This Sacred Life, Transforming Our World Through Birth...


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A text guide covering conception, pregnancy and childbirth, for Parents, Birth workers and those interested in Transforming Our World through Birth....




BabyCalmâ„¢


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Congratulations! You are about to become, or recently became, a new mom. But now what? You may feel overwhelmed by all the advice given to you by friends, family members, online sites, and the slew of contradicting information about calming a crying baby, getting on a feeding schedule, and training your infant to sleep through the night. BabyCalm™ (a company founded in 2007 in England by Sarah Ockwell-Smith and expanding to the United States this year) runs classes that aim to turn stressed-out parents and crying babies into happier parents and calmer babies. In BabyCalm™, Ockwell-Smith sets out to provide new mothers with the inspiring ethos and methods of her successful company. BabyCalm™ aims to empower new parents to raise their baby with confidence. Focused primarily for new mothers (but with a plethora of sound advice for fathers as well), Ockwell-Smith provides a wealth of information—starting with trusting your maternal instincts above all else—on calming your crying baby, implementing sleep training techniques, facilitating a feeding schedule, bonding with your new infant, understanding your baby’s essential needs, and much more. Including parenting tips from around the world as well as ways in which to create confident children, BabyCalm™ is the only book you’ll need to set you on the solid path of good (and stress-free) parenting during your baby’s first year.




Mother and Child


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Intimate portraits and personal stories reveal the wisdom of mothering in indigenous cultures around the world, beautifully expressed in this illustrated book. From the Arctic to the Sahara, from the Himalaya to the Amazon, award-winning journalist and photographer Jan Reynolds introduces us to women whose traditional parenting practices can enrich the lives of parents and children everywhere.




The Rawvolution Continues


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From the founders of Rawvolution, a premier raw food café turned meal subscription service, comes a gorgeous, four-color cookbook, featuring 150 delicious pure food recipes. World-renowned raw food chefs Matt and Janabai Amsden have been at the center of Los Angeles’ vibrant health food community for more than a decade. Previously through their café—Euphoria Loves RAWvolution—and through their meal subscription service—the Raw Box—they help to nourish bodies, minds, and souls through endless bowls of Superfood Soup, progressive ideas, and community. With The RAWvolution Continues Matt and Janabai welcome home chefs everywhere to this wholesome, healthful feast. Featuring more than 150 mouthwatering recipes for shakes, drinks, elixirs, appetizers, soups, entrees, and desserts, The RAWvolution Continues guides you through simple steps to creating fare that is truly natural and truly delicious. You’ll learn to prepare Almond Butter Shakes and Goji Lemonade, Spicy Sesame Soup and Deep Dish Spinach Pizza, and how to whip up decadent desserts like Chocolate Ganache Torte and Cool Cherry Cream Parfaits. There’s also a section on making raw basics like cream cheese, corn chips, and chocolate, as well as sample menus with creative suggestions on how to pull it all together. The RAWvolution Continues is one of the most comprehensive raw cookbooks available, with family-friendly resources like easy recipes for kids and tips on traveling raw—all with gorgeous color photographs by Andrea Gómez Romero. The RAWvolution isn’t just about changing how you eat—it’s about changing how you live. Perfect for vegetarians, vegans, people who care about the environment, DIYers, and anyone with lactose or gluten intolerance, The RAWvolution Continues is a manifesto for clean living, a guide to recharging your system, and an invitation to join the hundreds of thousands of people all over the world who are ready to eat well.




Mother's Pearls


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Mother's Pearls is an inspirational guide for the natural family. It was written as an ode to children with the belief that parenting is a journey of self and an exploration of the wonders of childhood. However, generally speaking, we have overlooked this very important aspect of raising children in our fast paced lives. When we take the time to search for truth, and make decisions from our hearts rather than with our heads, we can make a positive and lasting difference in our children's well being. Dagan's book covers many diverse topics dealing with health, psychology, the natural home, alternative education and more. She explains how illness can be avoided, hyperactivity alleviated and how we as adults can change the destiny of future generations by redefining our priorities based on our children's needs. Mother's Pearls was handed down through generations of intuitive women for the betterment of mankind.




The Conflict


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In the pathbreaking tradition of Backlash and The Time Bind, The Conflict, a #1 European bestseller, identifies a surprising setback to women's freedom: progressive modern motherhood Elisabeth Badinter has for decades been in the vanguard of the European fight for women's equality. Now, in an explosive new book, she points her finger at a most unlikely force undermining the status of women: liberal motherhood, in thrall to all that is "natural." Attachment parenting, co-sleeping, baby-wearing, and especially breast-feeding—these hallmarks of contemporary motherhood have succeeded in tethering women to the home and family to an extent not seen since the 1950s. Badinter argues that the taboos now surrounding epidurals, formula, disposable diapers, cribs—and anything that distracts a mother's attention from her offspring—have turned childrearing into a singularly regressive force. In sharp, engaging prose, Badinter names a reactionary shift that is intensely felt but has not been clearly articulated until now, a shift that America has pioneered. She reserves special ire for the orthodoxy of the La Leche League—an offshoot of conservative Evangelicalism—showing how on-demand breastfeeding, with all its limitations, curtails women's choices. Moreover, the pressure to provide children with 24/7 availability and empathy has produced a generation of overwhelmed and guilt-laden mothers—one cause of the West's alarming decline in birthrate. A bestseller in Europe, The Conflict is a scathing indictment of a stealthy zealotry that cheats women of their full potential.




Journey Into Motherhood


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Providing both inspiration and education, this guide to natural childbirth offers 48 personal accounts of labor and delivery without medication. Revealing the many options women have beyond birthing location, the testimonials offer insight into the joys, concerns, and realities of natural birth. From delivering at home with a midwife and hearing the right words from a hospital nurse at just the right moment to describing a combination of the Bradley method and acupuncture at a birthing center and discussing a child's birth at home in warm water, this resource combines personal insight with referential information. A glossary of terms and a resource guide to books, magazines, websites, videos, and CDs, and listings of childbirth classes and instructors nationwide are also included.




Eat More Raw


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Sunfood Living


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With this encyclopedia-style guide, you have at your fingertips everything you need to know to live a healthy, eco-friendly life in our industrialized, consumer-driven society. Collected here is concise information on every relevant topic imaginable, including: the food shortage myth, pollution caused by farm animals, poisons in cooked food, plant-based food and health, soaps and detergents, fair trade, heart disease, hunger and homelessness, etc. Woven in among the tips are countless quotes from Albert Einstein, Martin Luther King, Jr., David Attenborough, and many other famous, respected figures. The bulk of the book is made up by the Sunfood Living Directory, which directs readers to the organizations, publications, and other resources they can turn to for in-depth information on each topic.