Essentials Every Crunchy Mama Needs In Her Hospital Bag

Birth is an exciting time and you may be overwhelmed with all of the excitement and forget about your essentials.  If you are planning on having a hospital birth, packing for you is important so you can have the things you need.

• Cloth Pads and freezer pads
• An extra copy of your birth plan
• Diffuser
• Essential Oils
• Nursing pads
• Comfortable clothes - yoga pants, soft socks, your own bathrobe, a nursing shirt, etc.
• Calming music
• Rice or bean socks
• Back massager
• Mother's Milk Tea
• Cut up raw and fresh vegetables and fruits to snack on.  This option is so much better than hospital food.
• Filtered water in your own glass bottle

Enjoy your birthing experience as well as after birth.

Making Your Own Padsicles

Most likely the hospital will provide you with the cooling pads you need after birth.  These are nice as you crack them and they provide a cooling sensation that will help bring down the inflammation.  However, these don't have the best ingredients in them and you most likely you will still want them after you leave the hospital as well.

To make your own padsicles you will need a few things:

• Bladder control pads - these are perfect because they are thick and wide enough for all of the blood after birth
• Aloe Vera
• Witch Hazel (alcohol free)
• Lavender and Tea Tree essential oil

The aloe vera will give you the cooling you will need as you will likely feel a burning sensation for up to a week.  Lavender will help reduce the inflammation and tea tree is known for antibacterial purposes.  Witch Hazel is also anti inflammatory.  Mix all of these ingredients together.  You only need a few drops of the essential oils.

Once these are well mixed spoon them onto each individual pad and spread the mixture out.  Place the pads in the freezer and keep them there until after your delivery date.  

Use as needed.  You will really be happy you prepared these padiscles :)

Delaying Your Newborn's Bath

When I was in the hospital with Lenora they put a big bright sign over her crib that said, "BABY HAS NOT BEEN BATHED" like she was some type of diseased alien or something. Every time anyone came in to check her vitals they would remind each other to wear gloves because she was not bathed.  I understand them wanting to wear gloves, and it protects my baby anyways, but I think they certainly went overboard.  She came out pretty cheesy and I kept a close eye on my midwife to make sure she didn't wipe her down at all.  I personally waited three weeks before I gave my daughter her first bath, but even just waiting two days after birth is the best.

When a baby is born, they are covered in a white cheesy type coating.  This is called the vernix.  The vernix does a few wonderful things.  It acts as a natural antibacterial cream that is amazing at preventing a bacteria infection.  These are skin cells your baby has made when they were in your womb and it is awesome for their skin.  It not only provides them with gorgeous skin, but it boosts their immune system as well.

There are some hospitals that ask to bathe the baby before they even go to the parents.  To me, this is absurd! Why would you want the first person to be the nurse that gets to hold your baby during the first few minutes of birth?  Babies need their moms and that bonding time is very important.  It is also linked to improved breastfeeding success and of course you won't need any chemical lotions on your baby since the vernix acts as a natural lotion.

It is best to delay baths at the hospital altogether.

The Scary Dangers of Fluoride

Are you brushing your teeth with fluoridated toothpaste? STOP! Fluoride is a neurotoxin.  A neurotoxin is a poison that acts on our nervous system.  It is scary to think that we have been brainwashed for years to believe that we need fluoride to keep our teeth healthy and cavity free.  Really, it is the complete opposite.  I have even gone to the dentist before and have been prescribed a special fluoridated toothpaste. 

Fluoridated toothpaste actually causes permanent damage to the enamel and it causes fluorosis.  It increases decay, kills healthy enzymes and causes cavities, which is the opposite of what you are programmed to think. 

It isn't just fluoride in our toothpaste that we have to worry about.  It's the poison in our tap water. Some cities even add extra fluoride into their water system.

Okay, so you have been using fluoride free toothpaste and you have a heavy duty water filtration system that filters out the fluoride? Unfortunately, you are still getting a little bit of fluoride in your everyday life.  The bottled juice and the cans of soda you are drinking contain trace amounts of fluoride.  Even certain foods that you wouldn't think contain fluoride do.  Canned spinach, pickles, tomato sauce, celery, potatoes, canned corn, raisins and more contain a high amount of fluoride.  Do you see it now?  We are being poisoned. I know some of this stuff is naturally occurring fluoride, which isn't as bad, but some of it is added into our food.  It's an industrial waste by-product and some of it is radioactive.  It's no wonder why we are suffering from so much cancer.  It is so hard to get rid of it and it's scary!

