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Naturally Healthy Pregnancy
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Product Description
This book asnwers all the questions about nutritional and herbal medicine for optimum health during pregnancy. Beginning with God's design for health and nutrition, the following is covered in detail: how to eat for a healthy baby, which herbs are safe and which are dangerous during pregnancy, and the best ways to minimize those times of nausea and discomfort. Shonda Parker provides information to guide the pregnant mom and her baby to good health with a balanced approach to herbal and traditional medicine.
A broad range of information and research, coupled with years of experience has emerged to create this health and nutrition book that encompasses far more than the health needs of present and future pregnant women. The author's warm, personal style, combined with an educational powerhouse of information makes The Naturally Healthy Pregnancy essential to a healthful, joy-filled pregnancy. A treasured gift!
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #108399 in Books
- Published on: 2003-02-01
- Released on: 2003-02-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 325 pages
Editorial Reviews
About the Author
Shonda Parker, Professional Family Herbalist and Certified Childbirth Educator, combines her previous medical assistant experience with years of practice in the Parker Home Health Unit, evaluating, diagnosing, and administering care to her five children, while seeking outside care as necessary.
Customer Reviews
A wonderful women's resource
I found this book to be a great help to me before my pregnancies as well as during and after. The Naturally Healthy Pregnancy has a great deal of information about herbs and natural methods for dealing with women's health issues and especially those of pregnant women and being a new mommy.
I particularly like the way the author writes, very warm and personal and easy to read and I enjoyed the personal pictures. I like the way the book is laid out and the information is easy to find.
My own midwife buys this book by the case and gives it to all her pregnant clients. I think this book is a must!
The best all natural pregnancy book
I have read about six different all natural pregnancy books, and this one is the best. First of all, if you are looking to birth in a hospital and are against the use of herbs, this book is not for you. Shonda is very well educated in the use of herbs for she is a family herbalist and a certified childbirth educator. This definately comes through in this book.
Shonda breaks the book into sections: before conception; and the importance of diet, during pregnancy; all the discomforts and herbs that will ease these things, during labor, and postpartum. She even has a section on if there is a miscarriage. she is very sensitve to this issue having experienced these herself. She also lists some herbs to help with previous miscarriage.
At the end, you can find tips on good family planning if you choose to go that route. Our family believes that God is our birth controller. Excellant book if a homebirth or a midwife is what you desire. God bless you and your future deliveries!
Not for new mothers
As a first time expectant mother looking for objective information on having a healthy natural pregnancy, this book fell short of my expectations. First, the author has four children and this reflects in her writing. There is very little information that explains what your body goes through during pregnancy. For someone who has been through this before, this information may not be important or necessary but it is very important to me. Second, the author offers very little advice for eating during the first trimester when most women develop aversions to certain foods and/or experience nausea/morning sickness which makes eating a balanced diet difficult. The most I was able to get from the section about what a pregnant woman should eat is that lemon water helps alleviate nausea. Third, the author uses Bible scripture to support many of her opinions. Every topic from eating a vegetarian diet to breastfeeding used bible references as "proof" that this is what mothers should do. I have no problem with the bible or religion but bible interpretations are subjective. It can hardly be cited as a factual source.
The bulk of the book is a natural remedies section in the middle of the book. I could not see how most of the ailments had anything to do with pregnancy nor did the author bother to explain what relevance they had to pregnancy and under what conditions an expectant mother may experience these ailments. I read the section mostly feeling bewildered about how it relates to the rest of the book. There were a few ailments that were clearly related to pregnancy but not many.
Perhaps the only helpful section in the book is the section on breastfeeding. Once you get past the author's diatribe against mothers who feed their babies on a set schedule versus when the baby is hungry, there is some good information here. Why the author's diatribe warranted an entire chapter is unclear to me. Any parent who does not feed a clearly hungry child because it's not the scheduled time is guilty of neglect, period. There is no need to dedicate an entire chapter to it.
