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Natural Childbirth
Empowering Women to Give Birth Naturally
Natural Remedies for natural Childbirth Support
Your body was designed for natural childbirth; there is no doubt about that! The doubt is only in your mind and not in your body. If you learn how to trust the wisdom of your body and the wisdom of nature, everything will be fine and natural childbirth will be a beautiful experience, which you will treasure for year to come.
Why do I say that the doubt is only in your mind? Because modern women have been brain washed to believe that the pain of natural childbirth is unbearable and that it is impossible to endure natural childbirth. The true is, childbirth is not a walk in the park, but with preparation and some help with natural health you can achieve happily your goal to give birth naturally.
Labor pain can be very intense, but it is transient, it all goes away when the baby is born. When you learn to deeply relax and focus on each contraction without fear of the pain, you can easily give birth naturally. FEAR is your worse enemy and anybody that makes you fearful is also your worse enemy when it comes to giving birth because you are vulnerable and if you do not surround yourself with people that can and know how to support natural childbirth and that believe and honour your choice to giving birth naturally, you will fail.
My personal experience as a mother has thought me that once a woman is in labour and has all the physical and mental support she needs, everything will go just fine.
Make sure you have skilful support at your side while giving birth. Hire a professional Doula or labor support expert and learn a little more about homeopathy and natural health for childbirth.
Natural Childbirth with Homeopathy
Homeopathic remedies can help you go through the birthing process with confidence and with ease. Homeopathy will not take the pain of natural childbirth away but it will make it bearable and it will give you the strength and energy to allow a gentle entry of your baby into the world. Usually homeopathic remedies will speed up the process, prevent complication and give you power.
Here is a list of the main homeopathic remedies that can help you go through labor with ease.
Arnica Montana 200C, 1M
Arnica is the remedy mostly recommended during labor because it is very specific for tissue trauma. When taking during active labor, it prevents heavy bleeding. It speeds up healing, controls bleeding, and decreases swelling and redness. This remedy should be taken during labour and after giving birth to help with after pains.
Bellis perennis 200C
This remedy can greatly help during natural childbirth and also for C-section because it has an affinity for trauma to the soft tissue. If you have a tear or had an episiotomy, this remedy will greatly help heal the damaged tissue.
Calendula 200C
Calendula is a great homeopathic remedy for speeding up the healing of cuts, wounds and laceration of natural childbirth. It also prevents infections in the area of trauma and pus formation. This is the best antiseptic remedy available and can be used in tincture form by adding 15 drops in 1 liter of water for washing the perineum if you have stitches. Taken during labor in homeopathic form, it can help prevent postpartum infections.
Caulophyllum 30C, 200C
This remedy may help establish strong productive contractions in first stage of labour if the contractions are short, spasmodic, unstable and the cervix fails to dilate. Caulophyllum is said to work best when taken early on during labour and should not be given routinely to establish strong contractions. It should be given only if there is dysfunctional labour. This remedy helps if the contractions are ineffectual, very weak and felt low in the pelvis (groin and tights) rather than at the top of the uterus.
Chamomilla 200C, 1M
This is the remedy for a laboring woman that is hypersensitive to the labor pain. She becomes irritable, angry, with crying and out of control during each contraction. In this remedy there is a great sense of despair with screaming and inability to focus and calm down. A woman needing Chamomilla becomes like a child and does not want to be looked at or spoken to. Everything bothers her and she says: "I cannot do this!"
Taking Chamomilla will certainly help to give her a sense of control.
Gelsemium 200C
This remedy is commonly used during transition when the woman enters a stage of contractions which are stronger and closer together (every 2 minutes). Sometimes this phase of labor is entered with fear and weakness. The woman has chills and tremors, becomes exhausted. This remedy also helps if stalled labor as a result of weakness, fear with lack of confidence.
Kali carb
This is the number one remedy for back labour. The contractions are felt in the back rather than in the front and are very painful and ineffectual. The child position can be posterior and this remedy can assist the head rotating. This remedy helps when the woman walks or sits with her hand on the back. She desires hard pressure on her back, she is worse at night and experiences false labour pains between two and four a.m.
Pulsatilla
This remedy is useful to turn a bridged baby or a baby that is malpositioned. The mother has a frightful feeling about the baby's health (keeps asking the question: "Is my baby Ok?"). She becomes very clingy to her male partner or to her mother; she wants to be constantly reassured that everything is going fine. She wants constant attention. She is thirstless and wants the window open. The contractions are very changeable, the intensity goes up and down, labor is prolonged and never strong to give effective labouring contractions.
Staphisagria
This remedy is great if you feel angry and were violated in some way during a traumatic labor experience, which resulted with medical intervention, episiotomy, c-section, or use of forceps. Staphisagria is also a great remedy for urinary tract infection of bladder problems as a result of labor.
Tissue Salts for Natural Childbirth
Kali Phos 6X
This cell salt is great for energy and can be taken throughout the labor to help give the mother's stamina. This remedy is especially useful for nerves, brain, blood cells, muscles and body fluids. It helps carry oxygen to the blood and muscle cells more efficiently.
Mag Phos 6X
This remedy can be taken with warm water to easy the contractions' pain.
Ferr Phos 6X
This remedy can be given if the mother is anemic and there is a fear of heavy blood loss. It also helps prevent and infections and inflammation with loss of blood.
