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An abortifacient ("that which will cause a miscarriage" from Latin: abortus "miscarriage" and faciens "making") is a substance that induces abortion. This is a nonspecific term which may refer to any number of substances or medications, ranging from herbs [ 1 ] to prescription medications.
A common practice during the postpartum period is the "three baths." In the first three days, the mother bathes in fortified water prepared from boiling special herbs in the water, including papaya, sour orange, soursop (corossol), mint (ti baume), anise, bugleweed and eucalyptus. These herbs relax the mother and cause her muscles to tighten.
Retained products of conception is where products of conception remain in the uterus after childbirth, medical abortion or miscarriage (also known as spontaneous abortion). [1] Miscarriage with retained products of conception is termed delayed when no or very little products of conception have been passed, and incomplete when some products have ...
About 95 out of 100 couples who are trying to get pregnant do so within two years. [90] Women become less fertile as they get older. For women aged 35, about 94% who have regular unprotected sexual intercourse get pregnant after three years of trying. For women aged 38, however, only about 77%. The effect of age upon men's fertility is less ...
The World Health Organization considers the rhythm method to be a specific type of calendar-based method, and calendar-based methods to be only one form of fertility awareness. [2] More effective than calendar-based methods, systems of fertility awareness that track basal body temperature, cervical mucus, or both, are known as symptoms-based ...
The UK Miscarriage Association recommends that people create a supportive environment for their co-workers grieving a miscarriage, what they need most throughout this trying time is to know people ...
There are accounts that sexual activity was promoted during pregnancy in central Thailand since sperm would make the baby strong, [5] however, in the northern parts of Thailand it is seen as a form of vigorous activity that may result in miscarriage. [6] Although pregnant women are prohibited from attending a funeral, wearing a brooch on the ...
Women of the time still used a number of birth control measures such as coitus interruptus, inserting lily root and rue into the vagina, and infanticide after birth. [16] Historian John M. Riddle has advanced the hypothesis that women in classical antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Early Modern period used herbs to control fertility.