Pregnancy – Mary Aspinwall, Registered Homeopath

Homeopathy and Fertility

by Mary Aspinwall on April 28, 2012 in Constitutional treatment, Get Relief From..., Pregnancy

Many years ago when my husband and I were trying to conceive our second child, who kept us waiting a few years, I remember thinking how much harder that wait would have been if I didn’t already have a child.

I suppose many people in our position, especially those with no children, might have considered some type of medical intervention early on. Readers of my Blog will know I am a big proponent of weighing up risks and benefits of any and all treatments before deciding what course to take.… Read the rest...

Homeopathy and Childbirth – Before Birth

by Mary Aspinwall on September 2, 2011 in Childbirth, Pregnancy

Homeopathy can be an amazing ally in Childbirth. Take some time a couple of months before the birth to study homeopathy. Ask your birth partner or doula to do a course with you, if possible.

Get your Homeopathy Childbirth Kit at least 4 weeks before your due date in case you go into labor early or need to turn a breech or transverse position baby. The optimum time to take a remedy to do this is at 36 weeks.

Besides being homeopathically prepared there are lots of other things you can do to help you prepare for birth. Here is … Read the rest...

Homeopathy and Pregnancy

by Mary Aspinwall on August 30, 2011 in Pregnancy

Homeopathy is great to use during pregnancy, because homeopathic remedies are safe and side effect free. Recently the FDA issued a strong warning to pregnant women not to use Diflucan™ (a commonly prescribed anti fungal) during pregnancy, after mothers who used it in the first trimester had babies who suffered birth defects.

The birth defects included deformities and abnormalities of the head and face and oral cleft, irregular bone growth, joint deformities, muscle weakness and congenital heart defects.

Other pharmaceutical medications that are know to increase the risk of birth defects are the acne drug isotretinoin (marketed in the U.S. … Read the rest...