Canterbury Homeopathy, Hypnotherapy and Birthkeeping

24/11/2023

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19/10/2023

New homeopathy research published...

Efficacy of homeopathic treatment: Systematic review of meta-analyses of randomized placebo-controlled homeopathy trials for any indication.

Their findings?
"The quality of evidence for positive effects of homeopathy beyond placebo (high/moderate/low/very low) was high for individualized homeopathy and moderate for all homeopathy and non-individualized homeopathy. There was no support for the alternative hypothesis of no outcome difference between homeopathy and placebo."

Source: https://systematicreviewsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13643-023-02313-2

26/09/2023

Please sign - women being erased.

525 signatures are needed, let’s get there by the end of the day?

28/09/2022

Lovely to have this pop up on my newsfeed - it was such a lovely birth and I loved supporting Mel Melly Jay Bee !

Homeopathy for infertility and beyond 🌿✨...

We first met Melanie Baker three years ago when she told Health & Homeopathy magazine about the homeopathic treatment she'd had to conceive her son.

Fast forward a few years and we were delighted to have a catch up with Melanie and find out how she continues to use homeopathy to support her family’s health. She talks in detail about the natural remedies she used throughout her pregnancy to help with anxiety and the birth, as well as to help ease painful mastitis after her son was born. 💚

Click here to read more about how homeopathy helped Melanie's journey, from her struggle with fertility through to the birth of her son...
https://homeopathy-uk.org/success-story/melanies-story/

21/09/2022

Truly awful conditions - midwives working in dreadful situation with incredible bravery to help women in the most desperate poverty and frightening instability.

10/11/2021

Another interesting study of a very common condition.

Preliminary findings of a study comparing homeopathy with placebo in treatment of plantar fasciitis showed homeopathy to be significantly more effective. Despite the small sample size (68 patients), the strength of the study’s findings warrants further investigation. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34492725/

17/08/2021

A recent double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled trial conducted in India showed homeopathy to perform significantly better than placebo in the treatment of Primary dysmenorrhoea. Intensity of menstrual pain and severity of dysmenorrhea and associated symptoms favoured individualised homeopathy against placebo after every completed month following intervention over a 3 month period, with no serious adverse events or intercurrent illnesses recorded in either group.

The strength of these clinically relevant findings warrant further investigation: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34085495/

12/07/2021

  It’s difficult to talk about the experience of being bullied, picked on, vilified. Sometimes if feels easier to stay silent, to quietly move on. There’s a shame that comes with being attacked, it somehow taps into the darker voices of your own psyche that whisper to you from time to time that...

01/06/2021

The huge growth in inductions is very worrying. This study is vitally important.

Induction rates have soared, and many healthy women are offered induction without good medical reason.

A new study has “compared intrapartum interventions and outcomes for mothers, neonates and children up to 16 years, for induction of labour (IOL) versus spontaneous labour onset in uncomplicated term pregnancies with live births.”

The results show that induction of labour leads to more intervention and more adverse maternal, neonatal and child outcomes. Although the induction rate has tripled in some groups in the past 16 years, there has been no reduction in stillbirth.

The researchers found that, “Women with uncomplicated pregnancies who had their labour induced had higher rates of epidural/spinal analgesia, CS (except for multiparous women induced at between 37 and 40 weeks gestation), instrumental birth, episiotomy and PPH than women with a similar risk profile who went into labour spontaneously.

“Between birth and 16 years of age, and controlled for year of birth, their children had higher odds of birth asphyxia, birth trauma, respiratory disorders, major resuscitation at birth and hospitalisation for infection.

“In this study, only hospital admissions were examined and hence more serious illnesses. Though this risk varied by gestational age of labour onset, there was no gestational age for which any of these risks were significantly lower for those born after IOL when compared with those born after spontaneous labour onset.” (Dahlen et al 2021)

The researchers conclude that, “IOL for non-medical reasons was associated with higher birth interventions, particularly in primiparous women, and more adverse maternal, neonatal and child outcomes for most variables assessed.” (Dahlen et al 2021).

Dahlen HG et al (2021). Intrapartum interventions and outcomes for women and children following induction of labour at term in uncomplicated pregnancies: a 16-year population-based linked data study. BMJ Open 2021;11:e047040.

Read at https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/11/6/e047040

If you'd like more information about induction, I have an entire information hub and a book on this topic. Links to both can be found at www.sarawickham.com/iol

12/05/2021

This is not thrush!
Many things anti-fungal meds are fine, give them just in case.
This isn’t true
Aside from disrupting the microbiome, possible side effects of Nystatin listed include:

Diarrhea
Nausea
Stomach pain or upset
Vomiting
Contact dermatitis
Stevens-Johnson syndrome
Hypersensitivity reactions
Skin irritation or redness
Mouth irritation
Rash
Hives
Allergic reaction
Slow heart rate
Bronchospasm
Facial swelling
Muscle pain

https://milkmatters.org.uk/2017/03/20/really-thrush-babys-tongue/