The Supportive Power of Postpartum Tea After Birth

We recently posted a YouTube video about postpartum tea that got hundreds of views, which tells me you all want to know more about why drinking tea after birth is so important. Also, what teas could you consider drinking after birth and during your postpartum recovery?

So, I've rounded up a few of our favorites from the shop. These are our best-selling teas, plus some newer products like Mother's Helper Loose Leaf Tea. I'll dive deeper into each of these to explain why the ingredients are so great and why tea, in general, is such a lovely, supportive choice after birth.

So, what are the benefits of drinking tea during your postpartum recovery? Now, keep in mind postpartum is the moment your placenta is expelled from your uterus. That's when your postpartum recovery begins and your postpartum phase of life.

Pro tip: Bring a supportive postpartum to the hospital (or have it already brewed at home for a home birth!).

I promise you, it's something that I did, and I felt so supported just having a mug of tea on my little stand that I could sip on throughout the recovery process. It felt heavenly and soothing after a long labor and delivery. I highly recommend putting some tea in your hospital bag.

Some of the benefits of drinking tea after birth include.

• Replenishes nutrient, mineral, and vitamin stores after birth

• Calming anxious feelings

• Promoting rest and relaxation

• Encouraging faster recovery time.

• Contains powerful anti-inflammatory properties

• Can help promote hydration

• Can possibly improve breast milk production or the quality of breast milk*

(*There is limited research to support these claims, so do what works best for you or as your doctor or other care provider agreed upon.)

Let's explore some of the essential herbs you should look for in your postpartum tea. I am not a doctor or an herbalist, but I hold a certification from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition and have personally studied various herbs and their benefits. Of course, always discuss concerns with your doctor before starting any new supplement routine.

• Nettle

• Oat straw

• Red raspberry leaf

• Lemon balm

Nettle is an incredible herb. You'll find it in our Iron-Boosting Tea, our Breast Milk-Boosting Tea, and this new tea we added to our Postpartum Shop, Mother's Helper by Bush Berry.

Nettle is plentiful in vitamins. However, incredible research has also been done to decrease inflammation. It acts as a diuretic to help flush out any extra fluid that your body might be hanging on to after pregnancy and strengthen your adrenal function, which is so important when you are really run down and absolutely exhausted.

Like I mentioned, it contains vitamins, specifically vitamins A, C, and K minerals, and it is also shown to contain fats.

As I mentioned, our Iron-Boosting Tea has nettle in it. It's actually just organic rosehip and nettle leaf, and the rosehip helps with the absorption of the nettle leaf. So this is super, super potent and very helpful for replenishing your iron stores, which is so important after birth.

As I mentioned, it's also in our Breast Milk Boosting Tea. What I love about Mummy's Organic tea, in general, is that the blends are intentional and not overdone. You'll find just a handful of herbs in each tea.

And then it's also, as I mentioned in the Mother's Helper by Bush Berry tea, which also includes, raspberry leaf, rooibos, chamomile, and oat straw.

Oat straw is another incredible herb that is so powerful, especially when used, in recovery from birth. This postpartum herb is super supportive and is used to promote feelings of calm, like, who doesn't need that after birth?

Oat straw is found in the Mother's Helper by Bush Berry tea. It is such a lovely blend. Also, what I love about oat straw is that it is high in levels of magnesium and calcium, which are super important after birth, especially magnesium, which can encourage regularity of your bowels, soften your bowels, and promote overall feelings of relaxation.

Okay, this next herb we will talk about is red raspberry leaf. And there's a chance you've heard about it in your pregnancy. Red raspberry leaf is often used in the third trimester to help tone the uterus and encourage preparation for labor and delivery. Well, it also has a place in postpartum to continue to help tone those uterine muscles and encourage recovery to give you a hopefully smoother postpartum recovery period.

It also contains vitamins C, E, and calcium, which is incredible that you can get these nutrients and vitamins after birth to help with your recovery.

