Wise Woman Herbal for the Childbearing Year (1)

Easy, protected treatments for being pregnant, childbirth, lactation, and newborns.

Now in its twenty fourth printing. A confirmed favourite with pregnant girls, midwives, childbirth educators, and new dad and mom. Filled with clear, comforting, and beautifully useful data.

Starting with the 2 months earlier than being pregnant, herbs are enlisted to supply protected, efficient contraception, or to assist guarantee being pregnant, even in probably the most troublesome of conditions. A particular listing of teratogens, together with herbs to keep away from earlier than being pregnant, is included, as is a bit on herbs to enhance the daddy’s fertility and cut back the danger of delivery defects.

As soon as being pregnant has occurred, herbs are protected and useful allies in decreasing the misery of being pregnant, together with hemorrhoids, hypertension, morning illness, emotional modifications, anemia, muscle cramps, bladder infections, and preclampsia. Tasty recipes and clear instructions make use simple and enjoyable.

Herbs take a starring position in labor and supply — whether or not initiating labor, growing power, diminishing ache, or staunching postpartum bleeding — and in postpartum care of the mom’s perineum, breasts, and feelings, and the infants umbilicus, pores and skin, scalp, digestive system, and immune system.

Humorous, tender, and detailed, this basic textual content is supported by illustrations, references, useful resource lists, glossary, and index.

Consists of herbs for fertility and contraception. Foreword by Jeannine Parvati Baker.