Jennifer Cahoon
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Hi, yes, I also have AAC and have applied for the labor addendum in the past. Currently I am also employed as a birth sister/doula at a local Boston hospital and am able to utilize acupressure as a doula. In order to utilize acupuncture at hospitals in the Boston area I would also need to be credentialed as an acupuncturist. The credentialing process and having several hospitals in the area have been a challenge. I have found utilizing acupressure when I attend a hospital birth to be the most effective and the birthing person is always happy with the results. I have not attended any home births.
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Hi Cally, I don’t have experience working with a mom before an open adoption, but a few months ago I did an intake exam with a mom who gave her baby up for adoption 14 years ago and currently has anxiety surrounding her health. She unfortunately has rescheduled her appointments 3 times and I keep reaching out every few weeks to ask if she would like to reschedule. I would like to treat her with LU-3 or LU-8 to help her with forgiving and letting go. I wonder if the mom you are working with has talked at all about how she feels about the adoption and if these points might be helpful for her?
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Thank you for posting this Sarah. I will share this with a patient who is having a planned Cesarean birth next week.
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I have the follow up information for this case. At 35 weeks the patient requested virtual moxibustion instruction for the breech treatment. I met with the patient and her husband virtually for the moxibustion instruction to describe the 20 minute daily application for 10 days. She was also doing the spinning babies stretches and I also instructed her to follow the position described in Claudia’s book to help give the baby more room to move. At her follow up ultrasound baby was still breech. The patient decided a planned Cesarean birth is the best option moving forward. I am happy she was able to come to this decision for what is the best option for her and her baby.
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Thank you Sarah! The patient did also explain there were no blood vessels noted on the additional placenta. I don’t have access currently to her primary care provider. The patient did explain it was her primary care provider that recommended to try acupuncture for the breech presentation so I feel good about the treatment with the PCP recommendation too.
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Thank you Sarah for sharing your case study on breech presentation. I learned so much and appreciate you taking the time to explain your thought process and how you have gained so much knowledge! Thank you!
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Thank you Sarah an Susan. I am interested in learning about the process to review the research and write summaries. I will email you both as well.
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Thank you Claudia! I appreciate you explaining to be aware of the medical staff’s perception of me with these types of requests. I did talk with the doc outside and asked her opinion if the patient had the IM pit could this have been prevented. She did explain she thought this would have helped. I will look into the Retrievals podcast too. Thank you!
Thank you for explaining LR-14 and your experience for clot release and uterine involution as well. I kept thinking about it only for placenta release. I will also consider LI-4 and LR-3 too. Thank you for your help.
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Thank you Sarah! I am excited to have this information. This is helpful. We are trying to set up a home visit with the mom so I hope to be able to talk with her soon about the Pitocin. She said she was happy with her baby’s birth and felt heard during her birth. I was thrilled to hear this 😊.
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Thank you Sarah! This is helpful to think about the bleeding risk in this way. At the time I think it the blood loss volume was 250 ml and they kept weighing the pads with blood to track as well. Her uterus was boggy on palpation and they were concerned with her bleeding. It seemed they wanted the clots to come out to help stop the bleeding. Thank you for sharing your thought process, I will be able to apply this in the future.
<font color=”rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)” face=”inherit”>I don’t have all of the details for her refusal of pit. I was going to meet with her that afternoon for a prenatal visit and she went into labor that morning at 39 weeks. She wanted an unmedicated birth and I will ask more questions in the future if social media contributed to that request. I know she has Cerebral palsy and wanted no IV or blood transfusions </font>because<font color=”rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)” face=”inherit”> of her </font>experiences with IVs for CP. I appreciate you sharing your knowledge and experience, this is all helpful for me. Thank you Sarah. <font color=”rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)” face=”inherit”> </font>
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Thank you Sarah, this is all very helpful. She is stressed about the previous abruption and now the breech. She needed to reschedule the intake exam yesterday so I will keep you posted once we meet. Thank you again.
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Hi Cally,
Thank you so much for sharing their beautiful birth. This is quite an amazing birth story and experience. It is wonderful to hear everyone will remain in the baby’s life. Thank you again.
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Hi Shani and Sarah,
I also have not seen this in my practice as a diagnosis. I am wondering if this is something that can go undiagnosed for many years? I am seeing a patient who had two abortions previously and a Cesarean birth in 2005, has extreme pelvic pain with her periods, heavy bleeding with periods and pain with intercourse. The pain that started after giving birth started feeling like UTI’s, worse after intercourse and was related to intercourse in the beginning, vulva radiating burning with pressure, uterus bladder area pain radiating into vaginal vulva area and urethra area, hypersensitive to clothing, any touch, heating pads helped and with the burning pain ice helped soaks were excruciating and she did not try baths. Rest would help and pain would be gone and then when started walking again it would come back, pain levels would increase throughout the day. Summer felt better with the heat and warmth, winter was the same.
She went to DC to see vulva specialist. Tested skin and couldn’t find anything wrong. Started with Botox injections and pain would diminish but came back excruciating when it was time for another injection. Went to see a specialist to see if hips had labral tear and was causing the pain. She had a left hip labral repair 2010. Only one side was checked possibly because there was so much more tension on that side. After surgery the burning stopped and nothing changed with painful intercourse. Three years later the symptoms came back and doctors found a right labral tear. The right hip labral repair was in 2013 and pain started small to severe within 6 months after surgery, H<font color=”rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)” face=”inherit”>ips now get stuck in rotation and are not flexible as once was. She has also tried pelvic floor PT and this did not help. She is afraid to have the surgery to test for endometriosis. She also experienced trauma before her pregnancy and was forced to have intercourse. She explained the </font>Cesarean<font color=”rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)” face=”inherit”> birth was not planned. </font>
<font color=”rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)” face=”inherit”>I have only treated her 3 times. She was sensitive to the first two treatments feeling </font>nauseous<font color=”rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)” face=”inherit”> after the first and then tired after the second. The 3rd treatment I used Left LU-7, Right KD-6, Left BL-62, Right SI-3 to help repair the </font>meridians that were disrupted, SP-8, ST-29, and ear SM,<font color=”rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)” face=”inherit”> BL-13, Huatos at L1. I also placed 2 15mm length Seirin size 0.16 needles above the scar and 2 below the scar all spaced equally. After the treatment her energy was good, no nausea and continued to be fine but later in the evening she started experiencing pain at the incision site. She applied heat and caused the area to throb, she had to urgently urinate and </font>defecate, and felt everything was going to fall out. Ice helped it settle and the next day she started feeling better but movement felt like there was a mini surgery.
Tongue: swollen, scalloped, normal color
Pulse: deep, weak, (each treatment a different organ was deficient liver, spleen and then lung)
I have never seen this response after treating an incision and wondered if this was trauma related or possibly another cause? Thank you for reading and any suggestions anyone would like to share would be wonderful.
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Hi Cally, This is incredible that you are able to treat both moms and I like your approach with the heart and lung for the emotional support. How are they doing? Was baby born? Thank you for sharing and I will keep you posted when I am able to treat the patient.
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Thank you again Sarah! I appreciate the details of what you would look for and why it is still important to do our own assessment even with the primary prenatal provider’s referral. I will keep this in mind as well.
I was going to see her on Friday, but my husband tested positive for Covid-19. The patient is on vacation now on Martha’s Vineyard. I tried a few birth work contacts around Boston and on the Vineyard but have not had anyone available. The patient would like to try to see me when she returns at 35 weeks, and I have a negative test. If anyone has any additional birth work acupuncture referrals in Boston, just in case that would be great as well.