Re: Tea for C-Section -- birthingherbs

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Subject: Re: Tea for C-Section

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Pat

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Date Posted: 03:30:39 06/01/06 Thu
In reply to: Ocean 's message, "Tea for C-Section" on 13:58:26 05/27/06 Sat

>Can anyone suggest a good healling tea or herbal
>combonation that promotes recovery and healing for
>c-sections?
>
>Thanks,
>Ocean

Ocean, I know this isn't the question you asked, but you might want this information. I studied midwifery for awhile under Norman Casserley, also known as Mister Midwife. He has done over 3500 births. He recommends a technique of massage to prevent rupture in a subsequent VBAC. Use a gentle kneading motion like you would use on bread, over the length of the Caesarian scar (during a subsequent pregnancy) for a few minutes once or more daily. This will cause the scar tissue to form blood vessels, and the blood flowing through these will prevent rupture. The uterus has muscles running in three different directions, so there will actually be three scars because doctors don't generally cut through muscle, but only alongside it. So you will need to massage each scar. (What I don't know is how you determine where these scars are exactly, but if you can find the outermost one, it should be possible to do all three if you knead in the area of a circle of the diameter of the topmost scar). I knew a woman who had a fused tailbone, and because of this, it would not move out of the way so she could give birth. She had a C-section, and in a subsequent birth, she wanted a homebirth, so she labored awhile before giving up and accepting another C-section. She had used the massage technique. The doctor who did the C-section sais her uterus wouldn't have ruptured in a "million years".

I hope this helps.

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