Homeopathy for Pregnancy and Childbirth

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Congratulations! Real life stories throughout this book make the materia medica much more meaningful and alive. I recommend this excellent and very practical guide to all those using homeopathy during pregnancy or childbirth.

John Diamond MD
Reno, Nevada

I only wish I had known about homeopathy during my first pregnancy. I now use it for my new baby as well as the rest or my family, knowing that I am doing the right thing, the natural thing, to maintain them at peak health.

Maria Chilcotte
Springfield, West Virginia

In the midst of the current revival of homeopathy in North America, Rosemary has taken up the. challenge and started beating the drum. She has gathered experience and information from various sources and presented them in a unique and comprehensible form.

Paul Sharda D.H.S.
Ottawa, Ontario

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This book explains the various remedies that can be used during pregnancy and childbirth.

In her classical approach to homeopathy, Rosemary Tayler instructs us in how to select an individualized remedy based on the symptoms presented.

Rosemary writes like a true homeopath, with a style that is concise and emulates that of James Kent or Margaret Tyler. In fact, she writes as she talks and teaches-with clarity and a sense of fullness and optimistic concern that will help the pregnant mother.

Her buoyant, supportive energy bubbles through and the remedy leaps out at us, inviting its use during the healing process.

Remedies are described for problems that might arise during the prenatal, perinatal and postnatal phases. This information complies with the central homeopathic guideline Similia Similibus Curantur, that is, "like heals like."

Anecdotal experiences related by her students, clients and friends contribute additional useful information in selecting a remedy. These remedies can be incorporated into first aid kits and used by physicians, nurses and midwives as well as mothers.

Her book is a significant contribution to the expectant mother. Confidence in the art of remedy selection is gained only by understanding, living, feeling and doing it.

If the simple precautions about dosage are followed, only the healing action of the remedy used will occur.I highly recommend Homeopathy for Pregnancy and Childbirth.

Leonard Levine MD, DPH, CCFP
Former President
The Canadian Holistic Medical Association

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Author

Rosmary Tayler

Founder of The Ottawa School of Homeopathy, Rosemary has a Master of Science degree in Marine Biology and a Bachelor of Education degree from Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia.

Upon graduation from Dalhousie in 1975, she worked for five years at the Ecology Action Centre - a nonprofit public interest organization located in Halifax, Nova Scotia. This organization addresses a wide range of provincial environmental concerns including chemical pesticides, urban development, recycling and energy conservation.

In 1986, Rosemary Tayler moved to Ottawa to study at the Canadian College of Natural Healing. During the next three years, she developed perspective and understanding about various natural healing modalities - herbology, nutrition, iridology, color therapy, shiatsu, polarity, reflexology and homeopathy.

In 1989, she went on and apprenticed with and took courses from several homeopathic practitioners in the Ottawa area.

In January of 1990, she began a six-year apprenticeship program with Paul Sharda, a homeopathic expert who obtained his credentials from the New Delhi Homeopathic College.

During those apprenticeship years, she worked full-time as a herbalist and homeopathic consultant at two pharmacies in Ottawa.

Over the past five years she has collaborated with Ayub Khan, a homeopathic expert from Bangladesh. This additional work experience has enabled her to more deeply understand homeopathy and its applications.

In January of 1998 she completed her Post Graduate Diploma with The British Institute of Homeopathy.

In June of 1992, Rosemary established The Ottawa School of Homeopathy, and since then has taught homeopathy to over 2,000 people in Ontario and the Maritime provinces.

She has authored magazine articles and is often invited as a speaker by educational, health and community organizations.

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Contents

Foreword
Acronyms
What this book is about and how to use it

I. What is homeopathy?
1 Introduction
2 Dosage
3 Suggested remedy kits

II. Before birth
4 Key remedies
5 Morning sickness
6 Constipation
7 Bladder infection
8 Hemorrhoids
9 Edema (water retention)
10 Varicose veins
11 Premature labor

III. Childbirth
12 False labor
13 During labor
14 During birth
15 Caesarean birth
16 Key remedies
17 Hemorrhage
18 Trembling legs
19 Expelling clots
20 Depression

V: Infant care and nursing
21 Jaundice
22 Colic
23 Thrush
24 Breast inflammation
25 Lactation problems
26 Other useful remedies

VI: Problem solving
Poem
Index
Selected bibliography
Appendix A: Names and duration of remedies
Appendix B: Selecting a homeopath
Appendix C: Midwifery and other contacts
Appendix D: What is a doula?

The Ottawa School of Homeopathy
Rosemary Tayler
Keeping in touch
Order form

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