When Alexsandra walked into the world of homeopathy, her pregnancy and labor experience underwent a remarkable transformation. Her story, shared in our latest podcast episode, is a testament to the natural powers of homeopathy and its profound impact on maternal health. From enduring a first pregnancy riddled with discomforts like heartburn and insomnia to a second pregnancy so smooth she'd often forget she was expecting, Alexsandra's candid revelations will captivate anyone interested in alternative approaches to childbirth and wellness.
Embark on a fascinating discussion about the preparatory health measures that can fortify both parents before conception, and the tailored care that supports a mother through labor and delivery. Alexsandra's personal account of her serene home birth, supported by a homeopathic childbirth kit and cell salts, alongside the incredible postpartum recovery, less bleeding, and absence of tearing, will leave you in awe. As a new mother, she reflects on the overall health of her baby and how minor issues like spit-up were managed with gentle homeopathic remedies, emphasizing the holistic care that enveloped her family.
Our conversation extends to the broader scope of homeopathy's role in enhancing family health, where balance and natural remedies take center stage. This episode is an invitation to explore the nurturing embrace of homeopathy for both women and men, particularly during life's most pivotal moments like pregnancy, labor, and delivery. We also tease the horizon of learning opportunities with upcoming courses on pregnancy, menopause, and skin health, inviting you to join a supportive community that's keen to share knowledge and experiences in natural health practices. Alexsandra's journey is not just inspiring; it's a beacon for anyone seeking an integrative approach to childbirth and family well-being.
When Alexsandra walked into the world of homeopathy, her pregnancy and labor experience underwent a remarkable transformation. Her story, shared in our latest podcast episode, is a testament to the natural powers of homeopathy and its profound impact on maternal health. From enduring a first pregnancy riddled with discomforts like heartburn and insomnia to a second pregnancy so smooth she'd often forget she was expecting, Alexsandra's candid revelations will captivate anyone interested in alternative approaches to childbirth and wellness.
Embark on a fascinating discussion about the preparatory health measures that can fortify both parents before conception, and the tailored care that supports a mother through labor and delivery. Alexsandra's personal account of her serene home birth, supported by a homeopathic childbirth kit and cell salts, alongside the incredible postpartum recovery, less bleeding, and absence of tearing, will leave you in awe. As a new mother, she reflects on the overall health of her baby and how minor issues like spit-up were managed with gentle homeopathic remedies, emphasizing the holistic care that enveloped her family.
Our conversation extends to the broader scope of homeopathy's role in enhancing family health, where balance and natural remedies take center stage. This episode is an invitation to explore the nurturing embrace of homeopathy for both women and men, particularly during life's most pivotal moments like pregnancy, labor, and delivery. We also tease the horizon of learning opportunities with upcoming courses on pregnancy, menopause, and skin health, inviting you to join a supportive community that's keen to share knowledge and experiences in natural health practices. Alexsandra's journey is not just inspiring; it's a beacon for anyone seeking an integrative approach to childbirth and family well-being.
Bri Hurlburt 0:00
Welcome back to Homeopathy at Home with Melissa. Hey Melissa.
Melissa Crenshaw 0:04
Hey Bri. Good to see you.
Bri Hurlburt 0:06
Super good to be here. We're recording right before Christmas so this feels exciting. Probably our last one before Christmas and your Christmas tree. Tonight we have Alexsandra with us and I'm really excited. She's taken some of our classes and is here tonight to talk about probably my favorite topic: pregnancy, birth, all of the things. We're really excited to have her.
Melissa Crenshaw 0:33
Yeah, thank you. Welcome, Alexsandra.
Alexsandra 0:39
Hi guys. Thanks for having me.
Melissa Crenshaw 0:40
Thank you for being here. How old is the baby right now?
Alexsandra 0:46
She is right here and she is two months old. She'll be 11 weeks on Thursday.
Melissa Crenshaw 0:57
Wow. Getting big. Yeah. And this is your second baby.
Alexsandra 1:01
It is. Yes. I have a three and a half year old at home.
Melissa Crenshaw 1:06
I wanted Alex to come on to share her story on how she did not use homeopathy in the first pregnancy, labor, delivery, if I'm correct. If I'm not right, you can correct me on that. And then she used it with this one and what a huge difference it was. You can just be free and tell your story.
