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Placenta Encapsulation

Okay Wives… Get Ready because this is a lot to swallow…. Literally!

The First Time I had heard about women eating their own placenta after childbirth was from a hippie yoga instructor named Sunshine ( She mixed it with Scrambled Eggs…. Uhhhh, Vomit!! ) not to mention, I almost pasted out from Shock. Then while recently at a Barbecue, a pregnant women had informed me there are professional companies who will come and freeze dry your placenta and encapsulate it into pills to digest like vitamins! Now this I can actually wrap my head around considering how beneficial it is to your body after birth… Continue reading below for the benefits of this ancient tradition.


For those of you who aren’t familiar with this practice… Let me break it down for you. After you give birth, the placenta follows after the baby. The Placenta is connected to the fetus and basically takes all the nutrients from your body to give to your growing baby. Nearly every mammal consumes the placenta after it’s young is born. Many cultures practice eating the placenta after giving birth, making you post partum recovery much faster. There are many ways to prepare your placenta for ingestion. Some women feel comfortable creating a special recipe for it. Some women even consume it raw…. Yuck! These methods will work, but they limit the length of time you are able to utilize the benefits of placenta to a matter of days.

The new preferred method of ingestion is by capsule. The placenta can be dried, ground, and encapsulated. The capsules can then be taken daily for a number of weeks. You reap all of the healthful benefits of placenta quickly, easily and discreetly, and the capsules will last for years.

Continue taking your prenatal vitamin after the baby comes, for as long as you are nursing. Women who take their placenta capsules tend to have better postpartum experiences, avoid the baby blues, have an increase in energy, and an increase in milk production. Traditional Chinese Medicine has used placenta for centuries to treat issues such as fatigue and insufficient lactation, and scientific studies have bolstered the use of placenta for these conditions. Using the placenta for your postpartum recovery is a very easy and natural way to help you feel better after the birth.

Women who have taken placenta capsules report positive results in an overwhelming number of cases. Some women have even reported feeling positive effects as quickly as the same afternoon of the day they began their first dose. Women who were already feeling “weepy”, or experiencing other early signs of the baby blues, have felt better within days. Although the current scientific research is exciting, we have barely begun to scratch the surface of the potential benefits of placentophagy. Considering that placenta is a completely natural substance, created by a woman’s own body, encapsulation of the placenta is definitely worth considering as part of a holistic postpartum recovery for every expectant woman.

BENEFITS:
contain your own natural hormones

be perfectly made for you
balance your system
replenish depleted iron
give you more energy
lessen bleeding postnatal
been shown to increase milk production
help you have a happier postpartum period
hasten return of uterus to pre-pregnancy state
be helpful during menopause



With proper preparation, the majority of women can avoid the baby blues. If you intend to use the placenta for your postpartum recovery, you must take measures to ensure the placenta is handled properly from the moment of birth. Placentas can, and do, get ruined from improper handling. A woman who births in a hospital has to adhere to the guidelines and policies in place at their facility of choice. In some cases, there is no written policy, and mothers are then subjected to the whim of the staff on duty at the time they deliver. If you want to take your placenta home after its birth, you must have a plan before you walk through the doors in labor. Your chance of success will increase greatly. From what I’ve heard it can costs anywhere between $100 – 300 Dollars.

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Help Remedies

I love these little helpful medicines. They are small and can be tossed into any purse for sper of the moment relief on the go.

While some health problems are large, complicated and frightening, most problems are not the end of the world. A kind word and a little help can get you on your way. Help Remedies was created to make solving simple health issues simple. We find the best solution there is, and take away everything else. By stripping away some of the complexity and fear mongering of the health industry, we hope to make medicine friendlier and more accessible, and in doing so empower people to make their own health decisions. We think a little help, honesty and kindness will go a long way

Our packaging is made of molded paper pulp and a bio plastic made primarily of corn. We use these materials because they are interesting to look at, and they are compostable—which means one day, they might become part of a large tree. Maybe you can cut down that tree and make it into a speedboat.








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Natural Bug Repellents

Green Bug Repellents

It’s warming up, the bugs are here,
Send them buzzing away in fear,
Use repellents made the eco-friendly way,
Insects don’t like green blood anyways!
Buzz Off…Naturally!

As the weather warms up, nature’s dinner bell starts to ring and pesky insects everywhere
begin to lick their chops. Spoil their human feast by using eco-friendly insect repellents
that meet a few important guidelines.

* Stay away from products that contain the chemical DEET, which can cause headaches and severe long-term health problems.

* Use repellents that contain natural plant-derived oils such as citronella, tea tree, neem, jojoba, pennyroyal, noni, soybean, thyme, lavender, or lemon eucalyptus.

