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This empowering book includes a number of practical tools that women can use in their birth preparation, whether having a hospital or a home birth. It will equip you with confidence and help you to see how special the female body is. Melanie is passionate about helping women to empower themselves with the right questions if suggestions are made during pregnancy or when in labour. There is a strong emphasis on how fear affects physiology in labour and how women can support themselves with this, however the birth unfolds.

Elevating Pregnancy: Affirmations and Wisdom for Pregnancy & Birth is dedicated to all pregnant women who desire to have a peaceful, calm, and empowered birth experience. It was written to support pregnant women in building a consciousness of faith and trust in themselves and in the birth process, throughout their pregnancy and birth experience. Practiced regularly, these pregnancy affirmations are a gentle and wonderful way to remind you to keep aligning your thoughts with the energy and activity of love that you are.

It’s time to reclaim your joy! This is your guide to understanding and managing postpartum depression from a holistic, relatable, and scientific standpoint. Are you pregnant, a new mom, or even an experienced mom looking to learn about postpartum depression and postpartum anxiety? Do you feel misunderstood, unheard, and desperate to know you are not making things up? No matter your reason, this book is for you.

If you think baby brain is bad for you, think again - because neuroscientist Dr Sarah McKay (author of The Women's Brain Book) has looked at studies and talked to experts from all over the world and the proof is in: giving birth is one of the best things to ever happen to a woman's brain. Baby Brain contains the ultimate good-news story about mothers' brains, backed up by scientific research from leading experts and presented in highly digestible bite-sized sections by one of Australia's leading science communicators.

Micah Burgess has attended over 200 home or hospital births as a doula. She also has had six of her own birth experiences - five homebirths using natural birth methods and one emergency C-section just 27 weeks into her sixth pregnancy. During many of those birth experiences, Micah encountered some hilarious situations and people. With her Texan charm and wit, Micah lets new and experienced moms everywhere see that the craziness that sometimes accompanies childbirth is neither odd nor unique - and is often quite funny.

In this updated and expanded version of Isa Gucciardi’s acclaimed Return to the Great Mother, the listener is invited to rediscover the transformative feminine power at the heart of childbirth. Mothers, their partners, and birth professionals will learn how to tap into this ancient wellspring of power to create a birthing experience that is deeply intuitive and empowering.

Benvenuti nel mondo dell'Hypnobirthing, una metodologia rivoluzionaria che vi guiderà attraverso l'emozionante viaggio della gravidanza, del parto e del post partum con serenità e fiducia. Questo audiolibro è una risorsa preziosa per le futurre mamme e le loro famiglie.

This book explores stages of pregnancy, from getting pregnant to giving birth. It's a handy book for expectant mothers.

Are you a woman? If you are, have you been thinking about motherhood? If you have, you may be wondering whether or not you are ready to be a parent. While parenthood is occasionally unexpected, a large number of women and their partners plan and prepare for it.

You may feel like you’re out of your depth now, but by following Zach’s advice you’re taking a step in the right direction. By the time your baby arrives, you’ll have the knowledge and skill that you need to embrace the most important role of your life with joy and confidence. Being a good dad is a choice…it’s not dictated by your income, IQ, or upbringing.

Are you sure to be ready for your first-time pregnancy? Are you experiencing both happy and fearful moods? You’re not alone. Everyday only in the United States, there are almost 17.000 new pregnancies. The average person feels the weight deriving from parents and relatives, listening only to their experience. This makes pregnancy a truly daunting chore, not the exciting and liberating journey that it’s meant to be. In the beginning you bravely endured high stress levels always wondering how you could have approached it in a correct way?

When you find out you will be a parent, you realize you have no idea what you have gotten yourself into. You sway between the confidence of being the best parent to your baby and self-doubt of failing your little one. It only becomes more daunting as you learn so many things no one ever talked to you about.

In this antenatal course in a book, experienced hypnobirthing and antenatal practitioner Jackie Kietz discusses labour and birth in the way that it would be covered at face-to-face birth preparation classes. From how to tell whether you re really in labour, to choosing where and how to give birth and communicating your wishes to healthcare staff, the book is packed with essential information for new parents.

The most valuable investment any society makes is in its children, the next generation. The more we learn about the fetus the better we are able to understand the problems and abnormalities that can occur during development. Dr. Peter Nathanielsz, the first to demonstrate that the fetal brain delivers the signals that start the process of birth, reviews the recent explosion of information on fetal development during the second half of pregnancy.

How we come into the world really matters. Yet within our current Western birthing paradigm, we have lost touch with the impact that the experience of birth can have on the baby. What happens to us in the womb and at birth can have far-reaching consequences that shape the way we experience and see the world for the rest of our lives. This groundbreaking book dispels the myth that babies are not conscious beings. It also shows how many of our beliefs are formed in the womb and at birth: beliefs that end up running our lives today.

Giving birth can be - and should be - an exciting, positive experience. While every labor and delivery has unique challenges, you can help to make it the best possible experience through a combination of comfort techniques, education and an understanding of options. This concise guide to pregnancy and childbirth brings you the expertise of a certified nurse-midwife at Mayo Clinic and a certified doula. It’s packed with information based on the most current evidence, yet rooted in long-trusted natural methods of caring for laboring women.

Summary Bundle: Diet & Pregnancy includes Summary of In Defense of Food and Summary of Ina May's Guide to Childbirth. In Defense of Food focuses on healthy eating. Ina May's Guide to Childbirth guides pregnant women to deliver painlessly without drugs.

A Birth Path describes the entire birthing process in nine detailed steps to raise awareness of what mother, baby, and attending father experience during this miraculous life transition. It delves into the physical, spiritual, and energetical to bring light to the conscious and subconscious aspects of the integrative beauty of birth.

More than 90 percent of sexually active women have only been given a very limited amount of information about how birth control works, often right at the beginning when they start their first pill or patch. Not all of us enjoy biology lessons, and figuring out the complexities of hormones, cycles, and our bodies can feel a little too much. But it doesn’t need to be rocket science. Getting a better insight into how your body really works can empower you and open up choices and possibilities so that you make the best decisions for yourself. After all, this is your body!

Learn to navigate the process naturally, managing pain and emotions, without sacrificing your ideals for a minimal-intervention birth. Are you an expectant mother feeling overwhelmed by medical protocols? Wishing for a more natural, minimal-intervention birth? You're not alone. Each year, countless mothers share these feelings. What if you could reframe the narrative?