202: Breastfeeding, Postpartum, and Essential Oils
The Essential Oil Revolution - Health, Purpose, and Aromatherapy
Dr. Sarah LoBisco
4.4 • 663 Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2019
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
In today’s episode we dive into the very specific period known as postpartum and discuss, with Krystina Valadez, ways to care for yourself and your newborn. Take the mystery out of using essential oils and educate yourself on the best ways to use these tools during this very special and very sensitive time!
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Postpartum oils: lavender, jasmine, sweet orange, ylang ylang, rose, neroli
For stress: bath with lavender and chamomile
For milk production: geranium and clary sage (1 drop in 5 mL carrier oil) in a breast massage
For mastitis: hot compress or cabbage leaves with geranium, clary sage, or lavender (or a hot shower!)
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| 0:00.0 | Babies are such a nice way to start people. |
| 0:05.0 | Don Harold. |
| 0:06.4 | Empowerment in education. |
| 0:08.4 | Two powerful elements that will help you break free of convention. |
| 0:12.0 | And transform your passion for wellness to a level beyond the status quo. |
| 0:15.9 | The Essential Oil Revolution. |
| 0:18.1 | Where you're given the tools to supersede an ordinary everyday lifestyle, |
| 0:22.5 | inspiring speakers, DIY recipes, healthy living tips, and more. |
| 0:27.3 | You'll discover it all here. |
| 0:29.5 | So tune in and get ready for a wellness revolution. |
| 0:45.3 | Hello, welcome to the show. I'm your host Samantha Lee Wright. In today's episode, we tackle a very frequently asked question, which is, are essential oils safe for babies and specifically |
| 0:52.0 | safe for breastfeeding? I'll be talking with essential oil expert |
| 0:57.1 | Christina Valadez, who has lots of experience as a childbirth educator and an aromatherapist |
| 1:03.2 | to help us really tackle this topic of what are the benefits, the risk, the safety tips, |
| 1:10.2 | and whatnot of using essential oils while |
| 1:12.9 | breastfeeding. We also have a lot of postpartum tips in here as well. So if you know anyone |
| 1:18.5 | who has recently had a baby or who's about to have a baby, share this episode with them. |
| 1:25.2 | Before the show, of course, allow me to share my favorite oil from the past |
| 1:29.1 | week. I was cooking a lot for Thanksgiving this past week, and I decided to add a few drops of |
| 1:35.9 | black pepper oil and nutmeg essential oil to my baked macaroni and cheese. And it was delicious. I really like cooking with black pepper |
| 1:47.9 | oil specifically because I feel like it kind of takes the sharpness out of it compared to using, |
| 1:54.4 | you know, the ground spice. And then nutmeg, of course, just makes everything feel more like |
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