If you’re looking for a tea with red raspberry leaves, you’ll find it in our New Mama Tea, which contains red raspberry leaves, and the Mother's Helper by Bush Berry tea. If you want to continue the red raspberry leaf supplementation after birth or start it up postpartum, those two teas would be a great option.

It's important to remember that teas alone will not encourage a smooth recovery process, but they can certainly be part of a well-rounded postpartum support program.

Okay, last but not least, I want to talk about a postpartum herb you may not have heard of as much as the others I've mentioned today, lemon balm, which is found in our Calm and Tranquil tea by Mummy’s Organics. Their teas are blended by midwives, so they're pregnancy and postpartum-safe.

But lemon balm is research-backed to possibly curb the symptoms of baby blues without side effects. And I think it is incredible that herbs are recognized for their powerful support. And, they surely do have a place in postpartum recovery.

Lemon balm may also ease feelings of stress, anxious feelings, tension, and overall promote a better night's sleep, which, of course, your baby might not get the memo on.

Quick shop:

• Iron-Boosting Tea

• Calm and Tranquil Tea

• Breast Milk Boosting Tea

• New Mama Tea

• Mother's Helper by Bush Berry

Okay, so let's dive a little deeper into the different postpartum teas we carry on our website, starting with the Iron-Boosting Tea. If you've watched any of our other videos, you'll know how obsessed I am with this tea; we cannot keep it in stock. We must place bulk orders from our vendor to meet everyone's demand.

It's just two simple ingredients: rosehip and nettle leaf. The rose hip, as I mentioned earlier, helps boost the nettle leaf's absorption to make sure that you're getting all the benefits of this tea as possible.

This tea specifically is designed to replenish your iron levels after birth, which, of course, will help, you know, give you more energy, help you feel more invigorated, and encourage your postpartum recovery.

Then we have the Calm and Tranquil Tea, which I just touched on, with lemon balm, organic chamomile, and organic rose. It's an effortless but powerful blend of herbs to promote calm and ease feelings of tension that you probably feel after birth.

And then we have our Breast Milk Boosting Tea. This has fennel, nettle, aniseed, fenugreek, and caraway. Now, breast milk-boosting tea, as I mentioned, the jury is still out on if they are helpful. Some people believe in them. Others feel like it's just a nice cup of herbs, but ultimately, the decision is up to you.

Now, I will point out that this contains fenugreek; some women feel that fenugreek hurts their milk supply, while others swear by it. So, this is genuinely a personal product. I can tell you that everyone who's purchased it for us has truly loved it. But again, it's all like pregnancy, birth, and postpartum: an individual experience that’s up to you.

The next tea that we have is the New Mama Tea by Lake&Oak. This is from Canada, and I absolutely love this blend. It is rooibos, ginger root, lemon peel, orange peel, fenugreek, fennel seed, and red raspberry leaf. You’ll get that ginger antioxidant, anti-inflammatory taste, and some citrus notes, which can be uplifting and positive . It's such a lovely blend.

And then we have the Mother's Helper by Bush Berry. This is our newest blend and - to date - is the only loose-leaf tea that we carry, so you'll have to get your own strainer or biodegradable tea bags to help, prepare this tea.

It has a handful of incredible ingredients, including raspberry leaf, nettle, rooibos, chamomile, oat straw, calendula, dandelion, hibiscus, and echinacea, which echinacea, as we know, is a great immune booster and immune support system protectant.

So, I'm so glad that I found this tea. It is all handcrafted in Canada. It is super high quality and such a powerful blend of ingredients. I am honored to have this in our store as well.

Ultimately, having postpartum tea as a part of your postpartum recovery process is such a simple but effective step to care for yourself after birth.

You know, there is nothing better than someone bringing you a warm mug of tea that you can slowly sip on as you nurse your baby or just take a moment to unwind. It's a powerful signal of self-care and, you know, just caring for yourself and your body in a practical, not complicated, pretty straightforward way, and can be done relatively quickly.

So, I encourage you to make postpartum tea a part of your routine after birth, and I hope you found this helpful. If you have any questions or want further information, you can comment below; we’re here to help!