Conceiving Healthy Babies: An Herbal Guide to Support Preconception, Pregnancy and Lactation - Softcover

Combs, Dawn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 086571780X ISBN 13: 9780865717800

Publisher: New Society Publishers, 2014

Synopsis

Find balance and enhance fertility with whole food and whole plants

Healthy babies don't just happen. The lifestyle of the prospective parents is a crucial factor in promoting fertility and ensuring a successful pregnancy. But the average North American diet is saturated with processed foods and environmental toxins are rampant―we must take responsibility for what we put into and onto our bodies to create optimum conditions for the childbearing year.

Drawing on the author's own personal triumph over infertility, Conceiving Healthy Babies is a unique herbal guide geared to helping couples achieve balance in preconception, pregnancy, lactation, and beyond. Its individualized approach to fertility explains the importance of:

• Understanding, accepting, and celebrating our own bodies
• Basing our diets on organic, nutrient-dense foods that have been traditionally prepared
• Using whole plants in their original form for their medicinal benefits

Packed with detailed information on hundreds of different herbs with a focus on their roles in building healthy babies, this comprehensive manual is a roadmap to wellbeing. The reference guide is rounded out by complete information on herbal use before, during, and post-pregnancy, and special attention is paid to supporting nursing and lactation. Whether you are have experienced challenges in conceiving or just want to ensure that your pregnancy is as natural and uncomplicated as possible, Conceiving Healthy Babies is an indispensable guide.

Dawn Combs is an ethnobotanist and herbalist who apprenticed with Rosemary Gladstar. After resolving her own infertility diagnosis through whole foods and natural herbal remedies, she chose to specialize in helping women rebalance their bodies for fertility.

About this title

About the Author

Dawn Combs is an ethnobotanist and herbalist with over 20 years experience in women's health issues. She owns Mockingbird Meadows and is the director of the farm's Eclectic Herbal Institute. After resolving her own infertility diagnosis through whole foods and natural herbal remedies, she chose to specialize in helping women rebalance their bodies for fertility.

From the Back Cover

Find balance and enhance fertility with whole food and whole plants

This is a wise, truthful, empowering book, and offers some of the best advice I've seen on the subject of creating healthy, thriving babies.
Rosemary Gladstar, herbalist and author, Herbal Healing for Women

...a vivid testament to our natural health and the options available to both men and women to revive and experience it.
James Green, herbalist and author, The Male Herbal and The Herbal Medicine-Maker's Handbook

DRAWING ON THE AUTHOR'S own personal triumph over infertility, Conceiving Healthy Babies is a unique herbal guide which focuses on plant-based strategies to help couples achieve balance in preconception, pregnancy, lactation and beyond. Its individualized approach to fertility challenges prospective parents to take responsibility for their own wellbeing using natural methods while explaining the importance of:

• Understanding, accepting and celebrating our own bodies
• Basing our diets on organic, nutrient-dense foods that have been traditionally prepared
• Using whole plants in their original form for their nutritional and medicinal benefits.

Packed with detailed information on hundreds of different herbs, with a focus on their roles in building healthy babies, this comprehensive manual is a roadmap to wellbeing. The reference guide is rounded out by complete information on herbal use before, during and post-pregnancy, and special attention is paid to supporting nursing and lactation. Whether you have experienced challenges in conceiving or just want to ensure that your pregnancy is as natural and uncomplicated as possible, Conceiving Healthy Babies is an indispensable guide.

Dawn Combs is an ethnobotanist and herbalist with over 20 years experience in women's health issues. She owns Mockingbird Meadows and is the director of the farm's Eclectic Herbal Institute. After resolving her own infertility diagnosis through whole foods and natural herbal remedies, she chose to specialize in helping women rebalance their bodies for fertility.

Edition details

• Publisher: New Society Publishers
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 086571780X
• ISBN 13: 9780865717800
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 400