Pregnancy Belly Butter

What is Belly Butter?

It’s an organic plant based butter that’s created by a natural midwife who offers holistic home birth. This butter is a blend of melted natural oils, and choice essential oils all melted together. Once cooled, it has the consistency of butter. Making it easy to apply after getting out of the shower or tub. What’s more, the butter helps keep the skin moisturized and supple. In contrast to skin that feels tight, dry, and itchy.

In addition, it’s great having your favorite belly butter premixed in tubes. Making it ready to apply to your growing belly throughout pregnancy. Let us help you embellish your skin with a luxe style belly butter that smells fantastic!

Equally important, with Midwives Blend we strive to keep our belly butter organic. Ingredients are ordered from various source locations, and then blended. Always leading to a wonderful final result. Moreover, if you are looking for a do it yourself project (DIY), this can be fairly easy to pull together. As we share what we mix in our blend. Your base ingredients are cocoa and shea butter. You can search for a reputable company that offers organic products. Lastly, as example a link for organic cocoa and shea butter.

Benefits of Belly Butter

Using belly butter on your skin can have nutritive qualities. Combining organic, plant based ingredients with vitamins, antioxidants, and essential fatty acids. What’s more, it’s naturally gentle, and kind to sensitive skin. Also, belly butter has a melting point similar as our body temperature. Making it a creamy application with a velvety texture when applied. Furthermore, it’s safe to apply daily as a skin care routine during pregnancy. Unless, on the rare occasion you have allergies to plants for which each ingredient come.

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Midwives Blend of Belly Butter

What we mix in our blend:

• Cocoa Butter can hydrate & nourish with vitamin D2, potassium, phosphorus, copper, iron, zinc, and magnesium.
• Shea Butter can hydrate & soften with fatty acids: linoleic, oleic, palmitic, and stearic acids. Also, has anti-inflammatory, anti-fungal, and anti-bacterial benefits. It has vitamin A, & E.
• Jojoba oil with vitamin E, can hydrate. Contains antioxidants such as vitamins A, E, and omega 6 fatty acids. Also, including anti-bacterial, anti-aging, & rich in amino acids.
• Coconut oil has anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, and antiviral properties. It helps moisturize skin by locking in moisture. Moreover, it relieves inflammation, and accelerates wound healing.

Additional -Essential Oils to Include

• Helichrysum essential oil has rejuvenating and restorative properties. It’s an aid in acute trauma conditions as well as a daily tonic to keep skin healthy.
• Orange essential oil has limonene that helps scavenge free radicals that harm healthy cells. Also inhibits the growth of bacteria, fungi, and fight inflammation.
• Vanilla essential oil has natural antibacterial and anti-inflammatory ability. Proven in studies to help effectively prevent infection and inflammation.
• Peppermint essential oils can be used to soothe inflammation, irritation and itchiness on skin. 

Multi-Use for Practice

In practice, midwives can use organic belly butter before prenatal palpation of fetal positioning. It’s a special touch we use to hydrate, and introduce something natural to use daily. Also, it can be used when a mother presents with taught dry skin. Additionally, this blend could even help a practitioner’s hands glide more smoothly across a belly. This is important during an external cephalic version (ECV), when a baby is in a breech position.

We feel this is a perfect way to introduce a healthy organic blend. One that is useful with pregnant bellies. If the introductory use on the belly is helpful, then a tube can be offered for home use. Equally important, this blend melts with ones body temperature. Some say this makes it a great choice for perineal massage before labor. Moreover, because it may help soften previous scar tissue, and possibly prevent further trauma to same area during birth.

What’s more, we have found our belly butter to be useful for newborns skin. It’s gentle enough, making it a go to when baby has dry skin. Again, oils in the belly butter can lock in moisture keeping skin supple. Also, its helpful to prevent cracking in skin creases. Finally, when applied during infant massage, it’s helpful for creating a more relaxed state.

DISCLAIMER: This post is not meant to treat an illness or disease. If you have concerns consult your doctor before application of any Belly Butter blends. If you have skin sensitivities it’s best to skip this natural modality altogether.