EP 37: Holistic First Aid, Outdoor Kids, and Confident Mothering with Becca Regnerus

Today’s guest is Becca Regnerus, the mom of six behind @becca.naturally on Instagram. Becca helps moms feel confident supporting their families with natural remedies, homeopathy, and other practical holistic tools for everyday illnesses and injuries.

In this episode, we talk about what it looks like to raise active, outdoor kids without living in fear of every bump, bruise, fever, cough, or trip to the ER.

Becca shares honestly about raising 6 kids, multiple ER visits, and why she would rather patch up outdoor injuries than keep her kids inside and sedentary. We also talk about how moms can build a realistic first aid kit, when to treat things at home, when to seek medical care, and how to stay calm when your child is hurt.

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Julianne 0:00

Welcome to the My Outdoors Imam Podcast. I'm Julianne, Mom of Three, Outdoor Play Advocate, and the voice behind My Outdoors Emom. Here we talk about raising outdoor confident kids, the kind who build forts, explore creeks, solve problems, and grow into capable humans through real play and real adventure. Each week you'll hear conversations about outdoor play, childhood independence, family travel, and the simple rhythms that help kids thrive. If you want to raise kids who spend more time outside and less time on screens, you're in the right place. Let's get outside. Today's guest is Becca Regneris, the voice behind Becca Naturally on Instagram. Becca is a mom of six who helps moms feel more confident, supporting their families with natural remedies, homeopathy, and practical holistic tools for everyday childhood ailments. Becca approaches from a place of preparedness, confidence, and common sense. She helps moms learn what they can handle at home, when to seek help, and how to trust their intuition without ignoring wisdom or safety. And because so many of us are heading into the season of spending more time outside and kids living their wild summer lives, I knew this was the perfect time to have her on. Becca, welcome to the podcast. I'm so excited to be here. This is gonna be so fun. I'm so excited to have you, and I feel like this has been a long time coming. Yeah, yeah. And it actually is coming at the most perfect time because at the time of recording, we'll be kind of heading into summer. So there's a lot going on that I feel like you can help bring confidence to the moms out there listening, whether it's scrapes, cuts, things that happen when your kids are outdoors. It's just basic first aid. And you are so well equipped in this arena, and I have learned so much from you. But first off, share with us how many kids do you have?

SPEAKER_00 1:44

I have six kids. My oldest just turned 16. My youngest is three. Um, I have lost track of how many times we have been to the ER uh simply because of them being wild kids. And I honestly have no regrets. I wanted to kind of start this out and I just wanted to tell a story quick. We had a summer, it was a few years ago. We were in the ER nine times with five of the six kids. Okay. So some of them had multiple trips, right? And just little things, you know, um, stitches on the ankle, uh, somebody got hit in the head with a baseball bat, uh, there was a sprained ankle, there was a broken finger while she was swimming with friends at a campground. Like just random things, right? And they all happened because these kids were outside and being active. And the ER doctor, obviously, that many trips, we had the same doctor twice in, I think it was like within a week of each other. So I mean it was so bad. He looked at me, he was like, I've seen you before. And I was like, Oh no. And he was so kind. And he said, because you know how sometimes you go in and they're like, Are you watching your kids? Why are they hurt all the time? Anyway, this guy was like, I just want to tell you, it was when my son had broke his leg on a trampoline in the week before we'd been in for stitches, I think. And he looked at me and he was like, I just want to tell you, I would rather patch your kids up and fix their broken bones and stitch them back together than have them in here with mental health issues because they are not outside and they are sitting on screens all the time. And I was like, Okay. But I thought that was really profound for an emergency room doctor to say. He he he was a dad. He had been talking about he had kids, and he was like, Yeah, I'll never have a trampoline because I see these fractures all the time. But he was just like, he sees it in the emergency room. These kids that are coming in with all of these, you know, mental health stuff instead of just needing stitches stitched together and broken bones healed. And that really, I don't know, that really has stuck with me. Yeah, I would rather that they get hurt than they have long-lasting impacts from not being outside and not being active outside. So maybe that sounds kind of contrary to how a lot of moms think, but I thought it was a really good perspective.

Julianne 3:57

Well, it's funny you mentioned that because there's a term for that. You're you guys were frequent flyers in the ER. And we had a summer that was like that too when my kids were really little. There was five weeks where one kid was in the ER, and then the next week another kid was in the air, and then the other week, you know, the last kid was in the ER. We had everything from someone swallowing a coin to someone busting their chin on scooters because we were riding around outside. We had someone else with that nursemaid's elbow, you know, like I had never heard of that until I became a mom. And so the nursemaid's elbow was really wild. And then I learned that that was a common and frequent thing for young children. But to go back to the stitches and the bruises and the bumps, what are some things that you have that are always in your first aid kit that you go to for like bumps and bruises and scrapes on your on your Instagram? You share a lot of holistic remedies too. And I think that a lot of moms think that they have to take their kid to urgent care or to the ER right away. What are the things that you love in your first aid kit? And what advice would you give to parents who are just scared to like treat their kids at home or nervous? Like, what would you say to them to help give them a little bit more confidence?

