resolving tricky pregnancies

Resolving Tricky Pregnancies

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Being Courageous with Caution

Revision

Incorporating interesting techniques that really work

Positioning for sessions

Multiples

(Pain as warning of Ki Qi not strong enough - back and PGP as for these disruptions to fetal Jing inheritance)

General problem solving in high risk pregnancies

Saving prematurity

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Human Context

What is it to be a baby?To be a mother?

To be pregnant?

To be a parent?

To be a healer?

Point of being here . . . .

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What is a ‘body’?



DualityManfred Porkett

‘The Theoretical Foundations of Chinese Medicine’

Yang (active) Yin (structive)

Spirit Matter

‘estoteric’ ‘science’

life‘research’

Energy ‘facts’

Amsterdam 2007HEATHER BRUCE

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Pregnancy ContextWellness

(Not disease absence as modern orthodox medicine, or organ pathology check list – but feeling and being vitally robust)

Health definition – the ability to adapt to change

Individual’s life story -

How this has impacted on the optimal blueprint

Need to be as strong as possible to make great new life

(make better babies and a better body for mum to be a mum).

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Pregnancy is a snap shot

How they have been comes home to roost

Not just how they nourish themselves –

Normal Qi and Blood circulation and production before pregnancy?

Can see it all playing out.

Including past own early life and how own Jing can express.

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Women’s life Jing expenditure



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Mum - times when a woman can ‘recharge’

(Dr John Shen)

Menarche (puberty)

Sexual initiation (he said marriage)

Pregnancy

Menopause

At each time, the hormones (Ki and Jing) are altering. At each time, apparently what happens in a woman’s life has a pivotal effect on the rest of her life.



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Baby - crucial influences



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How Jing Manifests



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Where does Jing come from?

(Jing Markers – NZRA 2006)

Parental bequeathing (sperm and egg – ‘genetics’)

Optimal unfolding of potential gestationally (epigentics)

Early life stable and supportive.

Normal Three Heater expression

(Body able to easily express itself - free of blockages/contaminants to allow this to happen)


http://sharpen-up-your-results.com/looking-at-the-obvious/looking-at-the-obvious-part-1/

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Women’s Jing markersHAIR – flower of the kidneys

NAILS – and red start to periods – (and hair) blood quality and liver blood esp.

SLEEP – blood nourishing Shen & peaceful ? Amount of Liver Stuck

VAGINAL LUB – estrogen/Ki yin/jing

LIBIDO – myriad – incl. Ki yang

TEETH – jing/Ki/aging sign (gift horse in mouth. . . . )

And of course a BBT that is optimal priory to conceiving



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What undoes the Jing?

Modern living – lack of the basics – rest, fun, clean air, nourishing food and water and replenishing sleep.

Global environmental pollution on all levels

Chronological age may be a feature – but the rate of ‘over use’/contamination may over rule this.

Dr John Shen presented a model showing how we mature and how we age.



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Yin requirements

Good foundation (‘genetics’), so it has the right blueprint to unfold (Parental Jing)

Plenty of rest, water, nourishment and safety on all levels. (post natal life)

Clean non toxic environment

Circulation working – scars on all levels broken through so the textbook flows (meridian charts) can irrigate properly.



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In pregnancy Are making another person’s foundation for life

Also remaking self – well, or wasting the opportunity

Seen only by all as mum’s story – but is actually the baby’s beginnings and at birth the baby’s entry into love/pleasure/optimal bonding and hormonal abundance OR fear/being imprinted with violence/at the time of the pericardium and TH functions beginning.

Need to take the emphasis from mum’s wishes onto her baby.

How is baby to be made well if mum has TH issue?

See my Hyperemesis Gravidarum and morning sickness work)


http://sharpen-up-your-results.com/presentations/aacmac-2014-melbourne/resolving-high-risk-pregnancy-escalation/

http://easybabies.com.au/ebooks/morning-sickness-solutions/


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Imbalances needed a well pregnancy

(A la Julian Scott, 1981 – Journal of Acup, UK)

Being cautious means paying attention to not overly upsetting this mix

Increase in Heat

Increase in Dampness

Increase in Blood

Increase in Liver Qi

Decrease in (maternally available) Kidney Qi




Simone . .

NZRA (2007)

Born terminally ill with leukemia. .

How was she made?What was the point of her life?

Coming into mine at that stage?

http://sharpen-up-your-results.com/simone/

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Calls on the Kidney Qi

We can expect a decrease in maternally available Ki Qi, as pregnancy calls for an increase everywhere. Kidney Qi to be channeled to the uterus to make the new being. (Scott, 1979)

Whether pregnant or not, at times of lessened sleep, more work or stress load, or in general ageing, other manifestations of Kidney complex weakness are likely (Maciocia, 2005).

