Tip for After pains

[Kiwifruit]

Hi Ladies

I can't tell you if this actually works yet, but my obstetrician (who is pretty conservative, so if he's handing out this kind of advice I tend to think it may work ) told a friend of mine (who is about 5 months ahead of me) to take pineapple juice with her to the hospital as drinking it after birth is very good for after pains.

Anyone want to give it a try and report back to us??

Sounds like a pile of poo to me! How would creating bowel cramps and increasing your blood sugar help in preventing afterpains. Are you sure he didn't mean paracetamol?

I'm sure he meant gin

Never heard of that! Cannot see what the logic is - why would he think it would work?

Not heard that before. I've heard that eating fresh pineapple can help start labur (load of crap).
But the only thing I've heard about drinking pineapple juice is that you should make your partner drink it if you want to go oral as it makes everything tste a bit sweeter!

lol at this tip!!! try it in labour as well - would save the nhs a fortune on g&a, epidural......

just noticed it's a male doc giving out this 'advice' - wonder if a female doc with kids would agree with this?

By after pains do you mean the contraction-like pains you get for a few days after the birth?

I had pretty strong ones for two or three days when bfeeding. The only thing that worked for me was deep breathing and keeping in mind they are for a purpose - getting the uterus to go back to its normal size.

Mine with dd2 were horrendous (contraction-style)

I had to break off feeds and take lots of codeine

Stopped after about 3 days

Pineapple

he is probably thinking that it will give such bad heartburn (why does that not go immediately after I wonder), that she will not notice the afterpains.....

my top tip......have no babies......no after pains then!!!.

I found a tens machine was very good....tried that after DD3 and DS1, helped loads.......added with codiene and a warm bottle, breastfeeding was not quite at the passing out stage.

DS2 however, whole other story, and nothing helped.

I found the best think was to recline, or at last perch on one buttock, when feeding. If sitting upright the pains were far worse.

Psychomum5, everyone says that they get worse with each successive child, so I can only imagine how bad they were after your DS2.

It's an anti-inflamatory, I imagine you'd need buckets tho. My midwife said lots of water helps healing.

An ice pack was my greatest relief.

An ice pack was my greatest relief.

they were vile portandlemon......utterly vile.

ensured the decision for DH having the snip in fact!!!