Pregnancy and Childbirth Library
Congratulations! You’ve just found out you're expecting! What a wonderful time as you watch your body blossom and your baby grow and be knit together inside you…
Or maybe you are about to bring forth life through labor and want to know some natural ways to help your body through this difficult time and to help ease the postpartum discomforts?
Perhaps you are seeking a more gentle and healthy way to increase your fertility, or you have that babe in your arms now and are wondering which herbs and teas to use to increase the amount of Momma's milk you are producing?
Is there anything more fulfilling than that first kick; the sporadic hiccups; that first filling of your baby’s lungs, or the smell of heaven that lingers on their foreheads after birth?
Carla Lynne loves the joys of pregnancy, giving birth, breastfeeding, and raising her olive shoots ~ maybe that is why she loves encouraging Moms to take care of themselves and their babies in a more natural and gentle way. From fertility helps, pregnancy teas, labor enhancers, and postpartum blessings; to helping that colicky baby, teething helps; milkmaid enhancers, and gentle sleepy-bye teas, Carla Lynne has developed teas, tinctures, salves, soaps, oils, and other products to make this blessed occasion easier and more natural for Momma and baby.
You can also find many pregnancy helps and articles here as Carla Lynne adds pregnancy and lactation herb information for you to research, nutrition and recipes to keep momma and babe in good health, birth plans for you to use, links, resources, and much more. Be sure to check back often as it will be updated frequently.
Simply click on the blue sidebar to start learning more about the most wonderful time in a woman's life...
Shade Tree Cottage makes available time-tested formulas for your comfort and pleasure. Some of the information, recipes, names, and descriptions contained on this site are from traditional and contemporary sources of knowledge, historical works, botanical in nature, and some may be considered folkloric in their description. Information has not been evaluated by the FDA. It is not meant to treat, diagnose, or cure any problem. It is not meant to replace professional medical advice and should not take the place of prescribed medication. Always seek your midwife or primary healthcare provider before ingesting any teas, herbs, or using any herbal or botanical product. Shade Tree Cottage or Carla Lynne Klimuk makes no health, therapeutic, or nutritive claims in regards to the products or to the healing efficacy of the them; simply describing the ingredients and common held beliefs and nature of the herb and botanical properties and letting the empirical evidence of the ages speaks for itself.
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