Kidney Qi forms the foundation for the pregnancy, and circulation to the lower back. (Noll, & Wilms 2001).

If there has been a past accident or local trauma, it is reasonable to expect that the lower back pain may be aggravated with the greater load of pregnancy. (Flaws, 2005)



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Are they ‘stressed’?



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A word on ‘stress’ . .



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Preventative medicineLooks far better than when pregnant – is coming in to heal gut before pregnancy again.

Recipe? Panaxea – Helicoix 6 every night for 10 nights.Prebiotics, Probiotics, with Gut Bug and Gut Clear, Multizyme tablets with all meals, & various vitamins, minerals.


Generally her storyAll babies started between 8 -18 months of each

other.

Usually so sick unable to keep food down.

Also incredibly ill with flus etc.

Generally mastitis after all babies

After 7th, took minerals one month before and was not as ill.

This pregnancy (9th) was not seen to be dragging herself around as a dead dog as usually would be at this stage . .


Then she got upset

Husband off to India for several months, to work leaving her at home with all the youngsters

And she missed him)

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Three magic helpers

Moxa (sacral fan)

Magnesium (no Calcium)

Massage (opening pelvis) releasing whatever is blocking the Qi and Blood flow to the placenta, the birthing area and the reproductive organs.

(see entire presentation back pain and on Stuck Liver Qi/Stuck Liver Blood correlation with Mag deficiency on www.sharpen-up-your-results.com


http://www.slideshare.net/duncan48/stuck-liver-qiblood-and-magnesium-deficiency-correlation





http://www.sharpen-up-your-results.com/


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Why magnesium is missing

in modern life Lowered magnesium availability in foods due to industrial

farming practices

Dietary habits leading to low magnesium uptake, such as consumption of sodas and carbonated beverages

Excess stress or illness, which lowers the ability of the body to utilize magnesium

Mineral imbalances, such as excess calcium, which blocks cellular magnesium activity

Metabolic differences in individuals, such as excess magnesium excretion by the kidneys, sometimes resulting in magnesium losses and deficiency

Stress: chronic, low grade creates adrenal deficiency




Apparently impossible

What you may think is ‘high risk’ outside the precious First World retail model of medical ‘care’ – watchful waiting whilst it all unravels more like.

Just need more attention to bringing them back to normal. Follow our own medicine and nature.

Perhaps watch ‘testing, testing’ on www.midwifethinking.com.au . .

http://www.midwifethinking.com.au/


Techniques(Allied to needling)

Move blockages to natural self healing/homeostasis

(Causes of illness – Acup 101)

Calm the Shen – an unquiet mind is the cesspool of suffering. Attachment to outcomes a great cause of this. Judgment of results/self also

Can Yang QI function?Is there cold stored to take it away from the main event?

Booster up circulation – blockages to flow – obvious - scars even tiny ones.

Inner trauma stored – can see on surface - veins


Useful adjunctsMineral and vitamin inclusions – what are we

making that baby with?

Rescue her yang (and thyroid) Cupping navel

Rebuild Yang with moxa

May then have a gut that works .. . Blood vital

Clear Stuck Blood – bleeding minute veins

Rebuild her Shen and her trust in her self and her body to work beautifully


Only 4 months preg with twins


Can have multiple pillows


Positioning for sessions


Cupping at 41 weeks

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Enhances baby position, relieves back ache




Cold (past NZRA 2006)Look to restoring Yang QiNo micro managing.

Yang Qi – we are no use to ourselves without an ample supply in circulation

Cold causes the Yang to be in storage holding it at bay.

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Cold and the reproductive cycle of life

Not just period pain alleviated with heat.

Not just clotted, achy, cold extremities, Stuck Blood manifestations, pale, often purplish tongue.

Also – low BBT. Easy to track – vaginally.

If you check Iodine painted on belly will absorb almost immediately

Low Iodine/thyroid function will show up as all cystic – breasts/PCOS/endo and tubal issues and most cancers. Also all hormonal disruptions and Hot Blood . .



COLD – how do we know it is there?

Can feel it – palpation

Can see it – blanching of skin, change of colour, tongue pale maybe purple/flabby/moist, fur white

They report feeling the cold more than others

Nothing is flowing well – check out hypothyroidism S&S

BBT will likely to be too low (36.6/8 non cycling) should be 37.2/3 C when pregnant

Often a 3rd trimester woman will be this or lower – and have all ‘high risk’ manifestations – treatment? Rescue her Yang again . . more later.