SPEAKER_00 5:17

Yeah. So I think the first thing is arm yourself with knowledge and get some things on hand so that you know what to do. But also like you have to be able to, and this sounds kind of this sounds terrible. Um, but some of us as moms, we are so empathetic, right? When our children are hurt, we are hurt. When they are crying, we are upset too. And our kids need us to be the regulators of their nervous system. So when they are hurt and scared, and you are scared with them, you're not helping anybody. So I think that's the first, the first most important thing. You know, my son slammed his hand in the back door. This was two summers ago now, I think. And it's a little bit gruesome, but he basically amputated the tip of his finger in the door. And I remember thinking, if I don't deal with this, who will? And I had to disassociate myself from the whole thing. And I knew what to do. I knew to get a bag of ice, I knew to put the piece in a bag, and then put that bag in the ice and call 911 because he was in shock. And, you know, they talk you through everything online, but or on the 911 call, but you really have to keep your cool. And that is really hard to do. And I it took me and my husband a few weeks after that one to be like, okay, we're good. Um, but I think that's the first thing is is you have to stay calm because your child needs you to stay calm for them. If you are freaking out, they are gonna be freaking out. And so often, if you have bleeding, you have broken bones, you have any kind of like brain injury, you know, head injury, they bump their head or things like that. If you can't keep them calm, they're going to injure themselves further. It's gonna be worse, the bleeding isn't gonna stop because the heart is racing, because they're anxious. And so that is like, it's so hard and it comes with experience, obviously, but doing everything you can to take deep breaths and stay calm. Um, and yeah, as far as like, you know, what to have on hand when your kids get hurt, there's there's so many, so many things. And I've built a collection along the way. You know, you have the things your kids are prone to, and then you kind of learn to keep that stuff on hand. But obviously, you know, band aids, I like the non-toxic ones, Welly or I I'm not gonna say it right, Phoebe. Is that how you say it? F-E-B-U. Those are both pretty good brands that um they stay on pretty good. And then I have zip tie stitches. You can buy these, you can buy them on Amazon. One side of it goes along one side of the cut, and then it goes over the other side of the cut and you stick it on the other side, and then you pull the zip tie and it pulls it together. So you can avoid a trip to the ER that way. Yeah, they're awesome. So it really can you do to avoid having to go in? Depends on what you have at home. Sometimes you just have to go in because you don't have the stuff on hand. But what I say to parents is doing things, you know, if you have more of a natural mind about things and you want to do things holistically and you want to avoid the doctor, that does not mean do nothing. And I think that's something that us holistic moms get accused of a lot is neglecting our children and like, you know, neglecting getting the medical care. Like there's a line, right? I have a list of stuff that I know if that cut is on a joint, it's longer than two inches, I can see more than just the edges of the skin through it. We're going in for stitches. And you know, there's things where it's like a no-brainer. They're great at putting you back together at the ER. I am not so stubborn in my holistic ways that I won't go in and get medical help for the kids. But I think learning the difference between what's an emergency, what's okay to sit it out and wait, and then what is um, you know, something that you can handle at home. Every situation is different. But I do talk a lot about that on my page. So if anybody's on Instagram and they want to come find me over there, they'll learn a lot there too.

Julianne 9:11

Well, and I want to touch on your Instagram page too, because that's how I found you. And since then, your Instagram, your following has just absolutely blown up, and you have such a loyal and devoted following. And really, the, you know, when you get down to the bottom of it, you're helping so many moms be more informed, be more knowledgeable about their family's health. And I think a lot of moms found you through like how to support fevers naturally. And your highlights on fevers and ear infections are and coughs. I literally just went back to one of your guides in my Google Drive the other day as I was looking for um homeopathics for my son. And I'm like, what is the one that I need for like this barky cough? And I was just at the store yesterday and I pulled up your guide on my phone and I said, Okay, these are the ones that I'm looking for. And so you are, let's let's be clear, you know, none of this is medical advice. Do with it what you will. We are not trained medical professionals, but I would say that you and I are both moms that are passionate about learning how to support our families in holistic and homeopathic ways. And that's really how you've built your platform and just the information that you share from the comments that I read on your posts all the time. They're getting shared a ton. And moms are commenting on how they are feeling more confident in treating their kids' fevers. So let's back up and tell us how you got started on Instagram and why you started this account and how it's really grown over the last really year or so. Um, and what kind of information you share there.

SPEAKER_00 10:48

Well, the main goal over there is just helping moms learn natural remedies when their kids are sick. So I do talk a lot about fevers, cough, sore throat, strep, all of those kinds of things. And then yeah, this time of year we start talking more about ticks and suns, you know, safe sunscreens and sunburn and all the injuries that happen during the summer. Um, and so basically, I don't even know how to explain it. I I just always have advice for people. It's kind of a toxic trait, right? Like unsolicited advice. And I was like, you know what? I think I could help people. I think I could help moms not be so nervous when their kids are sick because I know what to do. When I really made this 180 degree switch to holistic, you know, more holistic mindset during COVID, which is when I think a lot of people woke up to a lot of the medical system. When I made that switch, I really realized that I had a knack for the health stuff. I was really um diving deep into how to help my kids with their health issues at home using natural remedies. And I developed some very strict guidelines for myself. Within 24 hours, things should be getting better or we're going in. You know, this wasn't like I'm gonna play cowboy with my kids' health, but I realized I knew what to do. And if I didn't know it, I knew where to go to figure it out. And I was like, you know what? I can help moms do this too. And so yeah, it's it's really exploded. It's crazy how many people are following. I was like, boy, if I get a thousand, that would be kind of fun, you know? And it just keeps growing. So what a cool thing. And yeah, I get those comments, you know, you open a message, it's like, I just want to tell you how much your fever guide helped me in the middle of the night last night. And that like, it gives me goosebumps almost to have my words in the hands of another mom in the middle of the night. Like, how cool is that? That's a responsibility that I do not take lightly because it's not medical advice. This is mom advice. This is like what you would you call your friend for, right? Like, hey, when Jack had that fever, what did you do for it? And I can just post all of this online and moms can find it when they need it. So it's really turned out to be a blessing for a lot of moms, I think. But also for me, it's it's kind of a creative thing to write down everything you know and and put it out there for people to people to learn from it. So it's been fun for me, but um, it almost gives me shivers thinking about how many homes um we are helping do things more holistically and helping moms heal their kids. It's pretty cool.

Julianne 13:14

And one of the things that you talk a lot about too when it comes to holistic and homeopathic remedies is that it's not like a band-aid or quick fix that a lot of times supporting your your child holistically is gonna take longer than conventional medicine, right? Because conventional medicine is typically just fixing the symptoms. And when we're looking at treating your family member, your kiddo who's sick in the middle of the night holistically, we're really trying to get down to the root cause, right? And there are some great things and great remedies that you share. But that is one thing I know I've noticed with my own mothering is just shifting my mindset to okay, if one of my kids is sick and they just have a lot of congestion, like it's gonna take a few days. I now know the pattern in which the symptoms work through my kids. It's like the stuffiness, like the post-nasal drip, and then like the coughing is because they're trying to expel the phlegm and things in their body. So, you know, people talk a lot about wanting to get rid of the cough, but anytime my kids are coughing, I'm like, okay, that's a good sign. And you, with your guides and your knowledge that you share, I think it's really helped me be more attuned into the different kinds of coughs that my kids have and what does that mean? And so when you talk about homeopathic remedies, let's say that there's a mom out here listening to this episode and she has never once used a homeopathic remedy in her life. Can you kind of give us homeopathy 101? Sure, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 14:43

