemorrhage. There is no evidence to support this claim. Indeed, as a low haemoglobin in healthy pregnant women generally implies a large circulating blood volume, it is at least possible that women with a low haemoglobin might better withstand a loss of blood. "
Of course, any mother suffering a serious haemorrhage would be transported to hospital immediately, where she could receive a blood transfusion. Transfer times to hospital should be taken into account when making any decision about home birth, but when transfusions are given, it is often a day or more after the birth, rather than as an emergency measure.
 An important consideration for women who are worried about blood loss is that there is less risk of severe blood loss with a homebirth. This is largely because starting off at home reduces your risk of ending up with an operative delivery, either cesarean or forceps or ventouse - all of which are associated with significantly increased blood loss. Therefore, if you are genuinely iron-deficient and are struggling to get your levels up before the birth, homebirth could be said to have a protective effect, and is a positive step to reduce your risk of haemorrhage.
 This website has more information on Postpartum Haemorrhage and Homebirth - how likely it is, and what happens if you have a PPH at home. You can find references for homebirths and PPH risks there.

Arranging a homebirth when you have low Hb
If your midwife or doctor maintains that a low Hb level makes you an unsuitable candidate for home birth, please consider asking them for evidence and citations to support their claims. I would be very interested to hear of any research which backs it up. I've been looking for ten years now and nothing convincing has been forthcoming!
 If you make an informed choice to continue with homebirth plans 'against advice' then it can be helpful to write a letter to the Head of Maternity or the Community Midwifery Manager at your hospital, copied to your community midwives. Here is a sample letter:

Dear Community Midwifery Manager,
 I am booked for a home birth under the care of Team X, and my estimated due date is (date).
 Midwife Z has informed me that your guideline is to recommend hospital birth whenever a woman's haemoglobin count is below 10 g/dLL, and my count at the last test was (result).
 I am writing to inform you that I have looked into the matter and have decided to continue with my homebirth plans. I believe that the risks of hospital birth in my situation outweigh the benefits at the moment. If my circumstances change then I will of course consider the situation again. I appreciate the advice of my midwives, but I am prepared to take responsibility for my own decisions. I am informing you of my decision now so that you have plenty of time to make the necessary arrangements, to ensure that staff are available to attend my birth at home.
 [If you want to, and fully understand the subject, you could add a paragraph here giving more details of your individual circumstances. You do not need to justify your decision to give birth at home, or to explain it, or to 'persuade' anyone to 'allow' you a homebirth. However, you may choose to discuss it further, both to make sure that you are fully informed, and perhaps to help your midwives be more open-minded with other women! If you show that you understand the subject it may reassure your midwives - they may be concerned that you might blame them if you went ahead with a homebirth, and, unlikely though it is, had a heavy bleed, and then needed to transfer to hospital afterwards. I believe it is important, if you want to get involved in a technical discussion, that you understand all the terms involved and feel confident using and discussing them. If you don't feel confident, it may be better to avoid using them!] So - the sort of thing you might add here could be:
 I have been given the results of my full blood count and my Mean Cell Volume is 88. This is well within normal limits of 80-100 and therefore there is no reason to suppose that I am iron-deficient. There have been no abnormal results suggesting ill health of any kind. I believe that my Hb level of 9.5 g/dLL is accounted for by normal haemodilution of pregnancy and, following the guidelines in A Guide to Effective Care in Pregnancy and Childbirth, that I am not at any increased risk, nor in need of any treatment, as a result.
 Yours faithfully,
 Ms Stroppy

