Subject: Re TGIF...(Fetal response to sounds) (fwd)
Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 092940 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@llion.org>
To: emfguru@hotmail.com
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Hi everybody:
I have recived a number of (mostly) favorable responses to this
week's TGIF message. One (California) lady did ask to be removed
from our list -- "too many messages," she said. They live a high powered
existence in California.... (Guru lived there many years ago. "Pursued"
an actress from the Pasedana Playhouse and "acted" in some shows in San
Diego and Monterey....)
Anyway, our thanks, again to Bonnie Mathis, who originated that
message to me, though it was actually written by Julia Awalt whose
name and phone number appear at the bottom of the message.
Is it a true story??? Well ... someone might check with the folks
at the Panther Creek United Methodist Church in Morristown, Tennessee...
I am forwarding only the following response from Marjorie....
Cheerio....
Roy Beavers (EMFguru)
rbeavers@llion.org..............http://www.feb.se/EMF-L/EMF-L.html
................................It is better to light a single candle ...
than to curse the darkness...............................................
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Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 20:49:55 -0700 (PDT)
From: marjorie lundquist
To: "Roy L. Beavers"
Subject: Re: TGIF...(Fetal response to sounds)
The story below is a good reminder that the environment of a pregnant
woman is, to a very large degree, also the environment of her unborn
baby. The fetus is very aware of the sounds in its mother's
environment--one reason that pregant women really ought not be working
in noisy factories, where there are loud banging and clanging sounds,
during their pregnancy.
Maybe there should be no playing of discordant music during pregnancy,
either?
But soothing, melodious music can have a very good effect on the
fetus, as this story shows.
All of which has nothing to do with EMF, except for one possibility:
when an electromagnetic wave interacts with a material medium, an
acoustic wave may be generated in that medium. Very likely it won't
be heard (for a number of reasons: wrong frequency, not loud enough)
but it will be a pressure wave. (EMF weapons may exploit this.)
These are just my idle musings, triggered by this touching tale of a
special love song. -- Marjorie
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---"Roy L. Beavers" wrote:
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 08:33:30 -0500 (CDT)
> From: "Bonnie L. Mathis"
> To: "Bonnie L. Mathis" , rbeavers@llion.org,
>
> This is so neat, hope you like it
>
> Love Bonnie
>
> Like any good mother, when Karen found out that another baby was on
the
> way, she did what she could to help her 3-year-old son, Michael,
prepare
> for a new sibling. They find out that the new baby is going to be a
girl,
> and day after day, night after night, Michael sings to his sister in
> Mommy's tummy.
>
> The pregnancy progresses normally for Karen, an active member of the
> Panther Creek United Methodist Church in Morristown, Tennessee. Then
the
> labor pains come. Every five minutes ... every minute. But
complications
> arise during delivery. Hours of labor. Would a C-section be required?
> Finally, Michael's little sister is born. But she is in serious
condition
> With siren howling in the night, the ambulance rushes the infant to
the
> neonatal intensive care unit at St. Mary's Hospital, Knoxville,
Tennessee.
>
> The days inch by. The little girl gets worse. The pediatric specialist
> tells the parents, "There is very little hope. Be prepared for the
worst."
> Karen and her husband contact a local cemetery about a burial plot.
They
> have fixed up a special room in their home for the new baby, now
they plan
> a funeral.
>
> Michael, keeps begging his parents to let him see his sister, "I
want to
> sing to her," he says.
>
> Week two in intensive care. It looks as if a funeral will come
before the
> week is over. Michael keeps nagging about singing to his sister, but
kids
> are never allowed in Intensive Care. But Karen makes up her mind.
She will
> take Michael whether they like it or not. If he doesn't see his sister
> now, he may never see her alive.
>
> She dresses him in an oversized scrub suit and marches him into ICU.
He
> looks like a walking laundry basket, but the head nurse recognizes
him as
> a child and bellows, "Get that kid out of here now! No children are
> allowed in ICU."
>
> The mother rises up strong in Karen, and the usually mild-mannered
lady
> glares steel-eyed into the head nurse's face, her lips a firm line.
"He is
> not leaving until he sings to his sister!"
>
> Karen tows Michael to his sister's bedside. He gazes at the tiny
infant
> losing the battle to live. And he begins to sing. In the pure hearted
> voice of a 3-year-old, Michael sings:
>
> "You are my sunshine, my only sunshine, you make me happy when skies
are gray
> --- " Instantly the baby girl responds. The pulse rate becomes calm
and
> steady.
>
> Keep on singing, Michael.
>
> "You never know, dear, how much I love you, Please don't take my
sunshine
> away---"
>
> The ragged, strained breathing becomes as smooth as a kitten's purr.
>
> Keep on singing, Michael.
>
> "The other night, dear, as I lay sleeping, I dreamed I held you in my
> arms..."Michael's little sister relaxes as rest, healing rest, seems
to
> sweep over her. Tears conquer the face of the bossy head nurse. Karen
> glows.
>
> "You are my sunshine, my only sunshine. Please don't, take my
sunshine
> away....."
>
> The girl is well enough to go home! Woman's Day magazine called it
"The
> miracle of a brother's song." The medical staff just called it a
miracle.
> Karen called it a miracle of God's love. A few weeks later, Michael's
> little sister was baptized at the Panther Creek Church.
>
> Julia Awalt
> Eastern Illinois University
> Charleston, IL 61920
> 217/581-7715 (voice)
> 217/581-6489 (fax)
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