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COPYRIGHT 2005 Mothering Magazine
Most Mothering readers know the basics of a healthy parent-child relationship. You know to hold your infant when she or he cries. You know how to set limits with a toddler. You even know how important it is to make time to take care of yourself. But what about all those other questions? What about help with breastfeeding? Using herbs for a child's illnesses? Meeting the needs of a pregnant partner? Thankfully, you don't have to reinvent the wheel. There are those who have gone before, and they are here to tell you all about it. In addition, an array of children's books will remind you that though your role as a parent is important, you don't have to take yourself too seriously.
Mother Rising: The Blessingway Journey into Motherhood, by Yana Cortlund, Barb Lucke, and Donna Miller Watelet, is a complete manual on the art of creating, planning, and producing a blessingway, a ceremony inspired by a Navajo ritual that honors pregnant women. The book provides ideas and instructions for the five stages of ritual, plenty of resources on goddesses and symbolism, and recipes. If you want to do it up big, get this book! (Seeing Stone Press, 2004; www.seeingstonepress.com)
Journey into Motherhood: Inspirational Stories of Natural Birth, edited by Sheri L. Menelli, features empowering anecdotes about successful VBACs, hypnobirths, and plain old homebirths. At the end of most accounts, a section called "A Mother's Guidance" lists the specific techniques, books, and tapes that helped the authors. (White Heart Publishing, 2005)
In Meditations for Pregnancy: 36 Weekly Practices for Bonding with Your Unborn Baby, Michelle Leclaire O'Neill, PhD, RN, presents soul-nourishing weekly readings that...
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