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Complementary and alternative medicine
Many mums-to-be are turning to alternative therapies to help them conceive, ease pregnancy discomfort and see them through labour and birth. Parents are also turning to complementary medicine to help treat many childhood complaints. However, despite its popularity and availability, complementary medicine isn’t for everyone and can have many potentially dangerous side effects. What is Complementary and Alternative Medicine…
Can you buy a better birth?
Your own personal midwife, therapists to treat you during labour, a private room and hired help afterwards… can paying for your baby’s birth make a difference? Melanie Deeprose investigates Countless thousands of women have given birth on the NHS and been extremely happy with the care they received. But in today’s cash-starved health service, you…
Aromatherapy in labour
Aromatherapy massage can provide relaxation and relief to women in the first stage of labour, according to the results of a long-term study of more than 8000 expectant mums. Along with more conventional forms of pain relief, women in the first stage of labour were offered essential oils, dropped onto a slip of paper or…
Complementary therapies for labour
Many women choose to use complementary therapies such as acupuncture, hypnosis and aromatherapy to help them in labour. For some women these therapies are very useful, and they need no other form of pain relief. For other women these therapies work best alongside mainstream medical forms of pain relief. Your own midwife, or another midwife…
Posted in Complementary therapies, Labour and Birth, Online antenatal classes
Tagged Acupuncture, Alternative medicine, antenatal class, aromatherapy, babyworld online antenatal class, class 4, complementary therapy, Hypnosis, Hypnotherapy, labour and birth, Massage, Midwife, reflexology
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Coping with pain in Labour
How they’ll cope with pain in labour is one of the things that most pregnant women are anxious about. Almost everyone has heard horror stories about what a painful experience labour is. And for some women, it does turn out to be the very painful. For others, though, the pain is quite manageable, while a…
Real nappies as bad for environment as disposables
5th July 2007 Women who use alternative therapies during fertility treatment are less likely to become pregnant, according to new research. Scientists at Cardiff University studied over 800 women undergoing IVF over the course of a year and found that those who alo used alternative therapies had a 30 per cent lower pregnancy rate than those who relied just…
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Tagged Acupuncture, Alternative medicine, alternative therapies, Alternative therapies for developmental and learning disabilities, alternative therapy, complementary medicine, complementary therapy, Edzard Ernst, Fertility, Gynecology, In vitro fertilisation, Infertility, Jacky Boivin, Peninsula Medical School in Plymouth, psychiatrist, reflexology
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Complementary therapies : acupuncture, reflexology & hypnotherapy
Whether you’re already trying for a baby, or you’re just starting to think about it, complementary therapies can also be helpful when used prior to undergoing conventional treatment or alongside other treatments. Although they can’t repair damaged tubes or produce more eggs, they can boost your general health, reduce stress levels and help you to feel more in control of…
Complementary therapies for families
Complementary therapies have received mixed press in recent years. However, many people are turning to them to relieve problems that Western medicine has not succeeded in helping. Babyworld moderator and complementary therapist Lynne Morgan gives you a basic guide to the most common therapies and explains how they can help in pregnancy, childbirth and beyond. What we now…
Posted in Complementary therapies, Parenting styles
Tagged Acupuncture, alternative therapies, aromatherapy, back pain, complementary therapy, cramps, Homoeopathy, Infertility, Massage, morning sickness, postnatal depression, Pre-eclampsia, Pregnancy, reflexology, restless legs, sciatica, Symphysis pubis dysfunction
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Child Health
Child Health Your baby’s brain development Should your child have the MMR vaccine? Explaining MMR Focus on meningitis Plagiocephaly- commonly know as flathead Talipes – commonly known as clubfoot Germ warfare Kids and chemicals Folic acid – what you need to know Should your child get the meningitis C jab? Feeding your child Are baby…
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Tagged allergy, artificial chemicals, Baby, Breastfeeding, Childhood, complementary therapy, Finding, Folic acid, forward, Infant feeding, Meningitis C, MMR vaccine, Vaccines
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