So homeopathy is a modality of medicine in itself. So there's herbalism, there's homeopathy, there's chiropractic, right? There's all different modalities or types of holistic medicine. And I think the hardest thing to learn and understand about homeopathy, it is literally the opposite of allopathic medicine and pharmaceuticals. Pharmaceuticals are very much based on weight, and you will give a dose every certain number of hours to keep the medicine in their body. And this symptom gets this drug, no matter what the child is acting like or their emotions, or you know, if they feel hot or cold, it's it's the same for everybody. And homeopathy is incredibly specific. And what it is, so I'll just use arnica as an example. That's probably the most common homeopathic remedy out there. So the plant arnica is poisonous. If you eat it, you will be poisoned. And the way you feel when you're being poisoned by arnica is bruised, swollen, um, and and and like tender to the touch, sometimes black and blue. So in homeopathy, if you are bruised or swollen or black and blue, you take the homeopathic remedy Arnica because it initiates a healing response towards the symptoms that that plant would normally cause. Does that make sense? So it's the opposite. Yeah, it's it is, it feels it seems backwards, but yes. And so um you you can learn, you know, what what the plant that the remedy comes from and all of that. You can it's it gets kind of complicated, but you really can just memorize the names of these homeopathic remedies. And for anybody who doesn't know that, it's like those little tubes, they're blue or green or purple, and they have little tiny pellets in them. And the pellets are homeopathic medicines. So you can just memorize the names of them and what they're for, and you recognize when your kid is needing them. But what I love about homeopathy is that if you get the exact right remedy going, it helps so quickly. For croup specifically, there's three remedies for croup, right? And I have noticed that when I use homeopathy for croup for my kids, they don't get croup as often anymore. You know, I have my older kids, they they had croup every winter multiple times. We'd be in the ER with breathing treatments. My younger kids, I started using homeopathy with them. They get it once, maybe twice, and then they like didn't get it anymore. So homeopathy initiates a healing response in the body towards whatever is going on. Instead of a drug that suppresses what the body is trying to do, homeopathy helps elicit a healing response towards what's going on. Another thing that's confusing about homeopathy when you're switching over from using more pharmaceutical drugs is that you give a dose of homeopathy like every 15 minutes at first, until the symptoms start to change or go away, which is very it feels like you're giving a lot, right? But homeopathy is very diluted. So you actually can't hurt anything by giving too much. And if you give the wrong remedy, that's it's just not gonna work. And so there's a lot of like misunderstanding about homeopathy out there, and they're so worried. Like, how much do I give my two-year-old? He weighs 40 pounds. It doesn't matter. The same pellet that you would give to your newborn is what you would give to your 50-year-old grandma. Like it is, it is the same, which is kind of hard to wrap your mind around at first when you're when you're coming over from the more allopathic medicine route. But homeopathy is incredibly powerful and it takes into account the emotions that the kids are having while they are sick or injured or whatever. So, like aconite, for example, aconium aconitum napellus, I think is the like the official name. That one has to do with shock. It helps with pain, but it also helps with croup. And it also helps with the shock when you are injured or when your child got injured and you feel scared. Aconite is something you can take. So aconite has to do with sudden onset shock, sharp pain. The the onset scared you. So when you wake up and your kid has croup in the middle of the night, they went to bed feeling fine, they woke up, they have croup, they're barking, and they are so scared and you feel panicky. Aconite is the remedy to give them. Um, and then you give that until they calm down. And then you switch to spongia, right? Spongia is the one for the horse barky dry cough. And that one you keep going usually for the rest of the night. Yeah. So you use that for the rest of the night. And then when that croup cough starts to loosen and it's not so barky anymore and it's starting to be a little more productive, then you switch to Heper Solf. So the thing with homeopathy is you need quite a few of those little tubes to cover all the bases. But when you start with just one that you wish you would have had on hand, and the next time you use it and you're like, you know what, I want to have this one on hand for next time too. And you slowly start to build your collection and learn how to use each one that you have. You can use homeopathy for a lot, a lot of things.

Julianne 19:51

Well, it's so funny you mentioned that because literally those were the one uh Sponge A Tosta is the one that I just looked for yesterday in the aisle because I was looking at your guide again, and I knew that the kind of cough that my my son was having was this just like dry, hoarse. It's also the time of year, it's just allergies, like post-nasal drip type of cough. And one of the things that we have been doing too more regularly, we've picked back up on it, is going to the chiropractor. And I know you mentioned that, and you are a big fan of chiropractic care, as am I. And it's funny because we started going to the chiropractor when my youngest was probably like a baby. He actually got cranio, craniosacral therapy, right? Yeah. And then he also had chiropractic care. He had a a tongue tie, that's a whole nother topic. But he just needed help kind of loosening up all you know, there was just so much tension in his upper neck and head. And so we did that. And ever since then, like when my kids have a an earache, we go to the chiropractor. And I it's still, it's like funny as a holistic mom, it seems pretty common practice. But when I tell people that, oh yeah, when I take my kids to the doctor, I actually mean the chiropractor because that's usually our first line of defense is the chiropractor. So tell us for those of us who don't use the chiropractor as like first line defense. I know you're not a chiropractor, but in what instances have you thought chiropractic care for your kids, your family? Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 21:27

