Nourishing mothers Pt.1

Resolving Tricky
Pregnancies
Nourishing New Life

Format – WS 1 & 2
 Nourishing new life (eg HG)
 Techniques
 Resolving tricky pregnancies - clotting problems
Workshop 2 (following) will cover
 Saving babies from 24 weeks,
 Multiples and
 Pain as warning of Ki Qi not strong enough - back and PGP
as for these disruptions to fetal Jing inheritance)
Heather Bruce - AACMAC 2014 Resolving tricky pregnancies
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Review
 Energy medicine – not biomedical stance
 From my 35 years of maternal focus – plus being the
health care provider/when medicine doesn’t work
problem solver the past 8 years in a community that
uses no contraception. .
 For them - God provides - so babies are made with no
preparation for maternal health or baby quality.
 Not so different from modern life where no thought is
given to WHY sex is not naturally making babies …
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Nourishing new life
 Has she been in great shape prior to pregnancy?
 What are her eating habits?
 Has she been looking after herself?
 Does she listen to her own body?
 Is her gut in a state of perfect health to support her own
and a new life?
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Normal digestion
 Is required for sustaining all life.
Steps:
 Need to know the template/blueprint
 What has deviated this?
 What to do to regain optimal?
5Heather Bruce - AACMAC 2014 Resolving tricky pregnancies

Hormonal ‘mud-map’
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What tends to block nutrient
assimilation/life
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Maternal nutrition
 As part of the research prior to my research project ‘Saving Babies After 24
weeks, I have immersed myself in what a generation or two back, was not
needed – what appears to be ‘down-on-the-farm’ common sense.
 The dietary deficiencies of the average persona, and woman, esp of
reproductive age is alarming. More can be found on many sites - ‘Nourishing
Our Children’ and anything by Sally Falloon is a good start.
 All traditional societies had sacred foods.
 It would appear anything that is nutrition free, highly processed and full of
excito-toxins wins over real nutrition/Jing enhancement nowadays.
 Medicine sees the consequences of poor nutrition differently - as being based
on a potential genetic, not epigenetic cause.
 I am putting my findings (YouTube medical conferences mostly) up on
www.simple-natural-solutions.com These underpin all we do with patients as
their foundation needs supporting.
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Magnesium
Depletion Markers
 Ligament and muscle aching and cramps/spasms, twitching,
irritability.
 Emotional unrest and insomnia, possibly with feelings of
heat in the afternoon, with flushing; maybe extending into
feelings of being overwhelmed and not coping emotionally.
(Sircus, 2007)
 (Sound like Stuck Liver Qi overlain with Blood deficiency?)
 I have found a total 1:1 correlation. Easy to check out
yourself.
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What is ‘normal’?
The Three Heater model

‘Mudmap’ organ placement

Passage through ..

Digestion – what should
happen

Our inner food factory

Cooking pot

Upper heater workings

Lower heater

What goes in??
EATING
CHOICES
COULD BE
BASED
UPON
Energy requirements
Actively rebuilding
after operation damage,
major restructuring
Season
Menstrual cycle
Body priorities - may be in
extreme pain/digestion shut
off as too highly stressed
Time of day
Weather - body needs
change in accordance
with weather
Being in acute phase of
disease
Healt issues -
recuperation

Normal digestion
 Dependent upon the TH system to not be broken.
 Good gut flora itself dependent upon food in,
metabolism (Yang QI) working well – see low thyroid
info) and a happy disposition – with few toxins cellular
or situational.
 Need micro and macro minerals to allow the
‘hormones’ – esp thyroid to function.
 If no cold, or anger stored, (esp in the form of gall
bladder heat/stones/resentment) then the gut should
support life of mum and her fetus.
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Human Microbiome
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DTrENdWvvM#t=3
05 5.30 minutes . .
 Sugar fertilises the bad bugs, fungi, causes
inflammation . .
 Grains, cereals, alcohol, fruit, juices, anything tasting
sweet . . .
 Inflammation the seat of premmie babies and all the pH
and gut issues – esp HBP
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Emotions upset

Life stress . .what happens?

