If you are a lactating mother, and you have not yet been introduced to herbal teas for nursing, then tune in and get inspired! Even if you have been using herbal teas already to support you in motherhood, it’s always interesting to know a little more about the nutritious medicines that you are taking. Herbal teas are especially useful when your baby is going through a feeding spurt, and you are not producing enough milk to meet these demands.

Common Herbs used in Nursing Teas Today

Fennel (Foeniculum vulgare) has both a rich flavour and history of use in breastfeeding mothers. It has been used to boost milk production, and also to treat colic in babies since antiquity. It enhances digestion by preventing flatulence and cramping. So it’s ideal for lactation. No good nursing tea would be without Fennel!

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Menopause fatigue can quickly take over a woman’s life if you let it. Being tired all the time can have a negative impact on your overall health and make you feel bad. In this article we will discuss the best ways to overcome this problem.

One of the biggest keys to fatigue initially is insomnia. When your body has lower estrogen levels this can cause you to have mood swings and irritability. Sometimes it can even cause depression. Insomnia leaves you with a lack of sleep every night and too many nights in a row can leaving you feeling fatigued all the time.

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Pregnancy is a beautiful phase of a woman’s life wherein she feels proud of the fact that she is nurturing a life inside her. Many women take this fact quite seriously and start eating for two adults; this results in excessive weight gain. Experts believe that to provide nourishment to the growing foetus, women need just about 300 calories extra during pregnancy. This can easily be sufficed through extra nutritional food. You don’t need to eat for two adults. While little indulgence on chocolates and ice creams can be fine occasionally, excessive calories should be avoided.

Extra weight gain during pregnancy can be risky for both mother and her child. Obese pregnant women are at a risk of developing complications like child birth defects, miscarriage and other life threatening complications like pre-eclampsia. Obesity during pregnancy also increases the risk of maternal high blood pressure by 10 times. Women who are obese during pregnancy are more likely to have gestational diabetes and problems with labour and delivery. They are also at higher risk of Cesarean deliveries.

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Pregnancy is a time when your body undergoes a lot of changes and if you have Rosacea it could increase during pregnancy. Although, Rosacea does not have any effect on your pregnancy, but it is important that you refrain from consuming pills that are used to control the redness and flushing. However; this will in turn increase the redness and inflammation of Rosacea hence natural methods of controlling should be exercised.

Hormonal changes affect the body during pregnancy and this can bring issues of changes in skin condition. The good news here is that these changes are just until pregnancy and will return to normalcy once the pregnancy term is over. Make sure you consult a doctor before consuming any oral medications that are used to control redness since it could have adverse affects on the baby’s growth and other complications.

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It is becoming well known now that foods can help and even heal certain conditions and that is definitely true for fertility. With the rise in awareness about the effect food has on our hormone levels is it any wonder that in today’s nutrient deficient menu now has thousands of women unable to fall pregnant. So if that’s true, how can you fix it?

Well the first thing to remember is that old saying ‘you are what you eat’. That means you need to eat foods that nourish the hormone system and increase fertility.

Many specialists are recommending that you eat and act like you are already pregnant. And that includes no alcohol, no smoking and drinking lots of water. Try and pretend that you are at a luxury health spa and eat as healthy as you would there if you were on a body cleanse program.

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In response to the call for birth control needs, medical experts came up with different methods in such a way that sexual intercourse will not be affected. The use of condom has been massive in the male population; however, the satisfaction is not guaranteed and there were also cases of accidental formation of birth. Up to this time, the only permanent method for birth control is a vasectomy.

For sterilization purposes, the male mammal’s vasa deferentia are cut through a surgical operation called Vasectomy. This method is considered to be the most effective and permanent way to control birth. (more…)

Infertility is a very unfortunate phenomenon that is happening to more and more people as time goes by. There are a variety of reasons why such a thing could happen but sometimes even the experts cannot figure out why it is happening. There are numerous theories on how to treat or even counteract infertility. One of them is through acupuncture.

What is acupuncture? Acupuncture is an ancient Chinese method that is used for the treating and preventing of disease. It is an alternative form of treatment that deals with the insertion of really thin and sterile needles into specific pressure points on the body which are located in pathways going through the exterior and interior of the body. These points, when needled, can normalize the way in which the body functions. This method has been practiced constantly for the past five thousand years in the Orient by around one quarter of the world’s population as their primary form of health care. With this in mind, how are acupuncture and infertility related?

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If you are lucky enough to have already conceived - and as a smoker you started with around 50% less chance of conception than a non smoker - then congratulations. However, if you would like to quit smoking during pregnancy and still consider the idea as difficult, if not impossible, then your stress added to your smoking habit can cause immense harm to yourself and your newborn. Worst of all, that combination could affect whether your baby is born full term, prematurely or at all, because smoking is said to be a factor in miscarriage and stress causes many organs of the body to function less effectively. The British Medical Association states that smoking is responsible for up to 5,000 miscarriages a year in the UK alone.

How is the damage caused

Smoking deposits nicotine and many other toxic chemicals into the bloodstream, which means that the fetus is unable to receive the right amount of oxygen, and in turn this also increases the chance of losing a pregnancy.

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