So to start out, just so everybody knows, chiropractic gets kind of a bad rap. There's like some really cracking, harsh chiropractors out there. And if that is not something that you want to take your kids in for, we go to a Logan School chiropractor and he uses instrument adjustments. And so it's so gentle. It's looks like a little massage gun almost what he uses. And it just like that in there, you know, in your joints or wherever he finds the tension is. And then he uses like a lot of like massage type techniques. So chiropractic doesn't necessarily mean. We're bringing our babies in and getting their necks cracked. There are some great chiropractors out there, the Palmer School method that people love. But we have had a fantastic experience with our Logan School chiropractor. This winter, my kids were sick. I felt like they were sick constantly. And we went to the chiropractor every single week. And I said to him, I was like, I'm so sorry. We're bringing, I don't even know what we have. It's just these kids will not stop coughing. He was like, You should have brought them in sooner. He wants the kids to be adjusted when they're sick. So there's a little bit of that. Like, we feel like we can't bring them in until their fever is done, or we can't bring them in until they're not contagious anymore. And that is like not the case. Bring your kids to the chiropractor as soon as anything is going on because the nervous system is such an important part of the immune system. If the nervous system cannot connect your organs to your brains and help make sure lymphatic drainage is happening properly and all of that, you're just gonna sit stagnant. So people think of chiropractor for like achy necks and pain in their back and maybe uh out of joint elbow or something, but ear infections, we go straight in, uh, coughs, fevers, just congestion that won't go away, any kind of aches, any kind of achy, you know, literally everything. And it is incredible. I was so congested, okay? And I was like, I cannot breathe out of my nose. And he worked on, he just went like this to me, like starting at the top of the nose and pushing up my forehead like this. It almost hurt. He was doing it with so much strength. He was like, I'm I'm like trying to massage your sinuses, okay? We're gonna get this relaxed. The amount of snot that drained out of my head on the way home from that appointment. I was like, what? So it is literally every little thing. You know, ear infections are huge though, because that's fluid backed up in the Eustachian tube. And if you understand the anatomy, the Eustachian tube drains into the back of the sinuses. So if you are full of snot in your face, that snot is gonna literally back up into that Eustacean tube and get infected there behind the eardrum, right? So we need to get that to drain back out. And the chiropractic adjustment helps straighten that Eustachian tube and helps release the pressure and helps it drain. So you can put as many drops in the ear as you want, but if you're not getting that to drain back out, that ear infection is not gonna clear up. And this, too, is not just one visit to the chiropractor, usually, you know, especially for ear infections, you're gonna have to go two, maybe three times a week for a couple weeks to get it completely clear, which to me is a million percent worth it compared to, you know, unnecessary antibiotics and stuff like that. So chiropractic care for illness, um, it helps with they can help with allergies this time of year. Um, they can help with if your kid does fall out of the tree, I think you were saying that your son fell out of the tree the other day. You know, they they they get hurt and they're tense, and you know how you feel when you you're sore for a while. But uh chiropractic adjustment helps with blood flow, it helps with lymph movement, and it helps with the nervous system, just being able to get everything regulated again. Kids don't, they're not so quick to complain about every little ache and pain like we are as adults, but sometimes they don't know that it's not normal to have those aches and pains. And so to get them in and get them adjusted, they're so resilient, you know. Sometimes it only needs one or two adjustments for them to really be feeling better. And babies, too, like you were saying, you know, babies are, we think they come out of the womb perfect. Well, look how they grew in there. They grew in there all curled up in a ball and now they're out in the real world and we want them to lay straight. They're tense, they have tension in their jaw and their neck and their back and their lower back. Um, if your baby is fussy in the car seat, if your baby is not sleeping great at night, if they have a lot of spit up and reflux, chiropractic can help with all of that too.

Julianne 25:52

Isn't it amazing? Like, especially for babies. I wish I had known about it and the benefits for babies when I had my other two, because I would have 100% had them being a chiropractor. And you mentioned my son falling out of the tree. Yes. My tree climber finally fell out of a tree. Um, more on that later. But so before that, he's actually had a couple falls lately. He had he fell off his dirt bike, which of course, you know, I'm all about risky play. He has wanted a dirt bike, he finally got one for his birthday, and we set up a little mini track for him in the yard. So he's got this tiny little ramp that's like plywood propped up on something else that my husband put together for him. And so he did like a jump off of his ramp. And then the next thing I knew when I looked over, he had fallen off of his dirt bike and he was crying and he was complaining, and he kind of like shook it off. He didn't ride his dirt bike for the rest of the day. And I didn't think to do like a full physical examination on him. He just kind of stopped playing with it, walked it off, and the rest of the afternoon he was fine. Well, a week later, I took him to the chiropractor mainly for his ears, because we were still working on an earache issue. Um, he had had a cold, and just like you said, all that fluid, all that phlegm backs up into the sinuses, into the ear, especially when your kids are just like sucking it back up in their nose, you know, when they're not like blowing it out onto a tissue.

SPEAKER_00 27:15

Exactly.

Julianne 27:15

You never blow it out. And anytime I hear someone sniffling, I'm like, I'm on them with a tissue. I'm like, you need to get that out or else it's gonna give you, you know, an earache. So we went to the chiropractor and he was lying down like on his stomach on the on the table, and I noticed like his back was swollen, like his right side of his back was swollen, and he had fallen on his back from the dirt bike. And sure enough, like a week later, it was still, you know, the chiropractor was saying, like, this rib was kind of, you know, just like misaligned or not where it needed to be, and it was causing that swelling. And so, yeah, I mean, there's just so many times when, like you said, kids might not express it, but chiropractors, their whole practice is so fine-tuned and they pay attention to this, the smallest tiny details, the way your feet are lined up, the way your, you know, the way your head might be tilted one way. They look at these things that traditional medicine, allopathic medicine doctors just do not look at, you know, like one time my eldest was in the in the room and she kind of like had her hell head tilted. And he asked, Does she always tilt her head like that? I'm like, I think so, you know, and he's okay, well, we gotta take a look at that. I'm like, really? I'm like, I thought it was just kind of a natural, you know, um a postural thing. And he said, Well, yeah, it is a postural thing, but we gotta find out why, you know, why is she having a preference of tilting her head to the right side? So chiropractic care has been really powerful for us. Um I think now more and more people are opening up to, like you said, 2020. We did a lot for some people in terms of opening their eyes, but it's like it's so common for me to say, Oh, I took my kids to the doctor, and then people, you know, they'll ask about it again or ask about something later. I'm like, oh, I actually met we took them to the chiropractor. Like that's the doctor for us, right? Is the chiropractor.

SPEAKER_00 29:08

Yeah. And I I think that um the more that we can take care of their foundational health with chiropractic care when they're little, the more they grow up to into teenagers and adults, and they don't have such terrible aches and pains and all of these things. Our chiropractor was saying the other day, he adjusted me and I was like, Oh, I just feel like such an old lady. I'm so tense because I had been, I had chaperoned a choir trip and spent like the whole weekend sitting. And he was like, you know what though? You are one of my younger patients, you're one of my younger patients who comes in regularly besides the kids. Otherwise, I have all these old people. And he was like, Yeah, if you don't do anything until you're old and sore, yeah, you're gonna, you're gonna struggle. But if you take care of yourself when you're younger, your elderly years are gonna be so much healthier just because you didn't let that tension take over your life in your middle age, you know. Um, and yeah, with the babies too, I wanted to say, um, I know people just think it's weird and they really think that their babies are born perfect and with no problems. And I don't want to pop your bubble or anything, but if there is ever a time where someone needs to be adjusted, it is after birth. That is such a traumatic experience for babies. You know, they grew and developed for nine months, curled up in a ball. And then I don't know if you've ever watched a video of what it takes for a baby to actually move through the birth canal, but there is a complete like tuck your chin, go like this, pull yourself out. And who knows what they slammed on on the way on their way out, you know. Those babies, they would benefit so much from chiropractic adjustment right after birth. And I I I just can't help but think, you know, even with my kids, we have some some lingering, you know, maybe constipation, health issues type things that can be traced back to birth and the way that the skull plates were misaligned because of a fast exit through the birth canal. And how if I had known about chiropractic way back then and gotten everything lined up the way it should, a lot of stuff that's related to the nervous system wouldn't show up in older kids if we took care of it when they're babies. So I, yeah, I can't, I can't praise chiropractic care enough. It is, it's incredible for all ages.

