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    Mindful Birthing: Training the Mind, Body, and Heart for Childbirth and Beyond
    Mindful Birthing: Training the Mind, Body, and Heart for Childbirth and Beyond
    Mindful Birthing: Training the Mind, Body, and Heart for Childbirth and Beyond
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    Mindful Birthing: Training the Mind, Body, and Heart for Childbirth and Beyond

    Written by Nancy Bardacke

    Narrated by Nancy Bardacke and Donna Postel

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    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
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateOct 18, 2016
    ISBN9780062565952
    Author

    Nancy Bardacke

    Nancy Bardacke, RN, CNM, MA, is the founding director of the Mindfulness-Based Childbirth and Parenting (MBCP) program, which she currently leads at the UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine. She is also an assistant clinical professor in the UCSF School of Nursing.

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    • 5/5
      a fantastic, sconce based, wholehearted approach to birthing. like one of the authors students puts it so well “mindfulness doesn’t help you have the birth you want, it helps you fall in love with the birth you get”.
      thank you for this gift.

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    • 5/5
      Came in very handy when I didn’t have time for an epidural with my third. Am glad to have experienced this more fully.
    • 3/5
      I am so sorry. The content of the book sounds so promising. However the audiobook, like I cant bear the tonation of the Reader. If its the autor, i apologize again, all that experience feedback of happy couples sound amazing, but i rather read it myself.
    • 4/5
      I read this book a couple of months before giving birth to my fourth child. My first three were unmedicated vaginal births and I used relaxation and breathing techniques to help during childbirth. But I thought maybe reading this would give me some ways to practice, though I didn't think I would learn much new information.

      It was really a great book with lots of practical exercises. The author backed up her claims with research and there are annotations for every chapter.

      I just gave birth three days ago and definitely used some of the things I learned from this book. Out of four births, it was my second longest labor (about 18 hours), but fastest during transition and pushing stage. I attribute that to the relaxation and meditation I was able to do during the crazy tough part at the end. One thing I took away from the book was focusing on just the moment. When I found myself starting to dread what was coming next, I'd let it go and refocus on just that moment, whether a contraction or the resting of in between.

      If I ever am pregnant again, I would love to take the actual class. I could see that the practice in person with an instructor would be even more helpful (especially with the added in accountability).