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Yang deficiency is endemic in my pregnant women populations.

Cold exposure causes stagnation, contraction, lack of circulation. Ice is used as the treatment of choice for all trauma, is actively sought in all consumables, sleeping in air conditioning

In acupuncture theory, cold consumes the Yang. (Tureanu & Tureanu, 1999) Cold weakens the Kidneys, as a source of energy. (Roemer, 1999)

Yang Qi is seen as being unnecessarily exhausted through exposure to cold, (Betts, 2006), cold causing stagnation of its flow. (Roemer, 1999).

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Possible pregnancy mishaps – Spleen Qi xu

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Thyroid/Iodine link Allied to the cupping of the cold came a realisation.

Some women’s bellies just never got better.

I could cup and moxa every day – and still would come in again cold.

I saw/finally felt in myself that the lack of iodine – possibly due to the use of other halogens now in many aspects of life (not just what is in the water - the chlorine and fluoride) was behind the Yang collapse.

Along with the use of neurotoxins such as the trace amounts of heavy metals supposedly inert in all vaccines, seems besides giving rise to a hypothyroid epidemic, has lead to a loss of intelligence and resilience in all.

Added to this the addiction of folic acid, without the B’s thus many B 12 deficiencies are being missed - and so it goes . .




37 – pref 37.2/.3 CBBT

Vaginal – oral/ear/underarm is not adequate

After at least 4 hours uninterrupted sleep

Check it out – almost all if not all ‘high risk’ pregnancies are actually low thyroid function.

Key is not oral iodine – but total great prenatal care.

Then great nourishment and attention to making their grandchildren.

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What learnt past 10 years The women whose bellies seem continually cold have

low thyroid function. Yang Qi is compromised.

More fat, protein and magnesium was my mantra when I was seeing her 5 years ago. Now also would be inundating her with Vit D , selenium and Iodine and ensuring absolutely no fruit, sugar and cereals . .

Taking her BBT will show (vaginal only and the instant they awake) that there is a problem – and often I now find this at the 20+ week mark

Blood tests are too wide a range – and S&S will show this

Adding Iodine in to the mix painted on – and much more fat, Vit D and magnesium can only help as it is changing the outcome of the previously ‘high risk pregnancies I was seeing.


http://simple-natural-solutions.com/healthy-living/

http://simple-natural-solutions.com/essential-vitamins/vit-d/


http://simple-natural-solutions.com/about-iodine/

http://heathersays.com/self-care/bbt/

http://simple-natural-solutions.com/about-iodine/




Maternal aches & pains

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Common pregnancy pain triggers

Past trauma (Stuck Qi and Blood)

Past cold invasion – general life or ‘therapeutic’ (esp in modern maternal hospital context)

Not enough exercise (causing Stuck Qi)

Not enough rest/relaxation – compounded in Magnesium and Blood/Yin deficiency

Lack of Kidney Qi/Yin/Jing to nourish pregnancy and her own body.




Back pain in pregnancy Already covered in Bandung WAAFS, 2012

Only mentioning in passing here.

Pain is not normal in pregnancy.

It should not be tolerated.

It is indicative of problems – esp for baby as mum is not replete in the minerals and essential goodness hence her Ki Qi is warning her – and generally all pay scant attention.

http://sharpen-up-your-results.com/wfas-2012-bandung-indonesia/back-pain-in-pregnancy/

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Michelle 39, 1st pregnancy, 120 Kg 16 weeks (2009)

Bleeding very heavily - so much so – was at emergency yesterday. No uterine pain, but excruciating back pain.

Restless legs (Mag deficiency), very hot feet. Depressed, usually on AD, overworked and not eating properly. Moxa for back and to settle the very depleted Spleen Yang so can keep holding pregnancy.

Felt better on leaving, but fell down an escalator that afternoon and now back next day with massive wounds on legs. No uterine bleeding and back much better.

Kept baby – but needed much cupping and then moxa to help her low BBT – she would not take my advice, specialist said (as usual) that the thyroid tests were ‘within normal range’. She developed GD and had a C section. Baby and mum fine . .



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How women may present(At any stage in pregnancy)

Extreme digestive problems (incl HG)

Back ache (Ki Yang Qi)

Extreme lethargy and inability to function

Bleeding/cramping/insecure pregnancy/threatened loss/frank bleeding/incompetent cervix/placental issues

In later pregnancy - ‘Failure’ of placenta, or of baby to thrive

Any ‘high risk’ pregnancy problem - clotting/bleeding/gestational diabetes/instability of vascular system/prolapses/shocking veins/pre eclampsia etc.

