Raspberry Leaf Tea - Unnecessary Intervention?

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I was thuinking about Mog as I was emptying the dishwasher this morning (don't know why but you know how us women's minds work?) and thought about birth experience. I might not actually have remembered properly reading this in relation to you mog, but I think you used raspberry leaf tea.
Now I know lots of women swear by it, but there has been evidence of women having side effects such as rapid labour or placental abruption.
I personally thought about it first time round but decided against it because I didn't know what a normal labour for me would be like. As it was my first labour was 8 hours and I enjoyed the experience. I therefore didn't use raspberry leaf tea with subsequent labours.
Raspberry leaf tea could be seen as an intervention like any other medication. What experiences has anyone had with it. Sorry mog if this is not realted to you in any way

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thanks you guys you have helped alot. i am going to have to get off of here now and make an attempt to go along to asda to stock up on bananas (my craving) as i ran out this morning and i am starting to have withdrawel symptoms. no doubt we will all talk soon though as i have much moaning to do aand a sympathetic ear to be moaned into. Pie- thanks again as you are the only person i have spoken too at all who has had spd and you've lifted a weight of these shoulders (although not my pelvis..haha) talk later.

SPD sounds absolutely awful and I hope it doesn't last too long for you, flump.

In case anyone else is interested in raspberry leaf tea, I was inspired by this thread to have a google and found that there has been a fairly serious study on its effects, see
questions about raspberry leaf tea

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Flump -there are several SPD sufferers on Mumsnet - you can do a search.
I had it too and was bed bound for the alst 4 weeks. But i managed to recover well afer 4 weeks. I wasn't as severe as Pie.

Flump -there are several SPD sufferers on Mumsnet - you can do a search.
I had it too and was bed bound for the last 4 weeks. But I managed to recover well afer 4 weeks. I wasn't as severe as Pie.