Natural, Herbal and Traditional Contraception in Indonesia

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The tendency of people looking for natural products or non-chemical currently making herbal products and traditional choice is no exception for the purpose of contraception. For centuries, traditional herbal ingredients and a mainstay for preventing and delaying pregnancy.

Actually, how the contraceptive effectiveness of herbal / traditional can be scientifically justified today? Many researchers have conducted research on anti-fertility substances of this nature and so far several studies have shown encouraging results and promising. So far only China and India are doing a lot of research about this herbal contraceptive reliability. In Indonesia alone the use of herbs or medicinal plants as contraceptives has long been known to the public in some areas.

When will use herbs and traditional contraceptives, you should consider how much risk is your current pregnancy? This means that if the current couples for any reason and in any condition really do not want the pregnancy, the contraceptive use of herbal / traditional is not the best choice. Why? Since contraception is more intended as an experimental contraceptive or contraceptive trials, which do not yet have sufficient scientific evidence such as modern contraceptives available today. Precisely best herbal contraception / contraceptive traditionally used as a backup only.

If you are aged under 20 years of contraceptive herbal / traditional is not a wise choice because:
1. Does not protect couples from sexual disease transmission.
2. This contraceptive method has not proven to be absolute and measurable.
3. Some herbal products contain hormones and compounds that can affect the endocrine system work (without a channel control system of the body glands release the hormone) is young and still growing.

M Wien Winarno and Dian Sundari in 1997 in the Mirror World Medicine magazine once wrote that no fewer than 74 types of plants that are empirically used as a traditional contraceptive in several regions in Indonesia. Based on the results of the study recorded 18 plants collected may be used as a female contraceptive and 13 plants for male contraception.

Furthermore Wien Winarno and Dian Sundari explained that the use of contraceptives from plants to consider the nature of damage or effects on the reproductive system in both men or women, should be used in plants that affect the reproductive system that is temporary (reversible), ie when the drug is not used anymore, reproductive system is normal again, so it does not happen sterility.

So that it can be concluded that if the voluntary and conscious couples with contraceptive use herbal / traditional as the primary means of contraception choices they have volunteered to do the experiment yourself with the risks of pregnancy, as many contraceptive herbal / traditional is VERY dependent on the correct treatment and times of use appropriate.
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Baby Hiccups

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Infants/Baby and hiccups are one thing. Hiccups are basically not a bad for baby, it's just that often make parents worried. Hiccups are a normal thing, no need to worry about and usually goes away by itself. Very rarely do baby hiccups also be a sign or symptom of a serious illness.

Hiccups occur when the diaphragm, the muscle at the base of the lungs spasm (contraction of the diaphragm muscle that occur suddenly). Spasm that causes the vocal cords to close quickly so that the air is about to go into the lungs are blocked, and there came a loud voice, hiccups.

For parents who have children for the first time most concerned if their babies aged 0-3 months who are still hiccups, but hiccups in babies, especially after drinking milk or milk bottles actual banality and experienced by almost all infants.

According to Prof. Mark Widome, MD, an expert in child health at Penn State Children's Hospital, hiccups sometimes expected and a sign that your baby has been fed and the meal perfectly.

Check the baby's pacifier drink. Baby may swallow too much air and hiccup if the hole is not exactly the pacifier. Massage the back of the palate with a cotton wool soaked in water. Move the cotton was to the front and back for 1 minute or more.
There was no medicine to overcome the hiccups, but usually to deal with hiccups baby while nursing, you can lay her, and bend both legs down to the stomach. Give him warm water can also help. It is much easier when using the dot, because pacifiers will open the pharyngeal or other tenggorokan.Cara to fix this, parents also can help the baby to burp, or pat baby's back so happens burp
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Marking Fertile Window

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For couples who want to become pregnant, fertile period is very important. Every month, a healthy couple will have 20 percent possibility to become pregnant. And the important issue is that the fertile corridor that allows the fertilization of egg by sperm, once separated from the ovary (ovulation) and stay in the uterus is only about 12 to 24 hours. While sperm can live longer between three to six days. This means that even if couples have sex a few days before ovulation occurs, the sperm will remain alive and ready for fertilization when the egg comes. Ideally intercourse is performed when ovulation occurs. After ovulation occurs, then the window of fertility will soon be closed until the next cycle. This is why knowing when the fertile time it becomes very important.

1. Mark the calendar: In general, ovulation can be estimated at half of the menstrual cycle. The average menstrual cycle is 28 days (from the first day of menstruation until the day following the first menstruation). But the cycle length varies between 23 to 35 days. By keeping records on a calendar the first day of menstruation for several months, then it can be estimated at once when the ovulation cycle stops and signs already visible will be able to contain the estimated age of pregnancy. If cycles occur irregularly, it should be cautious and consult a doctor.

