Essential Oils

It's official....I have become an "oily mommy". To be honest with you I kinda didn't believe in them. I have read all these amazing reviews but couldn't believe that a simple little oil would help so much with specific things. This may be part of the nurse in me who is used to modern medicine. Don't get me wrong, I am also game for taking more of a natural approach with things...hence the reason we switched to a blenderized diet (almost 2 years ago) in C's gtube instead of the man made formula full of corn syrup and ingredients I can't even pronounce. Once we switched we saw a new child who looked healthy, nails grew, hair sprouted on his head, and he basically quit vomiting! How could that not make you a believe that natural is truly better for your body?! 

Ok, I could go on about that forever but let me get back to these essential oils! I was given a blend from a special NICU mommy friend around a year ago. This blend had amazing raves about how well it helped calm hyperactive children, helped with their focus, and helped with restful sleep. I was skeptical but absolutely willing to try anything! I will admit, we tried it for about a month or so. The first week or so I noticed a little more focused,some what calmer child but that wore off and he was back to his whirlwind self! We put the oils away since I didn't notice much improvement. 

Fast forward 8 months later, I stumbled upon that special blend while cleaning out some drawers.  I figured what would it hurt to give it another try! That second try has been amazing! We roll it on each toe and then down the middle of his feet twice a day, sometimes three. Connor thoroughly enjoys this! When we talk about his oils, he quickly pulls his socks off, takes the lid off the oil and tries to put it on his feet. We take over or else the blend would be all over his body, but he counts each toe out loud and then he says "down" when we roll it down his foot! 

* Oils in a roller bottle*

Since starting the oils back (4 months now) we have noticed his focus has improved dramatically. He is a lot more attentive in therapies ( even his therapist noticed the improvement), meltdowns have decreased (if he has any), he's calmer ( like sitting to read a book or watch tv- typically he would be constantly running and not really focused), and somewhat better sleeping patterns. The sleeping patterns were going fairly well until we ran out of our blend last week! The waking at 3:30am and 5 am are so not for this mommy! 

Thanks to a great friend, who just recently started to sell essential oils, she was able to come up with a blend just for Connor! We will call it "Connor's blend". It is a combo of different oils that work on different things like calming, relaxing, empowerment, energy balance, mental focus, and soothing. So far he is doing very well with this blend. He absolutely rocked his delevelopmental evaluation today at the school, it was a tad hard to get his attention but once they did he was able to do absolutely everything they asked of him! 

So yes, we will do these oils as long as we continue to notice that it helps Connor. :)