Well I'm closing into my first goal, 24 weeks, this is were a fetus becomes viable. I know, of course my goal is getting way past 24 weeks, but this is the first feeling of succeeding.
Anxiety is running a little high, but I'm keeping that in check with some yummy wild oat tea.
Herbal teas are quit amazing. I've been drinking nettle tea since the day I found out I was pregnant! Then I soon added red raspberry leaf tea. Now I've added a little oats just for my nerves.
What amazes me so much about these herbal teas, are many are made using plants, that in the western world we view as "bad weeds"! They've created herbicides to keep these amazing "herbs" away from "human made agriculture, meant for human consumption" ! It's quite absurd when you read up about nettle, it used to be a blessing to have a nettle batch in your garden! I'm only mentioning nettle here, but there are so many!
Milk thistle, dandelions, chickweed, red clover, just to name a few.
Now I'm not talking about a little infusion once in a while, although it's good too. If you want results from drinking tea, you have to drink it regularly. Tea used to be the only other beverage around, besides water of course.
I've been making batches of infusions and mixing with lemon, then cooling it in the fridge. I'm at 3 cups of "home made ice herbal tea" a day. And even if I'm supposed to be lying on my back, I've never felt better in my life!
The nettle provides a huge variety of vitamins and minerals, it's like your daily multi-vitamin, just way more effective and much easier on the system! It helps blood circulation and is rich in iron and vitamin c. It cleans the kidneys and insures it's proper functioning.
The raspberry leaf is a uterus toner, tissue strengthener, and helps re-generate cells too. It is also rich in vitamin content. And quit important when one is pregnant it is a hormone stabilizer! I've had no "crazy woman mood swings" ! That makes life much easier around here for my boy and my man too! he he he
Oats are rich in calcium, iron, phosphorous, the B-complex vitamins, vitamin E, and vitamin K. They are also a good source of potassium, magnesium, zinc, protein, and vitamins A and C. Oat's also have a high concentration of the trace mineral silica, which is responsible for many of the health benefits of oat straw tea.
I feel well balanced and well surrounded by my tea, and my family.
I will succeed, I will succeed, I will succeed...
