When an obstetrician
engages a patient for
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the prenatal period, he
has at least 2 patients...
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the woman, and the unborn child.
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Ideally, there should be
more people involved than that
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in the patient's care
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...the father of the child,
sometimes the grandmother,
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and the grandfather,
and other siblings...
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So it's quite a group of
people who are involved in
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1- patient care.
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To get all the things that
a prenatal program requires,
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requires some study, and
so we hope that you will be
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with us as we make a
study on this subject
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during this program.
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Welcome to "Help
Yourself to Health"
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with Dr. Agatha Thrash
of Uchee Pines Institute
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And now, here's
your host, Dr. Thrash
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A prenatal program
comes at a very receptive time
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in the life of a woman.
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Most of the time, if
you talk with a woman
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about changes in her lifestyle,
she will do almost anything
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She wants to have the
very best program possible
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for the unborn child, and
she wants to ensure that her own
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health will be good
after the baby is born.
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So, whatever reforms you
think you could make in the
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entire family, NOW
is the time to do it.
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So, the obstetrician,
or the midwife can use this
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GOLDEN opportunity to make
certain that there are changes
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in that family, so that these
changes in lifestyle can spread
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to a community.
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And in this way, much good
can be done that would otherwise
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be missed at the
most favorable time.
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Let's start with diet...
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Diet is a very basic
thing, and most pregnant women
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believe that diet is something
that they should control
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very carefully, and so
they're willing to listen
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to any kind of prenatal
program that you're wishing
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to establish in that family.
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And, the first
thing is an abundant diet.
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At any time that a
woman is restricting her diet,
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she may cut out
whole classes of foods.
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She may cut out all
breads, all sugars, all fats.
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She may cut out all nuts.
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And just with a big sweep,
she just cuts out things that
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she knows to be fattening.
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But, this is not the time
to make those sweeping changes
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in a person's diet.
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What you need to
do if you're pregnant,
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is to know that you're
eating for 2 people, and
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therefore, you need to eat
enough for your own maintenance
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needs, as well as for
the growth of the baby.
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The baby is going to grow
from just a fraction of an ounce
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to several pounds
by the time of birth.
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To make this growth, the
baby needs an abundance of
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nutrients
supplied by the mother.
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Now the mother's diet
should have fruits, vegetables,
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whole grains, nuts and seeds.
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Now these are
basic to all women.
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It's the most favorable
diet that a woman can have
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to have those items in her diet.
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Anything else that she
adds besides fruits, vegetables,
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whole grains, nuts and seeds,
ANYTHING else that she adds
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is either superfluous, or
may not be the best thing.
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Now, what can we say about
other things that could be added
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Heavy sweets... for
some reason many women CRAVE
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heavy sweets during pregnancy.
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Very salty foods... again, some
women CRAVE very salty foods.
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Very highly spiced foods...
some women crave those things,
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and some women are just
repulsed by the very thought
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of eating something
that's highly spiced.
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So the whims of the appetite,
get to be a prominent thing
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during pregnancy.
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A woman has a craving for this,
or she has an aversion to that,
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so she may leave out some
very good foods, and take some
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that are not good for
either her, or for the baby.
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What are some of those
foods that are not good?
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Things like ice cream,
those should be avoided,
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unless the ice cream is made
from something very healthful.
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A banana ice cream can
be substituted for the heavy
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and unhealthful forms
of commercial ice cream
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that are often available.
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And by doing so, she can
improve her general nutrition
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and also satisfy
her appetite a bit.
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How does one make a
nice banana ice cream?
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Well, it's very easy.
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Get a nice ripe
banana, peel it, freeze it.
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Then if you want to
make it in a blender,
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you can cut it into a number
of pieces, maybe 8 or 10 pieces
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...put it in the blender
along with some pineapple juice,
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or other kind of sweet,
fruit juice, and blend that
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until it's about the consistency
of soft-serve ice cream
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and then it's very delightful!
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It can be eaten with a
waffle, or just on hard toast
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...hard, whole wheat toast
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And it's a
remarkably delightful dessert,
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and is just made of fruit.
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She can, if she would like,
add to the banana something
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like a few blueberries,
or a few strawberries,
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and she's got strawberry ice
cream, or blueberry ice cream,
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or any other kind of
fruit... peach ice cream,
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just any kind of frozen
fruit can be added at that time
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and blended up nicely, and
you've got a good ice cream.
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Now, the Champion Juicer
can also be used as that thing
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that you use to
make the ice cream...