The Third Stage of Labour, and Your Baby
Finally, if you are genuinely iron-deficient, you may wish to think about your options for the third stage of labour - the delivery of the placenta.
 You may find that you are encouraged to have a managed third stage, where you are given an injection to assist the delivery of the placenta and hopefully to reduce the averge blood loss. See The Third Stage for your options. Side-effects of this can include sudden nausea, headache and blood pressure fluctuations, so many women who are aware of this risk, prefer to wait and see how the third stage progresses and to have the injection only if their blood loss is worrying.
 If you do decide to have a managed third stage, please give serious consideration to the issue of when the baby's cord will be clamped. In many places it is still routine to give the injection as the shoulders are being born, and to clamp the cord immediately after birth. This results in up to a third of the baby's blood volume being trapped inside the placenta and cord, and it is lost with the placenta; neither baby nor mother can use it.
 An alternative is to wait around three minutes for the cord to finish pulsating, before clamping and giving the injection. This means that the full complement of blood has been transfused to the baby. This is particularly relevant if the mother is iron-deficient, because if her iron stores are low, then the baby's will be too. The baby who is born with low iron stores is at risk of anaemia in its first year, and can ill-afford to have up to a third of its blood volume thrown away with the placenta.
 If the cord is allowed to finish pulsating, the baby gets its full share of placental blood. Any excess red blood cells are broken down and the iron appears to be scavenged for the baby's iron stores. Iron-deficiency anaemia is much more common in babies whose cords were clamped early, throughout the first year. You can read more about this, and find references, on The Third Stage page.

Links
For more discussion of these issues, and suggestions of ways to raise your Hb levels through diet and supplements, see the Association of Radical Midwives archive on the Third Stage of Labour.
 Merck medical manual - chapter on Anemia in Pregnancy
http://www.merck.com/mmpe/sec18/ch261/ch261b.html
 Anaemia in Pregnancy - patient.co.uk information sheet
www.patient.co.uk/showdoc/40000289/
 Iron-Deficiency Anaemia - patient.co.uk information sheet.
www.patient.co.uk/showdoc/23068889/
 Lab Test Online UK - "A clinical resource on clinical lab testing, from the professionals who do the testing" - explains how and when different tests are used, and what the results mean.
www.labtestsonline.org.uk
 Anemia: When Is it Not Iron Deficiency?: Differential Diagnosis of Anemia by RBC Indices and Biochemical Markers
Very technical, but well-referenced, Medscape article.
 British Society of Gastroenterology. Guidelines for the management of iron deficiency anaemia. 2005.
 http://www.bsg.org.uk/pdf_word_docs/iron_def.pdf
 NHS Clinical Knowledge Summary (formerly Prodigy) on iron-deficiency anaemia
http://www.cks.library.nhs.uk/anaemia_iron_deficiency
 Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists press release on risks of iron supplementation in non-anaemic pregnant women.
www.rcog.org.uk/news/care-over-taking-iron-supplements-non-anaemic-pregnant-women
 (backup copy on this site)
 The Rise of Preconceptual Counseling Vs The Decline of Medicalized Care in Pregnancy - Michel Odent MD
http://www.wombecology.com/maternalemotional.html
 And see also links in the References, below.

