12/07/2021
Helpful Share 🙋🏽♀️ From Dr.Mwansa Joseph Mulenga
One of the major causes of ASPHYXIA/BABY NOT CRYING/Ku Mwela/Uku Nwina....Let's not do THIS.
🍃UMUTI WA INCHILA 🍵
Not long ago, i remember a colleague telling me how his pregnant 🤰 wife based in another province was in labour and that it was prolonged, he was scheduled to travel later that day to be with her and family at the hospital 🏥. Interesting thing he shared with me was how the girls family were threatening him because she was scheduled for a Caesarian section 🔪 which is something FOREIGN in the girls family and they assumed he was cheating hence her “doors” closing, subsequently followed by the prolonged labour!
The belief is so common especially in areas
where literacy levels are on the low! PROLONGED labour is linked to INFIDELITY in such communities! So when such is suspected, Grandmothers 👵🏾 administer Herbal 🍃 🍵 concoctions to these ladies so as to speed up labour!
Basically UMUTI WA NSHILA or Herbal meds 🌿 are concoctions that are taken to speed up labour and also with the pretext of “opening up the door ways”
So in most cases the Herbals that are given will kick start labour before the Cervix is even ready and this is done in the home set up, for you to PERFECTLY understand this phenomenon, imagine you want to come out of the house, but instead of waiting to open the door 🚪 and come out, you instead start getting forcefully pushed through the key 🔑 hole…imagine what will happen to your and also the damage that will be done to the key hole! This is what these herbals do to a baby and a woman’s cervix +Uterus! Active labour is started prematurely before cervix opens up all because grandmother anticipates prolonged labour or she thinks labour has prolonged! The uterus starts to push the baby out while the Cervix in most cases remains closed or partly open!
In other cases, these 🪴 herbs 🌿 are taken just because grandma or someone thinks their labour will prolong because they have SMALL HIPS but it is actually the Pelvic bones 🦴 that help in expulsion of the baby not necessarily the hips or their size!
Prolonged labour has many reasons all of which are best TREATED IN A HEALTH FACILITY, ultimately to save the baby, A Caesarean section is indicated for the sake of both mother and child!
In conclusion, When you are PREGNANT 🤰, never for ANY REASON take any herbal concoctions especially towards your due date…be it in tea 🍵 form or whatever, The Herbals 🌿 DO WORK, their content or dosages are not known but they do actually work 💯 , in the hospital we are able to induce labour at appropriate times and controlled doses unlike these herbals!
INFIDELITY though sadly rife in pregnancy has ABSOLUTELY NO
CONNECTION with Progress of labour just like size of the HIPs!
