"The first forty days is a short season in which you recover from birth and your baby unfurls slowly into the world. It is a time of amazing intensity and adjustment. This warm and encouraging guide offers advice on navigating the postpartum period and includes recipes for healing broths, calming and lactation-boosting teas, plus more--all formulated to support the needs of new mothers."--Back cover.

"In her upcoming book, Panquetzani walks readers through the ins and outs, dos and don'ts of the ritualized and highly spiritual 40-day Mesoamerican postpartum quarantine, with the goal of helping BIPOC reframe their relationship to an outdated patriarchal paradigm that encourages birthing parents to prioritize productivity and work over their healing body and new baby"--

El libro describe todas las situaciones por las que pasa una madre en su posparto. El parto ha ido bien y tengo en mis brazos un bebé precioso pero... ¿por qué tengo tantas ganas de llorar si se supone que debería ser feliz? ¿Van a cambiar los roles de pareja? ¿Qué hacer con los comentarios con mejor o peor intención de la familia? ¿Podré volver a dormir algún día, ducharme con calma o comer un plato sentada? ¿Quiero suficiente a mi bebé?...

"The first pre- and postnatal book geared specifically to experienced yoga practitioners--from an established author, with contributions from the leaders in the field. You've been practicing yoga for years. It is a part of the way you live, move, and breathe. And then. you get pregnant. Pregnancy can throw any woman a curve ball. Even established and experienced yoga practitioners will likely find that their body, mind, and practice are challenged...

"Este manual para las futuras madres se habla de los nueve meses de embarazo, el parto y el posparto desde la evidencia científica y, a la vez, con una perspectiva absolutamente respetuosa con el bebe y la mamá, escuchando sus necesidades, resolviendo dudas y abarcando todas las opciones sin tendencias, para dar tranquilidad, serenidad y confianza. Cada mujer debe escoger que es lo mejor para ella y su bebe. La autora explica los procesos de embarazo,...

This holistic guide offers practical advice to support women through postpartum healing on the physical, emotional, relational, and spiritual levels-and provides women with a roadmap to this very important transition that can last from a few months to a few years. Kimberly Ann Johnson draws from her vast professional experience as a doula, postpartum consultant, yoga teacher, body worker, and women's health care advocate, and from the healing traditions...

"To Tend and to Hold is a gentle companion for women who are enduring, grieving, and healing from pregnancy and infant loss. Authored by a marriage and family counselor who has suffered from pregnancy loss, this book provides care to those who have also endured these heartbreaking experiences, which are as valid as any other death or loss. Within these carefully crafted pages, Rosete emerges as a warm confidante - helping readers articulate their...

"Being Zen(ish) is what we call it--and it's the ish that we endorse! Teresa Palmer and Sarah Wright Olsen, two moms from opposite sides of the world, are doing their best to raise happy, empathetic children while working, traveling, and maintaining their sanity. With seven kids between them, the founders of the much-loved Your Zen Mama blog know as well as anyone that motherhood doesn't exist in the highlight reel of life, and that finding even a...

Full of honest advice and inclusive options, Why Did No One Tell Me This? is the funny, personality-filled, illustrated guide to pregnancy, birth, and beyond that modern parents have been waiting for. Pregnancy and childbirth are full of big questions--what if my baby is enormous? Will my water break naturally? What even goes into a 'birth plan'? How on earth am I going to keep this child alive once it's here? And where do I turn for advice that will...

What if labor does not end with pregnancy but continues into a mother's postpartum life? How can the fiercest love for your child and the deepest wells of grief coexist in the same moment? How has society neglected honest conversation around the significant physical changes new mothers experience? Could real healing occur if generations of women were fluent in the language of their bodies? Molly Caro May grapples with these questions as she undergoes...