Eat For an Olympic Birth
God gave us nine months to prepare for the birth of each child. The most important thing to proactively develop is an eating and exercise strategy. There are many things that we cannot change that may impact our labors and births, but the most significant determinant of the state of our health is diet and exercise. That we can control!
Benign Hypertension
According to Anne Frye, Holistic Midwifery Vol I, 85% of women with essential hypertension have normal pregnancies. (1013) Some remedies that will help benign hypertension include:
- Relaxation techniques several times a day to reduce stress.
- Avoid strong spices.
- The following foods help reduce blood pressure:
- Watermelon
- Buckwheat
- Raw garlic, parsley and onions in large quantities
- Cucumber
- Hops tea
- Passion flower
- Scullcap (Ex-stress and Silent Night from Nature's Way is very effective)
- Hawthorn berries (BP Factors from Michael's brand is very successful)
- Fenugreek
- Balanced formula of magnesium, calcium and potassium
- Moderate exercise
- 8oz glass of water every 2-3 hours.
Consult an herbal text for specific formulas and keep your health care provider informed about your self-help attempts.
Floravital Iron + Herbs
Flora is a distributor of european natural liquid supplements.
I have had excellent results with this product. Iron + Herbs has improved the hemoglobin and hematocrit of clients that were too anemic to be a candidate for a home birth in just a week.
Non-constipating
Kosher
Vegetarian
Yeast & Gluten free
Ingredients: African mallow blossoms, chamomile, spinach; juice concentrates: grape, pear, black cherry, blackberry, carrot,; rosehip extract, ferrous gluconate (the most easily assimilated of iron supplements)
