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Peppermint
Mentha x piperita
🪴Peppermint supports digestion, dispels gas and bloating, stimulates liver, is anti-microbial, relieves tension and pain, supports fevers, is anti-spasmodic, reduces mucus, and more!
🪴Delicious herb that almost anyone can enjoy in tea, and can be added to other less delicious herbs to improve the flavor
🪴Easy to find in grocery stores or to grow at home - even in a pot on your window sill!
What’s your favorite way to use peppermint?
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Feeling weak postpartum? I can relate. I just had my fifth baby, and I didn’t exercise this pregnancy like I have in the past. Postpartum healing has gone smoothly, yet I feel my lack of muscle tone and stamina! Here’s my plan to slowly and gently get back into shape:
🌿Walk!
Walking is one of the absolute best forms of exercise. Though gentle, it builds strength, lowers inflammation, moves lymph, increases circulation, improves mood, and more! Even starting with ten minutes a day is beneficial, and work up from there. Best of all, grab a baby carrier, or a stroller and bikes for older kids, and the whole family can go along!
🌿Focus on your core and pelvic floor
Our core and pelvic floor do a lot of work during pregnancy and birth, and this is typically an area we feel needs a lot of support postpartum. My favorite thing is to search for postpartum safe core and pelvic floor exercises on YouTube. (Conventionally ab exercises like crunches can actually do more harm than good postpartum) There are plenty that are just 5-10 minutes a day that can make a big difference when done consistently.
🌿Make nutrition a priority
You know what they say - you are what you eat! Conception, pregnancy and breastfeeding take a tremendous amount of resources to maintain. Vitamin and mineral deficiencies are very common for women in the childbearing years. Being very intentional about consuming adequate amounts of healthy fat, proteins, greens and supplementing as needed will go a long way in helping you feel your best and set you up nutritionally as you build strength.
These are gentle ways to build strength as soon as you feel ready, and you can work up from here!
What are your favorite ways to rebuild strength and stamina postpartum? What are your biggest challenges?
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📢 Words are powerful 📢
Whenever we use the word ‘due’ and especially ‘overdue’, what do we think of?
•Our bills?
•A late school assignment?
•Library fines?
Nothing good, that’s for sure.
That’s why I usually just share the month my baby is expected when people ask, rather than hyper focusing on a particular day.
💣When we go past our due date in pregnancy, we may already be feeling pressure from family, friends or medical providers, like somehow something is wrong, we’ve failed to produce a baby in the designated timeline, and there is some impending penalty for our lateness (cough *induction* cough)
In reality, babies grow and develop at their own pace, just like anyone else.
‼️If your baby hasn’t come by 40 weeks, you haven’t failed to turn in your assignment on time or lost a library book! Your baby’s body will release hormones to trigger the onset of the labor process when they are good and ready, not a moment before!‼️
You’re doing a wonderful job caring for and nourishing your baby in these final weeks. Don’t let semantics trip you up or make you feel otherwise!
➡️Have you ever felt stressed or anxious about a due date?
➡️Has a provider ever pressured you to induce because of going ‘late’?
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⬇️Why you need Yellow Dock in your medicine cabinet
Make sure you have some yellow dock tincture in your home apothecary! This splendid medicinal herb is a great support for women who tend toward anemia, as it helps the body utilize iron more efficiently. Gentle enough for daily use, yellow dock works to improve circulating fluids in the body, blood, liver, gallbladder function and more.
Cooling and astringent, yellow dock can help tone and strengthen a weak or stagnant digestive system.
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How about YOU?
How old were you when your kids were born?
(I’m fairly confident my fifth will come while I’m still 32 seeing as my next birth day is 6 weeks after my due date 😅)
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You can’t always avoid a late period, but you can avoid being confused about it! It helps to understand a few key facts about the menstrual cycle:
🌹Your cycle is made up of distinct phases: menstruation, follicular phase, ovulation and luteal phase. The luteal phase (the progesterone-dominated phase after ovulation and before your next period) is generally pretty constant - normal luteal phases range from 12-16 days.
