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Mindful Birthing
- Training the Mind, Body, and Heart for Childbirth and Beyond
- Narrated by: Nancy Bardacke, Donna Postel
- Length: 15 hrs and 39 mins
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Publisher's Summary
With Mindful Birthing, Nancy Bardacke, nurse-midwife and mindfulness teacher, lays out her innovative program for pregnancy, childbirth, and beyond. Drawing on groundbreaking research in neuroscience, mindfulness meditation, and mind/body medicine, Bardacke offers practices that will help you find calm and ease during this life-changing time, providing lifelong skills for healthy living and wise parenting.
Some of the benefits of mindful birthing:
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- Taps in to deep inner resources for working with pain
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- 2018-09-13
Excellent listen very informative
This book was very insightful and well put structured, easy to follow along with the point the author is trying to express. Creative content as far as her personal stories as well!!
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