weight loss after child birth

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How do i get a flat tommy again after childbirth it has been 6 month

now sinds i had my baby. What is the best treatment for weight loss.

 

thanks

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ayurveda, "maham_chaudhry2000"

<maham_chaudhry2000 wrote:

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> How do i get a flat tommy again after childbirth it has been 6

month

> now sinds i had my baby. What is the best treatment for weight loss.

 

 

>one of my female patient(age 29) is having a bad body odour after

>intercourse. she is married for last 9 years and this problem started

>three moths ago. this body odour also occurs nearly five days before

>each period. her body has excess temp. what is the problem?

 

 

 

This author has addressed the issue of obesity developed after

childbirth, in previous messages 1680,1688,1696, 3820,5288. You have

not mentioned whether your baby was result of a normal birth, C-

section or VBAC. Similarly, whether baby is being nursed, your m/c

has restarted or not etc are factors to be considered. Since your

question requires a consultaion with a local ayurvedist, author will

like to give you a general range of problems and range of strategies

possible. He also take's this opportunity to express some of his

opinions, which may be contrversial to many.

 

Women represent and control our future generation. If women lack the

health, the future generation may look healthy at birth, but carries

seeds of ill-health in the genes. In order that our next generation

be better in health, it is first necessary to make women healthy.

These considerations are similar to those in farming where farmer

spends majority of time in making soil fertile. Since health of both

body and mind is important, the dependence of women on father in

childhood, husband/in-laws in middle age, and on children in old age

does not allow sufficient development of her creative mind. Happy

mind keeps one healthy automatically.

 

One important indicator of the health is the regularity and adequacy

of menstrual cycles. It is generally assumed that healthy menses give

rise to healthy mind and body too. Any irregularity in health also

affects the pattern of m/c. Since these two are so strongly

correlated, author sometimes feels that Lord Brahma created women

only for continuation of race, and teaching us, love sacrifice and

tenacity.

 

Too scanty menses is not much discussed disorder in most of

alternative fields. Generally women tend to think that as long as

every month menses appear on last months date plus one minus two

days, everything seems in order. Slowly decreasing menses flow is not

attached much importance. Pituitary, thyroid and ovarian glands play

an important role in regulating both schedule and quantity of menses,

through the hormones secreted by them.

 

When the childbirth is vaginal, and without much modern medicine

intervention, the cycles restart without much irregularity some time

after the delivery. The tummy also returns to almost original shape.

These days, C-sections have become very common and connection between

C-section and hormonal imbalance has been discussed by this author in

various posts last year. As a result of disturbing the whole program

of childbirth, consequential imbalance in glands, which involves

reduced secretions, the creatuion of all seven dhatus becomes

disturbed. The agni which creates all seven dhatus, becomes subdued,

and Mansa and Meda start increasing. The conversion of lower dhatus

to higher ones such as Majja, Asthi and Veerya or Shukra gets slowed

down appreciably.

 

What are the results? Weight gain, reduced libido, lack of or reduced

orgasmic intensity. Shukra dhatu controls libido, strength of orgasm

etc. It is this dhatu that causes vaginal secretions prior to union.

This last and most powerful dhatu, when reduces, causes debilitation

of energy and paves way for entry of various diseases related to

genitor-urinal system.

 

When the quantity of menstrual flow or total flow over say six

month period starts reducing, the situations becomes alarming. This

is a pointer to imbalance of hormones. Under these circumstances,

instead of taking tonics, ready formulatios widely advertised in

media, it is better to do your own research and know the side effects

of medicines. The super power which governs our body clocks does not

take intervention in nervous system lightly. When meda starts

accumulating, the tension of thinking about it sometimes increases

the food intake. Temptation for sugars, soft-floors, fats

specifically increases under hormone imbalance. One must be very

cautious and take timely action for keeping check on obesity, else

the menstrual flow gradually reduces and ultimately stops. Modern

medical science calls this as perimenopause phase. While in olden days when bad

fats were unknown, this phase occured after 45, but now a days, exceptional

cases at 25 are noted in this authors limited experience.

 

In this phase, skin dryness, reduced or absent vaginal secretion,

skin diseases, hair-loss, palpitations or tachycardia, insomnia,

night sweats, depression, brady-cardia, reduced or total lack of

libido, weight gain despite controlled diet, anxiety, loss of temper,

especially when spouse is concerned, sudden tears or doom feelings,

finding fault with everyone, sudden mood changes or body odor

changes in specific phase of weakening cycles, etc such symptoms are

noted and are already summarized in file `perimeno.rtf' in

folder `articles' in group files. The increase in urine infections, bad vaginal

odor, is also experienced by many when cycles start reducing. The protective

acidity of birth canal was the safety feature against infections granted as long

as they were able to conceive easily.

 

Ayurveda offers several classical formulations and herbs to

compensated for reducing hormones during this phase of life. The

herbs to mimic the cyclicity of hormones during two prominent phases

of m/c, herbs to increase haemoglobin if there is a loss due to

menorrhagia, herbs to improve digestion, reduce flatulence, bloating

etc also exist. Since evry case is unique and so is `pulse reading'

which herbs to choose, which formulations to choose are decisions,

best left to Vaidya. Unlike modern medicines, none of the herbs cause

imbalance to worsen or cause cancer/liver toxicity, in general.

 

While best judge for the possible approach will be neighborhood

Vaidya, some diet suggestions can be offered in an internet article.

Reduce bad fats, increase good fats. Sesame oil, cow ghee, coconut

oil are preferred ones in India, while author cant comment on what

fats are good in other countries. However, he has indicated many

tests for choosing fats in general, in earlier posts. Ayurveda

generally recommends reduction of those foods which cause Pitta and

Vata vitiation. Legumes, soft-carbs, processed foods, spicy foods

etc. Carbohydrates such as rice, wheat and ordinary potato etc is a

frequent recommendation, but this author feels that each individual

is different. He has seen people on major carbohydrate diet, without

putting up even a gram of weight in years!

 

By crash dieting according to various internet protocols, women have

reduced few kilograms of weight, but the weight loss reversed as soon

as they turned to old habits. Obesity is one major risk factor in

early peri-menopause. One should have realistic targets for weight

loss, healthy exercises which will give all-round circulation rather

than specific yogasanas or aerobics. These measures are not like

allopathic pills, which are focused to specific symptoms. Once some

weight loss occurs, regularity of m/c is also experienced by several.

 

 

Dr Bhate

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Dear Maham,

 

First I would check on the things Dr Bhate informed you like regularity of

menstruation and regularity of bowels. I can help you with exercise. A good

brisk walk every day is very helpful. There are many good yoga asanas that are

useful. I would work on the abdomen especially. This would include leg raises.

There are many variations of this. Lie on the back. It is very important to

keep the lowerback flat on the ground. If you have to place something under the

buttocks (the hands can do this) and raise alternate legs in the air inhaling up

and exhaling down. Also di it with both legs inhaling up and exhaling down.

Raise the heels 24" above the ground andhold for a few seconds and then bring

the knees as close to the chest as possible and keep repeating while inhaling

legs out exhaling legs to chest.

 

Shoulderstand is especially good to reverse the effects of gravity. Locust

and cobra are excellent. Baby pose while sitting on heels and putting forehead

on ground. The main thing is to assess what is workable for you to do on a

daily basis and to do it consistenly every day.

 

GB Khalsa

 

> How do i get a flat tommy again after childbirth it has been 6 month

> now sinds i had my baby. What is the best treatment for weight loss.