Biomechanics and Pregnancy
Is wearing a Reviv during pregnancy a good thing? Yes! Now let me explain why I think so.
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Someone recently asked me about whether it is safe to wear a Reviv if someone is pregnant.
And my view is ‘yes’, but it is more of a theoretical answer rather than one that is based on lots of data.
And of course… i do not have any personal experience in this pregnancy department… lol
However I do have a lot of thoughts around pregnancy and I’ll try to get them out in today’s article.
A woman’s compensations translate onto their child
I’ve talked about this before and let me recap on it again now.
I’ve recognized the pattern for many years now that a woman that is in good shape (ie. correct body ratios) will generally give birth to a very ‘clean’ child. Meaning the child will not have much compression and will naturally grow up to be quite attractive and athletic.
On the otherhand a woman with a very twisted body will generally transmit compression onto their child and the child will grow up less attractive with a higher tendency towards obesity, etc.
This is also supported by what the well known osteopath, Jim Jecmen, had told me when I made two visits to him back in 2018. He had worked on newborns for about four decades and could tell the compensations of the mother by feeling the newborn’s skull and body. Plus he could tell what maloclussions that child was likely going to grow up with.
This is why when you see a thin, attractive mother walking with their young child.. the child will often be attractive as well.
It has pretty much ZERO to do with genetics in my view, and everything to do with the mother passing compensations on to the child.
Pregnancy puts a collapsing force on the body
The other pattern i’ve noticed is that a mother’s structure will often worsen post-pregnancy.
You even hear of many women observing it on themselves. They will say things like… “my body changed after the birth of my child and never recovered.”
Have you heard a mother say this? I bet you have.
And the reason for that in my view is that pregnancy puts a collapsing force on the body. Particularly if the body’s structure was not very good to begin with.
And it’s a bit like a building again. A very strong, well-engineered building can withstand an earthquake easily. Whereas one that already had structural damage can collapse very easily.
It is why you will sometimes see these petite mothers with a perfect body and then walking behind them are three beautiful children. And you’re thinking to yourself…”what the hell was her cheat code that she still looks that good after all those kids?”
It’s because she’s engineered like the Burj Kalifa! Hahaha
I think a mouthguard acts like scaffolding during this process
Remember that a mouthguard like the RevivOne puts an opposite force to the collapse process and it puts that force via the mouth/jaw.
Whereas with pregnancy the extra stress on the body is coming from the stomach area where the child is.
And the way I sort of visualize it is that the collapsing force comes up from the stomach but then gets cancelled out with the resurrecting force of the mouthguard, which is coming from the head.
And so even if a woman would have likely had further structural collapse due to her pregnancy, now she will not. The mouthguard will have in essence saved her. Like scaffolding holding up a ceiling.
A mouthguard also likely makes the delivery easier
I’ve also noticed that women who are structurally in better shape tend to have easier deliveries.
My data points for this observation are limited so some of you may disagree with me, but i’ve generally found it to be true.
I always tune in when a woman that is in very good shape starts talking about how she delivered her child. And the stories that I remember were of surprising ease.
Less time, less pain, less effort was required in delivering their child.
Whereas the stories I remember when a relatively out-of-shape woman delivered a child were usually fraught with difficulty.
And I believe this is a bit similar to trying to drive on a good road vs. a bad road. It’s gonna take a lot longer and do more damage to your car to drive on the bad road.
The child is the car in this metaphor and the mother’s body is the damaged road.
The goal is to minimize compression on the child
So the rule that I keep in my head is “Compression = Compensation”.
The more compression you put on a child, either before or during the delivery process, the more that child is going to have to compensate.
And compensation is a survival mechanism that allows that child’s body to continue to function despite the unexpected stress. However it does lead to more assymetry.
This whole logic around compensation detracting from perfection is something i went into a fair bit of detail in this article below, so I recommend you read that one if you have not:
The goal, therefore, for a mother is to minimize compression on the child. Do that and the child will be more beautiful and function better.
How do you minimize compression?
Reviv baby!!!!!!!
Closing thoughts
To sum up I think it is a very good idea to wear a mouthguard before and even during pregnancy.
Because of the resurrecting force it puts on the body, which essentially cancels out the collapsing force that pregnancy will put.
And if a woman does not have good structure and does not wear a mouthguard then they are probably putting a fair bit of compression on the child. Which then leads to compensation on the part of the child’s body and skull.
And that compensation is what leads to assymetry and proclivity to obesity.
Which in turn has led to this problem that I talked about in this article below… where every generation starts to look and function worse than the one before.
Let’s stop this trend in it’s tracks.
And “Make the World Beautiful Again!”
“MWBA!” - EGK
I gained 10 kilos when I was pregnant, petite 154cm tall Asian I was 30yo. My water broke at around 10h30, I arrived in the hospital at 12noon, at 14h30 I was taken to the birthing room and at 15h15 I gave birth! I had pain of course thankfully I did not have to endure it for too long. It was not easy for me to push my baby out that the nurses had to helped me push my belly with thier hands. I was already diagnosed with thorasic scoliosis - slight curve to the left, 5 years prior to getting pregnant. I was lucky I needed not to endure the long laboring hours that other women had to.