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Of course, it's the
champion maker of ice cream.
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I have a Champion
Juicer for that very purpose.
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In the south, on a hot
day, sometimes very pleasant
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to have a small dish
of some kind of ice cream.
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Banana makes up the
very creamiest ice cream
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of all the fruits, and
so I always use the banana
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as a base for making the
ice cream, and add the more
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icy fruits, and
crumbly fruits to the banana,
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so that it can be
aerated, and creamy,
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and taste very good,
and have a good consistency.
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Now in addition to the
very heavy sweets, heavy fats
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and heavy salty
things also tend to be
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those things that women crave.
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They may crave chips.
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They may crave
unhealthful, very salty pickles.
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Or unhealthful, very
salty, very fatty, hot dogs.
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And, all of these kinds of
things are unhealthful for her.
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One study done a few years
ago, showed that if a woman
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ate a lot of hot
dogs during pregnancy,
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that her offspring was more
likely to develop a brain cancer
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in the future, so we
just recommend that those
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are refuse meats anyway,
so that hot dogs just not
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be taken ever, but
especially not during pregnancy.
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Now with the diet, we need
to understand also the times
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of day that one would eat.
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Normally, we recommend
a 2- meal plan for women
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and for men as well, but
especially for women since they
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tend to get
overweight more readily.
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Two meals a day represents
the ideal number of meals
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for a human being.
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But during pregnancy, because
the entire digestive tract is
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slowed down, we usually
recommend the third meal.
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It should be a small meal...
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something like bread and
fruit, and she should be able
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to gain weight properly
with that, and also to be
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quite satisfied with her meals.
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There are BIG changes in a
mother's body during this time.
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and the gastrointestinal
tract is one of those organs
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making these big changes.
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We can understand why
when we consider the fact
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that certain
hormones in a woman's body are
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50 thousand times higher
in pregnancy, than they are
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in the unpregnant state...
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So, she's making
quite enormous changes
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in her body's mielur?
and to keep up with this
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she needs to make certain
changes in her lifestyle.
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The emotional state is
one of those important areas
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where she needs to
pay close attention...
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and Dr. Don Miller is
going to talk with us about
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the emotional states
of women during pregnancy
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and what can be done to
help control that... Dr. Miller
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Thank you so much...
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You know, a woman who is
pregnant, as Dr. Thrash is
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explaining, is carrying a
precious bundle within her...
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And whatever the woman
has going on in her body
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will be going on in the
child's body in many ways.
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She talks about this
great influx of hormones;
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well, the hormones and
other emotional things that are
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going on in a woman's
body passes into the child
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and her mental state
is extremely important
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during the time
of her pregnancy.
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If a woman is happy,
if she is just cool during
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the whole time of her
pregnancy, the child, itself,
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when the child is born will
seem to have the same nature.
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But if the woman is
agitated, and if she's unhappy,
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if she's combative, if
she's battled by her husband,
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all these different things...
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Because basically when a woman
is going through the pregnant
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period, there
are changes going on,
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and the husband, sometimes, is
not in tune with these things...
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And, his treatment of the
wife has a profound effect
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upon the baby
once that baby is born.
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You know, you see
examples, once of the examples
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that I like to think
about is in the Bible
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Let's over here
to 2 Chronicles 23
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I find this an
interesting study.
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As you study down through
the kinds of Israel and Judah,
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it almost always
mentions something significant
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Here in the first
verse, chapter 23,
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Amaziah was 20 and 5
years old when he began to reign
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and he reigned 20 and
9 years in Jerusalem...
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And then the next
thing is very significant...
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"... and his mother's name
was Jehoaddin of Jerusalem. "
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And then the next statement
always follows, whenever
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it talks about the mother,
it says something else about
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the child... It says,
"... and he did that which was
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right in the sight of the Lord,
and did it with a perfect heart"
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It was the fact that in his
mother's womb, and under her
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tutelage, as he was growing
up, the Lord was with him
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because the
Lord with the mother.
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And so the mother needs to
be very sure and very clear
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that when she's
raising that child in her womb,
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that she's giving it the very
best environment that she can.
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What she listens to, what
she sees, what she even thinks
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in her mind, will have
an effect upon that baby.
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You know, the baby,
upon the point of conception,
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is a human being... 9
months from being born,
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but it's as much a
human, as you and I are human,
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as far as I'm concerned...
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And EVERYTHING that
goes on in that mother
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is transferred to the baby,
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so we need to be
very careful... Dr. Thrash
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Yes... Very good.
