Tea Talk
| Please send a Community Bale of The Mother Tea to be a gift for another friend, who has opted for an unavoidable hysterectomy at the end of November. The tea will provide solace and support her health. Helga Karpinski, Tomslake, British Columbia I came to know of Mother when I was pregnant with my first baby. I’d picked up Gail Dahl’s book Pregnancy and Childbirth Tips and found a wealth of information in it that supported my ideas about how I wanted my labour and birth to go, which was the good old-fashioned way! In the book, she talked about the benefits of red raspberry leaf tea and mentioned The Compleat Mother magazine – with Catherine’s name and contact information. I called and ordered a Winter Supply and a subscription, and the rest is history. I will take a Community Bale. I heard about you from my earth-momma friends at work. Last week I went out to gather rose hips off my land. I came in and made a tea with red raspberry leaves, spearmint and rose hips. I did this a few times over the next few days – until I looked at the bag I was using and found a parsley label instead of one for raspberry leaves. I had been drinking parsley tea all week. Silly me. Well, I found my bag of Mother’s Tea and it’s low. I am 24 weeks pregnant, so it is time to start drinking it seriously. Parsley just won’t cut it. A friend of mine told me about the Mother Tea when I recently became pregnant with my third child, and she let me try some of hers. I enjoyed the tea and love tea in general, so knowing it was healthy for me and my baby led me here. I read about Mother’s Tea in a copy of The Compleat Mother a massage therapist friend gave me. The potassium levels impressed me. I am hoping it helps my low blood pressure. I adore Mother’s Tea. It’s been with me through two amazing pregnancies and births, breastfeeding and tandem nursing. Please send a bale to me and one to my sister, who is pregnant and due in March. I read about the tea in a copy of the magazine I found in the mother’s room at Chinook Centre while with a breastfeeding friend. My midwife suggested I begin drinking raspberry leaf tea I am expecting my first baby in eleven weeks and yours sounds tasty. I may as well go with a Community Bale, as I have several weeks left to go and then anticipate a long breastfeeding relationship. I’m in my first trimester and NEED the tea to help me through this nausea. Thank you for the Tea. I just received it today. I was beginning to worry I might run out! I had originally received the tea as a gift when I was trying to conceive. Now, I am 34 weeks along, and have been enjoying the tea ever since. Just knowing all of its nutritional values, and its mild, smooth taste, makes me continue to enjoy this tea. I will make sure to drink it when I am breastfeeding, too.
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 My beautiful sister-in-law is in labour with her first (at age 36) and I can’t believe I haven’t shared our tea with her yet. Okay, so I accept that it won’t arrive before the babe does, but better late than never. I found you over 15 years ago with my first and found you again 3½ years ago with my third, who was born at home and just stopped nursing. Tell me the tea is great for women ‘my age’ (forty something). Seems I stopped breastfeeding just in time for menopause! Please send a Community Bale for me and a Winter Supply to my pregnant friend. The Compleat Mother has sustained me through the years of breastfeeding my two wee ones and has proven to be a lifeline to this sisterhood of alternative parenting. I have emptied two bags of tea and I can tell you I enjoyed every cup. I feel better already. I wish to order four more Winter Supplies. It was such a pleasure to receive my special delivery. I am 80 years old and can walk every day two or three miles. I can also dance…and I will stop bragging. I never got around to telling Catherine she was right. I ordered a huge batch of Mother’s Tea when I was seven weeks pregnant and drank quarts and quarts of it throughout my pregnancy. I had a five-hour labor – she was right! It was a home VBAC, with a 10 lb. 12 oz. baby girl, Clara, over and intact perineum. Santa visited my home yesterday, disguised as a postal worker. I brought the parcel in and tore it open, with the help of my three-year-old and fourteen-month-old. I invited my doula-homebirth-breastfeeding-Compleat Mother-subscribing mama over for a night of Mother Tea and reading Mother until we couldn’t keep our eyes open any longer.
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