Malnutrition – may be overweight - but what is essential is missing



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CoincidentallyKi Qi – moxa strengthens and if baby can – baby

moves to being perfectly positioned.

This instantly often removes the source of the back ache - Baby turns into the right spot.

OP and breech and lateral lie ..

No need to moxa Bl 67.

MAJOR adjustment - get mum forwards facing (straddle chair) and relaxed (warm, Magnesium and moxa).




Multiples


Twins – 9lb and 7 ½ lb ‘Allowed’ to birth if twin 1 face down, so used no Bl 67 –

we worked on her fears for birthing.

Used Aura Soma for the baby (she chose for him), he turned, and . . .

Mum fed up so at 37 weeks was ill, so was induced.

Vag birthed (in stirrups) but is placed under a very cold air conditioning outlet and her face fell down (see WAAFS Bells Palsy).

When twins were 5 years of age, her face and sinuses still a big problem.

Babies were fine.


Want weighty babies when multiples

Sometimes twin mums are not even eating enough for themselves- let alone one baby.

Brewer diet is a start – but must add in all Dr Weston Price’s sacred foods ideas.


Triple trouble

Born at 34 4 days – 1.7 – 1.9kg each.

Home by due date.

All well – mum had no more room!!


Triplets at 32 weeks


32 week triplets


39 week twins


What are we making these babies with?

Michelle, 29, originally came for help prior to endo surgery – one of the few who are the ‘problem’

Husband 64% normal, 210 million /ml.

Post surgery, clean up – instantly pregnant.

Saw her again to help get pregnant No 2 – and never saw her again . . 2 years passed.

Post 1 session and Blood tonic, pregnant with identical triplet daughters who are lost at 22 weeks - ‘incompetent cervix’.


Why are we not spruiking what we can do?

Ob ‘care’ involved discussions on ‘fetal reduction’ at every session. She sat at home on couch, and wept.

Labour started, she now has an external operation around her cervix so she will need surgery to release any further conception products released.

Massive distress, sleeping problems, is consumed with FB sites of maternal loss.

2 months later - supplements, 3 healing undoing trauma sessions – pregnant . .


But . .He holds the purse strings – which is why she did not

return to see me all through the triplet pregnancy.

No mention of improving her nutrition.

All farmers scan their ewes and place twin/triplet pregnancies in special care for optimal results.

Compare G’s babies and M’s babies .. .

G’s vibrantly alive and all same weight as if singleton (mum ran out of inner room) and dead due to her inability to nourish them – massive back pain, horrendously hot feet at night, hair falling and depression all through till loss.


DietCan make massive corrections in utero

Eg Cooper (below) . .. 3rd baby – scanned at 20 weeks – told to terminate as if ‘4’ is will die at birth, he is ‘3 ½+’ . . .

Ultra grieving, she is sent to me as midwife thought that I could help.

Massive nutritional, Chinese herbs (pneumonia to clear up first) and a few sessions – plus Reiki/massage & counseling outsourced whilst I was gone. (commuting countries)

Baby became so much better did not need to be born in Auckland for instant cardiac surgery.


Tetrology of Falot 6 months


Choleostasis 34 weeksS – 34 weeks, choleostasis – told she needed

urgent C section, had vast itching for weeks, irritability, worried+

Can only sleep with fan directed onto legs and even then, no sleep.

(First set of twins for 22 years – over 300 births in the community . .) She attributes this to having longer gaps between children.

7th pregnancy – had to have me direct him to take ++Vit C and B to get pregnant . .


Health mattersDry lips.

Tongue tie.Can see purplish on tongue and after session, was less so – plus more fur, the Blood Def. crack was more prominent and colour better even she could see. .

Did make the crack wider and far more obvious.

Hair still falling all pregnancy. ‘Not one for resting’.

Can’t sleep – spends all night scratching herself.


Changes madeSuggestions made 2 weeks prior to my arriving

Drinks up to 5 litres water daily presently.

Started her on 20 grams Vit C

Told to now increase to 30 . .

Liver 2, GB 34, GB 41 (both sore) R Co 11, Pc 6, Bil Bl 11, Bl 46 (Dr VB happy point of pregnancy).

Then massaged bum – started put really sore – whilst moxa getting ready bil Ki 6 and sore R Liver 8.

Stuck Liver Qi massage across back

http://heathersays.com/self-care/stuck-liver-qi-massage/




Tongue tieAfter first session - when she poked it out –

better.

Less purple and went out further.

Often happens.

