I think take whatever makes you happy, if homoeopathy might work go ahead.
My gp is v open-minded and used it to great effect when one of my daughters was worried about something as a pre-teen, but when I go to see him with a high temperature wheezing and crackling lungs it is antibiotics all the way.
He also prescribes very effective foul tasting herbal cough syrup based on essential oils which is made up by the pharmacist in town, who also makes similar suppositories for snuffly babies. But those are plant-based (= active ingredients) obv, not homoeopathy.
You can buy homoeopathic pills over the counter as much as you like so go ahead if it makes you feel better.
PS homeopathy prescribed by a GP in Fife worked when my daughter aged 6 was very ill with repeated asthma attacks. He took a very detailed history and a full physical examination and prescribed some little black pillules like mustard seeds. He said “she may get worse before she gets better” and she did. After a week of the remedy she was rushed to hospital with a very severe attack but recovered with no treatment other than a laxative for constjpation and TLC. She has never had asthma since and remains in rude health age 55.
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I think this is broadly right, Véro. I would go rather further and rather whackily by saying that “the remedy knows” (in the same inconceivable way that “the water remembers”) what you believe about it.
If you can remember the feel, smell, sight of the waters of the Mediterranean when you entered it, why is it so difficult to conceive of the memory of it’s waters remembering you? No-one properly understands the mystery of memory, I think. Does a nest bear the memory of the bird that made it, or the chicks it sheltered? Take one in your hands and enquire of it.
When our son was young he suffered recurrent bouts of ear infections and the best our GP offered was steroids (he was 10 years old). We found a local homoepath and after two treatments he was much better. We subsequently used homeopathy again when he was about 15 for pains in his chest (obviously had him checked out at the doctor’s) and again it was very effective. I can understand peoples scepticism but I can only say it worked for him.
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Ummm, I don’t think steroids are treatment for ear infections.
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Exactly!
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My daughter is also currently researching the anti d…I can’t help her much with this as when I was pregnant with my three then anti d was only administered after the birth and only if the baby was a positive blood group…as all of my 3 were rhesus negative then I never received the anti d…
Since then nhs protocol now seems to be administering 2 lots of anti d during pregnancy regardless of blood type…
Obviously she’s rhesus negative and after two children from a previous relationship she has asked her new partner to go get a blood test to establish his blood type…
She wants to keep this pregnancy as natural as possible…refusing all vaccines…only using homeopathy to relieve heartburn etc and wants a home birth…
Home birth is great if there are no contraindications. I had my 3 youngest at home.
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How wonderful Vero…
The problem your daughter will have is that the midwife or dr cannot make assumptions about parentage. In the event that the staff believed your daughter’s partner was the father of her baby and it later transpired he wasn’t and your daughter developed rh isoimmunization the NHS could be sued. I think they may agree to test the baby’s blood straight after birth and offer anti d if necessary. They are in a difficult position these days with litigation.
If your daughter’s partner has a positive blood group then presumably she will have the vaccine anyway. I don’t think there will be an alternative to anti d and the potential benefits outweigh any negatives imo. I’m rh neg and like you my babies blood was tested and I think they’re both neg as I don’t remember having anti d.
I hope she can keep the rest of her pregnancy as natural as possible anyway. I assume the baby will be due spring/ summer, a lovely time of year.
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An update from me.
Re Passiflora - It’s been about ten days now of taking the granules to help me sleep and so far so good. I take them a quarter of an hour before evening meal as instructed and i’m yawning by about 2200hrs. I’m always in bed about an hour later and sleep as well if not better than when I was taking the occasional chemical. I honestly can’t say if the effect is simply ‘placebo’ or not but whatever, it is it works for me.
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@Peter_Bird " Passiflora… it works for me"
Clearly, you are a highly refined, delicately tuned, spiritually receptive, cosmically reverberative and incredibly exotic Bird. 
Fais de beaux rêves!
