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Yoni Steaming: Everything You Need to Know

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What is Yoni Steaming? The word Yoni literally means "Sacred Place." Yoni steaming is a vaginal steam that helps women to reconnect to their body and heal or regulate their cycle. It has been around for centuries but has recently started to resurface as more and more people turn to natural or alternative medicine. It is a form of plant medicine and may be able to help those who have been disappointed or let down by modern medicine when it comes to healing things like: Pain, bloating, and fatigue during menstruation Heavy menstrual flow (some women have also reported decreased dark purple or brown blood at the beginning and end of a period) Irregular cycles or absent menstrual cycles Infertility Reduces uterine fibroids Ovarian cysts Uterine fibroids Endometriosis Uterine Weakness  Uterine Prolapse Release of blood clots Dryness and pain during intercourse due to menopause Heals and tones reproductive system after birth  Heals tears and episiotomies mo

Increasing Milk Supply

I want to preface by saying I am not a nurse or a lactation consultant , I am just a mom who has low milk supply and wants to be able to nurse my baby. A lot of my advice comes from lactation consultants that I have seen or through in depth research and nights hunched over my computer. What works for some mamas will not work for all so while there is helpful advice here, make sure that you try a variety of things to find what works for you. First and foremost, let's do away with this idea that breastfeeding is easy. It's absolutely not !  On top of making sure you have the proper latch you also push through: the pain that comes with nursing for the first time or starting to nurse again, teething, going back to work, nursing on demand and of course what we’re here to talk about today- low supply (which can be due to a variety of reasons). If you meet someone who says breastfeeding was easy for them, that’s fantastic!! But it's definitely not common. So I just wan