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Mother Roasting: Post-Partum Healing Traditions
Mother roasting – despite the strange name – is a common practice around the world. Mother roasting refers to the practice of keeping the new mother warm while she recovers from giving birth. Mother...
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Detox Bath Benefits and Uses (with Recipes)
You are surely familiar with the term bath, but what about a detox bath? The thought seems to be that baths were only introduced about 100 years ago – as displayed in movies with everyone being dirty,...
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Frankincense Resin Water
Frankincense resin is commonly used in the Middle East. It is sometimes used daily to help strengthen the immune system as well as rid the body of toxins. Frankincense is grown in Oman. Oman used to...
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Massage Oil Blend to Speed Up Labor
This massage oil blend to speed up labor should be made ahead of time but should not be used until labor is well initiated. We recommend Young Living essential oils for their quality and purity as well...
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Homeopathic Remedies for Whooping Cough
Homeopathic remedies for whooping cough are easy to keep on hand even if your child is fully vaccinated. Whooping cough – also called pertussis – can be quite nasty and it is a disease which takes...
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Perineal Massage Oil Recipe
This perineal massage oil recipe uses essential oils. If you do not have any, you can use just plain oil. Perineal massage has great benefits for first time mothers. Essential oils also have many...
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Vitamin D and the Breastfeeding Mother
Vitamin D and the breastfeeding mother has been a source of debate for some time. While no one disagrees that breast milk is best, there is much discussion about mother’s milk being low in vitamin D....
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Natural Remedies for GBS (group B strep)
If you test GBS positive during pregnancy, you will be offered antibiotics during labor. If that is not your cup of tea, know there are natural remedies for GBS. Some report great results with them....
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Turning a Breech Baby
Why are we turning a breech baby? Although it has been proven safe time and time again, there are still doctors and other birth attendants who refuse to assist in the birth of a breech baby. It is...
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Natural Solutions for Enterovirus
If you listen to the news at all you know there is an outbreak of a virulent strain of enterovirus – EV-D28 to be exact. Enterovirus is not uncommon. However this particular strain is. According to the...
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12 Antiviral and Antibacterial Herbs
Here are 12 antiviral and antibacterial herbs you might want to look at a little closer. Not only does scientific literature show that these herbs have great antimicrobial properties, many of them...
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Therapeutic Grade Essential Oils
Here at Natural Motherhood, we talk often about the use of therapeutic grade essential oils. Sadly, if you look up ‘therapeutic grade essential oils’ in a general search you will find terms like:...
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Chamomile Benefits
Chamomile benefits are many. In fact, there are two kinds of chamomile that offer amazing benefits – Roman and German – and both are part of the daisy family. Chamomile originates from Utah and Egypt,...
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German Chamomile Research
The chamomile family contains many various varieties. At this point, we will concentrate solely on German chamomile research and the great benefits of this plant. We will not even mention the...
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Roman Chamomile Research
We wanted to focus on Roman chamomile research. What potential health benefits do the studies point to when it comes to the use of this herb? Roman chamomile (Chamaemelum nobile) is one of the two...
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Raindrop Technique How To
Raindrop technique may be familiar to some of you and a total unknown to others. So what is “raindrop therapy” as some call it? According to the Young Living web-site raindrop technique “stimulates the...
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Pine Essential Oil
Pine essential oil – or Pinus Sylvestris – smells amazing and is perfect for this time of year. As indicated by its name, it is part of the pine (Pinaceae) family and is extracted from the needles of...
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Has the FDA gone too far? The Food and Drug Administration sure likes to enforce its rules. We can understand and even appreciate – to an extent – why they do what they do… but let’s face it, they’re...
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Ravensara Essential Oil
Ravensara essential oil – aka Ravensara aromatica – is part of the Lauraceae family (more commonly known as Laurel) and is steam distilled from its branches. It originates from Madagascar where it is...
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Homeopathic Remedies for Rubella
Rubella – also known as German measles or 3 day measles – is the mildest of all childhood diseases. It is usually presents with a fever, rash, sore throat and/or swollen glands behind the ears and...
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