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Spring Clean with Detox Baths!
Super Oxy Bath A Unique Bath Additive Designed to Support Numerous Functions: Introduces additional oxygen into the bathwater Induces relaxation and restful sleep Changes the pH of bathwater from acidic to slightly alkaline Stimulates the lymphatic system Breaks down herbicides and pesticides found in water Helps neutralize the chlorine and new form of fluoride (fluorosilysic [...]
Welcome Keleigh Lee, IBCLC!!
Indigo Forest is proud to announce a new collaboration with experienced lactation specialist, Keleigh Lee, IBCLC! See Keleigh’s new breastfeeding classes offered in March & April! Keleigh Lee, IBCLC, is an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant trained to support mothers meet their breastfeeding goals. The IBCLC credential is the most advanced lactation certification available and [...]
Here’s to Our Mothers
Well, we all have one. Sometimes more. Our Mothers. How are you doing with yours? This is just a musing, unbidden. A holiday musing of loss and understanding, completion and transformation. On my mind these days, holidays and the Mothers. As a midwife, there is a special moment in which mothers become… although that ‘moment’ [...]
Elderberry Syrup Anyone?
Wouldn’t it be nice to have a little delicious magic potion in your cupboard when the sniffles sneak in? Elderberry is your friend! Look around your neighborhood, and you are likely to see these luscious dark berries hanging ripe and heavy, waiting for their chance to do their healing work. Loaded with Vitamin C & [...]
Indigo’s New Health Club!
Join the Indigo Forest Health Club! Practical 1-hour *Saturday classes *10:00-11:00 am: Class, 11:00-11:30 am: Q & A. Wish you felt more confident using natural remedies? Are you eager to try natural health solutions, but feel unsure about the next step? We are offering a new series of classes to celebrate Indigo’s 4th year of [...]
Traditional Food Ways for Families
Want to improve your family’s diet, but don’t know where to start? Join our community of parents, children & friends as we support one another on a journey to eat whole, traditional food while honoring our bodies, animals, plants and minerals. This Weston Price-inspired class meets at Indigo Forest on Tuesday mornings from 9:30 – [...]
Our Mama Circle
Feeling isolated? Mothering is a complex, challenging, amazing journey….and one that we often travel alone, or alone with our parenting partners & mates. Such a lonely journey does not serve our children, our selves or our community. Come join Jahmanna Selassie, doula, aspiring midwife, massage therapist, mother of 6, and a growing group of fast [...]
Healthy Living, and Healthy Dying….
A new topic to raise here publicly here at Indigo Forest…..In a business that so many think of as ‘that mommy-baby store,’ we actually view ourselves as a Life-Cycle Store, and are often quietly helping our customers not just when they welcome new family members, but also when their loved ones pass on as well. [...]
Ann Arbor’s Original Nursing Cafe’
While breastfeeding may be the ‘most natural thing in the world,’ it often does not seem to come naturally to many babies & their mothers these days . In spite of often heroic efforts on the part of mamas who read and educate themselves passionately, work to have a healthy satisfying birth, and ‘do everything [...]
Picking A Prenatal Vitamin
When I finally got pregnant for the first time, I became nearly paralyzed as I began to evaluate every single thing I put in my mouth. Which prenatal vitamins to use was the beginning of what seemed to grow to a 1,000 Big Decisions! I first splurged at the grocery and filled the fridge a [...]
