Pregnancy - unquestionably one of the most profound, meaningful experiences of adulthood - can reduce otherwise intelligent women to, well, babies. Pregnant women are told to avoid cold cuts, sushi, alcohol, and coffee without ever being told why these are forbidden. Rules for prenatal testing are similarly unexplained. Moms-to-be desperately want a resource that empowers them to make their own right choices.--Publisher's description.

"�Cu�al es el peor miedo al que te has enfrentado durante el embarazo? Es natural que al recibir la noticia pases de la emoci�on a un mar de preguntas y cuidados basados en creencias populares o experiencias ajenas. Todos te dan consejos sin que se los pidas y son m�as los mitos que las verdades. Por eso Emily Oster, destacada economista, se dio a la tarea de investigar a profundidad las opiniones sobre el embarazo y comprobar la veracidad...

"A unique way to see and process the motherhood experience through the lens of yoga, Whole Mama Yoga covers all phases and stages of becoming and being a mother or birth parent-offering a way to extend yoga's gifts and tools for all who parent. Women are drawn to yoga for its physical benefits, its ability to induce calm and presence, and its offering of spiritual depth. Whole Mama Yoga offers a way to extend yoga's gifts into the motherhood experience...

"Pregnancy Fitness provides information and techniques to help women build and maintain physical fitness to have a healthy pregnancy. It also provides exercises to enable them to gain the functional fitness skills they will need to be prepared for the everyday physical demands of motherhood. It details information about the physical changes that occur during pregnancy, programs of physical fitness for all stages of pregnancy, physical training to...

"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...

The bestselling authors of the First Forty Daysencourage mothers-to-be to care for themselves-and not just their babies-during pregnancy 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 a circle of women...