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Postpartum Padsicles + Essential Oils
Postpartum Padsicles + Essential Oils

Chances are, you’ve seen several recipes for these glorious bad boys. Many of my clients will ask about using essential oils in the recipes for these pads, particularly frankincense and lavender, and this is what they typically hear from me…

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Amy JamesEvery Woman Worthy Birth Co.essential oils, padsicles, postpartum support, postpartum herbs, comfrey postpartum, vaginal tearing, frankincense, lavender, perineum compress, perineum massage, perineum, episiotomy, preventing an episiotomy, hemmoroids, padsicle recipe
8 Tips to Prevent Tearing During Labor & Birth
8 Tips to Prevent Tearing During Labor & Birth

Here comes baby, let's do this gently. When the stinging comes, you'll want to breath through it instead of pushing through it- best you can. By slowing down, you allow your tissues the chance to slowly stretch open. The slower and more controlled the stretch, the better your tissues can fan out. Remember, your body is completely capable of doing this without tearing. God didn't make you with this one single flaw. Like, "Opps, oh well. She'll just heal." No! He put this amazing design in to help you slow down and ease baby out. You can do this! 

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Amy Jamestearing during birth, atlanta doula, birth without fear, roswell doula, birth without pain, birth, birth matters, kennesaw doula, woodstock doula, atlanta birth center, ring of fire, fetus ejection, stalled labor, orgasmic birth, perineum, marietta doula, ina may, atlantadoula, water birth, perineum massage, perineum compress, preventing a tear, fetus ejection reflex, waterbirth, preventing an episiotomy, episiotomy