I expect it to be better - part of moxa on needles Bl 23, Gv 4,3

With newborns I suspect insufficient minerals, and magnesium, as has loosened it just with maternal mag through the breast milk


Not nourishing selfToo thin,

Not one for resting . . .

Sent off to Brewer diet – though it does not have fat, iodine, magnesium, minerals and Vit D as is a product of 30 years ago when people lived more naturally.

Sent her off to feast on fat (she hated it) and minerals and no grains – already been off sugar for years.



What you may think is ‘high risk’ is a beat up for $$$.

Just need more attention to bringing them back to normal. Follow traditional medicine based on nature.


Or find Vicky Chan on FB and see what one midwife is doing for the world – one village at a time.. .



Progression through the community experience

Already I was ‘onto’ the need for Zinc, Sel Mag and B and C, E

2006 – worst Mag def I had ever seen (endemic – so looked at what they were all doing/eating)

No water drunk.

Where is the B and C? 2007

Minerals ??????? Zinc/iron/Selenium . . .

No Vit D 2010

Get rid of sugar 2012

Add fat 2013

Iodine 2014

Family relationships . . . .

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Presented are several family members

Mum – 12 adult children – most in dire need of repair.

Few are placed in the T4 that medically they should have had (although T4 is inactive and needs converting to RT3 for use - just assumed – see more Sat 2 pm)

None prior to my seeing them were aware of the problems that they were individually having were all a pattern

The family line shows us progressions of alarming Jing indications for all – not just this one community, but in the world we have shaped as ‘improved’.

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P – wanting help for further children

Arrived with her sister-in-law to check out what I could do to help her. At 34, in readiness for her 7th pregnancy, she was worried about the state of her back.

She had been crippled in past pregnancies with back pain so severe that she was bed ridden/in a wheel chair to get around from 26 weeks.

Pain being felt in the lower back radiating to the central sacral area, and heightened by often outrageous nausea and vomiting all through the pregnancy.

(Hospitalised for first pregnancy and had a C section – very depleted baby girl – who has always been in poor health herself

Is always exhausted.



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Oldest sister - after several sessions


(2012) 40 yo, 33 weeks. •Pregnant with 13th child, •Crippling back ache, gestational diabetes, (and not eating to try to sort out the problems – who is paying attention to the baby growing within?) •Varicose veins, fluid retention, vomiting/can’t function .•Better with attention to gut flora, and moxa after cupping cold from belly at 30 wks (plus more sacral moxa) meant she

was feeling far better.

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Younger sister - very ill

32 years old (12 weeks pregnant) 7th baby. Constant nausea/vomiting all throughout all 6 pregnancies. Depressed, no energy, insomnia, extremely wasted. Not eating to control ‘weight’ After all births has had 9 months of anal fissures and massive anal hemorrhaging.



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P’s daughter


Born of mum’s 1st HG pregnancy – hospitalised - fluids continually, born C section premmieVery sickly baby, wouldn’t eat.

Tongue best I have seen it in 3 years. Originally floppy, empty, purple with no coating. Bed wetting at 13 still. Exhausted no energy to live with.

Is greatly improved since all the vitamins and cupping cold out and 2x weekly moxa work.Is also on Chinese herbal blood tonics, digestive enzymes and a Glutathione preparation.

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Baby preparation I asked P to hold off getting pregnant til she had three normal

periods – as they were currently early, flooding and exhausting her further.

She was to take a B complex several times daily, and a Magnesium supplement before and all through the seventh pregnancy (to assist her structural integrity and prevent/relieve spasms/pain).

Magnesium also to assist alleviate the headaches and constipation and general malaise (Sircus, 2007)

She had her husband use the moxa and the massage as outlined (Bruce, 2005 ‘What Dads Can Do’) as needed. This proved a Godsend, as not only did this allow for better sleeping, it totally alleviated all back issues.


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P’s 7th pregnancy

After my taking advice and waiting three months till a 28, not 23, day cycle was happening, using moxa in her sacrum regularly and taking several lots of magnesium daily, she instantly conceived.

Very ill with vomiting all through, but no pain in pubic or back areas. A full term baby instead of 3 weeks early.

90 minute labour start to finish instead of the usual 15-24 hour affairs. Usually had to push an unengaged baby down over 90 minutes. No post natal depression

Baby is never ill, and has a strong healthy body and big white teeth. 8th baby – one hour labour . . Back & PGP minimal



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21/2 years on – 9 wks pregnant 8th baby – best ever been


Used to be deeply cracked at the sides and too red, with no coating.

Deep central crack and yin deficiency ones off lateral are very shallow now – a joy to behold.