Julianne 31:20

And you know, a lot of times when we're seeing the chiropractor, it often is for earaches, some of this structural stuff. Like I mentioned, my my child falling out of things left and right. But one of the things that you talked about, and I think it's helpful too, like in the summer, sometimes we get these summer colds. And whether it's in the summertime or in the wintertime when it's back to school, one of the things you talked about earlier that I know you are a huge fan of, as am I, is utilizing a nebulizer. Is I feel like this is something that should be in every home. And I think that people are often scared of it. I remember I was, I was like, what are all these, you know, wires? And my mom is actually a nurse, she's an RN. And she used to tell me, get the nebulizer. She would have the saline, like vials of saline, and she showed me just how to use it. And finally I got comfortable. And then, you know, it's like it's no big deal. My kids, we have two in our house because during cold and blue season, we are circulating those things like non-stop. Like, nobody, like we can't wait for that other person to finish their nebulizing treatment. But I think a lot of people, when they hear nebulizer, they think asthma, they think albuterol only. And this is something that I think truly should be in every single household. And, you know, by the time you buy it and purchase it, and as many times as you use it, like the cost of this item, and it's not like a super expensive item, but it's one that you should invest in for your wellness, like cabinet, your wellness toolbox in your home. So tell us how you use a nebulizer for your family.

SPEAKER_00 32:51

Yeah, same as you. We have two of them. Those things are, there's always a line. And, you know, when I first got it, I was like, hey, I'm gonna learn how to figure this out because somebody else I had seen, I think, had said something about it. And then I was like, oh, they're so cheap. I think at the time I got mine for like$35 on Amazon. There is something a little bit strange going on. I don't know if you've noticed it, but a lot of the nebulizers have been taken off. And I know the FDA regulates um like medical equipment like that, and so people are selling it like kind of like black market. And so I think that's partly why a lot of them got pulled off. But now you'll see they're marketed for pets on Amazon and they're like 70 bucks. I've learned about this recently. Yes. I mean, Mike was have a lot of people. So if you go on Amazon, the ones that okay, yeah. If you go on Amazon, the ones that are marketed for pets, it's the same thing. Like if you look at the mask in the picture, there's no dog wearing that. So, anyway, I you can also find them at like medical supply stores. And I don't think it's very difficult for you to just ask your doctor to write a prescription for a nebulizer either. Um, they're pretty willing to do that usually. But anyway, we use ours year-round. We got, if you have allergies right now, we had here in Wisconsin, maybe you guys did in Michigan too, the smoke from the wildfires. Do you remember that last summer? We had such like raw throats and raw noses and watery eyes and the post-nesal drip. It was disgusting. And that nebulizer with just saline in it, that was so helpful, so soothing. So, you know, between cold and flu season and allergies and then the summer stuff, you know, the the pollen, but also if you have any of that wildfire smoke, that kind of stuff, we use it all year round. And it's not that hard to use either. That's what I wanted to say too, is that um, you know, you get this machine and it's loud and it's got the tubes, and you're like, how do I clean all of this? But if you understand it, the the machine itself is an air compressor, so it's sucking air in and it's blowing air back out through that tiny little tube. And when the air rushes through the end of that tube through the medicine cup, it grabs the little droplets of saline in there, turns them into steam, and nebulizes it. So, really, all you have to wash is the medicine cup and the mask if you're using that. But that tubing and the machine itself, you really don't have to do anything with it. It's so simple. Like my kids, they can set it up themselves. My six-year-old knows where to go get the nebulizer and plug it in and poke the thing in the hole, and he knows exactly what to do. And they ask for it. That's another thing that people are like, Well, how much does it really work? When your husband and your kids are asking to use it, you know it works.

Julianne 35:36

Yes. I know. I was just gonna say, my kids know how to set it up now too. So, like, my five-year-old can put the tubes in and everything, my six and seven-year-old know, like know how to tube it, how to like they just put it on and it's like becomes second nature to them. And I always I have like a little carrying case for both of mine, and I always keep little vials of saline. And it's truly that simple that a six-year-old and an eight-year-old can figure it out. And it's not toxic. It's non-toxic. You don't have to worry about dosing, it's simply just like pumping mist into their, you know, saline mist into saline into their lungs.

SPEAKER_00 36:10

Yep. So, you know, salt helps um it helps draw moisture out of the membranes and you know, helps helps it move. It helps keep that mucus thin and runny so that it's not sitting and pooling and causing sinus infections or ear infections or pneumonia. That's the other thing I love about nebulizing. You know, you can do a sinus spray, a saline nasal spray or the little drops that they make for babies, but that does not get that saline down into the lungs. The only way to get that salt water down into the lungs is by breathing it in through mist. And so you notice you spray saline spray, your snot will run down the back of your throat and you'll swallow it, but it's not going down into your lungs. And so pneumonia, bronchitis, all of those things. I am a hundred percent positive that we have avoided respiratory distress, and I don't even want to know how many trips to the doctor in ER because we had saline to nebulize. And yeah, that too on my page. I have a whole highlight on nebulizing. There is information on there on how to clean it, how to set it up, how it works. And there's also information in there on other things that you can nebulize, things like glutathione, NAC. You know, you can take a little powder out of a capsule and mix it in with that saline and get that up into your airways as well. It gets a little more complicated with different things, but saline alone is it's so safe for tiny little infants, all the way up to grown-ups. It is so safe and so simple and so incredibly helpful.

