Once upon a time, I was chosen for a series called the Sling Diaries where I met a group of the loveliest and like-minded women on this planet. A few months later, I got to meet one of my favorite humans from the series at Gwendolyn Rose's first birthday party, Sarah. She was everything I ever thought she would be, and truly, much much more. A few months later, Sarah and her friend Nova launched what I believe to be the best and most useful care packages and monthly subscription boxes out there. Together, they are Honey & Sage Co and go all over the Dallas, Texas area helping post-partum women. They have devoted themselves to helping mothers around the world and honestly inspire me every day.
I've waited a bit to post this review because my post-partum experience with Florence was a much longer period for me than with our other daughters. I'm sure it has to do with a bunch of different factors. Maybe because we were in the 3 under 3 club for a while and then transitioning to mothering 3 little babies because that's what they are, babies. I needed longer moments to breathe and longer moments to take in the joy and even longer moments to be present. It sounds like I was pretty needy and that's the absolute truth. I'm not sorry for it. Technically, the post-partum period is considered the 3 months after birth but for me, can I honestly tell you that I feel like I've maybe just gotten out of it...emphasis on the maybe. Florence is 10 months old.
Sarah sent me my care package just in the nick of time. I chugged the happy drops and bliss tea in times of distress, so basically all day haha! But really, I'm Arab so naturally I'm a huge tea drinker and the bliss tea was my comfort. The feeling of warmth on my hands from my mug along with the floral aroma of the tea was what I look forward to every evening as my love and I talk about our day. I love that it's called Bliss tea because that's exactly how I feel when I'm drinking it, blissful, high almost. There's that birth high that I'm so addicted to and I truly feel like my tea drinking ritual prolonged that feeling for as long as possible. I carry the Happy Drops in my baby bag for emergencies, and oh my goodness, just the taste in itself makes me happy happy. The pharmacist in me is so intrigued by it, the compounding formulation. I'm like, what's in this stuff and why is it so good?! It makes me feel womanly and in tune. Something about it, gives me that "ahhhh" feeling.
I feel like every item that Sarah and Nova so very carefully select to include in the boxes comes with such beautiful and powerful intentions and affirmations. The package as a whole is so well thought out, and fills so many needs (and sometimes wants because those are important too) of a mother. This really is the perfect gift for a baby shower as well, so unique and beautiful and thoughtful.
I think what I love the most about Honey & Sage Co is that they are thinking about the mamas. I feel like so many times after women give birth, we give all our love and energy to this beautiful tiny bundle that we almost forget about the mama. Our society has this expectation for the woman to just get up and go 4 days after giving birth and we glorify that. When I'm out and see a mother with a week old baby shopping at Target, instead of saying 'oh good job for being out so soon,' I'm always like 'no no, go back to bed mama, give me your number so that I can come over and bring you a meal, bond with your baby, heal, recover, let someone else do the laundry, and the groceries." The thing is, when you take care of the mama, you're also taking care of the baby. Her milk production increases and her hormones release and her muscles relax and that is just recipe for a beautiful post-partum period and beyond!
Forget happy wife happy life, when a mother is happy and nurtured and
pampered and is physiologically and mentally well taken care of, everything that flourishes within her also does the same in
the life that she has just given birth to.
Here's to the blossoming of life, both for mama, daddy, and baby. Thank you so much Sarah and Nova for letting me experience just that, you are destined for great things mamas.
XX,
Madina
*Thank you so much to Honey & Sage Co for sponsoring this post. As with anything that I review on my blog, all products are held to the high standards of the City of Hearts brand and all opinions are my own. Thank you for supporting the makers and doers and movers and shakers that make this blog possible <3*
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