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Past histories: multiple issues

S 24, 1st pregnancy, P’s youngest sister

5 years ago – pneumonia with no cough – 3 litres of pus drained out of lungs . Helicoptered out – not expected to live. Putrid discharge.

Very bad Hot Blood menstrual S & S – took only ‘Cruciferous’ and was lots better.

Always ill – even got Parvo and was extremely ill.

Ripped leg open 1 ½ years ago.

Interesting scar treatment prior to pregnancy


Whole other story . .To relieve tedium, knowing what is possible, sometimes I

just ‘stretch the envelope’ out of personal boredom.

Having recently done Daniel Deng’s workshop, I did that version and she had massive releases & changes.

All mouth heat – I did not know about - was released

Waves of cool energy down leg and she was totally freaked by my ability to alter massively how she felt

Moods digestion all as would expect with excess heat.

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S’s leg April 2013


Opposite arm and needled all sore points that changed the sensation of the scar


Hip to alter opposite under arm drainage scar


Actual underarm drainage scar

Completely altered the sensations in her foot and leg


Best tongue I had seen of all her sisters – is the oldest of all to be married off


Saving baby – navel cupping26 weeks, starts bleeding, sent to Chch hospital for observation, & drugs to hasted fetal lung development

Eventually back – and still a huge back ache problem – working as before in the freezer lifting heavy weights (is her job)


Part way through

Cupped and used moxa on salt/ginger.


Needles

Then got her sitting facing forwards, moxa sacrum with ginger moxa, massage Stuck Liver QI – all back ache gone and feeing wonderful.

http://simple-natural-solutions.com/sacral-fan-moxa/




Finished – no back ache


But . . .. I have seen several women who have been

electrocuted when pregnant – I wonder if some people are just marked for this.

Of all the people one would not want this to happen to . . (excess inner heat already). She joins the list . .

Back to see me a month later, as a few days before, she has been electrocuted GV 4 – stuck under an electric fence!! She thinks for at least 20 seconds.

Contractions that ensued were stopped with lots of magnesium and using Ventolin


Scared her baby was dead as usually in constant movement – and did not even twitch for 2 ½ hours.


Bled the Stuck Blood that was not there a month before


Copiously it came . .


Vast headache (She did not even tell me about)

gone . ..


Past scar - I redid

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Often life conspiresInvariably it seems some women just have things

happen.

Dawn – 30, started to stop HG/freezing belly – was best ever been till flu . . At 15 weeks – then so ill was vomiting as coughing so bad, then bad gut bug at 30 weeks, then appendicitis at 34 weeks = and then at 37 weeks very bad PS pain

Being of unsound constitution – she always gets more ill than most (and has 5 children under 6 to mind all through the night instead of replenishing herself - and will be standing all day in her job

Maternal exhaustion/excess

stomach fire/sugar in diet2014 - Dawn, 30, 6th pregnancy

Has a 4 and a 20 month old baby plus 3 others under 6 years. From the community that aims for 16 from each mum, and no contraception.

Came to me as she had read in my pregnancy manual - WDCD about cold, and thought this was her issue – and could I do something about the sickly children she was having?

Freezing cold belly, cupped, added moxa – and instantly a lot happier/tongue changed/nausea ceased with cup on.

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Happy and keen to feel better - the beginning!!

Cupped navel – was freezing (as in like the inside of a fridge), to start with.

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After moxa.

Cup was on for over an hour and the moxa revived her.

Has damaged abdominal skin (belly felt like an empty baby sack at this point - 6 weeks pregnant) was more life in it straight after the moxa.

This was addressed (more cupping of navel, vast amounts of Vit D

and moxa) she was back to feeling/looking more well than any had seen

her for years.

Awful veins and prolapses and damaged abdominal skin

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Scrapped and cupped all of

back

All better – spirit back!!!

Note presence of the amalgams

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Appendicitis!!! Was perfectly well – then got ill with the gastric that her

children had (all her children are ill all the time – she had originally asked me what I could do about making better ones for her).

After 3 day of belly ache, she was helicoptered out for emergency appendectomy.

Cold invasion – veins all collapsed

34 weeks - Bled veins.

Navel cupping and moxa and all well eventually

Left me heaps better. . .

(No doubt will conceive again within 3 months)

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But . . .Early March 2 ½ weeks to go – usually goes early.

Outrageous PSP and so is on Tramadin and prayed for an answer and here she is at my place. . http://www.tramadolfacts.com/tramadol-and-pregnancy/

Liver 2, 3, GB 34, St 36 and all GB 30’s, Bl sacrals and then did the Stuck Liver Qi massage the twiddling of the sacral points – she got up and could not believe how much better . . . after waiting about got a bit worse, and then moxa sacral fan, and CV 2 and all fine . . .