Alexsandra 1:32
Yeah, yeah. With my first child, I did not use homeopathy and I hated being pregnant. It was the worst. The heartburn, the constipation, the insomnia. Literally, if there was a pregnancy symptom, I had it and it was horrible. Same with my labor and delivery. I had Addison in the hospital. I started out at home. Rocked and rolled there. Then I got to the hospital and things went a little sideways. Postpartum was hard. It was just kind of a harder experience than I imagined it would be. I was the person that thought I would pop out a baby and then baby wear and go pick wildflowers in a field two days later. That was not the case.
With this one, I wanted to do it a little differently. I started working with you, Melissa. We got on your pregnancy plan. We did the Joette cell salts and then a few other other things that were more tailored to me. And it was literally night and day. No heartburn, no constipation, no backaches. No nothing. Honestly, I forgot I was pregnant half the time. The only time I got a little cranky was when I hit 41 weeks. I was like, “All right, I’m ready for the baby to come out.”
Bri Hurlburt 2:53
That seems fair.
Alexsandra 2:56
Yeah, right? She was 41 and a day, just like her sister. After that 40 week, you're ready. And she was summer. I don't know, Bri … I’m sure it was like this in Florida but it was … I don't know if it was because I was pregnant but it was the hottest summer I recall us ever having. I could not believe it. It was a struggle at the end. Honestly, my pregnancy was great. It was night and day. It was what I expected pregnancy to be.
And then same kind of thing with my labor. I don't know if you want me to just kind of jump right in, y'all. I can kind of just go through it. My labor I started having, at like 40 weeks ... So back up. I was huge. I gained so much weight and everybody was like, “You're having this baby early. You're having this baby early.” And obviously I didn't. So at 40 weeks, I started having just little twinges. Nothing more than me to be like, “Ooh, maybe tonight,” but nothing that was painful, nothing that was consistent. That started right around 40 weeks, and it happened every night. So every night I would go to bed and I'm like, “Tonight's the night. She's coming.” Or it's coming. We didn't find out if it was a boy or a girl and we were doing a home birth with this one instead of a hospital birth.
So I go to bed every night and that happened for a week. Towards the end of that, creeping up on 41 weeks, so it was starting to get a little bit like, “How ya doing?” Like don't talk to me. So 41 and a day, and honestly, I woke up that morning, and I don't know, I felt the same, just kind of like a little mild cramping. Kind of that cramping you feel a couple days before you get your period. Just a little bit like, “Huh,” but nothing. Nothing.
And I had my midwife appointment that day at I think it was 10:30. I went to her house and had my normal little checkup. Check your blood pressure, whatever. And she's like, “How are you feeling?” I was like, “Honestly, I think it might be sooner than later.” I'm having some contractions, but nothing that is consistent. They're like six minutes apart, 15 minutes apart, two minutes apart, 20 minutes apart. I would talk to her and I'd get a contraction while I was in my appointment, and I’d talk through it. It was no big deal. She’s like, “Yeah, you know, you're probably going to have the baby maybe this weekend.” The appointment was on a Thursday and I was like, “Okay.”
I waddle out of her house to go home. It's like 11:30 at this point. I go to my mom's. She's like, “Go home. Eat a big lunch. Take a nap. Just go about your day.” I’m like all right. So I go home. I have a huge bowl of spaghetti. I'm like, “All right, Mom, I'm going to go take a nap. Can you watch Addison for a little bit?” So I walk down the hall, and it's probably noon at this point.
I get down the hall to her room to take a nap. And I was like, “Oh, that one feels a little different.” And so I lay down and I just could not get comfortable. I was starting to get a little kind of cranky. So I was like I want to go home. I want to be in my own house. So my mom drives me and my daughter Addison to our house and she's like, “Well, I'm going to go run some errands.” I was like all right. So she gets me inside and I start having more contractions. Thank God for her because I was ready to send her on her way. She’s like, “I think I'm gonna stick around.”
I'm just kind of going about. It’s probably 12:30 at this point, and she's like, “I think you should call your husband. I think you need to call Nick and tell him you're in labor.” I was like, “I’m not in labor. Maybe I'm having some contractions. If I am in labor, it's nothing.”