* You can even make your own green insect repellent. In a spray bottle, mix 1/3 cup apple cider vinegar, 1/3-cup witch hazel, and 5 drops of citronella, Eucalyptus oil, or any of the other essential plant oils. Shake vigorously and store in the refrigerator.

* Many eco-friendly repellents are available nationwide. Some examples include Second Skin Naturals, California Baby, Badger Balm, and Repel Lemon Eucalyptus.

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How to Talk to your Daughters about Sex

When your child asks where babies come from, do you break a sweat and blame it on the stork? Have you had a conversation about oral sex, masturbation or contraception with your teen? If you haven’t started “the talk” with your child, sex therapist Dr. Laura Berman says you could be making a big mistake. Dr. Berman says kids today know a lot more about sex than we think they do. In fact, Dr. Berman says children are being forced to make sexual decisions by middle school, from receiving sexually explicit text messages—also called “sexting”—to feeling pressured to perform acts like oral sex. What you need to do as a parent, Dr. Berman says, is arm them with knowledge that will guide them well into adulthood. “You want to start these conversations early with your kids—before they find themselves in the circumstances where they’re having to make those healthy sexual decisions.”

Although some mothers shy away from the conversation because they don’t want to seem like they’re condoning sex, Gayle says you have to arm your daughters with as much information as you can. “Knowledge is power,” she says. Seventeen magazine editor-in-chief Ann Shoket says girls don’t only want the nuts-and-bolts talk about sex—they want to learn more about the feelings that can come with it. “It’s clear that these girls are doing very advanced sexual things,” she says. “And yet what they really want their mothers to talk about is the emotional side. They want their mothers to talk to them about: ‘How do I know if this boy is just using me? How do I know if I’m ready for it?’ That’s the part where mothers play a huge role that the Internet or their friends just can’t do.”

Dr. Berman says it’s important to start an ongoing conversation when your kids are young that will continue to develop as they get older. “They want a sense from a very early age, not so much about the nuts and bolts about sex, but that it’s okay to ask questions about their body,” Dr. Berman says. “If you wait to have that one big talk until they’re 13, 14, it’s often too late.”

Dr. Berman says making them feel good about themselves is key. “Feeling good about their bodies. Feeling good about their genitals. Feeling good about their sexual function. Feeling empowered about who they are as people and as sexual beings. And then that makes the path so much easier when they’re in their teen years.”

When it comes to teenagers, Dr. Berman urges all parents to stay calm when approached for information. Overreacting, she says, could make your child hesitant to come to you in the future. “Listen—don’t just lecture them,” Dr. Berman says. “[Encourage them] to ask questions about the words and the terms and the things they’re hearing about at school, to ask questions about what they’re seeing in the media.

Dr. Berman says the main goal of any sex talk is to communicate that sex is a very normal and natural thing. There are three main topics to cover: male and female anatomy, the mechanics of making a baby…and becoming familiar and comfortable with your genitals.

Dr. Berman says it’s important to talk to kids about getting to know their own bodies—and that many kids have been exploring themselves since they were babies. “It’s about soothing,” Dr. Berman says. “It’s not about sexual arousal and the sexual connotations that we put on it. It’s just about normalizing it for them and setting the seeds that this is normal.”

According to the sex survey, only 35 percent of mothers teach what Dr. Berman says is one of the most important lessons about sex—pleasure. “We need to teach them about pregnancy prevention and STD prevention, but we also have to teach them about the gift that sexuality is,” she says.

This is why Dr. Berman says it’s important to have a big talk with your child when she hits high school about masturbation and orgasms. “This is something that’s normal and natural, and if you’re talking to a girl from a young age about this, it’s a natural thing,” she says.

Teaching your daughters to take control of their own pleasure can help them avoid unhealthy sexual experiences. “You’re teaching them about their own body and pleasuring themselves and taking the reins of their own sexuality so that they don’t ever have to depend on any other teenage boy to do it for them,” Dr. Berman says.

Dr. Berman says an easy way to start the pleasure conversation is to point out specific body parts to your daughter on a diagram, encouraging her to explore her own body in private. “You are the best ones to teach them,” Dr. Berman says. “You are the one who can incorporate your values.”

Still nervous? Dr. Berman says you may need to become more familiar with your own body. “Learn all of this stuff yourself,” she says. “When you are comfortable, that’s when you can really raise a sexually empowered daughter.”

In the study, only 4 percent of girls say their beliefs about sex are mostly influenced by their mothers—this is your chance to change that statistic. “You are arming them with the information they need to make wise sexual decisions,” Dr. Berman says. “You want to be their main sex educators—not their friends who are going to give them the misinformation that you don’t want them to have.”

“You need to start early, letting them know you’re open to conversations, answering their questions without judgment,” Dr. Berman says. “Tell them that information does not mean permission.”Oprah.Com

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