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The clothing of the mother
also needs to be carefully
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designed... it should be
loose, and it should be warm
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Those 2 features are
the major features of the
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clothing of the mother.
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No tight bands anywhere...
not around any of the
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extremities;
especially not on the legs
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or above or below the knees.
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Not around the ankles because
the circulation is also not as
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brisk during that time.
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Then warmth, because of
the fact that the extremities
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need to be nicely warm
so that the circulation
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to the trunk can also
be very nicely balanced.
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So warm and loose clothing...
we need to be very careful of
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for the pregnant woman.
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Tests have shown that cold
feet will reduce the circulation
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to the pelvic organs, and
we could assume that that would
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also include the placenta.
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So with a reduced
circulation to the placenta,
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the nutrients that
would get to the baby
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would also be diminished.
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Now, water for the pregnant
woman needs to be abundant.
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The baby is
surrounded by a sac of water,
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and the mother's body is
also laying in a store of water,
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...so that at the time
of the birth of the baby,
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she can release this water
which is now in the form of
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blood serum, or blood plasma...
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And at that time, she can
release this extra fluid which
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which can wash out some
of the products of conception
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from the uterus, and thereby,
cleanse the uterus of these
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products and blood and membranes
that might otherwise be retained
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These can be nicely washed out.
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And also, she has in her body
fluid that can be put into the
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bloodstream to give her
essentially a transfusion.
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So, if she loses some
blood during the time of the
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birth of the baby, she has
this little transfusion of extra
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fluid in her blood vessel system
so that it makes it so that
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she is in much better health
than she could otherwise be.
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Now what about the rest that
a woman needs during pregnancy?
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Certainly during the nighttime
hours, she needs a good, full
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8 hours sleep, and at
other times during the day,
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she may also need a nap.
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But, the nap should preferably
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come before the meal,
rather than after the meal.
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So before lunch, or before the
little supper that she should
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take, she should take a nap...
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maybe 10, 15, 20 minutes.
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Such a nap will
refresh her enormously,
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and also make her better
able to take care of those
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internal changes that
are going on with her.
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The mental health of the mother
needs to be carefully guarded
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because she is going to
give a legacy to her offspring
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of those emotions that she
experiences during her pregnancy
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Now consider this fact, during
her pregnancy, at various times,
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during the
pregnancy, she's going to be
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putting neurohormones
into the bloodstream,
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her own bloodstream, because
of thoughts she has had...
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If a person is angry,
if they are irritated,
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if they are lonely, or
sad, or angry, or oppressed
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by the husband,
or if she is fearful,
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whatever her emotional state,
she'll be putting neurohormones
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into the bloodstream that
reflect her state of mind.
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The baby is developing
brain cells at an enormous
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rate of speed.
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And sometimes, during the
pregnancy, the baby will be
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grinding out as much as
100,000 brain cells per minute
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What an enormous
factory of brain cells...
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So that at the
end of the pregnancy,
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the baby has between 50
and 200 billion brain cells.
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Well, it takes a long
time to develop all these.
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Now when 100,000 brain
cells are being ground out,
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that means that any
kind of emotional reflection
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that she has by the
hormones that she is producing
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by those thoughts,
these hormones can DRIVE
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the development of
the neurons in the baby.
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So if she is angry at a certain
time, her neurohormones will
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sway the development of
the neurons in the brain
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a certain direction.
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We want those to be peaceful,
calm, joyous, studious,
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spiritual, laid back...
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We want all of those
things and not high-tension,
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high-strung types of
emotions that are possible.
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Then, of course, there
are spiritual considerations
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both for the
mother, and for the baby.
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And in keeping
with that thought,
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Dr. Miller is going to
present to us some things from
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the Bible, and also
some thoughts that he has
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from inspired sources.
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You know, going back
to the Book of Judges,
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we see one of the first
instances of someone who was
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preplanned... Of course I
think that we're all preplanned.
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Going back to the Book of
Judges 13, we find an angel
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visiting a man's wife,
and the man's name was Manoah
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It says in
verse 3, chapter 13...
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"And the angel of the
Lord appeared unto the woman
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and said unto her, Behold now,
thou art barren, and barest not;
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but thou shalt
conceive, and bear a son. "
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So heaven already had a
plan for the delivery of Israel
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through the child
that this woman would bear
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who had formerly been barren.
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Verse 4, "Now therefore beware"
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BEWARE, and that's the
subject we're trying to
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talk to women about today.