And I think … Melissa, when did I call you? Probably like 10:30. I was like, “I think I might be having some contractions. What should I do from a homeopathy perspective?” And she gave me two remedies. She was like, “Alternate these remedies. Take one at this hour, and then an hour later, take another. Do that each remedy four times.” So what would that have been? Eight hours? And then she gave me another remedy to take after those eight hours were up. It was just to kind of keep momentum going. That's what she said. So, I think I got two doses of one, and one dose of the other.
It was like 12:30. We call Nick. I’m like, “I think you should come home. I think I might be in labor.” It's like 10 until 1 that I called the midwife. I'm like, “I think I'm in labor. I think you should come at least just to kind of evaluate.” She's like, “Okay.”
My husband gets home at 1. I'm like, “Fill up the pool.” No, I told him to blow up the pool. Don't fill it up. We've got some time. The midwife shows up at 1:20. Nick is starting to fill up the pool because contractions are starting to kind of kick in. And in hindsight, I realized when I was in transition, but in the moment I didn't think I was because none of it was painful. I was in no pain. Things were intense and I had to stop, but I was not … It wasn't like my first for sure where I was like screaming bloody murder. I had her naturally, too. I just didn't do it with homeopathy or any kind of preparation. It was just an intense feeling, but not painful. I don't know if that makes sense. I'm just kind of like, and I realize in hindsight when I was in transition, because my mom was like, “What can I do for you?” And my response was, “Stop asking me such dumb bleeping questions.” I think that might have been it.
Bri Hurlburt 9:09
Everybody else probably knew. They were like, “Oh, it's happening now.”
Alexsandra 9:14
Yes. Everybody else, they were like, “Okay, she's having a baby.” The midwife gets here at like 1:20. She comes in and I was like, “I'm sorry I called you so early. I don't know. This is probably very early labor.” Grown. Moan. Ooooh. And she's like, “I think you're in labor.” And I said, “Well, will you just check me so I can wrap my head around kind of what's happening?” She said, “Sure.”
So she checks me. I get off the bed and I was like, “What am I? Like two centimeters?” She said, “Oh no, sweetie. You are 10 centimeters and you can push whenever you want.” I got in the tub. We blew up a little birth pool in my bedroom. It was 1:30 in the afternoon. I did not have my twinkle lights, or my affirmations or my music. Nothing. The pool wasn't even all the way filled up. I get in the pool. I push once and I can feel her descend. I push another time. Her head’s halfway out. And then the next contraction I pushed her out. Literally start to finish in maybe four minutes.
Melissa Crenshaw 10:26
Wow. That’s amazing.
Alexsandra 10:29
The midwife got there at 1:20 and I had her at 1:55.
Bri Hurlburt 10:33
Did she check you when you were at your appointment that morning or no?
Alexsandra 10:36
No. So that's kind of what I loved. I know this isn’t a homebirth thing, but I’m Team Homebirth. Strong Team Homebirth. I never got checked once for anything. She would ask me how I'm feeling. If I had symptoms of something, then for sure, but honestly my pregnancy was a dream. I never had a symptom that was questionable. My little pee sticks that you would do. She helped me take autonomy of it. I owned it. I did the pee stick myself. I read the results myself. She let my daughter take my blood pressure every time. Addison, a three year old, was pumping the blood pressure. So I never got checked. Even at my 6 week visit she didn’t check me. She was like, “How you feeling?” I’m like, “Normal.” She’s like, “All right. See ya.”
Bri Hurlburt 11:31
Where do you live?
Alexsandra 11:33
I'm in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Bri Hurlburt 11:34
Oh you are in Charlotte. Okay. Yeah, there is a good home birth scene there.
Alexsandra 11:40
Very underground, but yes, very good.
Bri Hurlburt 11:42
Oh yeah, you gotta like … Yeah, but it's wonderful.
Alexsandra 11:46
It is. And there's a good community and the support that I got after I had Lillian from … A. Melissa with the remedies. She came in strong because I did have a little bit of blood pressure spike at the end. Nothing that was alarming to anyone but my postpartum body-mind. And Melissa was great with remedies. And I bounced back very quickly.