2. Observe and listen to the rhythm of the body: If you are including women in 20 percent of those, it usually will give a signal when the body where ovulation occurs, such as the occurrence of pain or soreness in the lower abdomen (usually occurs on one side - the side where ovulation).

3. Temperature graph: Basal Body Temperature, taken with a special thermometer (basal body thermometer) conducted in the morning when woman wake up, or three to five hours before sleep. Changes in basal body temperature shows fluctuations of hormone levels. During the first half of the cycle coming months, will be dominated by the presence of the estrogen hormone. While the second half (after ovulation) there was an increase of progesterone. Progesterone increases body temperature and uterus in fertile conditions for the egg patch. Still confused? The explanation is when the basal temperature will reach its lowest point during ovulation and increased dramatically immediately after ovulation. Graphs that you create will not allow you to read the prediction if only made one month, but continues to do after a few months time to predict when the lowest temperature occurred.

4. Identify cervix: Ovulation is not a process that could not be detected. Body of woman will usually feel a change hormone levels that indicate that the egg is released from the ovary to be ready to be fertilized. One of the approaches and detection can be done is to position the cervix itself. At the beginning of the cycle, the neck (the area between the vagina and uterus) will be stretched and softened like a birth process will happen that will give the opportunity for sperm to travel toward their target is the egg. Some women may feel this clearly, while some others have noticed these changes more thoroughly. Other signs include a change in consistency of cervical mucus of the cervix (usually making clothes in the sticky).

5. Ovulation Prediction Tool: If you do not want to mess around with mucus, look at the body or other symptoms, there is nothing wrong with using ovulation predictors. This tool can be purchased and used to determine when ovulation occurs in 12 to 24 hours in advance by looking at levels of lutenizing hormone (LH). The increase in LH levels are high just before ovulation can be used as an indicator to determine the days before ovulation occurs. LH levels can be detected through blood and urine. LH levels in the blood can be checked through lab tests, whereas LH levels in urine can be checked through a fertility test kits in the form of strips.

So no matter the device or method you choose, the important key is patience and persistence. Whatever makes you comfortable and your spouse do earnestly without feeling burdened pregnancy targets.
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Fight Cancer, Donate Your Unused Car Now

Cancer is set to overtake cardiovascular disease to become the leading cause of death worldwide by 2010, according to a new report from the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), a division of the World Health Organization (WHO).Cancer also remains the number one disease killer for children. On the average, 12,500 children and adolescents in the U.S. are diagnosed with cancer each year. On the average, 1 in every 4 elementary school has a child with cancer. The average high school has two students who are a current or former cancer patient.

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"Breast engorgement", Advantages and Disadvantages

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Abundant milk production was the hope of many breastfeeding mothers. But mothers know that the abundant milk production must be balanced with the habit of feeding the baby more often. If the mother does not work then it is not a problem, but what if the mother is an employee or a worker who must return to work after the expiry of maternity leave? This is what mothers need to know.

Breast engorgement is a condition in which postpartum breast feels very full by the ASI, tense and painful. The cause is an imbalance between milk supply and baby's needs. This condition generally occurs when the mother suddenly stopped giving her milk before their time.

Engorgement can occur:
• When you first ran in breast milk, during the first few days after birth.
• When mothers breastfeeding normal and routine, but it can not pump their milk according to milk production.
• When the mother and the baby suddenly stopped breast-feeding and breast milk consumption.
• When babies begin to reduce the breast, usually occurs when babies start eating solid food enhancement, or when the baby's illness is marked by decreasing the desire / passion to feed.

Begins producing breast milk after two to five days after giving birth. At that time your breasts will feel warm and heavy. Some mothers feel the swelling and discomfort because of it.

Breast milk is filled with excessive swelling and pain will be felt, it can stimulate the occurrence of acute engorgement, it is usually because:
• Waiting too long to nurse a newborn baby (without early initiation).
• Mother does not want to breastfeed, although the production of enough milk.
• Breastfeeding a bit so as not to evacuate and drain the breast of milk.

This acute engorgement will cause the baby to suck hard on mothers and suckle properly, so that:
• Babies do not consume enough milk.
• Breast is not quite empty and depleted.
• Putting the pain will be felt because of the broken. This is because the baby tries to suck the breast that is fully charged. If you then reduce breast-feeding mothers, the lessons will be re-inflamed and engorgement will deteriorate.

Symptom

This occurs when engorgement breast milk when breastfeeding or pumping out is not as much production is going so full of breast milk. Mothers who experience this will feel:
• Breast feels enlarged, tense and sore. When acute engorgement, the breasts will be swollen, hard, look shiny, warm and supple to the touch.
• Mom will feel the lessons were flattened, and the area around the nipple will seem darker, called the areola and very hard.
• Babies will be difficult to find the nipple, and when I found the baby will be working hard to suck the breast so the nipple can be injured due to the baby business.
• Low maternal fever (body temperature around 37.8 degrees Celsius). If body temperature continues to rise immediately to a doctor.
• Lymph nodes around the armpit to swell the mother and the sick.