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BEWARE of what
you do, or don't do!
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"I pray thee, and drink not
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wine, nor strong drink,
and eat not any unclean thing"
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...Because you are basically
the vessel from which this
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vessel that I'm
preparing is going to come from
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...the Lord is telling
them through the angel.
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"For, lo, thou shalt
conceive, and bear a son,
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and no razor shall come
upon his head; for the child
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shall be a Nazarite
unto the Lord from the womb"
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From the very womb, this
child was set aside as somebody
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SPECIAL, as somebody the Lord
had specially chosen for work
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And I believe that EVERY
single human being that comes
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into this world, God
has a SPECIAL plan for.
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From the womb,
they have a job to do.
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And God is telling the
mother, take care of this child
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starting right NOW
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And, basically, right now,
she wasn't even pregnant yet.
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That was going to
come some time later.
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"From the womb and he
shall begin to deliver Israel. "
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From the WOMB...
something is going to happen
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that child will start to grow to
become the deliverer of Israel
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Now, I'm going to go over to a
very precious Book of the Bible
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It's called the Book of Luke.
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It's a little
book that Luke wrote,
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and we're going to find a couple
of good situations in there.
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Luke 1:15... Again,
an angel talking to a man
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who is in the temple...
And here is what it says
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in verse 15, "For he
shall be great in the
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sight of the Lord, and
shall drink neither wine,
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nor strong drink; and he shall
be filled with the Holy Ghost,
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even from his mother's womb. "
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Talking about
John the Baptist here.
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From the very WOMB, the
child was to be... what?
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Filled with the Holy Spirit.
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Filled with the Holy Ghost.
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That means it's not just a
piece of something developing
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until it's born, it's
going to become a human being.
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From the WOMB, this child
was filled with the Holy Spirit.
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And I think our children
today have the same opportunity
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to be FILLED
with the Holy Spirit,
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if we're giving it
the proper experience.
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Okay, let's go on to over here,
still in chapter 1, verse 38
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"And Mary said"... now
the angel has come to Mary,
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and tells Mary that you
are going to become the mother
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of the Messiah, and
what is her response?
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"And Mary said, Behold
the handmaid of the Lord;
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be it unto me
according to thy word"
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And Jesus Christ was SO
submissive to His Father.
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The mother was SO
submissive to God's will,
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and the Son so submissive
to the same Father's will
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...this is what we
can put into our children.
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And then going over to verse 41
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Now we see that John
the Baptist's mother is
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pregnant, Jesus'
mother is pregnant,
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and Jesus' mother,
Mary, goes to visit Elizabeth
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and this is what happens...
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"And Mary arose, verse
39, in those days and went
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into the hill country with
haste unto a city of Judah,
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and entered into
the house of Zacharias,
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and saluted Elizabeth.
And it came to pass, that,
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when Elizabeth heard
the salutation of Mary,
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the babe LEAPED in her
womb, and Elizabeth was filled
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with the Holy Ghost. "
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So the child,
even within the womb,
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already filled with
the Holy Spirit, recognized
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that the Messiah was near,
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and for JOY, LEAPED in the womb!
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There is a lot that
happens to that child
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when it's in the mother's womb
and we have to make sure that
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we are just like Mary...
mothers are just like Mary
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"Lord, whatever
you want me to do...
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I'm going to raise
this child for you. "
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Elizabeth, knowing that
this child is going to be
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filled with the Holy Spirit...
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Even Samson's mother, knowing
that this child is going to be
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filled with the Holy Ghost,
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even from the
womb, and deliver Israel.
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These are some precious
privileges that we have.
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As mothers and
fathers have an equal role,
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I like to hear what
fathers are saying now...
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"We are
pregnant" "We had a baby"
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...Because it is a WE situation.
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And as we both get
involved with the process of
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raising our children for
the Lord, according to the
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BEST pediatric book ever
written... and that's the Bible,
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we're going to raise
children that can truly be
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filled with the Holy Spirit
even from the womb... Dr. Thrash
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Very good. I really appreciate
these texts from the Bible
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that indicate to us the
prenatal state of babies
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and help us to know that
they are, indeed, individuals
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and are truly people
from the very beginning
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of their conception.
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Now, can a woman
predict the day that the baby is
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going to be born?
Yes, to some degree,
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but as we all know,
babies can be born a month,
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or even 2 before the
date that we expect...
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Or, they can delay, and
be born even 2 or 3 weeks
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after the day we expect.