The midwife came. They stayed for several hours after. Cleaned up. Mamie brought me homemade chicken noodle soup. They came back 24 hours later, then 48 hours after that, then a week after that, and then every week for six weeks. I got a lot of support. It was very different. It was healing in a lot of ways from my first and healing in ways I didn't know I needed healing. It was great. It was perfect. I want to tell everyone I see and show everyone I see my home birth video and I recognize that that's inappropriate.
Bri Hurlburt 12:54
I’m like, “Do you want to watch it? Here, you can watch a video.”
Alexsandra 13:00
My OB/Gyn’s like, “How's the baby?” And I was like, “Good, I had a home birth. Do you want to hear about it?”
Melissa Crenshaw 13:09
I haven’t seen it. You have to send it to me. I want to see that.
Alexsandra 13:12
I love it. It's raw and very out there.
Melissa Crenshaw 13:16
I would love that too. Okay, so you were a client of mine before you got pregnant. Isn’t that right?
Alexsandra 13:26
Mm-hmm.
Melissa Crenshaw 13:29
Okay. And then you got pregnant shortly after we started working together?
Alexsandra 13:34
Quickly. I had back surgery a year before I got pregnant and I was really concerned because I carry babies big. I have eight and a half pound, 20 inch babies. So I was concerned. I had had back surgery. How was that going to go? So I reached out to you because I was like, A. My back needs to be strong. And 2. I really want to go into this pregnancy with the tools to have a great pregnancy, an easy conception, and a good, smooth delivery. So we started working together and I think maybe two or three months max, I think it was two months, I got pregnant. I worked throughout my entire pregnancy.
Melissa Crenshaw 14:26
Yeah. Your family’s on the family plan so we were already working together. And then when I found out you were pregnant, in your regular consult, like your regular follow up, we talked about what symptoms you were having. We addressed those in your chronic care plan. Then we did a labor and delivery plan closer, like 35 weeks or so, just so you'd be ready.
Alexsandra 14:55
Yeah, it was right at 36. We talked about my first labor and delivery and how it went, concerns I might have, and then you made a customized plan based on my previous. Then there were a few things that I wanted to have on hand because I was doing a home birth, just in case of an emergency and you added that to the plan.
Melissa Crenshaw 15:16
Perfect. So were you prepared? I mean, did you have all the remedies you needed?
Alexsandra 15:20
I did. I had that Helios childbirth kit, too.
Melissa Crenshaw 15:25
I love it.
Alexsandra 15:26
It was perfect. Literally everything you put out in my care plan for the pregnancy was already in that kit so I didn't have to buy anything. There were probably like 15 remedies you didn't put in the plan, in case I needed them. So I felt very prepared. I printed it out, because you wrote exactly what to do and how to do it, so I printed it out and I had that in my home birth laundry basket.
Bri Hurlburt 15:55
Wonderful.
Melissa Crenshaw 15:58
I love it. Thank you so much for that. Thank you for sharing that story. I love the difference, the huge contrast. Now, no, we're not saying it was all homeopathy because there was also the homebirth piece that made everything very much different. But you had already been using homeopathy before. You had been on chronic care plans with me before you got pregnant, and your husband because you're on the family plan. You both were, before you conceived, you were already on remedies and so your body was getting healthier. If I could say to any couple or family that are trying to get pregnant, get the mom and the dad as healthy as possible before you conceive. Has the baby had any trouble? Any issues?
Alexsandra 16:53
I don't know if this is the homeopathy, if it's the home birth, or it's probably just a mix of all, but my first was colicky. I mean, it was a nightmare for the first six months. This baby? I think I heard her cry for the first time last night and Nick and I were like, “What do we do?” She’s the calmest, chillest, happiest, strongest, most alert. She's almost 11 weeks and she's already doing the crunches to like sit up by herself. She can follow everything. She’s bright eyed. She is just like … Everybody comments like, “She's so alert. She's so awake.”
Bri Hurlburt 17:41
Did you do any remedies for her after the birth?
