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for Mothers to Be How to Use Aromatherapy Massage during your pregnancy and afterwards. Can you use Essential Oils during your pregnancy? (Read The Oxford Brookes University Study) Congratulations! You have just found out you are pregnant. The adverts tend to tell us for all of us it will be a time when we bloom and feel wonderful, however whilst this can be the case for some of the time, it is also a time when your body is going through huge hormonal changes – and therefore not all of you will feel on top of the world 100% of the time. Finding out that you are pregnant can bring on a whole range of mixed emotions from sheer euphoria to instant panic. No matter how much your baby is wanted it is going to cause changes not only to your body but also your life. It is therefore only natural that at this time we give thought to these changes, however nature is very good and gives you 9 months to get used to your new addition. Your body will go through many changes – your skin, your hair, digestive system, you may suffer from morning sickness and nausea, and become weighed down in the last few weeks. Your skin produces more sebum, which can cause it to greasy, and flaky, your hair may become lank and lifeless. However it’s not all bad, your skin may glow and your hair maybe the thickest and loveliest that it has ever been. During your pregnancy your body has to sustain another life and your body is so programmed that your baby wont go without but you will, your baby will get nutrients before you do, so it is important at this time that your diet and lifestyle are as healthy as possible during this time. Everything that you eat, put on your skin, breathe in, is absorbed into your body will be filtered through to baby- so think before you do – would I give this to my baby to eat? Would I allow it to breath in these fumes? In today’s world life is a lot more busy and stressful than yesteryear and tension can affect your baby, loud noise – your baby hears it to, so never has there been a better time to slow down and take time out to relax. Essential oils are a good way to distress and relieve tension and essential oils are can be extremely useful during your pregnancy. However there are some oils, which should NOT be used during your pregnancy.
Your skin maybe sensitive to a particular oil or oils and we would always recommend that you do a ‘patch test’ before using any of the oils on a large areas of the body. To patch test simply put a small quantity of the blended oil onto the inside of your wrist and leave for 20 minutes, it you a show a sensitivity to a particular oil or oils, we would suggest you leave it a few days before trying another test. Please note: Essential oils should never be put straight onto the skin – always blend with a carrier oil. Exceptions to his would be Lavender and Tea Tree oil. While pregnant you can use essential oils as massage oil, as bath oil, in the shower or in a diffuser to fragrance a room – never as a douche. Blended oils for pregnancy and babies are of a less strength than our normally blended oils. Essential Oils can be used during your pregnancy, in the delivery room and after baby. How to Massage | Massage for Babies & Young Children Effects of Aromatherapy on Labour Pains - The Oxford Brookes University Study The Oxford Brookes University Study
– conducted during 1990-98 Essential Oils were put to the test in Oxford, during an eight-year study involving 8,000 mothers. The study showed that Aromatherapy was effective in managing labour pains. The study was conducted by Oxford Brookes University during 1990-98 and they found that using essential oils lessened maternal anxiety and fear while inducing a sense of well-being. Fear and anxiety are two things, which can slow labour and make the mother to be unable to cope with the pain of labour. The study showed a drop in the use of opiate pain relief by those mothers who used aromatherapy during labour. The normal uptake of opiate pain relief would have been expected to be 30% in the Oxford study this dropped to 0.4%. The oils that were used included, Lavender, Frankincense, Rose, Jasmine, Eucalyptus, Peppermint, Lemon, Mandarin and Clarysage. The methods of delivery used were massage, added to baths and footbaths and then as drops on the forehead and palms of the hand.
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