92 Herbs for Easier Labor and Birth

On Health for Women

Aviva Romm

Alternative Health, Arts, Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2018

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

If you're freaking out at a little (or a lot) at the thought of pushing a small cantaloupe sized head out of your vagina and also want to do everything you can to avoid unnecessary medical interventions at your birth, including cesarean, you’re probably here because you’re doing your homework ahead of time to learn what to do to make this upcoming passage into motherhood as short, easy, empowering, and as safe as possible for yourself - and your baby. I'm here to help! Thirty-five years of practice initially as a home birth midwife, and then as an MD specializing in women’s health, including obstetrics, as well as being a momma of four, has shown me that labor and birth can be - yes - hard work - but beautiful, powerful events in our lives. While there should be absolutely no judgment over what type of birth experience you prefer or ultimately require, it’s worthwhile considering what natural tools we have that can help us avoid the speed bumps that often lead to preventable birth interventions - the most common being not going into labor within a reasonable amount of time after your due date (this is hotly debated - most obstetricians think within a week after, however normal human gestation actually goes up to two weeks after, which most midwives support), having a long labor, or need for pain medication, which often becomes the case when labor is going long. "While there should be absolutely no judgment over what type of birth you prefer or require, it’s worth considering the natural tools that can help you avoid preventable birth interventions." - Aviva Romm. Join Dr. Aviva Romm as she dishes up a weekly dose of the whole truth on health and medicine. To learn more about this episode of Natural MD Radio go to avivaromm.com/092

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0:15.7	Welcome to Natural MD Radio, your place to hear the whole truth on health and medicine for women and children and get the tools you need to take back your health naturally starting now.
0:17.8	I'm Dr preempting the detoxification series last
0:36.8	episode on herbal medicine for detoxification support to bring you a topic that I think so many women are concerned about
0:46.8	and interested in which is can you use herbs to facilitate and ease labor.
0:54.3	Pregnancy and birth are amongst the many areas of our lives as women
1:00.7	that have become so medicalized and depersonalized.
1:04.0	A birthing woman in the U.S. has a tremendous chance of having her labor-induced,
1:10.0	a high likelihood of receiving pain medication, and significantly a one in three chance of a
1:16.9	Cessarian section.
1:18.8	And despite all efforts to reduce Cessarian section rates, they have actually doubled worldwide.
1:25.0	I'm going to be bringing you a special episode on that very soon.
1:28.8	Each of these interventions, although of course sometimes necessary and life saving carries the risk of what I call
1:36.8	unintended consequences, which for mamas to name a few can include a higher rate of medication reactions, bleeding, organ
1:47.7	damage, infections and blood clots far and beyond the normal for vaginal birth. In fact, frighteningly, U.S hospitals are now one of the
1:57.3	riskiest places in the Western world for a woman to give birth. We have some of the worst birth outcomes and statistics for maternal mortality in the Westernized world.
2:08.0	Most of us have also heard our fair share of horror stories about long labors and challenging births long before we've even
2:15.2	become pregnant ourselves.
2:17.1	And of course we want to do the best to be able to prepare our bodies ahead of time to have
2:21.8	the healthiest and easiest labor possible.
2:25.0	Now I don't want to add to the scary, but I do think it's really important that we be honest
2:31.7	with ourselves about this medicalization and the risks to ourselves
2:36.0	and do everything we can within our power to allow ourselves to birth as naturally as possible. I don't believe there should be any judgment
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