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aimeejoy 
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Posted: 05 September 2005 at 11:10am |
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Just wondering if any of you have heard about or tried five w's? One of the others at antenatal classes sweared by it along with raspberry leaf tea. Apparetnly its a herbal product you take daily for your last five weeks of pregnancy. Works similar to rasp leaf tea in improving uterine tone etc and supposedly making labour easier and shorter. Am going to go and investigate at the health shop. Couldnt find much about it online. Also anyone done perineal massage? From what I've read there doesnt appear to be any consensus on whether it helps reduce tearing or not, but I'm open to anything!
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Posted: 05 September 2005 at 11:16am |
I heard about the perineal massage in my antenatal classes....I dont know if I feel comfortable enough to do them.....  Did not hear about the rasberry leaf tea before...let me know what you find out!
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Posted: 05 September 2005 at 11:29am |
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The perinanl massage thing scared me..lol if you keep stretching the thing for that long will it ever go back??? and the rasberry tea is great i havnt used it but allm y friends that have gone full term have and they reckon it was great to help get everything back to normal.... and with there labours no body laboured for more than 8hrs and 9 of my friends used the tea?? coincidence or does it work???
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Posted: 05 September 2005 at 11:47am |
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lol yeah I know the perineal massage sounds a little scary! Curious to know whether it actually makes a difference or not - i think not?
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Posted: 05 September 2005 at 11:49am |
LOL i know 3 people that did the massage and they all had stitches???? im not keento try it lol
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Posted: 05 September 2005 at 11:50am |
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well thats enuf evidence for me!! Dont wanna bother doing that if its not gonna work!!!
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Posted: 05 September 2005 at 12:01pm |
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I'm not sure if it's good or not. I took 5-W for about 5 weeks but gave up in the last 2 weeks. No tearing tho??? So maybe it did something?
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Posted: 05 September 2005 at 12:18pm |
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I took raspberry leaf in the last two months I think and had a really quick labour. they say that it can cause premature labour....Jake was two weeks overdue.
I must say though, put some honey in it, cause it's pretty.....interesting.
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Posted: 05 September 2005 at 2:08pm |
I drunk raspberry leaf tea probably the last couple of months before giving birth, not like every day but a few times a week. No tearing or anything with me and my uterus has gone back really quickly. Josef was born 9 days early but I don't know if it had anything to do with the tea. I liked the taste and had it without anything added.
Never did perenial massage and had no tearing... sounded a bit weird to me too... 
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Posted: 05 September 2005 at 2:12pm |
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meant to do the massage thing but never did... brought raspberry leaf tea, had 1 cup and never had any more... lol. 1st labour was 5 hours a few stitches, 2nd labour 3.5 hrs no stitches... so while there's evidence to suggest these things can help-... maybe just being fit and healthy and limber does the trick... lol
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Posted: 05 September 2005 at 2:20pm |
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where do you get this Raspberry Leaf tea?
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Posted: 05 September 2005 at 2:23pm |
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at the supermarket in the tea isle... it's with the herbal teas.
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Posted: 05 September 2005 at 2:25pm |
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or any healthfood shop
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Posted: 05 September 2005 at 2:25pm |
actually I still have half a pack here... the last cup I had was when I was in labour because I thought it might help the contractions be less painful hehehehehe
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Posted: 05 September 2005 at 3:18pm |
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mum got it for me from woolworths. pretty cheap too. It was nice as I was trying to cut down on coffee.
Tried the massage thing once....hmmmm....not too impressed. I figured in the end, everything will be okay. I had some stitches and I can honestly say I did not feel the tearing or the stitches afterwards, although was a bit scared of the toilet trips there for a while.
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Posted: 05 September 2005 at 4:47pm |
I would reccommend 5 W. It tones and prepares the uterus to prepare for labour. It supposedly cuts out alot of the 'mucking around' contractions that happen in early labour for alot of women having their 1st babies. These mucking around contractions are enough to keep you awake and annoy you but do little to make changes in the cervix (abit of a waste of time and energy!) so therefore make for a quicker more effective labour. Rasberry leaf tea does the same but 5w has more ingredients in it - heightening its effects. 5w is taken in the last 5 wks of pregnancy and rasberry leaf can be taken from 28 wks 1 cup per day, working your way up to 3 cups by 36weeks. Dont take either if you have a history of prem labour! Hope this helps!!! 
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Posted: 05 September 2005 at 8:37pm |
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the woman who works in the natural remedies store in Palmy also swore by evening primrose oil inserted near the cervix. Isn't weird what you discuss with complete strangers with bubbas??
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Posted: 06 September 2005 at 7:51am |
I've just read about the massage thing and I wont be trying it. In the pamphlets I've just read it quite clearly says, "There is no evidence to say it helps"
As for the tea, well, I've tryed it in the past and I really dont like the taste 
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Posted: 06 September 2005 at 9:14am |
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yep i used evening primrose. I think it helped. All i can say is, do it at night and wear old undies.
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Posted: 06 September 2005 at 11:31am |
i had full intentions on doing the massage, but...never could get myself to do it. in the end i had a c-section anyway so it didn't matter 
i've just read on the xtra homepage britney spears is hoping for a c-section next month cos she doesn't want to be in pain!!!!!!! good god!!!
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