herbs to induce period while breast

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I haven't read this entire thread, so maybe someone has already gone

into this...

As far as I know, a woman still ovulates during breast feeding even

though she isn't having her period. She doesn't need to have a

period in order to get pregnant again.

But the endometriosis needs to be dealt with first if she plans on

having children for many more years to come... It will put her body

in better shape to grow future fetuses as well. This can be dealt

with naturally despite what her doctor probably thinks. But it will

take time off of child bearing (which she may not have a choice about

anyway if the endo is affecting her ovulation or fertility).

 

I'm guessing someone has already suggested the full body cleanse and

mucusless diet? It's worth mentioning again... There's really no

way around it from what I know... The liver needs to be cleansed

then rebuilt so it can get rid of the extra estrogen (among other

things) and the diet will help balance her hormones. So if she

starts with a full body cleanse, then stays on the mucusless diet for

several months (or as long as it takes), she can work on rebuilding

the liver after the cleanse with the diet, milk thistle tincture,

beta carotene (veggie juice is best) and/or other liver builders. In

the end her body will be able to support more pregnancies and will

produce healthier babies if she takes a year or so to deal with it

thoroughly.

 

herbal remedies , Ilana Grostern <ilana@c...>

wrote:

> When you have endometriosis your body doesn't think it's pregnant,

nor

> does it think that way when you have an IUD. Endo creates all this

> thickened endometrial lining which doesn't allow a fertilized egg

to

> implant. The lining of the uterus is just too hard and too thick.

As for

> an IUD, that's a physical object in the uterus that also is said to

> interfere with implantation.

>

> ILANA xoxo

>

> Anjeweleyes wrote:

>

> > I think if she wants fourteen kids that's her business. And if

she

> > wants them back to back, that's her business.

> > Please don't take my post the wrong way.

> > People make jokes about my four.

> > It's none of their damn business is how I feel.

> > Maybe it's not the nursing after all, maybe it's the

endometriosis.

> > Somebody on here is bound to know what she could do to get rid of

that

> > stuff naturally. I know a fairly young girl that has that and

it's

> > weaved and webbed in her uterus soooo bad she can't get pregnant

> > because it acts like an IUD, in that her body already thinks

she's

> > pregnant.

> > Maybe herbs to bring it on still won't work if the " endo " is bad

enough...

> > I'm not educated in this stuff what so ever, it just seems

logical to

> > me that if she had that, nursing may not be her problem.

> > Just my 2 cents worth.

> > Best of luck to her, I know first hand how it is to want another

baby

> > so bad it hurts and it's emotionally exhausting as well.

> > Angel

> > All incoming and outgoing scanned with NAV for both our

protection.

> >

> > -

> > erica zbyszewski <hlthgrl5275>

> > herbal remedies

> > <herbal remedies >

> > Saturday, May 17, 2003 10:42 AM

> > [herbal remedies] Re: herbs to induce period while

breast

> >

> > Frankly, I'm surprised at the answers I received. I

> > was simply looking for advice regarding what herbs

> > would be safe to bring on her periods (or ovulation)

> > while breast feeding.

> > Aside from wanting a big family (and she's in her

> > early 30s) she has also suffered horribly from

> > endometriosis for years. She has been told by her

> > physician that the endo is starting to come back with

> > a vengeance and her best bet for conceiving would be

> > now. She had a VERY difficult time conceiving the

> > first and eventually turned to modern medicine.

> >

> >

> >

[Guest guest]

Thanks so much for all of your answers.

 

I also have endometriosis and trust me - while diet

and herbs can *sometimes* help they very rarely get

rid of it entirely. I do believe that my diet and

herbs helped lessen my endo, but not to the extent

that it allowed me to get pregnant right away. I'm in

my 20th week right now and I did have to turn to

conventional medicine.

Endo can and usually does have a strong bearing on

ovulation. It basically screws it up so that a woman

doesn't ovulate at all or she does so improperly.

Herbs can help but only sometimes fully correct the

underlying problem.

 

As for my friend, she had a much more complicated case

than I did/do. And, even in women without endo or

hormonal imbalances, breast feeding often causes a

woman not to ovulate.

She had to have an emergency C-section with her first

and apparently a vaginal delivery is the best way to

fight the growth of endometrial lesions. So - hers is

coming back as bad as before.

Granted, her diet is not as wonderful as it should be

so I'm trying to help her with that (I'm a certified

whole foods diet counselor) and she'd like to use some

herbs to jump start ovulation. She doesn't want to

wean little Hank and I don't think she should have to.

 

Someone mentioned Susan Weed. Yup, I've looked through

her book as well as a Rosemary Gladstar one and an

Amanda McQuade Crawford - all Herbal Women books. The

Crawford one suggests either Vitex, Dong Quai or Red

Clover to balance hormones while lactating. I'm

thinking that I'll probably just make my friend a

Vitex tincture as I've got a ton of that stuff on

hand. How do you all make your Vitex tinctures? Do I

have to use alcohol or can I use Glycerin. I'm

thinking alcohol, right? I've never made a Vitex

tincture...I leave it whole, no? Any suggestions from

the group would be greatly appreciated (once again).

 

Erica

 

 

 

 

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