Alexsandra 17:43
I didn't. Not right after. She is on one little remedy. I added her to the family plan. She is on a remedy right now, just literally for like spit up, like nothing, which is working like a dream, too. She's asleep, right? Right here. Very calm. I would have given her a remedy after she was born had she needed it but honestly, she came out so easy and gently and peacefully. Even the midwife was like, “I've never seen. She has a C-section baby's head.” It was just like, it was perfect. It wasn't coned. Nothing.
Bri Hurlburt 18:30
What about your postpartum healing and milk supply? What are the differences? I don't know how much in detail you want to share, but tearing was not even. Your healing, bleeding?
Alexsandra 18:44
I had literally like zero bleeding. The midwife was like, “I'm not sure if I've ever seen such little bleeding.” In hindsight, she said she thinks that Lillian was closer to almost over 42 weeks, just with how quickly she was breathing, how big she was. There was some meconium. Nothing that was alarmist but she was like, “Oh, I think this baby is older than 41 weeks.” With Addison. I had a third degree tear. With Lillian, not even a … nary a mark.
Melissa Crenshaw 19:23
How big was Addison?
Alexsandra 19:26
Addison was 8 pounds 3 ounces, 20 inches and Lillian was 8 pounds 4 ounces, 20 inches.
Bri Hurlburt 19:33
Okay, so the same size baby.
Alexsandra 19:35
Mm-hmm.
Melissa Crenshaw 19:38
You were doing those pregnancy cell salts throughout, which should have strengthened.
Bri Hurlburt 19:47
Elasticity.
Melissa Crenshaw 19:45
And the elasticity. Amazing. Sorry to interrupt.
Bri Hurlburt 19:48
Piggybacking on that. Did you get stitches? I'm assuming it was that bad. So there was scar tissue there as well?
Alexsandra 19:56
There was some scar tissue and it's interesting that you brought that up. I had scar tissue and then it was kind of … I don't want to say it was gone but when I worked with a pelvic floor PT, and she's like, “You have scar tissue. It's not bad, but you definitely have it.” But as my pregnancy progressed, I was working with another PT and every time they would check me there, I was like, “Ohhh, what about that scar tissue?” And he was like, “You have no scar tissue. It is not there.” Honestly, the only thing that I attribute that to would be the homeopathy. I did nothing to make that scar tissue go away other than the cell salts.
Bri Hurlburt 20:38
What about your milk supply? Did you notice any changes in that or your emotional state?
Alexsandra 20:45
Both, yes. So my emotional state with Addison was a hot mess. When we went for my six week checkup, my mom went with me, and I remember vividly leaving and she said, “You have one week to lock this up or we’re putting you on meds.” With Lillian, I think I might have cried like twice and it was over how much I love her. Nothing crazy. I will say I did things differently. I hired a postpartum doula. I did not get out of bed for 10 days and then I moved to the couch for a week after that. I very much supported my body in that way. I rested. This baby and I stayed skin to skin in my bed for almost two full weeks. I do think that played a role in that also.
But emotionally, I felt great. I felt very put together. I did not have any … I mean, I had a couple times where I cried, but it wasn't like feeling very overwhelmed. It was literally like my three year old. I just need a little space. And oh, now I feel bad because I love you so much. Don't give me any space. Those are the times I cried.
And as far as my milk supply, my milk came in on the second day. With Addison I had to supplement. I nursed her until she was two but I always supplemented. With Lillian, she's already three pounds heavier than Addison was at this age and I'm not supplementing. I'm just nursing. My milk came in two days in and it came in. I got mastitis because it came in so fast and so aggressively and we were still figuring nursing out. But honestly, she's a rock star nurser. Melissa gave me some remedies for mastitis and I haven't gotten it since. It cleared it up in 24 hours.
Melissa Crenshaw 22:47
Right. Were you having some recurrent mastitis? Did it keep coming back?
Alexsandra 22:55
In days. Yeah.
Melissa Crenshaw 22:58
Then we did a remedy to uproot that tendency to get mastitis and you stayed on that for quite a while. I believe you stopped that remedy now.
Alexsandra 23:09
I stayed on it for a few weeks and then in our last little checkup, I hadn’t gotten it since and I feel great, so we stopped it, and I haven't gotten it again, nor do I feel it. I could always kind of feel it brewing. And I haven’t felt it at all. And it cleared up. I mean, it was gone in 24 hours, and then I got it again. And it was gone in 24 hours. But I was like, “Mmmm.” You know, I have a toddler at home. I can't be out for the count, which I don't know if you guys have ever had mastitis but it knocks you out.
