Canterbury Homeopathy, Hypnotherapy and Birthkeeping

24/11/2023

Think my page may have been hacked. Don't accept any friend requests.

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/

08/05/2021

Delayed clamping is so important.

Aim Our aim was to investigate the effects of timing of cord clamping on the risk of hyperbilirubinaemia. Methods We recruited 540 normal vaginal deliveries at the Paropakar Maternity and Women’s ...

03/05/2021

Really check out ingredients - absorbing these chemicals into your body is far from ideal and dreadful for children.

Sunscreen companies have long claimed the harmful chemicals in their products aren’t absorbed into the body. Turns out they are. Sunscreens contains more chemicals at higher concentrations than they did 50 years ago. It’s also applied much more frequently. These two facts have prompted the FDA t...

18/04/2021

Nikia Grayson, a certified nurse midwife, decided on her current field after a winding education through journalism, anthropology and public health.

18/03/2021

Continuous monitoring changes everything for the birthing woman and has enormous disbenefits.

Routine continuous fetal monitoring continues to be the norm despite being known to be a failure. This is a shocking, but provable, statement.

24/02/2021

Parents will do anything to avoid the risk of cancer. Attempts to give children a germ free childhood, however, might be contributing to childhood cancer.

19/01/2021

Oh my, I hear you. I've been having quite a few of these days lately. I'm guessing many of those reading identify too. Life is so very, very tough at the moment. I hate this time of year at the best of times with the grey cold days and the sparkle of Christmas a rapidly fading memory but the promise of spring still so far away, throw in lockdown, lack of being able to socialise and get 'in person' support and trying to balance work, schooling at home and everything else and the days - and nights - seem unforgiven and endless.

I don't have any magic answers I'm afraid, I wish I did. I find the following help when I'm really struggling to get through the day, especially as a parent:

* Aim for survival - nothing more. Keeping everybody warm and fed and safe is enough, it really is.
* Be kind to yourself - you're not a bad parent if you have a bad day, weeks or - at the moment, year. Whatever you do (or don't do), or say today doesn't matter, apologise to your child(ren) and move on. Tomorrow is a new day.
* Have a PJ day, snuggle together on the sofa with a big blanket and your child(ren), make some popcorn, eat ice cream out of the tub, watch ALL the Netflix, Cbeebies and Disney+ (incidentally, these days will become some of your children's favourite memories)
* Get some daylight, first thing in the morning if you can, if not anything will help. If you have the money, a SAD lamp can really help, otherwise a bright white (energy saving), or blue light bulb close to you is useful too.
* Put some upbeat music on and jiggle (I would say dance, but then people worry they can't dance) around your home, sing loudly (however out of tune) too
* Put on wellies and coats and get outside - however 'bad' the weather is. Stomp in puddles, squelch mud (yes - even the adults).
* Have a bath together with your child(ren) if you have a bath. Throw in all the toys and bubbles
* Pick up the phone and call someone (don't Zoom, we've all had enough of it! an old fashioned phone call can be really uplifting)
* Go to bed early, as early as your child(ren), even better, snuggle up in bed with them. 6pm is not too early.
* Check what you're eating, deficiencies in magnesium, Vitamin D and B vitamins can really impact moods. Take care of your microbiome too, gut health has such a strong link to mental health.

Please don't hesitate to call your GP, or a helpline such as too if you're still struggling. There are services available to you, they may look slightly different to those pre-covid in their delivery, but they're still there.

For more questions, pop over to my Instagram: http://www.Instagram.com/sarahockwellsmith