YES! Essential Oils are Safe for Babies!
Keep on reading or watch the video above to learn how to confidently use them with your babes and ditch all the other junk that's on the market.
There has been so much fear mongering around using essential oils on babies, it simply breaks my heart because it's just ignorance. Using oils with my babies has given me such a sense of empowerment and I know it can for you too.
Let's start off at the source...
Where you get your oils matters. Did you know that there is more lavender oil produced each year than lavender plants on the planet available to make that oil? Shocking right?
How can this be possible. Well, many companies will cut their oils with fillers. Here's the thing, there are no regulations when it comes to essential oils (which don't get me wrong I'm not really opposed of because I think most things are over regulated) but when you have companies that don't truly care about your health this becomes a problem because they don't have to disclose what those fillers are.
This is why my loyalty lies with a brand that hold the same values as I do. One that care about the health of my family as much as I do, that cares for Mother Earth with mindful farming practices like using living soil, and loves to empower people with a different, more empowered way of living.
The only essential oils I use are Young Living (YL). This is of their Seed to Seal promise. All of the plants their essential oils are derived from either come from YL's owned farms or fully vetted partner farms with an open door policy so you can even visit and see the ins and outs of their farming practices first hand. I've been to 3 of the 20+ farms myself and they are truly magical!
YL also distills all of their oils in house and does vigorous testing to make sure that each oil batch will offer the most healing and support for you body.
Because Young Living offers such care and concern for the health and well-being of your family these are truly the safest oils on the market for you sweet little babe!
How to Use Essential Oils with Babies
Low and Slow, this is key!
Now you're probably asking, ok what does that mean?
Let's go over the 3 ways we use oils and what Low and Slow would look like for each.
1. Topically
Simple, always dilute your oils and use much less than you would for an adult or older child.
For example if you want to use some lavender on your babies back or feet for a calming baby massage just add a 1 drop of Lavender to a tsp spoon amount of carrier oil. And simply watch their response to that amount of oil then you can go from there.
The biggest thing to remember is that their noses are smaller and work much better than ours so a small amount of oil on that little body will be more than enough.
2. Aromatically
Allow them to enjoy the aroma of an oil by applying a drop to yourself so you turn into a human diffuser. This also works great if a toddler is having a melt down and doesn't want to apply oils to help emotionally regulate.
In a diffuser... start off with 2-3 drops and see how it goes. If baby seems fine you can add a couple more next time and find your family's sweet spot.
3. Internally
With a babe I would't be giving oils internally unless under very specific circumstances. For an older child or adult Young Living's oils are more an safe to ingest but for a tiny baby that may pack a little too much of a punch. Now if they do accidentally inject a drop or two I wouldn't stress just give them some mama milk or a bottle and they'll be just fine, they just may cry because it tastes awful!
What is a Carrier Oil?
Any fatty oil, such as:
- Coconut
- Olive
- Rosehip
- Grapeseed
- the list goes on.
When we use a carrier oil with an essential oil it helps to slow the rate the essential oil penetrates the body, which is perfect for your brand new baby!
What oils to be cautious of...
First any super "spicy" or "hot" oils. For example: Cinnamon, oregano, peppermint, etc...
Now I would not say stay completely away from them as sometimes those spicy oils are exactly what you need to kick a sniffle or something like that to the curb. If you need to put a more spicy oil on your baby like Thieves because you're trying to help their body to work through something, simply use more carrier oil if you're applying topically or put a couple less drops in the diffuser than you normally put. Again super simple!
My Favorite Oils for Babes
Young Living has an amazing line of oils that are prediluted and ready to rock and roll for your baby and they all come in the "Little Oilers Bundle" with the CUTEST Owl Diffuser!
Here are my go-to oils that are in this bundle...
TummyGize - unsettled, unhappy baby and you know it's because their tummy is bothering them, this will be your bestie! It's pre-dulited with coconut oil, but if your babe is less than 3 months I'd dilute a little more. Simply rub clockwise around the tummy!
SnifflEase - Sniffles are such a bummer, your little can't breath, snots going everywhere, its just hard on everyone. Help your little get those airways opened up when their sniffling away. This is a great one to apply to the chest or put in the diffuser!
Owie - The goal is too not have too many "owies" at the start of life, but things happen and older siblings happen. If your little babe gets a small scratch or bump just apply a small amount to the affected area. This is my go-to to help the skin heal up really quick and it keeps all those germs at bay. If the owie is on the hand (you know when you cut those teeny tiny nails a little too close 😬) definitely put one of the hand mitts on because this one will not taste the best when they go to inevitably chew on their hands.
SleepyIze - at this stage of life we could all use more sleep. The soft and sweet aroma will help everyone calm and settle into at least a few hours of sleep! My favorite is to apply a drop on the bottoms of each foot.
GeneYus - We all want our kiddos to be healthy but health is not just in the body but in the mind as well. Set your little up for good cognition with GeneYus. This oil is geared more towards the kiddos in school to help them focus, but if your baby is on the brink of hitting a milestone this can help them reach it with a little more ease and flow! You can apply a little behind each ear!
