The gentlebirth.org website is provided courtesy of
Ronnie Falcao, LM MS,
a homebirth midwife in Mountain View, CA
The gentlebirth.org website is provided courtesy of
Ronnie Falcao, LM MS,
a homebirth midwife in Mountain View, CA
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I just had my mind expanded this morning by Laureen Hudson's hour long online session on how to use the internet to get a message out. Laureen's session “Creating an Online Presence," gave me a wealth of information in a short time and impressed me with how many people are out there who completely rely on the internet for their information. I needed that, and maybe you do, too. - Ina May Gaskin I just hung up the phone from doing the hour long session with
Laureen Hudson on “Creating an Online Presence”. Laureen’s know-how
and expertise were enough to wake up even the birth oldtimers like me and
Ina May to the many unused opportunities of the internet. Laureen’s
engaging and easygoing teaching style made even those scary (to me) terms
like “hypertext, streaming, wordpress, technorati, feedreader and trackback”
start to make sense. Her passion is to reach the generation of young
women who have not yet given birth BEFORE they fall into the black hole
of aggressive obstetrics. I came away from the class today with lots
of ways to improve my website and make it more modern, usable and interesting
for readers. This class will run again this coming Friday (August
22) and I heartily recommend it.
Cost: $35 per session Each session will be 60 minutes in length Creating An Online Presence
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I have had three non pregnant patients recently with rather profuse vaginal
bleeding not responsive to hormonal therapy, all of whom had elevated bleeding
times with normal PT, PTT, and platelet count. One patient was using "Herbalife"
which is a combination of various herbs sold as a weight loss regimen,
one was taking ginseng regularly, and one consumed "green tea" daily. None
had von Willibrandt's and all bleeding times normalized after discontinuing
herbal preparations. Anyone else seen anything like this? Any words of
wisdom in Kelly's herb book?
I have never 'seen' it, but I've read of quite a few herbs and what not that can act as phytoestrogens. Some articles on this phenomenon are,
Hopkins, M.P..; et al. 1988. "Ginseng Face Cream and Unexplained Vaginal Bleeding." Am J Obstet Gynecol 159:1121-2.
Pearce, P.T..; et al. 1982. "Panex Ginseng and Eleuthrococcus Senticosus Extracts - In Vitro Studies on Binding to Steroid Receptors." Endocrinol. Japon 29(5):567-73.
Also vitamin C, or ascorbic acid up to 1 g/d can significantly increase the efficacy of exogenous estrogens.
Soy protein, has also been known to have a 'moderate' or 'slight' estrogenic properties, which are 'thought' to help with osteopenia/osteoporosis.
A small list of phytoestrogens are:
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