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Simple, safe, remedies for pregnancy, childbirth, lactation, newborns. Includes herbs for fertility and birth control. Foreword by Jeannine Parvati Baker.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Whew! This book became essential to me,
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This review is from: Wise Woman Herbal for the Childbearing Year (Paperback)
I came to my midwifery career (see my memoir, BABY CATCHER, Scribner 2002) via the traditional route of nursing school, working in hospital delivery rooms and alternative birth centers, then going to midwifery school, graduating as a CNM. Nowhere along the way was I taught anything about herbs. When I found myself doing home births in Berkeley, CA, many of my clients assumed I was an herbalist. Although I never once claimed to have a knowledge base in that field, I learned enough from Wise Woman Herbal to talk intelligently on the subject. Many women who choose home birth shun not just hospitals but also traditional Western medications. Wise Woman Herbal was always the resource to which I turned when I needed to know if a particular herb a woman wanted to use was safe and/or efficacious in pregnancy. And eventually I carried and recommended certain ones with confidence, especially blue and black cohosh, ginger, and oil of evening primrose.From me and from all midwives when they were new: Thank you, Susan Weed.
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consumer beware,
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This review is from: Wise Woman Herbal for the Childbearing Year (Paperback)
I like the idea of having access to this kind of information - and I do believe some of it has helped me through my pregnancy. But I would be cautious about which advice you choose to follow, verifying the information in other sources. For instance, the text suggests that Vitamin C may mitigate an Rh- condition. An entire study was done on this in the 1970's and it is not true. However, through this book and others, I was able to determine a few items (cucumbers, beets, calcium supplements) I could safely add to my diet to help keep my borderline high blood pressure from turning into pre-eclampsia. I personally would not be mixing the herb formulations myself. But it is a nice reference to talk things over with my midwifes.2004 - Well, I have had my baby and have a retrospective look. Late in my pregnancy I decided to use more herbs for the hypertension. I ended up developing a severe form of pre-eclampsia called HELLP syndrome. Now my view is this...maybe if you are entirely healthy you can get away with using herbs in your pregnancy. I couldn't. My liver became overloaded and could not handle it. I think that it is interesting that most of the women who would try herbs are women interested in natural childbirth, myself included. What I found was that these herbs can be worse in the end because they are untested and not for everyone, even tho you can take them without a prescription. If you do use herbs during pregnancy, use them sparingly, and only a very few at a time, with the direction of mulitple practitioners who agree...not just from the advice of this book.
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Susun Weed is amazing!,
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This review is from: Wise Woman Herbal for the Childbearing Year (Paperback)
I am totally in love with this book. My partner and I are currently trying to get pregnant, and this book is an excellent resource! It tells you all about the plant, what it does, and what Susun's personal favourite remedy is. I plan to eventually own all of Susun Weed's books.
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