Pregnancy, Birth, and Babies

Essential Oils for Pregnancy, Birth & Babies - 2nd Edition

    by Stephanie Fritz LM, CPM

a reference guide written to educate, inspire and empower pregnant women or anyone assisting them, including midwives and doulas.

The New updated edition! In this book you will find essential oil recommendations for common conditions with pregnancy, childbirth, and infant care. While many pharmaceutical drugs cannot be taken during pregnancy or by infants, many essential oils are highly effective and safe for maternal and infant ailments. This book is written for prospective and new mothers and their babies during the complete 9 months before and 9 months after delivery.

Pages: 205

Paperback

Integrating essential oils into maternity and birth is an incredible gift to offer yourself or an expecting mother. Essential oils can be used safely and effectively to lessen the majority of the common discomforts that arise during the year. With improved access to high-quality oils, essential oil research and education, aromatherapy has risen in popularity and is forging the way to becoming one of the best, easiest and most affordable means for self-and family-care. Readers will come away feeling more confident using and recommending for essential oils during pregnancy, each phase of labor, in postpartum and in caring for infants and babies.

This Birth Kit Essentials Guidebook teaches you how to use essential oils for various issues that you may encounter during and after pregnancy. 

Not only does this guidebook teach you how to use essential oils for self-care for every stage of pregnancy -- including delivery, postpartum and much more -- but it gives you guidelines for proper essential oil use as well. 

Through this book, you will learn all about quality, safety precautions, dilutions, carriers, applications and specific uses of essential oils. 

**Includes 10 booklets. 

Rollerball Babies & Mamas Kit

The Rollerball ™ "Babies & Mamas" Make-and-Take Workshop Kit is a super starting point for a successful basic class. The roll-on blends are a great way for new users to experience essential oils: they are simple to make, easy to apply, and inexpensive to use. Even experienced users will enjoying discovering new blends and applications for familiar oils.

The kit includes all the paper materials you will need to host a workshop for 10 people and make 10 roll-on blends (plus 1 bonus spray). Blends and spray for babies: Cool Baby, Sleepy Baby, Tiny Airways, Tiny Teeth, Tiny Tummy, and Tushy Spray. Blends for Mamas: Calm Mama, Happy Mama, Mama Marks, Milk Mama, Tender Ta-Ta's. 

You can approach the workshop different ways. You might give away a free 2 oz. spray to new attendees. Or you could charge a flat fee for the entire kit (including the cost of oils, bottles, labels, and recipes). 

 

Kit Includes:

• 20 Postcard Invitations
• 10 Recipe sheets with Quick Dilution Guide.
• 2 Give-away Sheets of Waterproof Labels (5 each roll-on/4 spray total).
• 10 Complete Sets of 11 Waterproof Labels (110 total).
• Workshop Tips Sheet

Not Included:

• Essential Oils
• Fractionated Coconut Oil
• 10ml Roller Bottles
• 15 ml (½ oz, or 300 drops) Spray Bottles
• Scissors or paper cutter for cutting labels
• Dispensing Tools - Glass Droppers, Plastic Pipettes and Mini Funnels

Oils and Drops Needed: 10ml Size

• Basil (2)
• Bergamot (2)
• Cardamom (4)
• Clary Sage (2)
• Cypress (2)
• Fennel (4)
• Frankincense (12)
• Geranium (6)
• Grapefruit (2)
• Lavender (10)
• Melaleuca (2)
• Myrrh (4)
• Patchouli (2)
• Peppermint (2)
• Sandalwood (2)
• White Fir (2)
• Wild Orange (6)
• Ylang Ylang (2)

This fun "Noah's Ark" themed kit addresses a variety of concerns encountered by babies 3-24 months old. Recipes were developed with Vivien Garside & The Essential GP Dr. Robin Fawcett. Dr. Fawcett is an American GP practicing in the UK. She has an MD from Duke University and an MA in History of Medicine from University College, London. Her clinical interests are preventative and integrative medicine and child well-being. Recently she was selected by TEDx to discuss the National Healthcare System in the UK.

All recipes fall within the safe .5% dilution ratios as recommended by top Certified Aromatherapists throughout the world.

The Make & Take Workshop Kit can be altered to your specific class size and budget by charging a flat rate to all attendees or giving a free rollerball to get new attendees excited about essential oils. You will also find creative ways to use this kit on this blog article. This kit is perfect for expectant moms, baby showers, grandparents and child care providers.

 

Make & Take 1 or all 10 Rollerball Recipes including (+1 bonus recipe):

    DEFENSE - supports a healthy immune system

    DREAM - promotes restful sleep

    EAR - reduces discomfort in the ear

    HAPPY - supports a happy outlook

    NOSE - helps promote clear air passages

    SEASONAL - helps with seasonal threats

    SKIN - reduces uneven skin texture

    TEETH - for discomfort associated with teething

    TEMPERATURE - supports a healthy body temperature

    TUMMY - provides relief for upset stomach and discomfort associated with gas

    BONUS: Healthy Bottom (spray) - helps distressed skin recover (for 2 oz fine mist spray bottle)  

 

Kit Includes:

• 10 Recipe Sheets
• 11 Waterproof Label Sheets, Containing all 10 Designs (110 labels)
• 10 Table Tents
• Instruction Sheet for holding workshops with up to 10 attendees! 

Not Included:

• Essential Oils
• Guest Supplies - 30 ml rollerball bottles (smooth sided, any color), additional labels, lid stickers
• Carrier Oil - Fractionated Coconut Oil
• Dispensing Tools 

Oils and Drops Needed: 30ml Size

• Bergamot (1)
• Cedarwood (1)
• Cypress (1)
• Frankincense (2)
• Geranium (1)
• Ginger (1)
• Lavender (7)
• Lime (1)
• Lemon (2)
• Marjoram (1)
• Melaleuca (3)
• Orange (1)
• Patchouli (1)
• Spearmint (2)
• Roman Chamomile (3)
• Sandalwood (1)
• Spikenard (1)
• Thyme (2)
• Vetiver (1)
• White Fir (1)
• Ylang Ylang (1)

 

Don't want to hold a class or want a small DIY version of this kit? Get our "Baby Bottles" Recipe sheets, Labels or Cap Stickers.

 Kit is brand neutral so you can use your preferred brand of essential oils.

The Sharing Made Simple DIY Cards and Labels are a beautiful and practical way to use and share essential oils! These are a great tool to use for make-and-take events, to give samples, handout as prizes, and so much more. Each recipe card, there are 5, has 4 different DIY recipes with a matching label, making it the perfect gift set for a new essential oil user! The cards and stickers are perforated so that you can easily tear and share as you wish!

This practical guide helps expecting mother discover the health benefits of aromatherapy to improve the childbirth experience.

Many women experience anxiety and fear during childbirth. This book highlights the effectiveness of aromatherapy as an inexpensive, noninvasive practice to increase comfort in childbirth for all mothers -whatever their birth plan. Moms and partners will learn how to safely create, prepare and apply labor blends during childbirth and more!