Description:
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 childbirthTaps into deep inner resources for working with painImproves couple communication, connection, and cooperationProvides stress-reducing skills for greater joy and wellbeingBrief description:
Nancy Bardacke, RN, CNM, MA, is the founding director of the Mindfulness-Based Childbirth and Parenting program, which she currently leads at the University of California s Osher Center for Integrative Medicine in San Francisco. She is also an assistant clinical professor in the UCSF School of Nursing.
Review Quotes:
"This is a genuine breakthrough moment in the field of childbirth and parenting. A must-buy for expectant parents, midwives, and other professionals involved in birthing."
-- "Mark Williams, bestselling author of The Mindful Way through Depression"