Mindful Birthing: Training the Mind, Body, and Heart for Childbirth and Beyond
- Author: Bardacke, Nancy
- Publisher: HarperOne
- ISBN: 9780061963957
- Format: Paperback
- number of pages: 359
- publication year: 2012
With Mindful Birthing, Nancy Bardacke, nurse-midwife and mindfulness teacher, lays out her innovative program for pregnancy, childbirth, and beyond. Drawing on groundbreaking research in neuroscience, mindfulness meditation, and mind/body medicine, Bardacke offers practices that will help you find calm and ease during this life-changing time, providing lifelong skills for healthy living and wise parenting. Some of the benefits of Mindful Birthing: Increases confidence and decreases fear of childbirth; Taps into deep inner resources for working with pain; Improves couple communication, connection, and cooperation; Provides stress-reducing skills for greater joy and wellbeing. Keywords: Birth, Pregnancy, Parenting, Postnatal