Re: The pregnancy party....Athawansa
Posted by CAtherine Cartwright Jones on September 20, 1999 at 04:16:17:
In Reply to: Re: The pregnancy party....Athawansa posted by Kree Arvanitas on September 20, 1999 at 02:34:29:
Hugely pregnant ladies often swim, lay in creeks, do ANYTHING to cool
off in their last month of pregnancy, which is a miserably overheated
month (there's a lot to haul around then).....henna would make far
less difference in skin temperature than daily showers, baths, swims,
and the usual goings-on of living. Extreme heating is dangerous ...
sitting in a hot tub is not recommended during late pregnancy! When I
hennaed 12 pregnant ladies in Canada, I think my hennaeing cooled
their bellies much less than when they went into the springfed lake
for comfort from the summer heat. (Mind, when they waded into the icy
water, their bellies sort of levitated, as their babies tried to curl
up higher inside them to avoid the chill). I can't see any way the
very modest effect of cooling that henna has would effect a pregnancy.
(I've also hennaed 2 professional, near term, nurse-midwives...and
they agreed that henna and lemon juice was the only way to go...no New
Skin, no oils, no anything else......they felt that pristinely simple
henna was fundamentally safe, unless there was some dermatitus to
complicate things, or if for some reason a mother was just
uncomfortable with the hennaeing).