Nine Golden Months: The Essential Art of Nurturing the Mother-To-Be -- Heng Ou

<b>The bestselling authors of the <i>First Forty Days</i> encourage mothers-to-be to care for themselves--and not just their babies--during pregnancy</b> <p/> 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 might hold her--with compassion, nonjudgment, and, most of all, wisdom. To the authors of <i>Nine Golden Months</i>, this is <i>exactly </i>what's needed now, in an era of high-speed living, endless demands, and more than a little anxiety and fear. <p/> A woman needs to feel connected to others, rooted in the knowledge that many have done this before her, and calmed and fortified by time-honored practices that nourish her body, soothe her mind, and hold up her spirit. The (still-growing) success of <i>The First Forty Days</i> showed that women are longing to experience the <i>deeper</i> aspects of becoming a mother. <i>Nine Golden Months</i> shares timeless guidance from the authors' extraordinary circle of practitioners, guides, and wisdom-keepers specializing in prenatal care; it draws from Traditional Chinese Medicine and Ayurveda, and features rituals and self-sourced wisdom, so that it addresses all aspects of a woman's pregnancy experience: emotional, mental, physiological, and spiritual.<br><br><b>Au