All About Post-Partum Sitz Baths:

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So much planning and anticipation goes into giving birth that new mother's often aren't prepared to care for their own tender bodies after the delivery - a time when hormonal shifts can make even the simplest of details seem overwhelming. An herbal Sitz Bath can bring welcome relief and healing during this time of recovery and adjustment.

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What is a Sitz Bath?

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The best Sitz Baths combine herbs known for their astringent, antiseptic, emollient, and homeostatic properties that assist and promote natural healing. After giving birth Sitz Baths help women recover from vaginal tears, an episiotomy, or a caesarean cut. Sitz Baths are also helpful for hemorrhoids, vaginal infections, muscle spasms, to slow bleeding, reduce swelling and soothe your perineal muscles.

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An herbal Sitz Bath can be a welcome relief to the discomforts associated with afterbirth; hemorrhoids; kidney, bladder, vaginal infections; and bedsores. The materials used in Great Mother's Goods Sitz Bath are of the highest quality organic or wild crafted herbs with no chemical or animal additives. 

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Great Mother's Goods Size Bath contains three convenient pre-packaged baths  with easy to use instructions. No mixing or fuss involved with the Great Mother's Herbal Sitz Bath.

How is a Sitz Bath used?

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Most Sitz Baths require you to combine, steep and strain the herbs. Great Mother's Goods has taken care of the details and prepared prepackaged Sitz Baths in reusable muslin bags. No combining or straining is necessary and the full muslin bags make a tidy, easy to use compress. A shallow bath in a tub or basin is suggested at least once a day for 5-10 minutes until healed. The baths can also be used as a warm or chilled compress on areas being treated.

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There are two methods for using a Sitz Bath. Click here for more information.

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Great Mother's Herbal Sitz Bath Formula Ingredients:  Plantain, Comfrey Leaf, Calendula, Marshmallow Root, Yarrow and Sea Salt