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3 weeks post appendectomy – cupped navel and used moxa on salt/ginger then general pregnancy protocol, needles and back sacral moxa.

She felt she had lost all her condition – I agreed – very unfortunate.

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Choosing to not use supplements

Sent home with more mag – she was only using the gel once daily!!!! (With no S&S best to use 6 x to replenish body) And the MSM spray/mag to be used all the time – she has forgotten to use the iodine as it stings on her skin. .

Huge back pain issues – but not after the moxa.

Is not taking magnesium as feels weird after that.

Blood tonic for late pregnancy as her hair is falling out.

(No one keeping an eye on her family history of low thyroid).

At 30 I originally saw her at 6 wks preg with a 4 and a 20 month old – plus 3 others under 6 years old . . . .

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Need well nourished babies


Comparison – ‘well’ vs very ill

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9 weeks, 4th preg, 1 misc at 14 weeks - preventative for Bandl’s ring/C section avoidance

3 months later - pneumonia


DiscernmentWhen to jump in and use all that biomedicine has –

as the body is simply not ever going to catch up so look what happened next . .

From coming in about getting a vaginal birth from 2 C sections, to almost dead with rampant pneumonia, to then NOT recovering and still overworking, not eating well (from being anorexic from a shocking background of poor constitution and diet.

Then losing about half a litre of blood gushing from a burst vein in ankle.

All with nausea and extreme back pain . ..

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Very ill post pneumonia

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Part way through session

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Few months laterLegs are a mess

Body seems to have collapsed – vulval veins and intense problems with varicose and cellulitis.

On AB as cellulitis really bad.

Started with cupping and moxa and a few needles

To build her in order to relieve congestion

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After lunch – back to do legs

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She had scratched a vein accidentally a few weeks ago,& had lost at least 1/2 litre blood – it would not stop -15 minutes worth.

Now exhausted due to combined effects of not recovering from so very ill, and blood loss – and still working, gut not good and 2 children under 3.


They had been much worse – are no longer black

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Very sore but never resting

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Upper legs & vulval varicose veins also

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Cellulitis & past Ab for this

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Cellulitis is still active . .

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Only relief is lying down

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Swollen and itchy

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Both legs . . (9 weeks)

At 5 months post pneumonia, no AB


They were much worse – are no longer black

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Post vein (tiny little ones) bleeding

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Finished

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Using herbs and supplements she was a lot better – and as the pregnancy progressed she was in much better shape – though still sore, the leg veins were then red – gone from black through purple to red


Late in pregnancy – in much better condition as she has been severely spoken to re eating by all.


Rest – the magic ingredient

In hospital awaiting birth – she was cooking for herself and another community woman in Ronald McDonald House – liver, eggs, veggies, good foods and

Rest – no jobs, just being a mum of one

And growing baby.. .

She looked the best I had ever seen her – and her were legs healing.

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Eventual further C section My concern – uterus splitting as she originally was in an ‘OK’

condition - but – was so very ill – and no antibiotics given for pneumonia – and she was panting to breathe. In a wheel chair as too ill to walk.

There are limits to what we can do!!!

She had became pregnant after 2nd C section less than 2 months.

She went into labour and progressed far better than ever had – but still ended as C section – hospital policies - would have been fine at home in the water, surrounded by ‘of course you can’ . . .

Will no doubt be pregnant again within 3 months after this.

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S - Outrageous PGP36 years old 24 weeks 7th baby

osteo PS unreasonable pain when walking - abdo and in sacrum – feels like massive bruise

Since 4th baby – body in a mess B/F beautifully and births well.

Sleeping – awake for hours

Gets asthma and eczema

Hair grows and also falls easily.

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S . . . Outrageous PGPHorrible morning sickness 6 – 14 weeks

VV in vulva and legs

F/N ridges, break easily

Feet s/t hot – out of bed.

From toes up and fingers - often very puff/tingly

First session – SLQ and moxa sacral fan then general needles and moxa CV 2 – totally fixed . .

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After butt massage

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Gut health somewhat better

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Second session – bled all veins – magic difference again – no return of PGP/back as long as husband uses moxa nightly.


Life happens. . .Now 32 weeks

Did not know how she was to make it through to see me. No moxa for 2 weeks as she ran out.

Legs are so much better since I bled them – esp the foot – they are wonderful.

