{"id":14280,"date":"2015-05-11T10:18:32","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T00:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hypnobirthingaustralia.com.au\/?p=14280"},"modified":"2022-10-18T15:30:36","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T05:30:36","slug":"miss-polly-had-a-dolly-conditioning-from-childhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hypnobirthingaustralia.com.au\/miss-polly-had-a-dolly-conditioning-from-childhood\/","title":{"rendered":"Miss Polly had a Dolly &#8211; Conditioning from Childhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was chatting to a friend today about how we and previous generations have been conditioned to associate &#8216;sickness&#8217; with calling the doctor and receiving a script\u00a0to take medication.<\/p>\n<p>One of my favourite nursery rhymes as a child was &#8220;Miss Polly had a Dolly&#8221;. If you aren&#8217;t already familiar with it, it goes like this&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Miss Polly had a dolly who was sick, sick, sick<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14283\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14283\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hypnobirthingaustralia.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_3170.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-14283 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/hypnobirthingaustralia.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_3170-e1431303393395-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Melissa's childhood dolly 'Jane'\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hypnobirthingaustralia.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_3170-e1431303393395-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/hypnobirthingaustralia.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_3170-e1431303393395.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14283\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Melissa&#8217;s childhood dolly &#8216;Jane&#8217;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>So she called for the doctor to come quick, quick, quick&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(it ends will the words)<\/p>\n<p>He wrote out a script for some pills, pills, pills,<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be back in the morning with the bill, bill, bill.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It has taken up to this point for me to realise that I was conditioned from the age of 2 years of age to associate sickness with doctors and medication! (Epiphany moment for Melissa today!!! lol)<\/p>\n<p>And it isn&#8217;t just me. This goes back generations. Is it any wonder that my grandmother questions me when I say that I am treating my cold with echinecea, lemon\/honey and rest? &#8220;Have you been to the doctor? Surely you should be taking antibiotics!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In current times\u00a0an awareness is building about the overuse of medication and the possible short and long term effects its overuse can have on our health.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t get me wrong &#8211; I appreciate living in the times we do, because before the discovery of antibiotics; (an Australian, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Howard_Florey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Howard Florey<\/a>, was actually instrumental in discovering penicillin by the way &#8211; go Aussies!) many, many people died of infections that could have been treated. However, medical experts are now very aware that there has been an overuse of antibiotics in recent years and that this has actually created a range of infections that are\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Antimicrobial_resistance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">antibiotic resistant<\/a>. So at times\u00a0when we do <em>really do<\/em> need antibiotic assistance, they are sometimes no longer effective.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously antibiotics are only one of many types of medications that are regularly used. Have a look at the medicine cabinet in your own household &#8211; it can be an eye-opener!<\/p>\n<p>But even the apparently &#8216;innocent&#8217; paracetamol can have long-term risks. <a href=\"http:\/\/undercovermidwife.blogspot.co.uk\/2015\/03\/paracetamol-and-labour.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Here is an article from a midwife who is discussing the use of paracetamol during pregnancy and labour and the risks\u00a0<\/a>of slowing down labour as well as\u00a0possible damage to our baby and liver!<\/p>\n<p>When I teach natural childbirth education (the<a href=\"https:\/\/hypnobirthingaustralia.com.au\/program\/\"> &#8216;Hypnobirthing Australia\u2122&#8217; program<\/a>) I talk about how <em>every<\/em> intervention can have a possible knock on effect during pregnancy, labour and birth. The same applies to our general life.<\/p>\n<p>Before we reach for the &#8216;pill&#8217; &#8211; use the BRAIN technique:<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">B<\/span> <\/strong>What are the benefits of taking this medication? (I may feel better today. My headache will go away.)<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">R<\/span><\/strong> What are the risks of taking this medication? (Possible side effects? Short\/long term risks to myself\/baby?)<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">A<\/span><\/strong> What are the alternatives? (Lemon and honey anyone? Natural alternatives?)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><strong>I<\/strong> <\/span>What does my instinct tell me? (Is my instinct saying that this could possibly be more serious and so should I seek medial advice at this time?)<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">N<\/span><\/strong> What if I were to do just &#8216;nothing&#8217;? (Rest. Recuperate. Sometimes our body gets run down and sickness forces us to just slow down for a bit.)<\/p>\n<p>So all of this is definitely food for thought.<\/p>\n<p>As Hippocrates\u00a0very wisely said&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Let food by thy medicine<\/p>\n<p>and medicine by thy food<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Perhaps we should be re-wording that famous nursery rhyme to say&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Miss Polly had a dolly\u00a0with a runny nose<\/p>\n<p>So she cuddled her, breastfed and\u00a0they rested at home<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hypnobirthingaustralia.com.au\/about\/\">Melissa Spilsted<\/a> is the director of Hypnobirthing Australia. She is\u00a0a certified Hypnobirthing Practitioner &amp; Childbirth Educator (HPCE), a registered Teacher (B.Ed, B.Arts), a Clinical Hypnotherapist (CHt Clinical Member of the AHA), a member of CAPEA (Childbirth &amp; Parenting Educators Australia), has appeared on national television, written for Mother and Baby Magazine, appeared in Practical Parenting Magazine &amp; The Australian Woman\u2019s Weekly, lectured midwives and midwifery students in local universities and hospitals and her work has been showcased at the Royal Society of Medicine in London.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was chatting to a friend today about how we and previous generations have been conditioned to associate &#8216;sickness&#8217; with calling the doctor and receiving a script\u00a0to take medication. One of my favourite nursery rhymes as a child was &#8220;Miss Polly had a Dolly&#8221;. 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