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Self Care – Birth Prep Challenge – Week 10

Self Care is the foundation of The Oxytocin Method.  10 weeks closer to meeting your precious one on this side of the belly.  Wow - I wish I could hug you.  I wish I could tell you how much you joining in this challenge means to me!  I wish I could tell you how important loving your progress is for you and your birth.

Journey with me one more time for a very special challenge of Esali Birth Prep.

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Thank you so much for joining in this 10-week challenge!  Did you miss a week of the challenge or need a recap?  Check out the previous challenges by becoming a member of the Esali Birth Online Community (for FREE) and join the Esali Birth Prep Challenge course:

Week 1 - Make Tea for Birth

Week 2 - Just Breathe for Birth

Week 3 - Move for Birth

Week 4 - Hydrate for Birth

Week 5 - Sunshine for Birth

Week 6 - Healthy Fats for Birth

Week 7 - Poop for Birth

Week 8 - Detox for Birth

Week 9 - Sleep for Birth

TCM Organ Clock

Sleep – Birth Prep Challenge – Week 9

Sleep is a given, right?  If you don't sleep, you don't feel rested and your day can kind of go downhill from there.  If you wake up in the middle of your sleep cycle, you tend to feel groggy throughout the day and may stress your adrenals with the adrenalin boost caused by unnatural waking.

But, what else is happening when we sleep?  During the most common sleep hours, some of our most important body-support functions are happening.

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dandelion detox support

Detox – Birth Prep Challenge – Week 8

Every week we've been building healthy habits and reducing toxin overload.  You're moving well, eating well, and releasing toxins.  The body, every day, is eliminating toxins [detoxing] to improve the function of the body... or at least it should be.

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Poop – Birth Prep Challenge – Week 7

Constipation in pregnancy seems to be an expected symptom.  The first thing wrong with this picture is that someone expects to experience a "symptom"  - Hello!  Pregnancy isn't a disease!  The second problem is that constipation is a symptom of less than ideal body function either through food intake means or other.  On the contrary, now that you're eating healthier fats, staying hydrated, moving your body, and getting most of the nutrients you need every day - bowel movements should be taking care of themselves.

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Healthy Fat – Birth Prep Challenge – Week 6

Fat is energy.  Fat is soothing.  Fat is necessary.

Many Americans are still of the mindset that a low-fat diet is the key to reducing many of the common ailments experienced later in life like heart disease, high cholesterol, and weight gain.  Even modern trendy "health supplements" block the body's ability to utilize fat, promoting weight loss.  However, healthy fats are a necessary component of whole foods needed for soothing the nerves, balancing digestion, and supporting healthy brain growth.  In fact, healthy fats can actually promote weight balance.

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pregnant outside

Get Sunshine – Birth Prep Challenge – Week 5

Get sunshine - it is imperative to your immune system function, sleep function, and overall happiness.  Not only is sunshine the easiest way for your body to be able to make vitamin D, you are storing up vitamin D for breastfeeding (for your baby) and for the winter/lower sun months.

Vitamin D is known as the sunshine vitamin, and supplements just don't cut it.  SunshineVitamin.org tells us, "humans make 90% of their vitamin D from sunlight."  While "fortified" foods might have synthetic forms of vitamin D added (of D2, which is not the same as the D3 your body makes from sunlight exposure), the "fortification" means this vitamin isn't naturally occurring in this substance (like milk, for instance).

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Show me those gorgeous #sunshineforbirth photos with #esalibirthprep on Instagram, Facebook, & Twitter and tell me how you're incorporating 15 minutes to 1 hour of outdoor time (a minimum daily average) into your schedule.

hydration

Hydrate for Birth – Birth Prep Challenge – Week 4

Hydrate.  Drink more water.  Are you drinking enough?  Drink your weight in ounces.  The list goes on and on and on about hydration drinking more water.

But, wait...  hydration actually has much less to do with the glasses of water you consume than it does how you eat and what you're eating.  Yes, drinking water is important.  A glass of lemon water (with the peel) in the morning is great for eliminating toxins.  However, the more water you drink, the more you pee.  Water is a diuretic, you see.

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breathe for birth

Just Breathe – Birth Prep Challenge – Week 2

Breathing is important... of course we all understand that.  What might not be so easy to understand is the wide range of recommendations for the "proper" way to breathe, especially for birth.  Recommendations went from "hee hee hoo" to "slow and low" and everything in between.  It all needs to stop.  Your body knows how to birth.  YOU know how to birth.  It is designed into your physiology just like peeing.

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herbal tea

Make Tea – Birth Prep Challenge – Week 1

A daily dose of tea, or three, is common in almost all ancient cultures - and America has recently (as far as history is concerned) removed this tradition from our daily lives, unless it comes from a fountain and sweetened beyond drinkable with corn syrup.  Infusions (what you know as "tea") are the oldest form of medicine for both acute and chronic ailments, and the oldest form of nurturing holistically beyond the seasonal selection of wild foods.

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Share your #maketeaforbirth moments from the #esalibirthprep with me on Instagram, Facebook, & Twitter and tell me how you're incorporating this into your new routine.

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