References
Stephansson et al (2000): JAMA. 2000 Nov 22-29;284(20):2611-7.
Maternal hemoglobin concentration during pregnancy and risk of stillbirth.
Stephansson O, Dickman PW, Johansson A, Cnattingius S.
PMID: 11086368 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
 Malhotra et al (2002):
 Int J Gynaecol Obstet. 2002 Nov;79(2):93-100.
Maternal and perinatal outcome in varying degrees of anemia.
Malhotra M, Sharma JB, Batra S, Sharma S, Murthy NS, Arora R.
PMID: 12427391 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
 Using Ferritin Levels To Determine Iron-Deficiency Anemia in Pregnancy
Journal of Family Practice , Sept, 2000
Brian S. Alper, Roger Kimber, Anuradha Kudumala Reddy
 Lao, Tam and Chan [2000]
 Human Reproduction, Vol. 15, No. 8, 1843-1848, August 2000
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 Third trimester iron status and pregnancy outcome in non-anaemic women; pregnancy unfavourably affected by maternal iron excess T.T. Lao1,3, K.-F. Tam2 and L.Y. Chan1,2
 Ziaei et al, 2007:
 BJOG. 2007 Jun;114(6):684-8
A randomised placebo-controlled trial to determine the effect of iron supplementation on pregnancy outcome in pregnant women with haemoglobin > or = 13.2 g/dl.
Ziaei S, Norrozi M, Faghihzadeh S, Jafarbegloo E.
 Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists press release on risks of iron supplementation in non-anaemic pregnant women.
www.rcog.org.uk/news/care-over-taking-iron-supplements-non-anaemic-pregnant-women
 Ward et al, 2003
Iron Supplementation During Pregnancy- A Necessary or Toxic Supplement?
 Roberta J. Ward, Stephanie Wilmet, Rachida Legssyer, and Robert R. Crichton
 Bioinorg Chem Appl. 2003; 1(2): 169–176.
 Cochrane Review of evidence on treatment for iron-deficiency anaemia in pregnancy
www.mrw.interscience.wiley.com/cochrane/clsysrev/articles/CD003094/frame.html
 A note on spellings: 'Anaemia' is the UK spelling for what, in US English, is 'anemia'; likewise here we use 'Haemoglobin' rather than 'Hemoglobin' . Search engines may be slightly confused by this, so I have varied spellings through the text. The occasional Americanism is not a typo - it's so that Google can still rank the page effectively.IzzY Jess Bellhttps://email@example.com://izzyjessbell.blogspot.com/2015/11/homebirth-and-low-haemoglobin-iron.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738623569932236982.post-10719873736785916472015-09-12T16:50:00.004+01:002015-09-12T16:50:54.412+01:00Lotus Birth UKThe lotus position

The umbilical cord is usually cut straight after birth, but some parents are taking a different approach - keeping the placenta attached until it naturally falls away. Viv Groskop speaks to advocates of 'lotus birth'