Julianne 37:42

Yeah. Well, and it's sold over the counter too. You can get saline like flushes at your local drugstore. Um, a lot of times you see them like in cans as a spray for like a wound wash or something like that. But those are things that are over the counter. They are safe to use. And like you said, they can oftentimes spare you and your family from having to go in with when it's some type of respiratory, um, just like junk that you have going on. You know, when my kids are just like coffee and phlegmy and or congested, like we just all everybody knows you just get to park on the couch or in the chair and you have the nebulizer going, and they don't even protest anymore. They just know, like, they know that it's gonna help them feel better. So they just sit and they do their little cycle. Um, and speaking of other things that we love, because I know you love it too, and this is a year-round thing. I think you already know what I'm getting to, but red light devices are how much have they changed like the game for just family wellness overall? Yes. I actually bought a second one.

SPEAKER_00 38:45

We have two.

SPEAKER_01 38:46

I'm gonna buy a second one when I go on sale on sale.

SPEAKER_00 38:49

Same thing with the nebulizer. There's always a line for it. It's so funny. My my daughter's boyfriend was over last night, and he literally comes over to use the red light. I'm like, these teenage boys are coming over here to use this thing. I drove them to a soccer game and he grabbed it and threw it in the van because he's always got knee problems after the soccer game. I know it's pricey, and so I don't ever want anybody to feel like they have to have this red light in order to be a good holistic mom, but it is a million percent worth saving up your pennies and getting a red light device. Near infrared light, make sure it's got the capabilities for red and near infrared light. Um, we I love loomboxes because they're so transparent with their testing. You know, it's really easy to fudge how strong the light is and um the how much EMF it radiates out of it. It's really easy to fudge those results, and Loombox is so transparent about that. So that's why I love that brand. But all year round, every single ache, aches and pains, affections, ashes, skin injuries, again, stuff deep inside. You know, if you've got the pneumonia, you've got crackles in your lungs, or you've got just it's hard to breathe there. If you've got belly pain, I use it every single night over my ovaries because I'm 35 and you know, perimenopause is like looking at us, right? Um, just to help keep anything, you know, endo kind of stuff growing, things like that. It helps immediately with period cramps, sore back, sore neck. My husband was asking for it. He's like, hey, where's one of them red lights? I gotta do my elbow. He's got like kind of tendinitis in his elbow, and it helps immediately with some of these pain, with some of these pains. It is, again, the amount of trips we've saved, going to the doctor, the ER, whatever, ear infections, too. I know we were talking about chiropractor earlier, but putting that red light on those on that ear, even for a tiny baby, that helps break that up. And it basically is just infusing your cells with energy so they can do their job better. You're not manipulating anything in your body.

Julianne 40:48

It works miracles. We um we my son had he had the ear stuff going on the other day, and he had an earache, and we had just gone to the chiropractor, and so then that night I was doing like a little lymphatic massage, like um below his ear, behind his ear, and down the neck, and I would I had made sure to open up like the pathways, like the little drainage spots. But he did six minutes of the loom of the loom box, the red light, right up against his ear as I was doing the lymphatic drainage, and he said, He's like, I gotta turn my head because I can just feel water draining, like I can just feel the fluid draining from my ear after doing red light therapy. It comes in handy for sunburns. You know, we we were down um Florida earlier this year, and a couple of our family members had sunburns and aches, and I I was just like handing my loom box around and everybody was using it, and then I got my, you know, like my family members bought in, and so they got themselves devices and they use it all the time too for just anything. I was laying in bed the other night, my allergies were bothering me, and I was beginning to get stuffy, and of course, my kids at all, every one of them had already gone through some type of illness or allergy, and I felt like my nose was getting stuffy. You know how when when you finally lay down for the night and then your nose starts getting stuffy and you can't breathe through your nose, so you're trying to figure out how you're gonna breathe for the night. I swear I just like pointed that loom box like right up my nose. And I swear by the end of it, it will it relapsed like the tissues in there. Yes, and it was less inflamed, and I was able to breathe, and I got the best night's sleep that night. I was so blown away. But every little thing, like little cuts and bruises, bumps, scrapes, headaches-I mean, even my kids know they when they when something hurts or something's bothering them, I just tell them go get the loom box, go get it, go get the red light, put it on whatever, and they just go back to bed and they lay there, they feel improvement like right away. It is mind-blowing how this thing works.

SPEAKER_00 42:50

It's so I think it's incredible. It's just one of those things that like when you stop being a little bit afraid of using it and just like use it every single day. Like, I can't even imagine life without it now. We we use it for for literally. I have pictures of my kids, like they got the nebulizer on their nose and the red light over their eyes, you know. Just getting that those sinuses, just getting that inflammation to come down. It is, it's I don't even know, you know. And speaking of being in bed, I shine it in my kids' bedroom every night to fall asleep. I think you did that too when you first got it, right? And how much faster they fall asleep and they sleep sounder. I think they sleep better.

Julianne 43:28

Yes. So my kiddo that I have a kiddo that's restless. Like when you put him to bed, you can hear his little feet pit or pattering upstairs when he's supposed to be in bed. And the nights that we do red light, he's just relaxed in his bed, laying down, and then he falls asleep like soon after. So yeah, it is really like wild how much it gets used. And I love hearing how even your older kids and their friends are coming over to use it. That's really that's really, really cool.

SPEAKER_00 43:56

Yeah, and I I just thought of two more things. I mean, we could probably go on for a Whole hour just talking about all those things to use the loom box for. But I took it with up to the cabin last summer. Um, and my son he jumped from one dock to the other and he slammed his toe into the one he was jumping towards and he broke his big toe. And that was the first thing I did. I put his foot in Epsom salts right away to help with the pain and the swelling. And then when that was done after 20 minutes, we put the red light on it. And he it is a marked improvement right away with the swelling and the pain. It was still broken. We still went in and got a boot so that he could walk normal and whatever, but um, it helps so much. So people are like, you know, even for pain relief for things that you would normally, you know, be taking like a Tylenol or a motrin for red light really works. So you can do it every six hours. It's it's so simple. Yeah, if it's in your budget, absolutely just mom to mom, it's worth it for sure.

Julianne 44:53

It truly is. It's worth it, it's worth saving your pennies for. I 100% agree. Because just think about some of the things that it could spare you from. And they you can also use your HSA and FSA, which is how I how I bought ours at the end of last year. They have they had a sale last year. I used my HSA dollars, and then, like you said, I'm gonna get a second one when they go on sale again because my husband even said you should just get our middle child his own because he just needs his own. So he my husband's bought it. He's like, that child needs his own loom box, so you just go ahead and get one just for him.

