Red Leaf Raspberry Tea for Easy Birth Labor

SAFER OPTIONS TO CHEMICAL DRUGS OXYTOCIN / PITOCIN  - Red Leaf Raspberry Tea to quicken and ease labor discomfort, by Donna Young, Natural Birth Education.  Donna is a mother and a grandmother.    (This url for reference is:  www.lotusbirth.com/doc/FEB2003Lotusbirth-255.htm) Revised June 16, 2004.

     The Pioneers, who birthed prior to the 1920's, used instead of commercial drugs, and the dangerous side effect of Oxytocin / Pitocin, (Syntocinon, Toesen) now commonly used in labor, a strong red raspberry leaf tea. How to make the concoction is below. This herbal tea was used for birth contractions and can be used even for the expelling of the placenta and to stop and/or control hemorrhage.

    The tea, in most situations, was taken just prior to delivery of the child, when labor began. But it is safe to use at any time. Why the tea works? Red Leaf Raspberry Tea is an astringent, which is a medicine that checks or slows down discharges of blood, mucus, and other secretions of the body.

    Astringents work by "contracting the tissues and canals of the body. Physicians use two classes of astringents, vegetable (organic) and mineral (metals). The vegetable astringents, like red leaf raspberry tea, contain tannic and gallic acids and other substances. The mineral astringents include mineral acids, such as nitric and hydrochloric acids, zinc, iron, lead, silver, and alum. The ailments treated for by use of astringents include diarrhea, sore throat, hemorrhage (child birth), and various mucuous discharges."

     (Ref.: World Book Encyclopedia, Vol. A, p. 790, 1979).

    Note by Donna:  Minerals used in prescribed chemical drugs in labor may even contain preservatives of mercury Thimersal / Thimerosal or chlorobutanol, as oxytocin does of the latter.  Mercury in any form, gas, solid, liquid, is a poison.  Check the manufacturer's label of all drugs used by your local hospital for child birth.  Chlorobutanol is one of the preservatives acknowledged by the Canadian manufacturer's drug, oxytocin.  Oxytocin can be injected full strength, after the baby's head is born, and that procedure, is often done without informed consent as to a mother's required signature for compliance of appropriate care.  The injection of oxytocin, that cuts done the third stage of labor time, and alleged to stop bleeding, is generally followed with immediate umbilical cord clamping, on a yet pulsating cord and functioning organ.

    This active management is a directive of the World Health Organization because they are warning this drug, Oxytocin, that goes by many names, is causing brain damage to the child.  Therefore, quickness of the time efficiency management of the third stage of labor is,  then,  directed, too.  

    W.H.O.'s directives are for pushing down on the mother's stomach and pulling on the now cut cord, to remove the placenta, fast. It they do not remove the placenta fast, the oxytocin may cause the stomach muscles to shut down around the placenta.

    The pulling on the cut cord can cause womb inversion and infections. The pressing down on the stomach may also cause leakage of the full placenta, trapped with the child's 50 percent total blood volume. Consequently, the two blood mixing is harmful to the mother's health and well-being to carry future children full term without complications to that fetus's health. The next child's blood may self-destruct. The mother may never ever carry a child full term, again.   More drugs then are used as preventative measures of the RH blood factors caused by the child's placenta blood mixing in the mother's blood stream.

    It is not wise for the mother to birth in institutions with the currently trained medical persons, following questionable active management policies.  Her only assurance of a natural birth, is if the mother has a signed Birth Contract of what the medical persons cannot give her or her baby or do to her body or her baby's.  A signed birth contract, breached, has more legal accountability to a verbal birth "plan."  

    (See suggestions for a signed birth contract, a the table of contents, www.lotusbirth.com). Also see the warning on the man-made drug,  Oxytocin below. Do consider to have the nurses give in written form their statements to entice you to take a drug or injection during your labor discomfort.  Or, a birth witness to write it down and have it signed.  Generally, when the mother is in the most pain, without drugs, is an indication that the baby is soon to be in her arms, in a normal birth.

     It is wiser and better for the mother to be moving around and getting in and out of warm water for labor discomfort then to use drugs that slow the labor down, as what morphine does;  or increase the the labor contractions beyond imagination, as what oxytocins can do.  This is because the man-made oxytocin is adding to the natural oxytocin, produced, normally in the woman's body, during the child's birth.  The result is hypertonic contractions, that can pull the placenta away from the womb. This can result in a still born, the baby getting no oxygen, or leading to a c-section.  

