afterpains

• “These contractions called afterpains are not usually very painful after the first baby, but they may be more painful after your second or third baby.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Simple Guide to Having a Baby

• “When you breastfeed, oxytocin is released, which causes your uterus to contract, so afterpains are much more painful while breastfeeding.”

  Simon & Schuster: You’ll Lose the Baby Weight

• “In 1617, Doña Ana de Angulo was brought before the tribunal for giving a woman in labor peyote and placing scissors under her pillow to avert afterpains.”

  Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico

• “I feel the afterpains, of early nursing, of sleepless nights.”

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• “Over-the-counter pain medicines such as ibuprofen sold under brand names like Motrin or Advil can be taken if you have afterpains that are very intense and if you do not have other medical conditions that can be made worse by taking ibuprofen.”

  Simon & Schuster: Our Bodies, Ourselves: Pregnancy and Birth

• “These “afterpains” generally stop being painful by the third day after giving birth.”

  Simon & Schuster: Our Bodies, Ourselves: Pregnancy and Birth

• “In the allied department of obstetrics we find chapters on the signs of conception, on the urine in pregnant women, on difficult labor, prolapsus uteri, retention of the placenta, post partum hemorrhage, afterpains, and the oedema of pregnancy.”

  Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century

• “It is an excellent sodorific and is valuable in decoction for colds, coughs, female obstructions and afterpains.”

  The Cherokee Physician, or Indian Guide to Health, as Given by Richard Foreman, a Cherokee Doctor; Comprising a Brief View of Anatomy, With General Rules for Preserving Health without the Use of Medicines. The Diseases of the U. States, with Their Symptoms, Causes, and Means of Prevention, are Treated on in a Satisfactory Manner. It Also Contains a Description of a Variety of Herbs and Roots, Many of which are not Explained in Any Other Book, and their Medical Virtues have Hitherto been Unknown to the Whites; To which is Added a Short Dispensatory.

• “He's not haunted by nightmares, he's not wracked by afterpains, he's not troubled with scar tissue.”

  Pharyngula

• “The same chapter explains all about a case of labor; the signs that show when labor has commenced; what to give to help the patient; the different kinds of pains; the length of time between the pains; the length of time the pains should last, etc.; the taking of the child from the mother; how to care for the child; the taking away of the afterbirth; what to do in case of flooding; how to relieve afterpains, etc.”

  The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources

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