SPEAKER_00 45:26

You can use it on bee stings, you can use it on your tick bites if you're worried about that, mosquito bites, burns if you've got a fire, firework burn, or you know, burn around the campfire this summer. They the list is endless all year round. Things you can use that thing on.

Julianne 45:41

No, that is such a great point. And you talked about things for this summer. I know it's been like a hot topic in the news. And of course, every time this time of year, when it starts to get warmer, the whole tick thing, you know, like ticks being everywhere, it's starting to get warm out, kids are playing out in the yards again. You know, I, in my own experience, and it's kind of surprising because of where we live, I've never I've never seen a tick on my kid. But I have heard moms from all over for where I live at least say they've seen ticks at the local playgrounds, at the schools. So it's used to be that you, you know, you had to live like in a really wooded area to find a tick on you, but now I feel like they're just kind of everywhere. Um, I feel like you and I both feel the same in terms of just like not feeding into this like fear-mongering culture. But just how do we be prepared as moms? How do we be prepared if we find a tick on our kid? How do we remove it? What are some remedies that we can do to support our kiddo is after a tick bite or things to prevent? What kind of advice do you have?

SPEAKER_00 46:44

Yeah, so ticks are nasty. They're little, they hide, they're carry all kinds of diseases, and it makes people really nervous and scared. I'm just like, do not let the fear of what could happen keep you from living your life. Like, do not let that, don't let it steal your joy. And it ticks are so you've never seen a tick on your kids. Everyone in my family has been bitten by a tick. My husband, myself, all six of my kids, they've all had ticks that bit them. And it's, ugh, it's terrible. I hate it. And get the creepy crawlies for a long time after you find these ticks. Um, but like knowing we've all been bit and we haven't had serious things, I'm just like, I don't think the chances of you getting sick from a tick bite are quite as high as what some people want you to think. And if you do get bit, remove the tick carefully. Do not make it angry, do not pinch it, squeeze it, try to, you know, hold them. People who like use a lighter to hold it close to the tick and make it come out because it's too hot. Don't make the tick angry. Use a tick key. Go on Amazon. I think they're like six or seven dollars for a three-pack of them. Just type in tick key. And it's a little device that you put on the back of the tick and you basically just like flick the tick out. It kind of grabs onto it and forces it to just pop out. So you're not squeezing it, you do it quickly. Um, because when you squeeze it and make the tick angry, that's when they release saliva into you, and that's where the diseases come from. So if you can get them out and you can get them out quickly, and you can get them out without making them mad, your chances are already way better. The next thing I would do, um, astragalus is an herb that comes in a tincture. Mix a little bit of that with bentonite clay or charcoal powder, make a little paste of it and put it right on there. Astragalus is a great antibacterial for the bacteria that causes lime. And then the charcoal or the bentonite clay are binders, they'll absorb it, they'll pull it back up out of the skin. So get that tick out of there and put a paste on it. Even if all you have is a charcoal paste. Um, Earthly has a great one, the black drying salve. Put something on there that's gonna help pull it out, and then repeat that, keep that salve on there for a while, keep it clean. Um, you can also take a stragalus orally, um, and then there's homeopathy leadum pellustrae, I think is how you say it, or pelluster. That is a fantastic homeopathic remedy for tick bites. Um, and so you're gonna take one pellet every 15 minutes for an hour, and then twice a day for like a week or so. And you should be able to take care of it. Ticks are nasty. They're they're like I said, they're sneaky and they're little and they're they're gross and they give me the creepy crawlies just thinking about them. But if you have those those few things on hand, a tick key, some kind of drawing sal or bentonite clay powder, and make a little paste with some astragalus and that leadum homeopathy, you'll be in good shape. Um, and when you have things on hand, you're prepared and you know what to do with them. You're not gonna be so afraid if you do find a tick. There's things you can do when you're outside, you know, wear long sleeves and long pants if you're in the tall grass in wooded areas. It's hot in the summer. My kids don't always have long sleeves and long pants on, I'll be honest. But we check everybody over really good after we've been outside for the day. You know, if they were turkey hunting or they were playing out in the by the creek or whatever, you know, I go through their hair, like the boys with their short hair, like this. You know, just take your fingers and slowly let those little hairs pop back out of place and you can see every speck of their scalp that way. And with um kiddos with longer hair, just use a fine-tooth comb and just draw lines and look and feel in their hair to make sure, and make sure you're checking like behind the ears, in the ears, in the armpits, private areas too. I know that's a little weird with the older kids. I give them a mirror. I'm like, you gotta look, you gotta make sure. We have had a tick in a very uncomfortable place for boys. You gotta, you gotta check and make sure they're not there. Check each other's beds.

Julianne 50:34

I like all moist areas.

SPEAKER_00 50:36

Yes, yes. They like the warm, they like the moist, they like the dark. The armpits, the toes, like in between the toes. Yeah. Yes. And I'm not saying any of this, like, I don't want anybody listening to this to be like, oh my word, it's a whole process to find these ticks and get rid of them. It's really not. You know, me and my husband, um, we don't do tick checks every day. You know, in our backyard here in town, I've never seen a tick here. But, you know, if we're in the woods, we're at the cabin in the summer, every night, everybody takes showers and we check every and we're like, did you check this one? Did you check that one? And we just kind of tag team it. And now the kids are getting older, they can help check each other. It takes like 10 minutes, not even just check them over. That's the best way. If you're really like outside and you're walking through the grass and the woods and the, you know, the the plants where, you know, the the brush and stuff. People I've seen like you can put rubber bands on your ankles to hold your pants tight so that the ticks can't get up your pant legs. Um, and then use a lint roller right after, like before you even get in the car. You can use a lint roller on everybody to get them off your clothes. Um, and they do crawl around in the car. We've seen them. My husband left his um his hunting, his turkey hunting clothes in the back of the van once, and I was like, there was ticks. I like six, seven of them crawling around the van. I was like, oh, I hate these bugs so much. So take your take your lint roller and then when you get home, throw your clothes in the dryer. Like 10 minutes, the heat of the dryer will kill anything that you didn't get off of the lint roller. Um, just be proactive. And maybe this sounds complicated in a long list, but you do it a couple times and it kind of becomes routine. And bring your kids with you, right? They can help, they can help make sure their clothes get thrown in the dryer when you get home and just make it just part of getting home from being outside. So Yep.

