How Black & Blue Cohosh Can Help a Slow-Starting Labour

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If you are having some signs of labour, but things aren’t progressing as steadily as you would like, ask your midwife if she’d be comfortable recommending a black and blue cohosh tea.

Black and Blue Cohosh are two herbs which stimulate oxytocin and bring on regular contractions, helping a slow-to-start labour move forward.

• Place a teaspoon each of black & blue cohosh in cold water and bring them to a boil together
• Reduce heat and simmer for 20 minutes
• Sip this tea  slowly throughout the day until regular contractions are established.

Black and blue cohosh are powerful herbs, and can be used for different circumstances related to pregnancy and birth. It’s important to make sure you are taking the correct dose for your specific circumstance. Check with your herbal practitioner and midwife before taking any herbs to impact your labour.

Guest Post by Courtney Carnrite: Courtney is a Chartered Herbalist having studied western herbalism for the greater part of a decade. She is also an Ashtanga trained yogi and certified Hatha Yoga teacher within an holistic teaching model. She’s received Doula training through Dona & with Gloria Lemay. Courtney has studied Fertility Awareness privately and has a great respect for the human and female physical form. She has worked as an Energy Practitioner and as a Certified Holistic Health Counselor. “Our divine feminine bodies are nature; we follow natural laws & cycles ~ we are life manifest in human form.”

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