The following essences have been selected as being especially relevant to conception, pregnancy, labour, childbirth and adjusting to early parenting.

She Oak

She Oak is recognised for its use in fertility problems. It enhances hormone balance and helps conception. It is also useful to rebalance hormones during postpartum.

Peach Flowered Tea-tree

This essence helps balance the pancreas and addresses mood swings and pre-menstrual tension.

Billy Goat Plum

Recommended for acceptance of your changing body shape especially if there is sexual repression or concern.

Boab

The Aborigines in the Kimberley region of north west Australia give boab to the child as soon as it is born to prevent negative emotional patterns of previous generations from being passed on. It is highly-valued for its ability to break adverse family conditioning.

Bottlebrush

Bottlebrush is thought to enhance the bond between the mother and the new baby and for adapting to changes in body and lifestyle.

Dog Rose

Recommended for allaying niggly fears and instilling a sense of security about being pregnant. Also believed to calm a fear of labour, which is thought to be a common cause of morning sickness.

Flannel Flower

To increase sensitivity and gentle touch in the new parent, especially the father.

Fringed Violet

Fringed Violet is recommended to apply to your baby’s fontanelle soon after birth to protect against birth trauma and provide psychic protection. It is also useful to protect expecting parents against the negative influence of other people’s traumatic birth stories.

Grey Spider Flower

Encourages calmness, courage and faith, useful for feelings of fear or terror about the coming birth process, often from past life experience

Illawarra Flame Tree

Brings confidence and self-approval when feeling overwhelmed by the impending responsibilities of parenthood.

Kapok Bush

Recommended for use during labour for persistence, strength and determination when you probably feel like giving up.

Macrocarpa

For stamina, endurance, physical exhaustion during labour and postpartum.

Red Helmet Orchid

Red Helmet Orchid is recommended to help the male partner bond with the baby both during the pregnancy and following birth. It is also useful for children to work through issues they may have with their father, even if he has died.

Slender Rice Flower

Helps heal any tearing, or stitches from an episiotomy or caesarean section

Sundew

To bring spirit of the newborn properly into its body

Waratah

Recommended for use if a child is stillborn. Brings courage, tenacity, faith, adaptability and the will to survive in moments of deep despair.

Wild Potato Bush

Wild Potato Bush is recommended for use near end of pregnancy for any frustration the woman may be feeling due to physical restriction and limitation such as feeling big and cumbersome, not being able to sleep comfortably. It is also thought to greatly help the unborn child with the physical restrictions within womb before birth.

Confid Essence Drops

To inspire confidence in ability to cope.

Emergency Essence Drops

Recommended to reduce panic, distress and fear. Emergency Essence Drops is a popular combination for use during labour, after difficult labour or where there has been significant loss of blood. Also available in a cream or mist, Emergency Essence contains the essences Dog Rose of the Wild Forces, Fringed Violet, Grey Spider Flower, Sundew, Warratah and Crowea.

Woman Essence Drops

Female balance, calm and stable and for coping with change. Also available in cream.

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The Bach flower remedies are named after their originator Dr Edward Bach, a medical doctor, immunologist and bacteriologist who practiced in Harley Street, London in the early 1900s. After many years Bach became convinced that much of the medicine practised in his day was counter-productive. He believed that remedies should only come from plant sources and giving up his practice, moved to Wales to spend the rest of his days developing his range of gentle plant-based remedies.

Medicinal Essence

According to Bach, illness stems from an inner imbalance, an emotional or psychological state affecting health. In his studies, he discovered that vital medicinal properties of plants were transferred into the early morning dew. By floating the plant in pure spring water and leaving it in sunlight for a while, he was able to collect the medicinal essence and preserve it in a small amount of brandy.

Psychological

Dr Bach prepared 38 remedies, The following 18 are considered safe and particularly relevant for preconception, pregnancy, childbirth and parenthood.
Although medical research has failed to come up with an explanation of the effectiveness of the Bach remedies, it is accepted that there is a physiological basis for its benefits. Many people use the remedies and swear by their effectiveness.

Caution

The amount of alcohol you consume with each dose is negligible. It is safe to take them as frequently as desired.

Self Help

Dr Bach developed his remedies primarily for self-help use. They are available in Australia in health stores and many pharmacies. There are several ways in which you can use the remedies. The most common is to put two or three drops under the tongue every four hours to dissolve slowly, or alternatively add two or three drops to water or juice and sip slowly. You can rub the essences neat onto lips, wrists, and temples or add a few drops to water to make a compress. You may also add a couple of drops of the remedy to a massage oil blend or a bath.

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