Complications and consequences

Without treatment, acute engorgement will cause blockage of channels in the breast milk and cause infection of the breast known as mastitis (breast inflammation).

Care and Treatment

Swelling of the breast is no need to worry excessively and mother can treat and conduct their own treatment at home unless a symptom of infection or mastitis, which may require the mother to consume antibiotics.

These steps can be taken to treat their own mothers to reduce swelling include:
• If the nursing mother, treatment is focused on improving the flow of breast milk with more frequent feeding. Make sure baby is nursing properly and fairly. Usually with this step within 12 to 24 hours later the discomfort is felt will disappear.
• If the mothers do not breastfeed, breast enlargement will cause the breasts to stop producing milk. This discomfort usually disappears after the first variable to 5 days.

Prevention

If the mother plans to breastfeed the baby, then:
• Begin feeding the baby as soon as possible after birth and continue onwards with more often, every 1 to 2 hours while the mother was awake.
• Breastfeeding every one to two hours on the first few days this will reduce the likelihood of engorgemen.
• Make sure the breast soft enough so the baby can breastfeed correctly. If the production of extra milk, so breastfeeding mothers should be pumping out up to breast feels empty after each feeding.
• Try to breastfeed your baby no less than 15 minutes each time breastfeeding, although this may change over time of infant growth.
When the baby is already full or reduced desire to feed, then:
• If the milk production remains high, wipe or guyur breasts with warm water with a shower. Let the warm water flowed across the surface of the breast that would accelerate softening the nipple and breast milk will come out with its own excess.
• If milk flow does not feel perfect, a towel soaked in warm water can be used to mebungkus breasts before breast-feeding mothers. Stimulation of warm milk will help the flow is maintained.
• If the mother works and the difficulty to breastfeeding mothers on a regular basis so make sure to regularly manually pumping breast milk at least every three to four hours.
If engorgement had occurred and the mother still wants to breastfeed, then:
• soften the nipple and areola before breast-feeding to prevent luga start of the nipple.
• If the milk exiting the overflow by itself, it first compresses the breast with warm water before feeding.
• Breast Pump in soft tissues and membranes that contained in the breast does not hurt. Make sure the breasts sucked and drained after each feeding and the mother can save them in the refrigerator.
• To prevent swelling, tense, hard and pain caused by the mother can do:

• Taking anti-inflammatory drugs non-steroidal such as ibuproven, certainly with a doctor's prescription.
• cold compresses every 15 minutes to prevent tissue damage in the breast. Cold compresses should not put ice directly on the breast that would be harmful to tissue in the breast.
• The mother may try to use sheets to cover the breast cabbage in her bra and replace every two hours. This mode can be quite helpful, only this way could allow the production of breast milk decreases.
• Wear loose-fitting bra that does not reduce breast. Bras that are too tight can push the breast which in turn will reduce the flow of breast milk that can lead to blockage in the flow of breast milk.

If mothers do not breastfeed and experience engorgement, then the mother can do one or more of the following steps to reduce the discomfort:
• If the engorgement has happened, do not pump all the milk directly. This would likely spur increased milk production and makes engorgement worse. Breast pump to taste until the mother felt comfortable enough alone.
• Ibuproven for additional medication.
• Cold Compress
• Bra that suit their needs and not pressing.
How the choice of breastfeeding or not to remain in the mother. Remember, the quality of breast milk is not replaceable by any milk production. Then what are mothers waiting for?
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Baby Burping

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Breastfeeding is a new experience for every mother who gave birth. Exciting and always interesting because of ignorance of what is to be faced after feeding. An important note is worth a try and burp the baby.

Burp your baby helps remove swallowed air tends during lactation. If the air does not come out and tend to be much ingested when feeding can cause infant vomiting after feeding. Suspected infant colic and discomfort during sleep, among others, also caused by the accumulation of this gas.

Burping the baby, among others, can be cultivated in a way

• Sit up straight and put the baby on your chest. Put your chin on your shoulder baby (baby facing backwards) when you carry her with one hand while the other one hand patting your baby's back gently. With the help of a little wobble can also be done so that baby can be finished feeding burp.
• baby lap (in the upper thigh) with a sitting position facing forward, hold the baby in the chest like hanging with one hand while your other hand gently patted his back to help baby burp.
• Lay the baby on your lap with the prone position. Make sure the baby's head propped up by strong and its position is slightly higher than his chest. Do this while gently patting the baby's back.

Burping techniques can be performed and selected in accordance with the developing baby. When your baby is getting bigger, you need not worry if your child does not burp during or after each meal. That means that your baby has learned to eat without swallowing excess air.

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