When you’re pregnant one of the joys and despairs is your burgeoning belly – its firm beautiful, sensitive and itchy. As for your swollen feet, well there’s not much joy there. Local company babybellies was conceived to help you combat pregnancy symptoms with a line of products that are made with pregnancy-safe, high quality, often organic ingredients while being free of parabens, alcohols, petroleum, phthalates, artificial fragrances and colourants.

They’ve got your covered from tummy to toe with a luscious line of Belly Envy products including a cream, oil and scrub; a detoxifying Serenity Foot Care Line; delicious herbal teas including the cool mint SaniTEA which new mums will find comes in very handy; and lightly scented soy candles which don’t pollute you or the environment.

We’ve put some of their products to the test with excellent results. Their Belly Envy belly scrub and belly cream did indeed relieve itching and leave our skin soft and supple, absorbing quickly without straining our clothes. Alas, we didn’t put it to the test for the full nine months, so we can’t attest to its stretch mark fighting properties, but then we’re pretty sure that, like cellulite, you can do your best to prevent stretch marks but a lot of it comes down to genetics and weight gain in the end. Which is no reason not to exercise and use an ounce of prevention.

And anything that helps relieve aching, swollen tootsies, or is an excuse to ask your partner for a foot massage, has got our seal of approval. Their warm foot bath followed by foot cream relaxed more than just our tootsies.

Teas from babybellies are light and refreshing, and a nice change from cranberry and soda, plus you’ll find a wealth of useful info on pregnancy-safe teas that anyone who is pregnant should check out.

Now we all know that scent is important to pregnant mamas, who often find their sense of smell heightened, so if you want to take a sniff of babybellies in person, you’ll find them – and a whole host of other great products and resources – at Birth Fest this weekend.

babybellies: www.babybellies.ca