Normal pregnancy
requirements
 (From Julian Scott, and reaffirmed in my own decades
of maternal clinical experience)
 Increase in Blood
 Increase in Damp
 Increase in Heat
 Increase in Liver energy
 Decrease in maternally available Kidney energy

Revision – Spleen Qi xu

Formation of
what we don’t want

Reasons for an upset gut

Not nourishing life
 Mum may have had a history of eating disorders shielding
abuse and other crimes against her person.
 She may also have had gastric banding and sleeving as an
extension of this
 She may have no concept of nourishing life for herself.
 She may have no normal gut flora and no interest in
changing what she always has done.
 Not baby centred - all about her – is the theme of this
generation of pregnant women it seems.
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Reasons for nausea

Mechanisms of Qi flow
 Very often get forgotten as we have a biomedical model that
has framed TCM and all published data.
 When seeing a person pregnant in distress, start with
context – can the Yang work?
1 - She is distressed.
2 – Gut is thus distressed
Is the stomach Qi moving downwards – if not why not ad
counteract the inner turmoil, as the Shen needs to be
peaceful – has she accepted being woman?
Can she cope with being pregnant and what this will do to her
body shape and her life forever?
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New ‘cause’ – not found in
texts – look at her life
 Lora 17 weeks pregnant 1st child.
 Lost 3 kg a week over the past 5 weeks and was sleeping so as
not to vomit. Nothing eaten and minimal fluids.
 Dehydrated – red/cracked lips, bleeding gums, very distressed.
 Saw her 2x daily over a week.
 Initially usual ‘morning sickness’ options not working.
 Eventually I asked what was going on in her life – then gently
pressed the R extra GB point under GB 34 and she nearly hit me.
Reduced this with a long needle – and only did this and the whole
situation then resolved.
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Stress = Stuck Liver Qi

Violent rage
 Sacked from well paying responsible job as was pregnant.
 Going through the Court process to sue the national carrier
 Enraged by it all.
 2nd session – reduced the Hua Tuo points Liver, GB and all
others reactive.
 After several more reducing fire and then building yin – esp
with moxa on Bl 23 and then needling Ki 6, 25 (to rebuild
yin) and general Shen calming points, she was well and
happily pregnant.
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Who is well enough
to be pregnant?
 and sustain themselves - let alone their forming fetus?
 What about all those obese/gastric banded women?
 Is the baby even considered in all of this assisted
reproductive industry? (why might Nature have a brake on it
all?)
 Who thinks of the continuity of the species - as mum is
making the ovaries and sperm generating cells that will
make her own grandchildren later on . . .
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Baby – who is being made . .
How Jing Manifests

Crucial influences

Pregnancy is a time to hit the
‘reset’ button
 Dr John Shen suggested that there are 4 times in a woman’s
life when she can either disastrously wreck her future, or
repair herself
 Puberty
 Onset of sexuality (he was in the age that this was
marriage/moving into one’s own maturity)
 Pregnancy
 Menopause
 We thus can potentially make permanent changes in a
conscious pregnancy
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H-G What is it?
 Pernicious vomiting of pregnancy, is a complication of
pregnancy that affects various areas of the woman’s health,
including homeostasis, electrolytes, and kidney function, and
may have adverse fetal consequences.
 Nausea and vomiting are common in pregnancy, affecting
up to 70% to 85% of pregnant women. Hyperemesis affects
between 0.3% and 2.3% of all pregnancies. The condition is
defined as uncontrolled vomiting requiring hospitalization,
severe dehydration, muscle wasting, electrolyte imbalance,
ketonuria, and weight loss of more than 5% of body weight.3
 Most of these patients also have hyponatremia,
hypokalemia, and a low serum urea level.

What else may happen?
 The differential diagnosis of hyperemesis gravidarum
includes urinary tract infection, uremia, thyrotoxicosis,
diabetic ketoacidosis, Addison disease, hypercalcemia,
gastritis, peptic ulcer disease, pancreatitis, bowel
obstruction, hepatitis, drug-induced vomiting, central
nervous system (CNS) disease, and vestibular disease.
 It may also cause Mallory-Weiss tears and esophageal
rupture. Unchecked, this can result in maternal death.
 Baby obviously is compromised as mum can’t sustain her
own levels of nourishment or foster great fetal Jing.

