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

Heng Ou, Amely Greeven, and Marisa Belger, the bestselling authors of The First Forty Days and Awakening Fertility, encourage mothers-to-be to care for themselvesand not just their babiesduring pregnancy. There is so much noise surrounding pregnancy and birth. There are countless books teeming with informationwhat test does what, the rights and wrongs of eating, and safe or risky lifestyle choicesbut few that hold a woman through the experience, acting as an elder sister, a matriarch, or as a circle of women might hold herwith compassion, nonjudgment, and, most of all, wisdom. To the authors of Nine Golden Months, this is exactly whats needed now, in an era of high-speed living, endless demands, and more than a little anxiety and fear. 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. The (still-growing) success of The First Forty Days showed that women are longing to experience the deeper aspects of becoming a mother. 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 self-sourced wisdom, so that it addresses all aspects of a womans pregnancy experience: emotional, mental, physiological, and spiritual. Includes color photographs