(Were blackened with Stuck Blood on the GB meridian)

BUT - she dropped a table on the worst leg – R and then Arnica straight on it – and wonderful - no bruising (she is on K2C2D3 and Vit D etc . .).

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TreatmentAlways over heated in pregnancy – and now

very hot generally – Bil Bl 11, (was sat straddled first) and Bi Bl 46, Hwa Tou Liver and GB.

Cooled down & by end of her session was wrapped up as she got cold!! (as I would expect her to with this amount of depletion).

General back massage, then up and wonderful across the PS - lay her down to cup her navel. The moxa on salt in that and CV2 – eventually felt vastly better and tongue showed this.

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Saving babies

Rescue yang

Rebuild yang

Usually have low minerals, high sugar driving the ‘heat’

Total rest, support, nourishing broths and fat in abundance.

Vit D, Iodine, magnesium . .

BBT should be 37.2/3 C all through pregnancy – no longer is. .

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Roselea – apparently too ill to conceive

43, 1st baby (2013) Never been pregnant though she had tried over the years – she had been told she never would be, due to bad endo, PCOS and Krohns disease.

Came in to get ready to start IVF, when she conceived accidentally (we got him off alcohol, into eating better and taking supplements plus drinking water and exercising).

In preparation for getting health fund ‘OK’ – I suggested getting tubes cleared . .. (crossed off the list . .) waiting waiting . . She thought till October - BUT

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Never just one thing . . Was not in the state to be pregnant – and was ecstatic

to be so – unforeseen and accidental – post tubal clearance.

Massive health problems everywhere. Very distressed that her husband working away and now alone and pregnant. Got very ill and stayed so – and worsened.

Always used a lot of moxa.

Was on multiple supplements and still not getting well.

Got her to take her vaginal BBT - was 36.2 sometimes 35.9 C (should be 37+C). Blood tests said ‘OK thyroid . ..

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Life goes on . . . As part of the ear infection/not sleeping/gut rebelling against the

antibiotics, she thought her baby had died and although had known not to, she iced her belly to get baby to move.

At 16 weeks, it looked like the baby was coming out.

She then had massive continual belly cramping in addition to her now worsening ear (on morphine), the lung infection deteriorated, and she had a new symptom – terrible pelvic girdle pain.

(Physios do suggest icing for this – and there then is the likelihood of at least cold in the uterus to mess with birthing/holding Blood and baby in).

She spent rest of pregnancy on thyroid medication and gradually got the BBT up to 36.9 highest ever.

At birth she was the same weight as conception, now (baby 10 weeks old) 10 kg lighter than when she conceived, vastly healthier and still with a cool belly.



Kerry30 yo, 2nd preg, threatened miscarriage.

17 weeks. Lifting heavy elderly damaged dog into the car. Very cold weather, herself not feeling well.

She felt something ‘give’ inside. She started bleeding and then in the midst of grieving (she had had two miscarriages early on – 8 and 10 weeks) remembered what was in my WDCD book, rang me, got her husband to moxa her sacrum, and the points related to the Yang Collapse, and saved the pregnancy all by herself.

(She would have been best employed having the cold pulled out – but this did the job).

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What you may think is ‘high risk’ is a laugh in other places – where REAL risks are normal.

Just need more attention to bringing them back to normal.

Follow our own time tested medicine and nature.


Visit FB and find Vicky Chan and help her help women who really DO need help .. . Not our precious princesses too scared to become mums. .

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E, 35, 8th pregLast 3 have been transfused in utero

Antibodies used no longer work

Last 2 born at 31 weeksShe intends to have many more, naturally

RH –ve


Mum’s blood attacking baby

about to have third transfusion

– has to go to Auckland.

Through cord until last 2 as

transfusion has had to be

through baby’s belly as

she has turned around.


Interventions always possible

Gave her ‘Healing Birth Trauma’ drops for herself to take when it happens – before and after .. . .

Amazing change in baby – born 3 weeks ago at 36 weeks.

Went into labour after last transfusion

Best birth. Baby 5lb 9oz - Great condition.

Was so calm - drops worked. She is her best baby ever.

Drs in hospital say she has to have C sections from now on –she won’t - baby and birth fine.

Was on 15 grams Vit C daily, plus D, B, E, mag, Iodine, Zinc, Selenium

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Treatment intention?

Return to optimal health – not a disease model.

Know what SHOULD be happening and enhance its likelihood

Toward life, not away from death . . .

Homeostasis

Could we please look to the baby as being our patient? Not at mum thinks is her right?

As she is often is no longer thinking baby first. . . Medicine is not and someone has to be the baby advocate. .

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West Coast, SI, New Zealand

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