If you're not oiling yet, have littles at home, and want a simple place to start this bundle is perfect for you.
Snag it here: Little Oilers Bundle
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Sometimes it simply takes getting back to your Roots in order to Grow your Wings and finally take flight...
Young Living's convention just wrapped up a couple of weeks ago and the theme was Roots & Wings, which was such a great reminder for me that I needed to get back to my own roots and rebuild my foundation so that I can grow my wings and take flight.
If you're familiar with Human Design my profile is a 5/1 and that second number (in my case the 1) is your unconscious personality, the personality that you're kinda aware of but at the same time not at all. The first number is your conscious personality, the one that usually you really resonate with. I'm not going to dive into all of the profiles and numbers at this time, but if that's something you're interested in leave me a comment below, when I get enough interest then we can take a dive into all that good stuff!
Now, back to that 1 in my profile... whenever we are talking about 1st lines, in both Human Design and the Gene Keys, we are always talking about the foundation, so anyone with a 1 in their profile needs to lay a solid foundation. As I have been walking my de-conditioning path I have found this to be so true. I am able to tap back into my true essence and find my confidence when I feel solid in my foundation and this takes growing DEEP roots. Growing deep roots back into the core of myself; tapping back into my innate power, wisdom, and worthiness.
For every convention Young Living creates an Essential oil blend (this year 2!) to honor the intention behind that year's theme. I love this because it is a way for me to keep working with that energy that was cultivated throughout convention. This year they created two blends Roots and Wings.
While I was sitting one morning inhaling and sitting with the oils I was inspired to put together a Roots & Wings Yoga Flow as my way of grounding this intention in my physical body. Grounding energy down into my physical body is one of the way I process, this comes from that 1st line in my profile.
So, whether you have these oils are not, I'd love for you go join me in my interpretation of this energy through yoga.
All you need yourself, a mat, and a little space to move.
Now, let's ground into your Roots so that we may grow our Wings and Fly!
I hope that this flow empowered you as much as it did myself!
In most of my yoga flows I used essential oils because they simply add another layer of healing and energy into the physical practice.
Mary Young the CEO and Co-Founder of Young Living Essential Oils explains the intention of the Roots Blend best in this little clip from Convention...
As she says, the intention for the Roots Oil Blend is to reconnect you back to the root of who YOU are and release the conditioning from the outside world.
Roots contains:
- Balm of Gilead - which in ancient times was one of the most highly prized oils in the world for health and healing, it was even termed 'Liquid Gold'. and literally worth more than gold!
- Grand Fir - Grown on Young Living's Highland Flats farm is known for it's emotionally refreshing quality (if you've ever spent some time around conifer or evergreen trees you know the energy I'm writing about!). It brings a calm and peaceful quality allowing you the space to sink back inside yourself.
- Angelic - a sacred oil of protection and renewal
- Cistus - which helps you to connect you back to your intuition and deep inner knowing. This will awaken your inner awareness so you know where your roots need to grow the most.
- Myrrh - cleaning and purifying to help you release what is not you which brings an uplifting energy and promotes great joy back into yourself!
- Sacred Frankincense - helps you to be equal parts grounded in yourself and interconnected to all beings in this universe.
The Aroma of the Roots blend is soft and earthy just as it should be!
Wings Essential Oil Blend is our way to renew the soul and physical body to take flight.
Wings contains the following oils:
- Northern Lights Black Spruce & Idaho Blue Spruce - to bring grounding and support
- Sacred Frankincense & Myrrh - to anchor your deep broad roots to stay grounded in your purpose and life path
- Sacred Sandalwood, Lavender, Geranium, Ylang Ylang, German Chamomile, Angelica - to help you flower
- Tangerine, Orange, Melissa, and Rose - to uplift the heart and soul while you fulfill your purpose and create the life of your dreams.
Wow, some powerful oils! If you're not already a Young Living Customer of mine and would like to snag these oils and really dive into how Essential oils can support your health and spiritual journey head on over to my link and you can grab one or both of these oils!
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Now what they heck is PV? Well, Young Living is a global company so think if PV as it's currency. If you're here in the US then the PV amount will usually be the dollar amount after you've unlocked the 24% discount. Still confused? Leave me a comment below or shoot me an email, I'd be happy to answer any questions!
Have the best day my friend and go out, ground into your roots, so that you too may grow your wings and FLY!
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Read more...Teething sucks, for everyone involved! There's physical pain for your little one and emotional pain for you the mama, so keep on reading because I'm going to share with you all of my tips and tricks that I use for the physical pain which I know for me when I feel like I'm able to do something to give my little some relief it helps me with the emotional pain of seeing them suffer.
Before we really dive into my different pain relief tools, let's talk fevers. Now most doctors will tell you there's no correlation or reason that teething babies and toddler should have a fever when teething, especially during the time that those teeth are cutting through. But, talk to any mama, parent, or caregiver and I'm sure they've experience at least one of their children running a fever while cutting teeth and the baffling thing is that they are not sick so there should be no reason for the fever.
