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Eating for Two: Raspberry Leaf Tea
I drank Raspberry leaf tea after the insertion of an IUD last year and now I swear by it for any sort of uterine distress. After a friend of mine had a baby via c-section a few months ago, I gave her a box of it to help minimize the postpartum cramps and she said it was as effective as the 800 mg ibuprofen she had been taking. While obviously I'm not planning on any little ones of my own for awhile (see above), I will definitely give the tea a try to help tone up and (hopefully) make the delivery and recovery a little easier!
Eating for Two: Raspberry Leaf Tea
Popsicles sound wonderful! There must be different brands of Raspberry Leaf Tea available; the kind I drank during the last few weeks of my pregnancy had a definite musky, overripe flavour. I found honey helped.
I didn't notice any uterine change (ie. increase in contractions) from drinking the tea, but I wish I thought of taking it afterward to help with shrinking the uterus.
On a *certain* prenatal website I noticed there were a lot of women posting that you will go into labour from drinking Raspberry Iced Tea. Like commercially produced, artificially flavoured Lipton or whatever. Hilarious!
Eating for Two: Raspberry Leaf Tea
Thanks for the feedback--all very interesting!
Eating for Two: Raspberry Leaf Tea
I used it before both of my kids' births. I started drinking it around the 7 month mark, and gradually increased my consumption to the maximum recommended on the box (which, IIRC, was three cups a day).
My first child was born in 3 hours and 45 minutes. I knew I was going to have to be induced with my second, so I got Raspberry Leaf extract - a really concentrated liquid that you can find at the health food store, and took as much of that as I could stand to try to induce labor. I still had to be induced, but at 36 weeks I was 3 cm dilated, they used Cytotec and 4 hours of un-labor later (if you say, "was that a contraction?" and look at the monitor when you don't have any pain meds, it doesn't count), they broke my water. After that everything went FAST and she was born one hour and nine minute later.
When I would drink it, I could feel the Braxton Hicks contractions get more focused and intense, so I know it was doing something.
It may not work for everyone, but I'd say it worked for me! I definitely plan to use it in future pregnancies.
My uterus is the only toned muscle on my entire body.
Eating for Two: Raspberry Leaf Tea
When I had my first child, in Germany, the midwife prescribed raspberry leaf tea post-partum, to encourage the uterus to contract and shrink more quickly. My husband when to the drugstore and bought the tea, which really was just leaves, and I brewed a couple cups a day. It didn't taste great and I don't know if it actually helped, but it was a very common, routine treatment there.
Eating for Two: Raspberry Leaf Tea
I drank raspberry leaf tea by the pitcher at the very end of my pregnancy, in the hope of "stimulating my uterus" all the way into labor. It didn't quite work; it just made it so I was sitting around having contractions, rather than just sitting around.
If I ever get pregnant again, though (and my babe is now one month old, so I'm still swearing that it's never going to happen if I have anything to say about it), I'll definitely start with the raspberry leaf tea at an earlier stage.
Oh, and my favorite way to drink it is iced, with lime juice and a generous amount of sugar... I bet that would also make a great popsicle...
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I drank Raspberry leaf tea after the insertion of an IUD last year and now I swear by it for any sort of uterine distress. After a friend of mine had a baby via c-section a few months ago, I gave her a box of it to help minimize the postpartum cramps and she said it was as effective as the 800 mg ibuprofen she had been taking. While obviously I'm not planning on any little ones of my own for awhile (see above), I will definitely give the tea a try to help tone up and (hopefully) make the delivery and recovery a little easier!