Nine Golden Months: The Essential Art of Nurturing the Mother-To-Be

ISBN: 1419751484

Author: Ou, Heng

Condition: New

This beautiful book, from the bestselling authors of The First Forty Days and Awakening Fertility, provides clear, positive, nonjudgmental guidance to mothers-to-be on how to care for themselves-and not just their babies-during pregnancy.Nine Golden Months shares timeless guidance from the authors extraordinary circle of practitioners, guides, and wisdom-keepers specializing in prenatal care; it draws from Traditional Chinese medicine and Ayurveda and features rituals and female-sourced wisdom, so that it addresses all aspects of a womans pregnancy experience: emotional, mental, physiological, and spiritual.There is so much noise surrounding pregnancy and birth. There are countless books teeming with information-what test does what, the rights and wrongs of eating, and safe or risky lifestyle choices-but few that hold a woman through the experience, acting as an elder sister, a matriarch, or as a circle of women might hold her-with compassion and wisdom.In era of high-speed living, endless demands, and more than a little anxiety and fear, Nine Golden Months provides care and solace. A woman needs to feel connected to others, rooted in the knowledge that many have done this before her, and calmed and fortified by time-honored practices that nourish her body, soothe her mind, and hold up her spirit.