    In most situations like these, drugs related, the doctors do not take accountability for damage to the child in the womb, nor the midwives.  They just say the baby died or was injured due to natural causes, not caused by man or woman, eh.  They will say the woman signed appropriate care forms implying the woman's own fault, or they will say it is genetic problems, or they will say problem unknown cause.  They will use as a defence of early umbilical cord clamping any clinical policies that allowed them to do impose active management ; but the woman, in most cases did not give informed choice.  This is because, in most instances, the birthing mother was  not told of safer options of natural primal birth care and treatment and her birth contract signed.  The Primal birth tradition and legal right for this type of birth is now called Lotus Birth (lotusbirth).

THE VALUE OF RASPBERRY LEAVES:

    The following Magical tea strength was provided in the Rodales Encyclopedia of Natural Home Remedies, page 379, who got the secret from a Scotland book, called Dragged to Light by W. H. Box of Plymouth, England, that stated,

     "On one ounce of raspberry leaves pour one pint of boiling water, cover and let steep for 30 minutes. Strain, and when the time for delivery is approaching drink the whole as hot as possible. "

    The delivery is said to be very quick after drinking this tea. Some women drink a lighter tea mix, to strengthen their womb "before" pregnancy. It may even just be beneficial to drink a very hot cup of water, perhaps a tad of sugar or honey in it too, for increased strength during labor.

• Other Information on Red Raspberry Tea:

    "One of the reasons that Red Raspberry leaves are so efficacious is that they contain iron citrate upon which depend the remarkable blood making and regulating properties in the body. It also promotes the astringing and contracting action of the female organs and other internal tissues and organs. The leaves also contain pectin (apples, eat last thing at night)  which has recently been found to be a soothing and healing agent, malic acid and other organic acids, calcium chloride, potassium chloride and potassium sulfate. Especially in light of these healing potassium (bananas enjoy one daily)  compounds, which modern science has discovered to be absolutely necessary for promotion of healing tissue, it is no wonder that Red Raspberry (and the other fruits) is such a wonderful herb for women and especially for mothers-to-be (ShoA:1 13)."

EXPULSION OF THE AFTERBIRTH, THE PLACENTA:

•         I don't see why the same tea drink wouldn't work for expelling the afterbirth, too.  As an astringent is used for hemorrhage.  So drugs for induction of labor or for the placenta to be expelled are not necessary, and neither is immediate cord clamping of the child's pulsating lifeline/hopeline.  Only if the mother asks to risk cord infections, may the cord be tied off and cut, for merely cosmetic reasons.

•     Clamping the umbilical cord is not a medical need, unless there was an accident that caused the cord to tear (dropped baby), or for an error in surgery for a c-section, a placenta previa.  But, many medical institutions consider the placenta valued more then the well-being of the child's rights to all nutrients of the blood and full blood volume and pressure to be inside the baby's lungs.  Therefore, they do active management policies, of early clamping. They do not tell the mother or the father of the child, that the blood trapped in the placenta may be worth $30,000 for a few ounces of stem cells and interferon, and other nutrients and hormones and enzymes found in the blood tissue. They do not tell them they are NOT burning that valuable contribution to others or science or blood and tissues banks, but are selling the tissues to the highest bidders, by the institution, or by private billings of the medical persons in charge.  Records of income and expense are means to confirm the discarding of any organ, tissue, and blood.

NATURAL REMOVAL OF THE PLACENTA, WITHOUT DRUGS:

•         There is yet another remedy other than taking oxytocin to produce the afterbirth, the placenta:   The Eskimo's stick their fingers down their throat, and they cough and out pops the placenta, naturally.  

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Other information on the History of Red Raspberry Tea:

Red Raspberry Tea

Can this herb ease childbirth?

Stacelynn Caughlan, Cl.N., C.H., R.N.C.P.

Visit her site at :   http://www.motherandchildhealth.com

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"First recorded in the 1500’s, raspberry leaf tea (Rubus ideas) has been used for centuries in Europe, China, and both North and South America. This popular tea has earned the reputation of "herb-supreme" amongst pregnant women. According to folklore it can relieve almost any discomfort of pregnancy from morning sickness to leg cramps. And there may be good reason for its reputation.

Raspberry leaf is very high in an assortment of nutrients including calcium, iron, and B vitamins, all of which are very important during pregnancy. The herb also contains a variety of chemicals -most of which have yet to be identified- that produce a direct effect on the pregnant uterus. They have been shown to strengthen the uterine wall, relax smooth muscle, and help to make delivery easier and speedier by helping the uterus contract more efficiently.

Historically women have taken raspberry leaf tea throughout their pregnancies up to and including childbirth. Many mothers extol this herb's ability to make childbirth easier and less painful. In a letter to the editor of the medical journal The Lancet, Dr. Violet Russel wrote "somewhat shamefacedly I have encouraged expectant mothers to drink this infusion. In a great many cases labour has been free and easy from muscular spasm."

