What You May Find In A Herbal Postpartum Bath Kit

By Andrew Myers


Birth is an exhausting process for mothers. It takes their bodies time to adjust and recover. During this time, when they also have to care for a new baby, it is often difficult for them to consider taking care of their own health and welfare as a priority. A herbal postpartum bath kit may address this need and give them the care they need to keep their babies cared for too.

Mothers often come home from the hospital with medicines to help them with constipation, pads for bleeding and more. However, these products often contain harmful ingredients and chemicals that are not good for either mother or child. A mother who is breastfeeding has to be particularly concerned about what she may be passing through to her baby in the breast milk. This is an important time and it makes sense to use as many natural products containing organic ingredients as possible.

A vaginal birth, even if the perineum does not tear, still leaves you feeling sore. This is when healing herbs come into their own. They are organic, free of toxins and many of them help to reduce inflammation and swelling naturally, speeding up the healing process. Kits may contain items such as a tea blend, womb soothing tinctures, hemorrhage tinctures and sitz bath blends.

The type of product often included in such kits is a numbing spray, that both cools and heals. This is particularly helpful with the discomfort related to tearing of the perineum. Organic ingredients such as lavendar oil, pepperment or witchhazel may be found in such sprays. They are not synthetically fragranced or dyed and no parabens or parabens are found in them.

Another common problem after going through a birth is constipation. In this case, just drinking more water and eating foods high in fiber is not usually enough. Stool softeners usually have to use and some of these are far better than others. The ones containing natural ingredients are often just as effective without any side effects. In fact, magnesium is one of the natural alternatives that is often quite effective.

A peri bottle or small squirt bottle is often an essential part of such kits, especially when accompanied by herbal oils used together with warm water to squeeze onto the perineum after using the bathroom. The pain may be too severe at first to wipe and the bottle can be used to spray just water onto the area to keep it clean and reduce the sting of the urine. When specific herbal oils are added to the warm water, it speeds up the healing process and reduces inflammation. The herbs should only be added some days after using just water.

Items like maxi-pads are often given to a patient by the hospital. They are also included in kits but these ones are much better as they are usually chlorine-free and often biodegradeable too. Sanitary briefs may also be found in kits as well as sitz baths. A sitz bath can really help to soothe and heal, especially when soothing and healing herbal ingredients are used.

Tinctures are also normally found in such kits. They may be those that help in the early stages of labor, like a lemon balm one. They may also help during a birth such as one that can help to prevent excess bleeding. Tinctures are often included for after the birth that help to reduce pain and inflammation.




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