Bri Hurlburt 23:43
It's so terrible.
Alexsandra 23:45
It's the worst thing ever. I remember saying, “This is worse than having the baby.”
Bri Hurlburt 23:51
It feels like the flu. Mine did. I could not get up. And homeopathy worked within 24 hours, but it still is a miserable 24 hours going through that. I know people who suffer through that for weeks sometimes.
Alexsandra 24:09
A friend of mine had it for a full seven days. And then I happened to talk to her and she's like, “I have mastitis and the flu.” I was like, “You have mastitis, which makes you feel like the flu.” I told her some remedies to take and she dutifully took those remedies and it cleared it up. It took a little longer. She had like full blown, I mean raging mastitis. I'm surprised she didn't get on antibiotics because she didn't know anything about homeopathy. But she now calls me and she's like, “So this is going on. Is there a remedy for that?”
Melissa Crenshaw 24:47
I love it.
Alexsandra 24:49
It cleared it up so well and fast for her and she felt so much better. But yeah, so I took remedies for mastitis and we uprooted it, I hope. I mean, I haven't gotten it since.
Bri Hurlburt 25:03
I really do think the trick and I think you would agree here Melissa, is getting started prior to pregnancy because they're just such a bigger … At least from what I've seen, which hasn't been a ton of people, so I'll put that out there. My last pregnancy I did the cell salts for the first time, instead of a prenatal. I didn't even take a prenatal.
Alexsandra 25:25
I didn’t either.
Bri Hurlburt 25:26
Yeah, and that was the first time I really felt comfortable doing that. That was even night and day. It was just so different. I started prior to pregnancy. I had been using homeopathy already. It makes such a big difference. That's so fun.
Alexsandra 25:42
Yeah, I loved it. Addison, she's a strong, healthy child, but I already see, like the colic in Addison and the calmness in Lillian and just the tendencies Addison had to get really worked up and things would bother her quickly. And this one, I knocked her head the other day and she was like, “Mmm” and that was that. She’s just so even. I’m sure personality plays a role, but I'm not even and neither is her dad, so I think it has a lot to do with homeopathy.
that's a lot to do with.
Melissa Crenshaw 26:24
I love it. What a great story. I guess we did a follow up, and Bri, she was telling me all of this. She just told me a lot of it. I mean, I knew a lot of it, but then she was just telling me how amazing everything was and I was like, “Man, you have to come share your story because it can be so encouraging to other women.” Even if you're already pregnant right now you can still start on the pregnancy cell salts and you can still do a pregnancy plan with me, and then a labor and delivery plan. It's not too late.
But man, if you're not pregnant yet, and you're planning to get pregnant, just using homeopathy to address your whole person, your body, your health, whatever's happening in your body. It's not that you need to take a certain remedy because you're planning to get pregnant. It's what's happening in your body? Let's address your person, and then you are the healthiest that you can be or you are healthier, at least, before you get pregnant and that makes a huge difference. If your husband is on remedies too, that makes it even more. Before you conceive, if you're both using remedies and you're getting healthier. I mean, diet plays a role. Lifestyle. Stress. All the things. Sleep. All that matters. It makes such a big difference. I'm so glad that you came. I know this is encouraging to someone right now, at least one person, but probably a lot of people. So thanks for sharing all of that.
Alexsandra 28:00
I love it. I mean, like you said about the husband, too. I feel like it's all put on the woman but he plays a 50% role in it. I learned the other day that the placenta is from the sperm. The sperm literally gives what needs the placenta to grow. And I didn't know that. And that's what sustains your baby for the whole time they're in there so it does matter.
Bri Hurlburt 28:29
Think about biology, too. Men create, sperm are recreated new ones all the time. And so the health of those are directly dependent on his health at the time. It's just wild. You can also take homeopathy when you're pregnant, when you're nursing. I have several friends now who don't use homeopathy who are suffering through, like their whole families are super sick, and they can't hardly take any over the counter meds because they’re breastfeeding or they're pregnant. And you can take it all.