🌹Slight variation in the follicular/pre-ovulatory phase is perfectly normal. Ovulation doesn’t always happen on day 14 (and your cycles don’t have to be exactly 28 days!)
🌹Specific hormonal conditions are required for ovulation to be successful. Certain stressors on the endocrine system (stress, travel, trauma, poor sleep, illness, etc) can disrupt this delicate hormonal process, delaying ovulation.
Delayed ovulation = delayed onset of the luteal phase = late period.
This means that while you’re counting down the days until your period comes, your body might be still working on trying to ovulate!
➡️Here’s what you can do:
•Learn your body’s SIGNS OF FERTILITY and record them on a chart, allowing you to see in real time what phase of your cycle you’re currently in and what to expect in the weeks ahead.
•Practice a cycle-supportive lifestyle with good nutrition, healthy sleep patterns, daily movement and good stress management to encourage healthy and regular ovulation and periods.
•Don’t worry 🙃 A late period (caused by a late ovulation) can happen to anyone from time to time and can be part of your body’s normal responses to the world around you. Chances are next month you’ll be back to normal.
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🌿Lady’s Mantle🌿
Alchemilla vulgaris
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Characteristics: Cooling, drying and toning
Areas of focus: vasculature and pelvic organs
Medicinal qualities: astringent, wound healing, anti-inflammatory, diuretic, nervous system support, cooling fevers
This herb is a strong ally for women with heavy uterine bleeding and laxity or excess fluid in the pelvic area. This could be beneficial taken internally for heavy menstruation or postpartum bleeding, or topically for perineal healing.
Lady’s Mantle is also supportive of the cardiovascular system, helping to tone and strengthen veins.
Its strong astringent qualities make it a good remedy for women with uterine fibroids, helping with the pain and inflammation as well as working to shrink the fibroids themselves.
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For years, pregnant women have been told that Tylenol is THE go-to safe, over the counter painkiller to use during pregnancy. We’ve been encouraged to use it for headaches, back pain and any other pregnancy related ailment.
Unfortunately, Tylenol has turned out to be anything but safe. A study from John Hopkins University has found that that the use of Tylenol during pregnancy increases the risk of ADHD and Autism in children.
Not only that, but Tylenol deletes the body of glutethione, a vital anti-oxidant. This depletion alone can be hugely detrimental to human health.
Needless to say, not only should pregnant women avoid use of Tylenol for the sake of their babies, but Tylenol shouldn’t be used for young children, either.
So what are the alternatives?
Thankfully, natural remedies can provide a safe solution. Depending on the reason for seeking pain relief, there are many options, including:
🌿White Willow (Salix alba) - anti-inflammatory pain-reliever, contains salicin from which aspirin is derived.
🌿Wild Lettuce (Serriola spp.) Pain reliever and mild sedative, especially useful for when pain is preventing sleep.
🌿Tumeric (Curcuma longa) Contains curcumin, a powerful anti-inflammatory constituent.
🌿 Catnip (Nepeta cataria) and elderflower (Sambucus nigra) - Among their other medicinal qualities, both of these are herbs - gently opening pores and releasing the heat of a fever (without artificially suppressing beneficial actions of the fever)
🌿Arnica (Arnica montana) Common as both a topical preparation and a homeopathic memory, very helpful for aches, muscle pain and bruises.
🌿 Copaiba essential oil
Anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidant, wonderful for topical pain relief
Do you have any natural, pregnancy-safe alternatives for pain relief?
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I love using an ultrasonic diffuser for essential oils, which allow their lovely scents and therapeutic qualities to easily disperse into the room. But if you don’t have a diffuser, or are traveling and don’t have one with you, there are many other ways to work with essential oils.
What are some of your favorites?
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Why is it that when I’m run down, exhausted and discouraged, that I’m the most likely to grab something sugary instead of a nourishing cup of tea?
Or to scroll on my phone instead of reading an edifying book?
To complain to a friend instead of diving into Scripture?
I want to be intentional about shifting my default stress responses to things that will bless, nourish and heal instead of distract, deflect and disconnect.
Can anyone relate?
What helps you choose helpful things in these moments?
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