Some women also drink the tea throughout their labour, or suck on frozen cubes made beforehand. It reportedly helps expel the placenta, and its nutritional value is thought to be responsible for encouraging and enriching the mother's breast milk. Many women continue to drink the tea long after childbirth as it is thought to help restore the reproductive system and continue to help nourish the new mother.

Studies have not yet been done to give us statistical data on the use of this tea, but as more women and health professionals discover its potential, its popularity will surely continue to grow. This is one herb that all pregnant women should have in their cupboards!

NOTE: Some medical and popular media make reference to raspberry leaf tea as something to avoid during pregnancy for risk of miscarriage. This notion stems from a study conducted in 1954 where fractions were isolated from Rubus sp. and applied in vitro to the uterine tissues of guinea pigs and frogs. The scientists discovered such things as one fraction acted as a spasmolytic whereas another caused uterine contractions. Herein lies the risk of isolating the parts of a whole. When used as a whole plant, neither action is exacerbated and the herb is deemed safe. If a mother is prone to miscarriages she may feel safer avoiding raspberry until the third trimester. This is an herb with centuries of safe use behind it, there is usually little cause for concern.

References

C.J. Briggs and K. Briggs, Canadian Pharmaceutical Journal, April 1997

Rosemary Gladstar, Herbal Healing for Women, Fireside, 1993

Richard Mabey, The New Age Herbalist, Gaia Books, 1988

Susun S. Weed, Wise Woman Herbal for the Childbearing Year, Ash tree Publishing, 1986

Joy Gardner, Healing Yourself During Pregnancy, The Crossing Press, 1987"

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    Note by Donna Young:  If a mother is prone to miscarriages, she should avoid any drug with oxytocin added to it, as it is an abortion drug.  Mothers can refuse drugs during labor.  It is strongly suggested they do not allow the hospital to keep the placenta, but to take it home and keep the placenta in the freezer for forensic testing, should there be latent complications to the mother's health or the child's.

    There have been situations where mothers have died two weeks after their child's birth. There were either complications the drugs injected, or by spinals (air in their blood stream).  The drugs can be found in the placenta, because all drugs cross the placenta, and can damage the baby's well-being, too.

    Militancy of nurses and doctors and labs and Administration of Hospital Policies imposed without a Court Directive:

    If the hospital or staff are being militant that they have ownership of the placenta (it is very valuable to them), please consider having this matter resolved, even before the mother gets pregnant by taking the local hospital's policy or the doctor's for a Supreme Court Judge's decision of ownership and rights of the parents, the legal guardian to maintain the organ, by their own means, even to bury it with lime applied in their own garden area.  

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WARNING ON THE DRUG OXYTOCIN BY THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION (1998)

    The man-made-Oxytocin drug HAS A WARNING IT CAUSES BRAIN DAMAGE to the child.  The warning is by the World Health Organization. The medical persons are, therefore, directed, by WHO, to do immediate umbilical cord clamping.  This hasty clamping leads to the baby being harvested of up to 50 percent total blood volume.  This is the child's valuable placenta blood needed for the expanding lungs. It is all very convenient and the parents are none-the-wiser their baby is caused to be weaker. Many will have to be revived.  This is about one in sixteen babies reported "revived" by Canadian researchers.  Any "revived" baby is going to impaired or compromised to the degree of oxygen debt to the brain and other organs, lungs, heart, liver and the cells may never secret their normal enzymes or hormones sufficiently, if the cell becomes injured or its DNA and RNA mutated.

    (See References: www.lotusbirth.com/doc/FEB2003Lotusbirth-110.htm

    The valuable placenta nutrient blood, once deprived the child/owner, may then be sold to science research and used in stem cell transplants. This distribution of your baby's blood is done without informed consent.   Don't let it happen to "your" baby.  Natural births, with no drugs, need not have any clamping of the baby's umbilical cord at all.  The clamping and cutting of the cord is merely cosmetic, unless the cord tore or for placenta previa.

    If your medical person(s) will not sign a birth contract not to clamp the cord, and will not allow warm water births, to relax the mother, rather then harmful drugs that cross the placenta and hurt the baby, it may be much wiser to birth in the safety of your "own" home, unassisted, except by your own loving family. Only these close loving persons will be respectful of the mother and give the protection of the child's rights to full blood transfusion from the placenta to the baby's expanding lungs. That respect of the human right is not happening to the baby's rights to have full blood transfusion into their lungs.  This is in most institutionalized births.  It has been in these institutionalized births, knowingly of the government representatives on all medical boards, where placenta blood has been taken, and secretly, far too long.

