Miscarried yesterday - how do I take care of my body NOW?

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Dear Lisa,

My heart goes out to you hon.

You did all the right things and were also taking the right herbs so

whatever you do, please do NOT beat yourself up. OK???

Best is to go all raw when these things occur. If you have to go to

juices only for a week or two then do so.

We also tend to forget the hot water bottle of yesteryear. Hot and

Cold Therapy is one of the best, and if I were only allowed one therapy

it would be Hot "n" Cold.

Often a very hot shower or a hot bath will bring relief in seconds.

You also need to baby yourself.

This is not an easy thing to confront especially now that you're past

40.

My recommendations would be to have no more children, but I would

support your decision to do so if that is what you truly wished for.

Most likely Wild Yam Root Tincture would make an excellent, natural

birth control for you, and would also facilitate getting preggers if

you decided to change your mind once you came off of it. Wild Yam is a

natural Birth Control, but will make you hyper fertile when you stop

taking it.

A full and complete Total Body Cleanse with the Female Formula would be

the best thing you could do for the nonce and for an immediate

band-aid, I'd have the Female Formula and the Nerve Sedative Formula

very handy.

Buttttttttttt, remember those hot baths, hot showers, saunas, and hot

water bottles.

Go get in the tub right now. I'm sending you a lot of love right now

and I know our list members are doing so too.

Yours in Knowledge, Health, Freedom and Love,

Doc

 

 

Lisa wrote:

 

Dear Doc -

 

 

There are a million things out there on what to do to prevent or get

through a miscarriage - but I am not finding what I can do to help

myself AFTER having one. I began to bleed yesterday and had the severe

cramping, etc last night. I need ideas on miscarriage aftercare to

nourish my body back to health.

 

History - After 2 years of

trying, became pregnant with a post vasectomy reversal miracle baby -

at 41! Went through an infertility workup and was told I would never

conceive without IVF! I know the Author and Creator of life, and knew

He would answer! Spent the summer doing cleanses, liver/gallbladder,

taking compounded progesterone, and chasteberry and red raspberry leaf

tea. Whole foods diet, mainly organic, lots of juicing of veggies. Did

first mercury amalgam removal in June, and became pregnant within weeks

(so cancelled the rest of it) Had 3 previous miscarriages, one live

birth (who is now 13).

 

Considered high risk, so

began with OB early. Diagnosed with "blighted ovum" at 7 1/2 weeks,

advised to get IMMEDIATE D & C or take the pill to abort. Refused.

Brokenhearted, did research and found many women with tilted uterus do

not show a vaginal ultrasound heartbeat until 8/10/12 weeks. Determined

not to give up hope, but do ALL I COULD to maintain the pregnancy in

the minute chance the OB was wrong. In deciding to endure, decided to

switch to a Reproductive Endocrinologist who would MONITOR me and do

weekly ultrasounds. Began collecting information at a site to help

other women in the same position http://www.squidoo.com/blightedovumhope/ mainly

recording my personal story. Half of America was praying for us, it

seems.

 

I write this very

clinically here - because it is just easier to get it out that way as I

request information for this phase.

 

At 10 weeks, 2 days, began

to bleed, then cramp, then bled profusely. No fever, no horrendous

cramping, pretty good textbook delivery (my good friend is an MD). Will

keep tomorrow's appt with the RE to get the final ultrasound and see

what he says. 99% sure all is well and D & C is happily avoided.

 

So please tell me what to

do to help my body NOW that we have miscarried. The past three, I would

slip into a horrendous pit and be out of it for days, about a month,

extreme exhaustion and a gray, gray depression would cover me like a

cloak. I would imagine that is partially hormonal and partially

emotional and physical. I want to prevent that if at all

possible. After all, we began our process of grieving, to

a degree - 21 days before this happened and I spent 21 days walking

around not knowing if our baby was dead or alive. That gave me three

weeks to process the brutal fact that our miracle baby might NOT make

it.

 

I am not so concerned with

trying to get pregnant AGAIN, as I am surviving the first month

afterwards and nourishing my body back to health. I would imagine this

has been very difficult on my body and I simply cannot find miscarriage

aftercare.

 

Suggestions for herbs,

ideas, etc would be greatly appreciated. I am debating on doing another

cleanse in a week or two. It just so happens we are downsizing, about

to move, and in a bit of a financial CRUNCH right now, so I must be

conservative fiscally with any treatments.

 

Thank you

Lisa

 

Incidentally, we are

probably going to stay where we are at for now, and not try and get

pregnant again, but will not prevent it (after the requisite few months

of recovery have passed) We will decide after the 1st of the year what

we want to do.