TWMM: Healing Guidance for Post- Abortion Crisis

In the event that you experience a crisis after an abortion, and have no support, here's some healing guidance.

Traditional Wilderness Midwifery and Medicine

Anshin B. Kelly, Traditional Midwife and Wilderness Medicine Practitioner 

Copyright ©️ Anshin B. Kelly, All Rights Reserved.

Healing Guidance for Post- Abortion Crisis

In the event that you experience a crisis after an abortion, and have no support, here's some healing guidance.

Unlike what popularized modern/Western narratives like to proliferate, Post-Abortion Crisis is common. The crisis can span physical, emotional, mental, and Spiritual planes inside the woman, and they can happen many years after the abortion. 

Things to think about:

1. Are you in physical danger such as hemorrhage? 

2. Do you have support?

3. Can you call for help?

4. Can you get to a hospital?

STEP ONE: STAY CALM, AND AWARE.

When the Crisis is Physical:

1. Pain

2. Bleeding

3. Uterine Prolapse

4. Infection

PAIN:

NOTE: If there is bleeding, address this first. 

1. BREATHE. In through your nose, and out through your mouth.

2. Sip a strong brew of Nettle Herbal Tea.

3. Take ARNICA homeopathic.

4. Take Valerian herbal tincture; it is sold in Whole Food Stores and other Natural Grocers. (NOTE this can make you sleepy).

5. I recommend this in combination with the Herbal/Natural Treatments above: Tylenol and/or Ibuprofen (do not take this if there is significant bleeding).

6. Apply heat to your uterus with a heating pad. 

7. Stay in touch with a Doctor and/or experienced other Health Professional that you trust.

BLEEDING:

1. Profuse bleeding can be very dangerous. It is important to get help immediately, or as soon as you can. 

2. Apply pressure to ONLY your vaginal and anal areas, NOT your uterus.

3. Sip Nettle Herbal Tea, or other non-caffeinated tea.

4.  Take vitamin E 

5. Take ARNICA Homeopathic Remedy.

6. Drink as much fresh, clean water as possible.

7. Go to a hospital as soon as possible.

UTERINE PROLAPSE:

1. Call for help as soon as you can.

2. Apply pressure by sitting on a pillow between your legs, and wrap a scarf snuggly around your hips. Talk to your body, reassure yourself that you're supported and you're not alone. Say a prayer for strength, you will receive it.

3. Sip Nettle Herbal Tea

4. Take ARNICA Homeopathic Remedy

5. Drink as much fresh, clean water as you can.

6. Call a doctor or other health professional you trust as soon as you can.

INFECTION:

Symptoms of infection include:

• Pain

• Heat coming from the affected area

• Puss coming from the affected area

• Fever

If you feel that you may have an infection, the guidance I will give you is safe, effective and healthy even if you have no infection; for the advice can be used as a preventative as well as a cure:

1. Boil water and pour into a quart jar. Put Four-Five droppers of Echinacea tincture in the water. Sip this brew slowly.

2. Make a strong brew of Nettle Herbal Tea and mix with the Echinacea, sip slowly.

3. Take ARNICA Homeopathic Remedy.

4. Call a doctor or other health professional you trust as soon as possible.

If the Crisis is Emotional, Mental, and/or Spiritual:

1. Regret

2. Grief

3. Guilt/Shame

4. Trauma

5. Panic

6. Mental Instability 

FIRST BREATHE. IN through your nose and OUT through your mouth. TALK to someone you trust about how you're feeling.

1. Sip a strong brew of Nettle Herbal Tea.

2. Take six drops of Saint John's Wort tincture as needed.

3. Take Rescue Remedy Bach Flower Remedy.

4. Take ARNICA Homeopathic Remedy.

5. Say a prayer for strength, and you will receive it.

6. Tap your thymus area (chest bone) with your fingers, and BREATHE IN through nose OUT through mouth. This is known as "Emotional Freedom Technique," or EFT. Do this as MUCH as you need.