Julianne 52:22

Yeah. No, I I agree. I'm the same way. It's like, especially as the weather has gotten warmer, my kids are back outside playing a ton, like for hours after school. When they come in, when they're when they're all said and done before they hop in the shower, like, let me just do a quick check on all of you. Yeah. I have two boys and one girl. So it's really easy to do the boys. They're super quick. And then with my daughter, I just kind of comb through her hair. Yeah. But you know, it's definitely, like you said, it's nothing that needs to like the fear doesn't need to take over your life, right? The fear doesn't need to take over your life when it's a fever, when it's ticks, when it's anything. And I love that your page just gives really practical tips and solutions that moms can do to be really more aware of what's going on in your kiddo's body. Something that you talk a lot about on your page. And I know you had a couple instances last year, but really being an advocate for your own health, but also your kid's health. And just, you know, one thing that I love about holistic remedies and just kind of treating our family more holistically is it's made me really in tune to how everybody's bodies operate in my family. Like I know my fever kid is this one, you know, my kid that gets the earaches is that one. Like I know what it's gonna look like when my youngest is when he when he's sick, you know. Ironically, he's the one that gets over things the fastest. I have a few theories on that, but um, he, you know, he's got an immune system that's solid. And so it just really makes you in tune and you can use your own intuition and your own knowledge of your kids. More information is like more power. And it's empowering moms to help treat their kids at home and not have to rely on the health system. And yes, there are things 100% that Western medicine, that hospitals, your doctors are great for. But for things like your common earaches, your fevers, those are all things that can be treated at home and they don't have to be scary. They don't have to always lead to antibiotics for every sore throat or every virus. Um, a lot of times when they're viral, there's nothing you can do for them anyway. So why not just treat and support the body at home?

SPEAKER_00 54:24

Those viral symptoms are literally what's healing your child's body. And I think you get through one fever without using Tylenol, especially think about first-time moms with little babies and you're worried. But you get your baby through that first fever, and then you get them through an ear infection, and then you get them through, you know, maybe a little bout of constipation with things you have at home and you didn't have to call the doctor for it. And you realize you do have the ability to take care of the basics of the health of your children at home. Um, there is, oh, I feel like the pendulum can swing one way where you just go to the doctor for everything. It can swing the other way where you never go to the doctor because you're afraid of the doctor and because you are stubborn, and then your kids get sick that way too. Somewhere in the middle is where you know what you're capable of taking care of. And the more you go through it, the more experience you have, the more confident you'll become. And confidence is gonna carry you so far. But yeah, those viral symptoms are there's really nothing antibiotics aren't gonna help with those viral symptoms, those viral symptoms are necessary, right? Fever is necessary, cough is important, the mucus is needed to help move things out. Um, it's all a part of how they function. And the more times you go through an illness without medicating them, so you can see exactly what your child's body is doing as it moves through that fever. You see the temperature come down and go up and come down, you see how they rest for a while, and then they go play, and then they eat like two bites, and then oh, they're ready to go lay down and take a nap again. When you watch them go through that without intervening with what their body is doing, it is it really is incredible. You're like you, this little body knows exactly what it needs and it knows what to do. And then two days later, it's like nothing ever happened. It's really incredible when you learn to trust them and you have the tools on hand to support and keep them comfortable without suppressing what their body is trying to do.

Julianne 56:12

Absolutely. And as you're as you're watching them do that, like you're trusting your own mom intuition to be able to handle whatever comes your way. There are maybe times you need you need another set of eyes or something like that. And you know, that's we've we've had plenty of situations like that. I know you have too. You just need another set of eyes. This is something that you can't wrap your head around. But yeah, for listeners, you can go to Becca's Instagram page at Becca.naturally, and I'll make sure to include it in the show notes. And before we wrap up, Becca, there's one question that I always ask of guests. And I love that you've peppered in throughout the episode the way that your family gets outside. You live in Wisconsin, so I know you're just you're like a neighbor. I always say Wisconsin's like a cousin to Michigan. And so organically, I've heard you share so many ways that your family gets outside. But I always ask guests to share an outdoorsy challenge that listeners can try throughout the week that encourages them to get outside. What would your outdoorsy challenge be to listeners this week?

SPEAKER_00 57:09

Boy, let's see. This week is beautiful in Wisconsin's. I I love your method of, you know, 15 minutes. Just start with 15 minutes. My rule for my kids maybe this is what you can do this week. Before any screens are allowed to be turned on, you have to go outside for 15 minutes. And when that 15 minutes is up, don't tell them unless they ask. They might end up being out there for two hours. You never know. Try that. Before any screens are allowed to be turned on, when they get home from school or if they're not at school today, they have to be outside for 15 minutes and don't interrupt them and tell them when the 15 minutes is up. Isn't that funny?

Julianne 57:44

Because a lot of times, I always say 15 minutes, sometimes some people give me crap on the internet. They're like, 15 minutes is not enough. I'm like, well, that's not, you know, like the point is 15 minutes is the gateway. 15 minutes is the gateway. And it's like a lot of times your kids will play for 15 minutes and they won't even realize all of a sudden 30 minutes has gone by, 45 minutes has gone by. And that's how we build that tolerance or that, you know, that muscle to spend more time outside. So, listeners, your outdoorsy challenge is to encourage your kids, even you, you can get outside for 15 minutes. But if your kids are going out there, tell them they got to be out there for 15 minutes before there's any screen time. And you never know, they might be out there for 45 minutes before they come back inside. So, Becca, thank you so much for being on the show today. I think we could probably do like a four-hour podcast episode on all of our holistic and homie homeopathy like remedies and just kind of geeking out over all that stuff. But I really appreciate you coming to share your wisdom and how much you've helped so many moms around the globe truly just feel confident and treating their families and helping them become more in tune to their family's needs. So, Becca, thank you so much for being here. Thank you so much for having me. Thanks so much for spending part of your day with me here on the My Outdoorsy Mom podcast. If this episode resonated with you, it would mean so much if you followed the show, shared it with a friend, and left a five star review. That's the best way to help more parents discover these conversations and raise kids who love being outside. You can find me over on Instagram at My Outdoorsy Mom, where I share simple ideas to help kids play outside more every day. Thanks again for listening. Now go open the back door.