padsicles are a must-have item to help your body heal after a vaginal birth now these are
super easy to make and you're going to be so happy to have these on hand in the freezer
for your postpartum healing you can find lots of videos on making padsicles but i'm going to show
you three options for the pads to use to make them and be sure to you stay till the end where i'm
going to let you know which one i recommend okay let's look at what we need to make the padsicles
first let's start with aloe vera gel this one contains no alcohol and i got it from amazon
now each of these all the ingredients are going to be listed in the description below next we've got
alcohol-free witch hazel now the alcohol-free part is the most important it should say it right there
on the label or be in the ingredients on the back if you saw my dollar tree haul for the hospital
bag i found this witch hazel at dollar tree however it does have alcohol so don't use this
for your padsicles you can use it for skin care but not the padsicles the next item you need is
a spoon you also will want some ziploc bags i used freezer bags i also got these at the dollar store
and then you're going to need your pads now i'm going to test out a few different pads today
i'm going to test these feelings maxi pads that i got at dollar tree and we're also going to try
the always max maxi pads and these are the extra heavy duty overnight pads so they're kind of the
biggest pads that you can get links to everything again are down below and let's get started make
sure you start with a nice and clean workspace and we are going to do one of each of these pads so we
can take a look at the difference so the feelings maxi pad you are going to just open them up
and open up the wings and then we are going to just set those down
set that down here you can see the size of that one next we've got our always
maxi extra duty overnight this one is pretty bulky and i'm gonna do the same thing
take off the wings this one actually has two sets of wings at the bottom as well
you can see that one's quite different than our dollar tree and then i'm gonna also
test out one of these always ultra thins that i know are really popular because they're
thin they're not quite so bulky and i'm just going to open one of those up
put the wings move those out of the way and set those here so let's get started with these so
we're going to start with the witch hazel and we are going to just generously coat
you can see a nice application on the pads this bottle is super easy to spray it on
just try to pretty much soak spray all parts of the pad with the witch hazel
and i'm just gonna put a couple more that looks good okay
and then we will put the aloe vera gel so the aloe vera i'm just gonna squeeze a line through
each of these and then what we're gonna do with our spoon is just to
coat kind of make sure that all parts of the pads the pad each pad gets coated with the
cooling aloe vera 100 gel great these look like they are ready to go
so next what i'm going to do is wrap these back up a little bit
and and we're going to put these back i'll put these into a freezer bag so that they are easy to
we've thaw our freezer bag and you can fold them back over
put them in the freezer bag and pop them in the freezer
okay so here we are with the frozen padsicles so i would let them sit out for about five minutes
three to five minutes before i use them they're a little hard to open now any of the three pads
that we tested would work but i recommend the smaller ones now these are the ones i bought at
the dollar store they were a dollar 24 at dollar tree and they come in a pack of eight now if you
value a chlorine free option i'm going to link to one below that are very similar to these
now what i would do is i would use the smaller pad sickles with the adult diapers so using adult
diapers is great postpartum because they really help catch all the bleeding and they make it super
easy not to have a pad kind of shifting around and if you use the pad sickles with the adult diapers
just pop them right in just like that i think this combo is the best of both so you have the padsicle
for the healing properties the cold iciness which helps with swelling but then you have
the full coverage of the adult diaper to really catch the bleeding and so that's what i would go
with so i like the smallest size pad with these large adult diapers now i have two here both the
depends and the one from always and if you're wondering which of these i like best and which
what are the differences between these two then you're going to want to check out this video
right here where i review these two types of adult diapers so have fun making your pad sickles and
if you made those padsicles leave me a comment and let me know if you're going to make these
padsicles let me know which pad you're going to use and i'll see you guys next time bye