Well there is reason for that fever. One of the primary functions of a fever is to help move body building materials from one part of the body to another. When a child (or adult) is sick the fever helps to move the T-fighter cells to the area of the body that is being affected most by whatever is causing the sickness. During the process of cutting teeth a fever will spark if there is not enough calcium available in the mouth to push that tooth through, so the body will produce a fever to move more calcium from other areas of the body where it is not needed as much at that time and push it into that tooth to facilitate pushing the tooth through the gum. When I read about this process while going through my Master Herbalist program I was blow away! This also explains why some kiddos have such a hard time teething and other's are just not phased. So giving your child a good herbal calcium supplement that is easy to get down and super easy for their body's to assimilate is so helpful. One of my favorites is Dr. Christopher's Kid-E-Calc which is an herbal tincture that can be dropped right into the mouth and created straight from calcium rich herbs like: Nettle, Shavegrass, Oatstraw and Valerian.
You can snag Kid-e-Calc on amazon here
Ok, so now that we're giving the body the building blocks in really needs to do what it's got to do to push those teeth through, let's dive into my favorite pain relief tools...
First up, another of Dr. Christopher's amazing herbal tincture's for teething is Kid-e-Col which is a teething formula made form catnip and fennel herbs. These two herbs, which are usually used for digestion support, also offer great relief form teething (if your little also suffers from colic this is a must to have on hand!). I just takes a few drops in the mouth. I do my best to apply where the teeth are coming but when those babies become toddlers and have more teeth it always seems like there's a possibly of loosing a finger because they love to chomp down!
This is another one you can grab on amazon, just click here.
Now, let's touch on a little Homeopathic tools. This one got a little heat a few years ago, but for my kiddos in terms of homeopathic remedies it is what works the best even better than the one specifically labeled for teething. Hyland's Belladonna dissolvable tablets. Why did belladonna get some heat? Because it is a poisonous plant and when taken in large amounts can be harmful. As a little refresher, how homeopathy works is that you treat like with like. What that means is that you take a very diluted down version of the plant and use it to heal whatever is going on. During teething fever and inflammation is a big issue and belladonna when taken in a homeopathic dose helps to relieve those symptoms (but remember if that fever is spiking you babe needs some calcium too, we've got to give the body the building blocks it needs!) I've never had an issue with giving my kids a tablet or two of belladonna every few hours and it really does help to give them much needed relief.
Because amazon is our savior, head here to get it!
And the last tool in my toolbox is where my holistic journey all started, essential oils! I love making a teething roller for my kiddos to apply along the jawline. I use Young Living's oils because they are the most effective I've ever found and I've used A LOT of different brands in my 20+ years of using essential oils. My go-to oils for teething are PanAway and Copaiba. PanAway is an amazing oil blend that contains oils to help calm and sooth pain. Copaiba is one of the best oils too reduce inflammation, so these two make a powerhouse combo to relieve teething pain!
Making a roller is super fun and easy!
Just add 5-10 drops of each PanAway + Copaiba then fill the roller with fractionated coconut oil (or whatever your favorite carrier oil is!)
Head over to my Young Living website here to get these two oils and of course you can find my favorite organic fractionated coconut oil on amazon here.
Those are my tools! I hope this helps you and your little!
Transmuting Shame into Understanding Meditation
We all hold shame, unfortunately it is something most of us learn as small children as well as being passed down through generations so it is literally held in our DNA.
This shame keeps us from connecting to others and keeps us from following our heart's calling because with shame brings feelings of unworthiness.
So much of my own shame has manifested in my parenting. I struggle so much with being a parent, it is the hardest job I've ever undertaken. My children are still small and as a very practical person who loves logic and reason this has been a challenge to understand and accept that my small children do not move from practicality and logic. From this has manifested deep feelings of unworthiness and kept me from connecting with so many other moms whom seem to just love simply being a mom.
To work though these feelings of shame we must first fully feel them because when we surrender and allow ourselves to feel that is there that's when the light on the other side shines through and that light is understanding.
This light shine the understanding of ourselves, why we do what we do, where our struggles lie, why we react the way we do, why we hold ourselves back, why we feel unworthy of the things that call out out our hearts and souls, the list goes on and on...
Understanding our shame allows us to start the process of accepting ourselves just as we are without needing to change a thing. The first step in true self love is to simply allow yourself to be. Breath all of you in, every gift and every imperfection.
When we feel into our own shame it gives us understanding of the source of that shame, from here we are able to learn and eventually grow and become a more whole and loving person.
Not only does this understanding help us to truly see our own self and our worthiness but it helps to open our hearts so we may more fully be able to see others. To understand why they struggle. To allow ourselves to accept people for who they are, in the place that they are because we all share so many of the same wounds.
So join me in this simple meditation of allowing the shame to be there, recognizing it, and ultimately gaining deep understanding from it.
You are worthy just as you are right in this moment no matter how much shame is held in your heart and body. Take a small step to start the work of looking at your shadows for deep inner healing.
During this meditation we will be using the mantra:
"I learn from all of life's experiences"
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