Post-Partum Issues - HomeoSource

Choose a remedy: Choose your remedy based on the most prominent symptoms. If symptoms change, take a remedy that matches your new symptoms.

Dosage: Unless otherwise recommended below: 3 doses of 30X, 6C, 12C, 30C over 24 hours; or see the Dosage Chart

Stop when very much improved
If no improvement after twelve hours/overnight, try a different remedy.

Note:

See your provider if problems persists, if you have a fever, if there is discharge from a C-section incision line, bleeding is profuse, or your discharge is foul smelling. In the meantime, you can take the below remedies until you can be seen.
Nothing in this list is a substitute for regular visits or a call to your provider if you are worried.
If a self-selected remedy – however well indicated – doesn’t help, you need to seek medical expertise. Your provider will provide a diagnosis and/or a professional homeopath can evaluate your symptoms in the context of your whole person.

Symptoms	Remedy
Perineal pain General soreness/bruised sensation Low energy After pains Urine retention or urine incontinence Bladder pressure Blood clot View Remedy	Arnica 30C Every 12 hours up to two weeks or every 4-6 hours, spreading out w/improvement
Perineal and anal pain Post-C-Section pain Internal organ injury/bruising/pain View Remedy	Bellis perennis 200c twice daily if needed
Sleeplessness due to excitement of birth View Remedy	Coffea 30C One dose at bedtime Repeat once, if needed
To heal C-section or episiotomy incision Incision pain May alternate with Arnica View Remedy	Staphysagria
To soothe and heal episiotomy View Remedy	Hypericum and Calendula Cream
Erratic after-pains Nervous Weak Trembling Better: Warmth View Remedy	Caulophyllum
After-pains (Arnica does not give relief) Can’t tolerate pain Irritable Restless/nervous Worse: Heat Night Drinking coffee View Remedy	Chamomilla
Nerve pain Injury to sacrum or tailbone Torn perineum Shooting pain View Remedy	Hypericum perforatum
Sharp after pains Especially in oversensitive women Worse: loss of sleep View Remedy	Coffea
Postpartum blood loss to slow blood loss maintain hemoglobin level View Remedy	Arnica 6C -and- Bellis perennis 6C Directions: one dose of each immediately after delivery repeat every five hours for Day 1 repeat three times on Day 2 continue at three times/day until bleeding resolved
Urine retention Weak Tired Chilly Anxious Trembling View Remedy	Gelsemium
Urine retention View Remedy	Causticum 30C
Retained urine or stool may be painful Hemorrhoids Constipation with urging for stool ineffectual May be irritable Better: warmth View Remedy	Nux vomica
Hemorrhoids Mild, weepy disposition View Remedy	Pulsatilla 6C Every 4 hours for up to 3 days
Hemorrhoids View Remedy	WHP Be Gone – Hemorrhoids cream
Aversion to sex Chilly Irritable Depressed Teary- thinks she hates her baby and partner Sleep deprived Pelvic organs feel heavy like they will fall out Uterus remains large Nipples cracked, bleeding, sore Nipples itch View Remedy	Sepia 30C Every 12 hours up to two weeks
Depression Manic Talks fast and changes subjects Irrational fears Suspicious View Remedy	Cimicifuga
Exhaustion After great loss of blood From breastfeeding View Remedy	China (Cinchona) 30C Every 12 hours up to two weeks
Hair fall View Remedy	Choose one remedy to start with. May be repeated once or twice a week. If no improvement, try another. Sulphur – may be warm blooded Lycopodium – may have abdominal gas Calcarea carbonicum -usually chilly; may be a bit anxious Sepia – may feel better with exertion Natrum Muriaticum – usually a reserved personality, maybe sensitive to the sun Nitric Acid (may feel irritable and hard to please)
Milk Production in non-nursing moms or Hard breasts where mastitis is suspected: See Mastitis Section or other nursing issues, see Nursing Issues section View Remedy

References

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