There are some very serious risks that come with taking in too much fluoride.  Do you know that Hitler used fluoride on the Jews to "dumb them down"? By FDA standards there has to be a poison symbol on fluoride to show its dangers.

Fluoride is responsible for:

• Male infertility
• Kidney diseases
• Arthritis
• Thyroid issues
• Diabetes
• Lowered immune systems
• Cancer
• Lower IQs
• Cavities
• Bone Fractures
• And More!!!

There are a few great water filters that you may want to look into purchasing to remove the fluoride from you water.  Try to stay away from the Brita and cheaper brands such as those as they do not remove the fluoride.  

You May Be a Crunchy Dad If...

You May Be a Crunchy Dad If...

• You have helped your wife prepare her placenta and referred to it as "cooking a steak"
• You have washed cloth diapers yourself
• You saved your tax money to buy a composter
• You know microfiber inserts can't go directly on your baby's bum
• You would rather talk to your friends about the dangers of vaccinating than who won the last football game
• You have used breast milk in your coffee or have taken a shot of it to cure your cold
• You know the benefits of using coconut oil
• You take a swig of ACV every morning.
• You know the difference between a Moby and a Mei Tei
• You are an intactivist (anti genital mutilation)
• You specialize in installing car seats correctly
• You know what the terms CIO, BLW, EBF, CD, ERF, CS, BW, NCB, UC are and use them when talking online (Cry it out, Baby led weaning, extended breast fed, cloth diapered, extended rear facing, co-sleeping, baby worn, natural child birth and unassisted childbirth)

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You Might Be a Crunchy Mom If...

You might be a crunchy mom if...

• When someone mentions "pockets" you assume they must be talking about cloth diapers
• You have used breast milk on scrapes, cuts or cured an eye infection with it
• You have consumed your placenta
• You don't own toilet paper and use family cloth instead
• You don't vaccinate
• You either use mama cloth or a menstrual cup
• During play dates you bring out the dried fruit or vegetables
• Your birth plan is over two pages long
• You have a half dozen baby carriers and usually have two or three on you at any given time.
• You are a plastic free household. This may apply to dishes and toys.

Earth Mamas Unite - Let's Get Back to Basics

Stayed tune for "You Might Be a Crunchy Dad If..."

Christians Should Not Be Vaccinating

Some states have already come after people who use the personal exemption to exempt their children from vaccines and enroll them into school.  Next, they will come after your religious exemptions. Do you get it yet?  After parents decide to pull their kids from public schools and homeschool them, they will soon apply these rules to homeschooled children.  Now do you understand? Not long after this there will be mandatory check points to make sure you and your children are vaccinated. Now it's too late. You have already lost your rights. Forget trying to get a medical exemption.  Those are next to impossible to get.

As a Christian, I cannot justify how someone who claims to be Christian can participate in the cultural ritual that involves sacrificing children. God is NOT okay with this and you shouldn't be either.  Stop justifying that it is OK to sacrifice babies in vaccines; because it is not OK.  If you can find any scripture that says otherwise, please share.  My ears are open.

Since the vaccine industry was built using sacrificed babies, you cannot be both pro vaccine and pro life. It irks me that people post about how they are against abortion but they feel that it is okay to inject kids with dead babies.

I don't understand some people. I've told many people that fetal cells are being used and they still continue to vaccinate their kids!  What don't they understand? One person said, "well, if it is in the name of science, to make us healthier...." #1. It DOESN'T make us healthier. #2. God didn't say we can't kill babies, except in the case where we use them for vaccines??????!!!

God created ALL things including giving us healthy immune systems.  There are many reasons why you shouldn't vaccinate, but killing babies and injecting them into people is my #1 reason.

Exodus 20:13 - "You shall not murder"

Galatians 5:18-21 "But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness,  idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies,  envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God."   Sorcery..which is Greek for "pharmakeia"...which is the use and administration of pharmaceutical drugs.  God wanted us to heal ourselves naturally, not with manmade drugs which many of us rely on today. 

Leviticus 18:21Do not give any of your children to be sacrificed to Molek, for you must not profane the name of your God. I am the Lord."


Some other bible scripture you may want to look into in regarding vaccinations:  2 Kings 16:3, Genesis 9:4, Psalm 139: 13-16

Research before you Vaccinate