Who gets it?
 This is not (medically) considered to be normal morning
sickness/pregnancy nausea. In my experience, any usual
case of pregnancy nausea: those with
 poor gut flora,
 gall stones,
 ‘stress’ (unexpressed emotional charges), including
subconscious) and
 any store of unresolved cold from any source
 Are easily resolved by returning optimal TH function –
however each person needs this to be restored.

What can mainstream
medicine do?
 Symptom management
 Reactive, not restorative medicine
 Pharmaceutical, not functional medicine
 ‘TCM’ which is based on organ pathology, and many
bio-medically trained therapists have fallen into a trap
of ‘differential diagnosis’ at the expense of really seeing
what is in front of them.

How a life ‘pans’ out
–the use of Jing to gain wisdom

Heather’s version of maternity
 Based on multiple pregnancies of my own
 Seen through the eyes of a strange eater – (vegan
macrobiotic first pregnancy)
 Then an acupuncture lecturer – used to hopeless cases
 Then as a mother of damaged children that she helped
create through pigheadedness.
 Now as a senior clinician who is seeing TCM as being the
way to validate biomedical interest – not women’s ways of
knowing across all aspects of being
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Why I work as I do
 Found that what is published does not work.
 Went back to beginnings . . .
 What makes a strong gut/pregnancy?
 Restore this
 From being with the community women Stuck Blood
and all the vein bleeding to ensure comfort (see pics)
and undo what this congestion will be doing in other
levels.
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What to do?
 Something - quickly
 Get a great case history – possibly WHILST the navel
cup is on (or at least a token session is happening as
when so very ill, there is little time for talking in between
vomiting). Maybe Reiki????
 Maybe get her to have written in (point form) the salient
crises of her life, so there is less chance of her getting
upset all over again about what ‘has gone wrong’ – as
this alone may set off more vomiting .
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Choices
As acupuncturists, we may want to go straight to what is published in
English/written through the TCM and biomedical lenses –
forgetting that there are cultural assumptions.
 We could play with moxa, heat wheat packs, heat lamps, needles,
herbs . . ..
 We could Gua Sha, but why not rescue the body as a global and
preventative measure, improving mum’s Yang and TH and thus
baby’s ride and mum’s body for ever after?
 Go back to basics – and after removing the entire cold lodged in
the system, rescue the Yang with moxa on salt in a tissue, on top
of ginger slice, on the rescue Yang Point - CV 8.
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There will be cold and
exhaustion
 Take out the residual cold – even if the belly is warm – it is often
super hot as she is so dehydrated. Her BBT will be too low – some
women are in the high 35’s BBT not 37+C
 Add moxa – will restore normal
 Maybe at the end of the session (as it have very many layers) -
add points essential yin rebuilding Ki6, 25, GB 25
 See her often daily – or maybe twice daily depending in how
disruptive seeing you is – as it is easily remedied – best as an
inpatient and three times daily.
 If so – you can then construct a whole regime of doing appropriate
actions at different times of the Chinese clock.
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Bne clinic - Cases - HG
 Lisa, 11th pregnancy – has terminated all others as the 40
kg she gets down to cannot sustain her own life.
 Longest she has tried to hold a pregnancy is till 16 weeks.
(Seeing me as Christmas means all abortion centres closed
and is awaiting the termination in 2 weeks.
 Has to live till then.
 Massively distressed – accidental pregnancy
 Medical profession is judgmental and not helpful – one
nurse told her ‘go home and get over yourself or he will
leave you’
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Food/lifestyle changes
 We worked through a lot . . .
 Most important – alter what she is doing
 Sessions daily – and immediately removed the freezing belly and
banned what she gravitated to – as all ‘good’ pregnant women
who are so sick do – juices, salads, yoghurt and fruit.
(cold/raw/sweet insulting Sp Yang/Qi)
 Substantial family history of sexual abuse
 Birthed her full term son after following all in the eBook package –
easily accessed – all also on the pregnancy App found on
www/HeatherSays.com
 Ill still, she got to 39 weeks - she has a son!!!!
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Sample case 3
 Dawn, 30 today, 6th pregnancy
 Has a 4 month baby and a 20 month old toddler plus 3
others under 6 years.
 Came to me as she had read in my pregnancy manual
- WDCD about cold and thought this was her issue –
and could I do something about the sickly children she
was having?
 Freezing cold belly, cupped, added moxa – and
instantly a lot happier/tongue changed/nausea ceased
with cup still on.