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Yes a summer baby…if all goes well either cancerian or Leo…x 
Yes she would agree to an anti d after the baby is born but only if blood taken from the umbilical cord showed the baby to be positive…I guess anti d isn’t strictly a vaccine but nonetheless it seems wrong to give anti d to a rhesus negative mother during pregnancy just in case baby is rhesus positive…first baby was rhesus negative so no anti d…second baby same father so she assumes also rhesus negative but doesn’t know his blood group as they gave her anti d regardless…
Third baby lost at 19 weeks…anti d given again without knowing blood group of baby…
This pregnancy is consultant led so lots more appointments and scans…she’s offered vaccines at every available opportunity which she’s asking them to provide the safety data and refusing until they do so…
Latest is being told to take low dose aspirin from now on…she’s got the prescription but doesn’t want to take that either without a lot of further research…
I get what you’re saying about the nhs not wanting to be sued but my daughter absolutely knows the parentage of her babies so it’s quite insulting to her and millions of other mothers that the nhs might think otherwise just to save themselves from being sued…
Maybe it’s the case that as rhesus negative mothers we have to be a little more on guard…???
Have you seen the ted talk about Astro turfing…???
Sounds like you have a wonderful gp/homeopath Peter…x 
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A summer baby, how lovely. Sounds like your daughter is informing herself and keeping control of her pregnancy as much as possible which I totally understand.
It does seem insulting I agree but for myself I accepted that for the few mothers that may lie or genuinely not know their child’s parentage, we all have to be treated the same.
The clip on astro turfing is fascinating and unfortunately I am not surprised. I think the research on salt and it’s detrimental effects has been found to be flawed and there is evidence that some people may not have enough salt, although with processed food this is unusual.
I’ve not heard of the low dose aspirin in relation to pregnancy.
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I get that too Teresa…but I think times have changed dramatically since you had your little ones and I had mine…(I was born early 60s…)
My daughter feels that things have changed just in the short time between her eldest being born…he’s coming up seven…and how she’s being treated seven years later…
Definitely, I had my youngest in 1991 and as I was very healthy and no history of problems I think I only saw a dr once and the midwife twice before giving birth. Had my daughter in hospital though and the student midwife was not very experienced, I tore really badly and my mum who herself was a midwife was a little annoyed when she saw my tear and said ‘thank goodness you had a decent dr to stitch you up.’
The main thing is both my children were healthy and that’s all that mattered.
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Ghastly to be mucked about in pregnancy (or otherwise). The main reason I had my daughters at home was high speed deliveries but I hated the thought of going to hospital for something physiological anyway, it is bad enough at all the antenatal appointments where they talk to you as though you were an idiot.
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It is ghastly…as a family we too have a her-story track record of high speed deliveries…my sister and I were both born at home…(though normal back then)…the daughter I am talking about was born express delivery at home at my mom and dad’s on Mother’s Day…(went a bit pear shaped afterwards but I’ll never regret it…) this same daughter’s second son was an express high speed delivery at home too…this time she’s hoping for a an express high speed delivery of her third child at home…but totally relaxed and under her own control…x
Yes she’s really getting aggravated with the “down talking to her as if she was an idiot” at all the extra ante natal appointments…x 
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So round about the same era Teresa…my youngest was born 1988 (induced…she’s Taurus so typically wasn’t gong to be persuaded to arrive until her due date in spite of induction …x ) …the daughter I’m talking about was born 1990…
I had a horror of being cut so totally disallowed the intervention and although the tears weren’t pretty they soon healed…My eldest daughter although she wasn’t cut with her first it was decided to stitch her up and she has had problems ever since…I don’t know what the answer is to student midwives…I know they have to learn but I’d rather they didn’t learn on me and mine…
Edited to add that one of my best friends has a daughter who is in training/passing with distinction her exams to be a midwife and both she and I remind her to be mindful of all of our joint experiences…I think she will be a brilliant midwife…xxx
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