Birth lighting programs baby's clock #substack #shorts

Añadido: 2026-06-04

[00:00:00]And then the next piece is, what is the light that's being shown on the baby?

[00:00:03]This is the first opportunity that we have to program baby's circadian rhythm.

[00:00:08]And we all know babies don't see very well. Their visual pathways aren't yet active, but their non-visual pathways, the ones that lead into baby's SCN, are fully active at birth. So that light shining in, right? If you imagine a baby is being born, if they're living in Michigan or Alaska and it's the middle of the night and that baby's being born, but all the lights are flipped on super super bright. You need that you know they use that bright white light for everything that is done, even in a vaginal non-medicated birth, that light coming in is giving a fully daytime signal, maybe even brighter than what it would be during the daytime if it's a winter birth, for example. Right?

[00:00:51]We're getting a totally different circadian program from the artificial light compared to what it is in the time of day. And we know that