Posts by purpledragonfly

Oh, and I drank rrlt with my first, and the infusion with my second.

Alright, so I said I would post when I had my baby. The labor was quite intense, so I think my uterus was very toned indeed, thanks for sure in part to the rrlt. Lasted 6 1/2 hr, short 15 min pushing phase, only 2 small pushes of it...

So our new daughter arrived after a 6 1/2 hr. labor, everything went great! 6 lb 12 oz.

So I started having contractions at 4:00 AM, they were 45 seconds long and about 4 min. apart.  I took a shower and they moved to about 1 min. long but 6 min. apart.  I did a self cervical check and  can feel something...

I would like to get some feedback on belly binding after baby is born.  Has anyone here done this?  Do you think it benefited you? In what way?  Or is it not a good thing to do?  Opinions welcome!

I heard about it from a doula friend of mine, so I googled it, and came up with a ton of pages about it.

I've just been reading today that eating dates, especially during the last 4 weeks of pregnancy, may help a woman go into labor spontaneously, keep membranes intact longer, quicker cervical dilation, and less postpartum bleeding....

If you wanted to try and speed things up you could try nipple stimulation.  Just keep stimulating till contrax are well established.

So glad to have found this RRL tribe.  I actually just finished reading all 105 pages of it!  Theres a wealth of good information in here for those of you who haven't read any of the previous pages yet.  I drank the tea...

My gums have been bleeding very easily lately when I brush or floss my teeth, so I'm just wondering if anyone knows if that will increase the risk of bleeding too much after birth too?  Is my body trying to tell me that its in...