Alexsandra 29:05
Right. I didn't get sick one time. No, that's not true. I had strep throat while I was pregnant, and I didn't do any antibiotics. You know, God forbid. My daughter and I both had strep at the same time and honestly, it wasn't that bad. We got through it pretty quickly. We just did remedies for it. I think it took like three to five days and we were back at it.
Bri Hurlburt 29:35
I don’t know if this was your experience, but I feel like when I use it, I come out the other side better. I feel like before … It's been so long now it's kind of hard to remember, but I remember noticing early on that I didn't slowly come out of the sickness haze. Like I got better and I felt better.
Alexsandra 29:54
Yeah, honestly, aside from the strep throat, which, you know, I didn't love but it wasn’t the end of the world. Other than that I did not get sick at all. I am strong Team Cell Salts, because I feel like everyone around me was crashing. And I'm like, “Not me.” I felt good. I felt healthy, strong. I felt alert. I felt calm. I don't know. And I mean, that's literally the only thing that I did differently.
Melissa Crenshaw 30:36
Can you imagine, though, if you had not been knowledgeable of homeopathy or used remedies, then you would have gotten an antibiotic, and then that would have affected her.
Alexsandra 30:48
Oh yeah. And in fact, I went to the Minute Clinic or something, just because I wanted to know if I had it. I thought maybe. I felt like a diagnosis would help me least stay away from other people. And she was like, “Oh, you definitely need to take this antibiotic.” I was like, “Well, I'm seven months pregnant. Is that okay?” And she's like, “I'm not sure. Let me Google it.” I was like, “Oh.” That didn't really instill a whole lot of confidence. I mean, I didn't fill the prescription, obviously but still, I was like, “I don't really want to take something that the doctor has to Google.”
Melissa Crenshaw 31:25
I can't. My mouth. I can't.
Alexsandra 31:28
Right. Yeah. I didn't accuse you.
Melissa Crenshaw 31:32
Go into your office and Google it. Don't tell me you’re Googling it.
Bri Hurlburt 31:35
That’s what I’m saying. Don't do that right in front of me. Just be like, “I'm going to go double check.”
Melissa Crenshaw 31:39
Right. I’m going to go look in my notes.
Alexsandra 31:41
She was right in front of me, just Googled it. She’s like, “It says it should be fine.” Okay. You know. I would have taken that and then you know … I didn't luckily and I kicked it in a few days. It wasn't terrible. And now her gut’s better. Addison had … and I didn't ever take antibiotics while I was pregnant with Addison, but it was just little things. Addison had cradle cap for months. It was terrible. I keep checking Lillian’s head. I'm like, “Nope. No sign of cradle cap.” Like, no dry skin. No nothing. She just looks perfect.
Melissa Crenshaw 32:25
Because you and dad were healthier when you conceived than you were the first time. So amazing.
Alexsandra 32:35
And it's not like we weren’t healthy the first time. Literally, we ate the same diet. Honestly, the only thing we really did differently was we worked with you, a homeopath, added remedies, balanced our system, and then stayed balanced throughout with homeopathy.
Melissa Crenshaw 32:57
So good. Thank you so much for being here and sharing this and encouraging women and men. Encourage the whole family.
Alexsandra 33:06
Yeah, I’ll talk about this all day.
Bri Hurlburt 33:12
Same. We try to keep our podcasts short or we start talking forever.
Melissa Crenshaw 33:20
Thanks for being here. And you guys, you know what? We are still planning to teach a pregnancy, labor, and delivery course. I have a menopause course that I'm working on and a skin course that I'm working on. Then there's all the other courses that we've done. If you're interested in learning homeopathy, go to melissacrenshaw.com, click on the Courses tab and see all that we have to offer. Come do a live class with us. That's how Alexsandra found us was through a live class she did. Her and her mom did it together, which was fun. They support each other now and they talk about the things and they share remedies and they help each other out. So, come take a class. Learn how to do this. Get healthy before you get pregnant if you can, but if you're already pregnant, I do a pregnancy, labor, and delivery plan, so you can come and check that out. And thanks for being here.
Alexsandra 34:29
Thanks for having me.