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But generally speaking,
if a woman will subtract 3
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from the month of her
last menstrual period,
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and add 7 to 12 days,
that will usually give her
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a ballpark estimate of when
the baby is going to be born.
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But you can't hold
nature to any kind of schedule
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It may be that day, or it
may be a little bit before
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or a little after.
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Once the baby gets to the
place of maybe 2 or 3 days
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before the birth, the
obstetrician can often
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say when the birth is
going to be, but even that
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is freighted with a
good bit of difficulty.
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Now who should deliver the baby?
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The mother has
choices these days.
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Once, we only had the
choice of an obstetrician,
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but now, there are very
good midwives who practice
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in most of the
states of the United States,
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and can do a very acceptable
job of delivering babies
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In fact, may of them are
far more skilled at this,
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than the obstetricians
who are their backup people.
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I remember when I was getting
my training in obstetrics,
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after I graduated from medical
school, some of the nurses
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who had been 15-20
years in the delivery rooms
00:24:21.94\00:24:25.48
that I worked in, many of them
had even delivered more babies
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than I had even
seen pregnant women.
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So, I leaned on them
very heavily for instruction
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on the practical
aspects of delivering babies.
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They were extremely good.
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And today, we have
the same kind of thing.
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There are many nurse-midwives
who are SO skilled
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that anyone would
be privileged to have
00:24:47.83\00:24:49.92
them to be your
delivery attendant.
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Where should the baby be born?
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Well, I can't deny
the training that I had
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back more than 50 years ago
when my professor of obstetrics
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said, "The most ideal
place for a baby to be born is
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in its own home. "
00:25:08.60\00:25:09.91
But the reason why we
don't do it that way is
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principally because of the
convenience of the physician.
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Well since then, we have
developed a lot of high tech
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procedures for
women, and for babies
00:25:19.95\00:25:25.15
and delivery schedules, and
these, I think, make it so that
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we DO need to have a hospital
nearby if you're going to
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enter into those
kinds of procedures.
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Generally speaking, home
births done in a very simple way
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...no drugs at all administered,
can be the most safe and
00:25:41.18\00:25:45.15
the most pleasing
of all deliveries.
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Many of you,
listening today, will say...
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"I was born in
the home, as I was"
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and we, of course, felt
that that was the only way
00:25:54.72\00:25:57.50
to be born because the nearest
hospital was 35 miles away,
00:25:57.53\00:26:01.78
and that, by ox cart,
was not very pleasant.
00:26:01.81\00:26:06.30
Now, what about
breastfeeding the baby?
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Every baby that is possible
to breastfeed, should be given
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that great privilege;
otherwise, it's a poverty
00:26:13.52\00:26:18.06
program for the
baby's nutrition.
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But mother's milk is
ideally designed to satisfy all
00:26:20.76\00:26:24.85
the needs of the baby,
and the mother, and the baby
00:26:24.88\00:26:28.43
can benefit from this very
convenient method of feeding
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the baby.
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Using a bottle is
inconvenient, at the very best,
00:26:35.49\00:26:38.36
whereas, breastfeeding is
hardly inconvenient at all.
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Now nausea and
vomiting of pregnancy can be
00:26:42.01\00:26:45.02
somewhat of a problem,
and if the mother has this,
00:26:45.05\00:26:49.34
she can often handle it
very nicely with ginger,
00:26:49.37\00:26:53.44
or with mint oil...
just a tiny, little taste of
00:26:53.45\00:26:58.43
mint oil is usually all
that she needs and that will
00:26:58.46\00:27:01.94
take care of matters.
00:27:01.97\00:27:04.10
Most women will develop some
varicose veins during pregnancy
00:27:04.13\00:27:08.51
and if she does, she can
just know that the time of the
00:27:08.54\00:27:13.89
increased intraabdominal
pressure is self-limited
00:27:13.92\00:27:18.97
and the time is coming when
she won't have that anymore,
00:27:19.00\00:27:24.08
and the varicose veins
will go down to some degree.
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Let cramps can be a
serious problem during pregnancy
00:27:29.52\00:27:33.37
and most women have 1
or 2, either leg cramps,
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or cramps of the
muscles of the abdomen,
00:27:37.39\00:27:39.74
or cramps somewhere else.
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Not too much can be done for
that, except to rub the place
00:27:41.28\00:27:45.51
where the cramp is,
and hope for the best that
00:27:45.52\00:27:49.48
they won't last long.
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I hope these very
simple things on how to handle
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a pregnancy can be
of great help to you.
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