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I was just doing a tidy out of my kitchen and I cam across some rasberry leaf tea and tablets. I decided to give them to a friend who is due soon. She had killer afterpains after her last baby so I got to wondering if rasberry leaf has any affect on afterpains. Does it make the uterus contact more efficiently afterbirth as well as during? Does this mean more or less painfull after pains? Do you need to keep taking them for it to affect the afterpains?
This is from one website regarding RLT. It would seem that it may help with afterpains.
* Balancing the menstrual cycle, regulating hormones, enhancing fertility, alleviating period cramping and reducing excessive bleeding with heavy periods.
* Possibly having a regulating effect on the uterus, making labour contractions more coordinated and efficient, perhaps shortening the labour and making the birth easier. Some say it may make the contractions less painful.
* Helping to deliver the placenta and control the bleeding after the birth.
* Increasing breast milk production and for treating mastitis.
Tanya, generally you don't have after pains with your first bub. They are much more prominant each subsequent baby you have.