Are you a natural minded mama with flowers in your hair and crystals in your bedroom? Have you ever had your toddlers chakras aligned or had a lotus birth? Then you just might be a hippie mama. Namaste!
Here are 50+ Signs you might be a hippie mama.
- You don’t wear perfume, yet you still smell like patchouli and lavender.
- You know what a lotus birth is.
- You skipped the baby purees and instead handed your baby food.
- You collect mason jars.
- You know what EBF, BLW, SSC, EC and NFP stand for.
- You’ve taken your child to a drum circle.
- Instead of an epidural during labor, you used a tens machine.
- Your first aid kit contains essential oils, coconut oils, witch hazel, activated charcoal, sea salt and a neti pot.
- You know the difference between a wrap, a sling, a soft-structured carrier and a mei tai.
- Your toddler owns one of the above and knows how to carry their dolls in in.
- Your child owns wooden toys, a few silicone or rubber balls, but absolutely no plastic.
- You have consumed or are considering consuming your placenta
- You know the difference between homeschooling and unschooling.
- You’ve considered having your child’s chakras aligned.
- You make your own deodorant.
- You’ve used menstrual cups or mama cloth.
- You consider yourself to be an intactivist.
- You own an amber or hazelwood necklace.
- Your children have no problem eating things like quinoa, kale, tofu and seitan.
- You waited until your baby was a year old before introducing grains.
- You’ve been invited to a chicken pox party.
- You have an essential oil diffuser in ever major room in your house
- You know what triandum nursing is.
- Your preschooler helps you maintain your compost pile.
- You know what aquafaba is.
- You can name at least 20 uses for coconut oil off the top of your head.
- You have a framed poster of your birth affirmations.
- Your children are on a delayed, selective or nonexistent vaccination schedule.
- A typical breakfast at your house includes a green smoothie.
- You know who Knost, Aldort, Ockwell-Smith and Markham are.
- You’ve convinced your toddler that medjool dates are candy.
- You have several mandalas in your home.
- You’ve taken you’re child to a chiropractor.
- You have a placenta print in your nursery.
- You have a peace sign, mandala, sun or moon tattooed.
- Your wardrobe is dictated by the ease of getting your breast out.
- Your nightlight is a Himalayan salt lamp.
- You only own 1 or 2 pairs of shoes since you usually walk around barefoot.
- Despite having 3 children, you have never owned a stroller.
- You’re made dreamcatchers and suncatchers out of recycled glass and wood.
- You’ve drafted your own Kombucha.
- Your teenage daughter has never used disposable menstrual products.
- You have a tub of coconut oil in several different rooms of your house.
- You know what cord burning is.
- You’re baby owns more than one tye-dyed onsie.
- Your child’s first birthday cake was raw.
- You don’t own a baby monitor since you cosleep.
- You and your toddler have matching yoga mats.
- You refuse to have balloons in your house – not for fear of your toddler choking, but for fear of it polluting the ocean.
- You could add several more bulletpoints to this list.
- Your baby’s rattle is actually a rainstick
How high did you score? Could you add anything to the list? Let me know in the comments below.