Crying, belly aches, and bloating.
Try this soothing tea blend to aid your baby’s digestion and yours for years to come.
If you are worried about your breastmilk taste, skip the lemon balm and sip on chamomile and fennel tea.
What’s in the blend?
Ingredients
- Dried Chamomile Flowers
- Dried Fennel Seed
- Dried Lemon Balm {skip if breastfeeding}
Instructions
- Combine all three herbs in one container
- Take 1 tbs. of herbs to 1 cup of boiling water
- Cover and steep for 10 minutes
- Strain and add honey ONLY if mom is drinking the tea
- Drink the tea before breastfeeding
- If you are offering the tea to your baby, strain and cool the tea. Add the cool tea by dropperful to the baby while feeding or add to bottle if bottle fed.
Chamomile
Matricaria recutita (German Chamomile) or Asteraceae Anthemis nobiles (Roman Chamomile)
Chamomile calms the spirit and is the number one botanical for both mom and baby. As a nervine, it will soothe anxiety and restlessness. It calms digestion and soothes nervous stomachs. It also can treat fevers, colds, flu, and headaches and relieve cramps from birth or menses. This botanical is safe and calming and one of the best herbs for crying, restless babies. Use it in the baby’s bathwater to clear up diaper rash, heal wounds or cuts.
Fennel
Foeniculum vulgare
Fennel seeds are warming and a little spicy; aiding gas and bloating for both mom and baby. Mom can eat them directly, if feeling bloated, and make a cup of colic tea to feed to the baby by dropperful throughout the day. This after-meal tea can ease gas, indigestion, abdominal pain, and spasms.
Lemon Balm
Melissa officinalis
Known as the gladdening herb, Lemon balm lifts the spirits, and as a carminative; it aids digestion and relieves gas. The yummy lemony taste is well-loved by both women and children and when your little one is old; make a cup of Lemon balm tea with milk and honey. It is also antiviral, so it is very effective for breaking fevers and treating colds and flu.
The slight minty taste may lower the mom’s breastmilk, but will certainly do no harm to the baby. And, as a combined tea blend, it may relieve moms’ anxiety and restlessness and lift their spirits.
xo
Tara