A newborn baby. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty

When her daughter Ember was born 13 months ago, Gina Cox-Roberts, a natal hypnotherapist from Telford, had an overwhelming sense that the placenta was part of the baby's body. "The placenta and the child came from the same cell," she says. "Her placenta was as much a part of her as her hands or her heart." So why cut the umbilical cord? Instead Cox-Roberts decided to go ahead with a "lotus birth" - a practice in which the placenta stays attached to the baby until the umbilical cord disintegrates naturally a few days later.
Cox-Roberts believes that this approach - which followed an uncomplicated home birth attended by an independent midwife - gave her baby the opportunity to "let go" of the cord and placenta in her own time. "After all, her entire existence until the moment of birth was next to this placenta, which she would snuggle up to. The placenta had been her companion, her plaything: its sounds had lulled her to sleep. Here she was in this alien world and we were going to cut away the one thing she knew. Why do we feel we have a right to do that?"
Thanks to the rise of online home birthing groups, lotus birth is enjoying a revival. The expression comes from Buddhism - meaning "holy, intact child" - and while the practice was once common in Bali and various aboriginal cultures, its origins are uncertain. Now it has the seal of approval from French birthing guru Michel Odent, who has said that "we need to relearn what birth can be like when it is not disturbed by the cultural milieu. We need a reference point from which we should try not to deviate too much. Lotus birth is such a reference point."
In Australia in particular, where there is a growing home birth support network, the practice is hotly discussed. There is a book on the topic, Lotus Birth by Shivam Rachana, and the movement even has a poster girl in Dr Sarah Buckley, a GP with four children between the ages of eight and 18, three of them lotus births.
Mothers who take this approach often personify the placenta, treating it almost like a baby itself: "Be nice, use warm water to wash it!" advises one website. Cox-Roberts feels that treating the placenta with respect makes the transition from womb to world much easier for the baby. "After two and a half days, Ember's cord fell away at the navel and she had a perfect belly button," she says. "It was a little bit red but not sore or open. It looked exactly like a baby's belly button when a cord stump [the remnant of a cut umbilical cord] comes away - and that can take up to 10 days."
She says that it is not inconvenient to carry the cord, placenta and baby around together. "We rinsed off the placenta so it was as clean as possible. We sprinkled sea salt over it - it's a chunk of meat quite like liver and has the potential to go off. We had some lavender essential oil to drip on it too in case it got smelly, but it never did. We wrapped it in a terry nappy, then wrapped the baby and the placenta up together in a sleeping bag. Every 12 hours we changed the nappy and added more salt. It worked fine." She and her partner Rae, a psychologist, are keeping the placenta in the freezer until they move house - then they will plant it beneath a tree.
Unsurprisingly, lotus birth is a minority home birth activity, says Mervi Jokinen of the Royal College of Midwives, although there is no reason you couldn't ask for it at a hospital birth. "The people who do this are happy to see the experience as a life event and a natural thing. It's difficult to make a clinical comment on this because there are no studies." Jokinen is not in a position to vouch for its total safety, she says, since, "The placenta is a blood organ and bacteria can set in quickly with a blood organ."
The usual process in a birth, of course, is to cut the umbilical cord and then deliver the placenta as quickly as possible. In the majority of today's hospital births an injection of syntometrine is administered once the cord has been cut, to speed up contractions and ensure that the placenta is delivered within minutes, minimising the risk of bleeding. If you don't have this injection, the placenta comes out at its own rate - which usually takes about an hour (in Cox-Roberts' case, it took five).
Jokinen says that the practice of cutting the cord and administering syntometrine developed because it lessened the risk of post-partum haemorrhage, which was once the most common cause of death in childbirth. "This reduced the maternal mortality rate so rapidly that it was adopted everywhere." she says. Natural birth advocates - including lotus birthers - argue that this is no longer necessary: now that women are healthier, have smaller families and are less likely to be anaemic, there is no reason to adopt these methods as standard.
Lisa Schuring, an Australian who runs the Joyous Birth website, has two children, aged three and five, both of them lotus births. She sees the approach as safe and sensible, and says there was no way she was going to sever her babies' connection to their placenta. "My first child used to sleep with her fingers curled around the cord. The cord was dried and ready to come off after three days but she kept holding on to it until about seven days after birth. Then she pulled it off herself. She also did not like anyone but me touching the placenta."
Buckley says there are health benefits to lotus birth: "The baby receives an extra 50-100ml of their own blood, known as the placental transfusion, which contains iron, red cells, stem cells and other nutrients, which will benefit the baby through the first year." Lotus birthers often talk about the importance of the "babymoon": the post-birth period when the mother and baby should be together exclusively, bonding and cocooning. Lotus birth "is an ideal start", says Buckley, "because it slows everyone down: with a lotus birth, you can't take your new baby shopping". (Or rather, you could, but the placenta would have to come as well.) This is why some see lotus birth as a way of reclaiming birth as an exclusively mother-and-baby experience. It precludes the cutting of the cord, for instance, which is one common way of involving fathers in the birth, and Schuring says that lotus birth mothers tend to get their babies completely to themselves for several days. "You can avoid the "pass the baby around" thing with visitors," she says. "People are usually put off by the cord and the placenta."
Beyond the bonding, some argue that the best thing about lotus birth is that it gives you more time to decide what to do with the placenta: bury it, eat it or freeze it. The resurgence of lotus birth coincides with a rising interest in the placenta as a nutrient, with proponents claiming that it wards off post-natal depression. Ten years ago Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall was accused of cannibalism when he fried a placenta with shallots and garlic and spread it on foccaccia. Now, however, there are thousands of recipes online for placenta smoothie, bolognese and pizza, although most prefer to eat it the old-fashioned way: raw. Celebrity placenta fans include Tom Cruise ("very nutritious") and Matthew McConaughey (who planted it beneath a tree). There is even a placenta blog: "Thanks for helping to spread the placenta love!"
Most bizarrely of all, in the wake of lotus birth another new trend has sprung up in the US: placenta encapsulation services. This involves the placenta being baked, ground into a powder and converted into pills to be swallowed. One website offering this service suggests that, "When you have recovered from childbirth, you can freeze the capsules and save them for menopause." Now there's a treat to look forward to.

 source: http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2008/nov/28/lotus-birth-umbilical-cord-placentaIzzY Jess Bellhttps://email@example.com://izzyjessbell.blogspot.com/2015/09/lotus-birth-uk.html