Usual starting place ..
 Cup – felt pulling from back and also vaginal area and
up from toes.
 Looked heaps better and moxa really helped.
 Felt the nausea leave whilst cup on
 Moxa five lots on belly
 Extra GB 34 + point ® and bil Liver 14 and all good.
 Felt a lot warmer instantly and was a lot brighter when
moxa used.
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Happy and keen
to feel better - the
beginning!!
Cupped navel –
was freezing to
start with.

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After moxa.
Cup was on for
over an hour
and the moxa
revived her.
Has damaged
abdominal skin
(belly felt like
an empty baby
sack at this
point - 6 weeks
pregnant)

After care
 Very important
 Banned from anything not body temperature inside her.
 Sent off with Vit D, magnesium to roll on herself
 Must eat so much more fat and protein
 Take Qi Reversal caps at least 1 x 3
 Use moxa often
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Dawn (2)
 Midwife doubted her dates as by 11 weeks (not 20) she was well –
could not be only this pregnant as she was not vomiting.
 All went well, until she caught the horrendous bug – so she was then
vomiting again as a consequence of not able to stop coughing.
 More navel cupping, vast amounts of Vit D and moxa. she was back
to feeling/looking more well than any had seen her for years.
 Although still has awful veins and prolapses – more belly (CV totally
empty) resilience straight after the moxa).
 Total avoidance of all cold drinks and foods
 Use more moxa on sacrum
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Early Jan –
(26 weeks) Ill
with bad
flu/can’t stop
coughing/vom
iting as a
result

After
scraping
and
cupping
back

All
better
– spirit
back!!!

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34 years old
 P - 9 children –
 Very ill as usual 1 ½ - 15 years old
 Has had most of her teeth pulled as are rotten
 Always reddened, cracked, very dry lips.
 Her, her husband and all children – even as babies – have
feet out of the covers – and it is often freezing!!
 All have terrible gut problems
 Came in to have preventative measures . .
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Extreme illness throughout
pregnancy
Heather Bruce www.simple-natural-solutions.com
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Is the eldest of only 7
children. Her mother was
very ill all through her own
pregnancies.
34. Currently 5 weeks
pregnant with 9th baby.
Best I have ever seen her
tongue to date. Her lips are
the best she can remember –
they are not cracked,
bleeding or too red.
Changed the diet and gave
gut improving medications.

What helped?
 Recipe
 Panaxea – Helicoix 6 every night for 10 nights.
 Prebiotics, as well as the Gut Bug and Gut Clear
 Multizyme tablets with all meals, and various vitamins,
minerals.
 Switched to Probiotics when Prebiotics finished.
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Her story . .
 All babies started between 8 -18 months of each other.
 Usually so sick unable to keep food down.
 Also incredibly ill with flus etc.
 Generally mastitis after babies
 After 7th, took minerals one month before and not as ill.
 This pregnancy (9th) was not seen to be dragging herself
around as a dead dog as usually would be at this stage . .
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BUT . . . 24/10/12. .
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Was great until her
husband went off
for work for a few
months and she
fell in a heap.
She totally
collapsed – even
was not standing
up straight.

Typical pregnant woman’s
tongue
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Most with tongues as
this are eating too much
sugar and have not got
good gut bacteria.
This was improved
vastly by changing the
diet & clearing out the
sugar
As was the vaginal and
bladder constant
infections . .

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