Paul MacLean did some of his most brilliant work on how in order to build great new un-programed open ended neuro ended structures, you would have to have increasingly greater nurturing and care of your off-spring and prolonged periods of total helplessness in your off-spring.  For very good reasons.  In the more primitive creatures you can hard wire the whole response pattern to the world right in to it.  And you need very little nurturing, you need very little modeling or guidance.  Those hard wired instinctual patterns of intelligence just can fire right in and the creature is very quickly independent. But when you start adding great open ended un-programmed possibilities in, as our great neuro structures are, particularly the frontal lobes, as we will talk about later, then you have to have a prolonged period in which the hard wiring, or hard wired stuff is replaced by soft ware, so to speak, to use those terms, and the child is critically dependent upon modeling and prolonged periods of helplessness.

Introduction
We know that babies are listening and learning in the womb.  We know that they may even understand, before they are born, what parents are thinking and feeling.  What we have discovered in the last ten years will change forever how we look at ourselves, but more importantly, how we understand and relate to our children. Hello, I’m Kitty Hilton and welcome to our program on Pregnancy, Birth and Bonding with Joseph Chilton Pearce.  For more than thirty years Joe has challenged audiences around the world by questioning why, as human beings, we haven’t developed to our full potential.  As you will soon discover, Joe is very concerned about the way we welcome our children into the world.  His explorations into the full realm of human development began with the publication of his first book, Crack in the Cosmic Egg.  This was followed by his national best seller The Magical Child and most recently, Evolution’s End.  
Let’s join Joseph Chilton Pearce, and a group of parents, educators and health care providers, as they explore one of the most critical periods of a person life,- Pregnancy, Birth and Bonding.

Joe Pearce: Every time we have intellectually interfered with a fifteen billion year process, in preparation that intellectual interference has been paid for with a bitter price. And we never learn, intellect never learns that. And also we make money off of it, so immediately anything goes. Birth itself is a mammalian process.  We know, this is not a joke, we know it is handled through the mammalian brain structure.  And we know we have inherited that from millions of years of genetic encoding.  And that mammalians, we call these mammary glands, those marvelous protrudences, mammary glands for good reason, they are mammalian, they are inherited from our mammalian ancestors.

Paul MacLean did some of his most brilliant work on how in order to build great new un-programed open ended neuro structures, you would have to have increasingly greater nurturing and care of your off-spring and prolonged periods of total helplessness in your off-spring. For very good reasons. In the more primitive creatures you can hard wire the whole response pattern to the world right in to it. And you need very little nurturing, you need very little modeling or guidance. Those hard wired instinctual patterns of intelligence just can fire right in and the creature is very quickly independent.

But when you start adding great open ended un-programmed possibilities in, as our great neuro structures are, particularly the frontal lobes, as we will talk about later, then you have to have a prolonged period in which the hard wiring, or hard wired stuff is replaced by software, so to speak, to use those terms, and the child is critically dependent upon modeling and prolonged periods of helplessness. The in-arms period and so on.

And so we find that birth being a mammalian process, there are millions of years of genetically encoded intelligence in the woman that knows exactly what to do at birth. Nature leaves nothing out. Kennell and Klaus were really quite right with this, in spite of Diane Airs, when they said that nature provided this cascade of redundant processes, not just going to leave it up to one or two things, but a redundant cascade of process overlapping to make sure that this proper nurturing of this incredibly fragile but powerful system takes place.

All mammals on earth when they get ready to deliver and we act out of that mammalian brain at delivery, seek out the quietest, safest, most private dark spot. Any mammal on earth, if you interrupt that safe, secure, dark hide away. The signal that nature fires in, is stop the birth process.  Any interference of any sort the birth process is designed to stop and wait for what, for the coast to clear for the danger to be removed.  The mother may even change her birthing place.  If that place is going to be not safe, we will go somewhere else.  And that is inherent within our whole system.  At the first sign of interference the birth process tends to stop and wait for the coast to clear and of course the coast never clears and then you have to do lots of other things intellectually to get the system going.

We'll start first with Whittlestone, University in Australia; I've been back there several times.  Whittlestone years ago claimed that the mother's heartbeat was the most profound impact on the infant from the moment of conception on.  That it literally the system imprints to it on a cellular level and later the entire neural system imprints to the mother's heartbeat.  And we do know that it has a profound effect on the infants own heartbeat even though they are two totally different rates. That brings us up to the claim by Kennell and Klaus, which is certainly verified by research all over the world.  I do not know why we don't recognize what is happening to the British National Childbirth Trust, The Swedish Pediatrics Institute, the groups in Australia, and all that have been working on this issue for years, which proves this conclusively, that the most critical issue immediately after birth is skin to skin contact between the mother and infant.

And we find that throughout human history the mother has put the infant to the left breast immediately after birth with the umbilical cord intact, it is exactly the right length, and she can put the infant to the left breast at birth without disturbing the umbilical cord.  Thirty percent of the child's blood and oxygen supply remains in the placenta for about, quite a long time after birth, and slowly goes on into the infant.  Then the action in the umbilical cord stops and at that point they don't need it anymore.