Say no to drugs.In the study that was cited in "Life Blood: Drug stops mothers' bleeding after births" (SN: 10/14/06, p. 243), misoprostol misoprostol /mi·so·pro·stol/ (mi?so-pros´tol) a synthetic prostaglandin E analogue used to treat gastric irritation resulting from long-term therapy with nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs; also used in conjunction with mifepristone (q.v.) for termination of pregnancy. was tested as a more practical means of inducing postdelivery contractions in women in developing countries, despite "troubling side effects:' Because most women need no intervention to cause the uterus bicornuate uterus one with two horns, or cornua. uterus didel´phys the existence of two distinct uteri in the same individual. gravid uterus one containing a developing fetus. septate uterus a uterus whose cavity is divided into two parts by a septum. to contract, why not wait a few minutes to see which of them will require the medication, instead of subjecting every single one of them to "severe shivering and fever"? DIAN DUCHIN REED, SOQUEL, CALIF. Where drugs may not be available, why not use the natural approach to curb postpartum postpartum /post·par·tum/ (post-pahr´tum) occurring after childbirth, with reference to the mother. post·par·tum (p  st-pär bleeding, namely, encourage breast-feeding? A baby's suckling stimulates the mother's flow of natural oxytocin oxytocin /oxy·to·cin/ (-to´sin) a hypothalamic hormone stored in the posterior pituitary, which has uterine-contracting and milk-releasing actions; it may also be prepared synthetically or obtained from the posterior pituitary of domestic animals; used to induce active labor, increase the force of contractions in labor, contract uterine muscle after delivery of the placenta, control postpartum hemorrhage, and stimulate milk ejection.. Low tech perhaps, but the methodology has been working for millennia. VIRGIL Virgil: see Vergil. H. SOULE Soule (s  l), small region, in Pyrénées-Atlantiques dept., SW France, bordering on Spain. Mauléon-Licharre is the traditional capital. An ancient province of the Basque Country, it was annexed to the French crown lands in 1451., FREDERICK, MD.
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