    Do you really think, as the cord stem blood banks, springing up world wide, are stating that any hospital burned a valuable asset of blood by wasting it?   Blood is too valuable a medical asset for its suspensions, nutrients, and various components of: platelets, plasma, hormones, enzymes, white cells, red cells, and stem cells and so forth.  

    Please share these concerns with others and the Petition link to Protect Babies and Mothers, Too, below.  Only one by one can the mothers of today and tomorrow become educated...not by the controlled biology textbooks and prenatal classes the common folk are subjected to by the design of the governing classes. Don't be the next women to be exploited to produce raw materials -- this the baby's stolen blood.  That is what the attitude is of babies today, a simply raw material for the placenta blood.  They send you home with a living baby, not a healthy baby, that nature intended if you did not birth in the controlled State hospitals now privatized for Big Profits.  This blood taking is strictly business, big business, world wide.

    Check out the Stock Market for Stem Cell Blood Banks in your State.

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Search this www.lotusbirth.com web site for :  AAP policy, SOGC policy, ACOG policy; Placenta; Fetus to Neonate Circulation; 30-second clamping; World Health Organization and Dupont ; Circumcision ; Dr. Sarah Buckley's Declaration ; pH receptors ; References ; Canadian Criminal Codes and when a baby is a person; and any other subject you may be interested in.

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(Reference from Protect Babies http://www.123-baby-birth.com)   Search at Google this web site for the " No Policies " on equal protection to babies at from the various government officials who appointed representatives to protect the public on medical policies and practices; also the "No policies" of the various medical associations, societies, and colleges did not live up to no form of discrimination to women or the child of any kind.  

    It is believed these medical associations who thought 'no policy was the best policy' had a duty to have a policy of equal protection and security of person, regardless of:  age, mental or physical disadvantages ; race, color, social or marital status of the pregnant lady ; or belief or faith of the family, or genetic type of blood sought for by medical researchers, for stem cell matching, and use of white cells, mature red cells, platelets, enzymes, hormones, and plasma -- all extracted from the deprived placenta blood.

    Be wise.  Don't let hasty clamping happen to "your" baby.  Do have a signed birth contract, about one page long, of what the medical person cannot do to the mother and/or her baby, even the surgeon in a c-section.  All babies do not have to be clamped, ever.

     Give the medical person(s) a waiver to release him/her of following a false medical policy.  These false medical policies are merely an alibi so the medical person is not taken to court for assault, battery and attempted murder. (See SOGC Policy #71, December 1998 and Policy #89, May 2000 directing hasty clamping be routinely done on all Canadian babies)  Whose side is SOGC on any way?   Bin Ladens???  Conspiracy or Terrorism for profits? ? !!! Think about the increase in internal sickness from the 1920's, where disease was not as it is today.  Prior to the 1920's the pioneers did not use drugs during labor, nor did they tie off or cut the cord, that is the wise ones.

     The pioneers had kept birth simple.  They put the baby in a warmed towel and did no tying off or cord cutting. (See Dr. Sarah Buckley's Declaration).  When the placenta was birthed, the pioneers put it in a warm towel too, and kept the baby and the placenta as a physiological biological reciprocal sealed unit. My expression.  

    The cord and placenta fell off within the second day.  The baby was a blue ribbon baby.  The baby had all immunities, no cut cord infections that kill 400,000 to 500,000 babies annually, around the world (WHO).  The pioneer babies are still alive today, like my parents, 89 and 90 years old, born in 1913 and 1914...they beat the hospital births, behind closed doors where hasty clamping began with just the doctor and the nurses participating in what I call an illegal and criminal act on the babies they selected hasty clamping be done to.

     Most of the pioneer's babies, who birthed during the Second World War, had to birth being drugged and behind closed doors of hospitals. Most of these now grandmothers and great grandmothers did not know when their baby's cords were clamped.  This was true whether they had one baby or fifteen.

    Today, the same deception of best practice possible and truth of the fetal to infant's circulation system is still absent in biology books and prenatal classes.  

    See the fetal to infant circulation system that the basic course in the register nurses take is absent of such knowledge of the importance of leaving the umbilical cord alone.  This means they cannot notice right from wrong of what the doctor does, nor report the facts on the child's own medical charts.  What nurse would report battery, eh? ( www.lotusbirth.com/doc/FEB2003Lotusbirth-435.htm ).

contact: dyoung@pris.ca

Home Page:   www.lotusbirth.com

A medical web site to visit:  

  www.cordclamping.com

A Petition to Protect Canadian Babies and Mothers, Too:

www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/102580814

(first update, October 15, 2003)