Herbal Remedies for Natural Childbirth
The knowledge of using herbs has been passed on from generation to generation over the centuries from mothers to daughters of our planet. Why not take advantage of the wisdom of the past and the power of nature to have a smooth easy labor? Before using any herbal preparations during birth, talk to your midwife about your desire and put this choice in your birthing plan. A excellent product you may wish to learn more about is called
Nature's Bith Drops
This product contains herbs designed to support labor at the mental, emotional and physical level. For example it contains Pasque flower, which helps maintain a stable emotional outlook while strengthening the pattern of contractions, Vervain to promote relaxation, Raspberry leaves to strengthen the uterus, Blue cohosh to help effective contraction that may help prevent prolonged labour. All these herbs work in synergy to support the labouring woman.
The following herbal tonic can be very useful during labor to assist the birthing process, prevent hemorrhaging and soothe the perineum.
Prepare a herbal bland using 1oz each of the following herbs, make a tea and drink during labor. You can also use the herbs in tincture form and add 1 dropperful of each herb to a bottle of water to drink during labor.
Blue Cohosh
Untispasmodic herb used mostly during false labour.
Black Cohosh
Antispasmodic used for labor pains and muscle spasms.
Blue Vervain
Increases and strengthens the contractions, helps the milk production after childbirth and adverts miscarriages or premature labor.
Scullcap
Nervine, sedative, and antispasmodic herb used for nervous tension during labor.
Lobelia
This herb helps in cases of difficult labor from rigid os, vagina, or perineum. It also stimulates the uterus to contract effectively during labor.
Calendula and Hypericum Tincture This herbal tincure made 50% Calendula and 50% Hypericum can be applied diluted 15 drops in 250 ml of water to the perineum after birth to soothe the trauma to the local tissue after giving birth but especially after natural childbirth. Calendula is for healing the skin and antiseptic, while Hypericum is for pain of nerve endings.
Flower Essences for Natural Childbirth
There are many flower essences that can help prevent emotional trauma to both mother and child during labor and that can keep the mother and the father (do not forget Daddy!) in a calm state.
Dr Edward Bach created an emergency Bach Flower composite remedy to be used in emergency situations. This remedy is called Rescue Remedy and it has been proven time after time to do wonders when used during labor.
Rescue Remedy contains 5 flowers that help you:
Impatiens If you feel impatient about how your labour is progressing and keep asking: "How far long am I?" or "How long is this going to take?" or you could ask the doctor: "Can you make this going faster!"
Mimulus If you are fearful of the doctor checking your progress, if you are fear of needles, medical procedures, being at the hospital, or anything you know that frightens you. Women needing this remedy are usually shy and fearful of new things in general.
Rock RoseIf you become panicky and freeze or feel helpless. This is the remedy for terror and great fear. it is very useful during an emergency situation that occurs during labor or just when the contractions become too strong and you freeze at the painful experience. This remedy can help gain more mental strength to get you through the panicky state. This remdy can be very useful also for Daddy.
Cherry Plum If you feel like you are going to lose control and you will not be able to cope with the situation. You need this remedy when you feel you are going to be screaming out of control or want to cry and kick.
Star of Bethlehem This remedy is used for trauma and shock. This remedy is great also if given to baby. Just sprinkle a few drops on his ankle at birth.
Clematis It helps you become grounded and gives you clarity and alertness for the present moment.
Add four drops of rescue remedy to your laboring water to sip throughout the labor.
You can also add the following individual Bach Remedies if needed:
Aspen
If you fear something bad might happen or you are fearful of the unknown.
Larch
If you lose confidence in your ability to give birth naturally.
Walnut
This remedy is indicated during life's transitions. It helps the laboring woman adjust to the change of the contractions and the intensity of the pain, but also it helps adjust to motherhood.
Gentian
If you feel discouraged about how things are going during labor.
Olive
If you feel exhausted. This remedy is very useful during and after a prolonged labor or if your labor goes into the night or early morning hours.
Crab Apple
This remedy is great when the mother feels squeamish about the process of giving birth. It she feels it is messy or if she needs mental and physical cleaning. It will also take away any feeling of shame that she may have about her body.
Chicory
This remedy is for those cases when the mother becomes so attached to the pregnancy that she cannot let go of the baby. It also helps a clingy and demanding baby. Those needing chicory demand constant attention and cannot let go of this need.
Bach Flower Remedies can be taken by mother and father or anyone who is attending the birth and finds having these mental and emotional difficulties.
You can prepare your remedy mixture in advance by putting nor more them six remedies into your water bottle and then sip through your labor.
If you not the crafty type and this seems all too complicated, I have a great solution for you. You may want to learn more about
Eze-Birth Flower Essence
this products contain flower essences different from the Bach Flowers, but it is equally effective in helping you during labour. Bach Flowers are English essences developed by Dr. Bach, but all around the world, other practitioner have been developing equally effective flower essences, that are more easily found in their location. The best thing is that now they are available to all of us, thanks to the internet and world shipping.
Many couples rather make their own flower composite based on how they know to react in certain situations, while others find it easier and convenient to have a product that has been designed specifically to aid labour. Whatever choice you make, do not forget to have your flower essences ready for your natural childbirth.
Also, I find it very useful to take Bach Rescue Remedy before a doctor's appointment or any prenatal testing you have to do. This great remedy will help you stay calm, and relaxed. It is very safe for your baby, too! I took rescue remedy before the midwife had to check the baby's hearth beat and the baby was always very calmed and relaxed, never had to struggle to find the best hearing spot. Baby do not like the ultrasound waves emitted by heart monitors and they tend to turn around in fear. Rescue Remedy, taken by mom, can help both get through it with ease.
"During the centuries since the beginning of humanity, every woman has given birth naturally with the help of wise women who did it before her. Natural remedies were given to the laboring woman duirng natutal childbirth. When your turn comes be brave, calmed and trust the natural birthing process. All will be well!"
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