The Mama Natural Week-by-Week Guide to Pregnancy and Childbirth

De: Genevieve Howland, Cynthia Mason, Maura Winkler

Narrado por: Rebekkah Ross

From Genevieve Howland, creator of the Mama Natural blog and YouTube channel, comes a “must-read, comprehensive guide that empowers moms-to-be” (Vani Hari, New York Times bestselling author) with week-by-week support to natural pregnancy.

For the last half-century, doctors have controlled childbirth. Many pregnancy guidebooks are conventional, fear-based, and written by male physicians deeply entrenched in the old-school medical model of birth.

But change is underway. Women are taking back their pregnancy and childbirth and embracing a natural way. Now, Genevieve Howland, the woman behind the enormously popular Mama Natural blog and YouTube channel, has created an inspiring, fun, and informative guide that demystifies natural pregnancy and walks moms through the process one week at a time.

In this revised and updated edition, Howland includes the latest research and weekly advice and tips for a healthy pregnancy, detailing vital nutrition information, natural remedies for common and troublesome symptoms, as well as the appropriate (and inappropriate) use of interventions.

Peppered throughout are positive birth and pregnancy stories from women of all backgrounds along with insights from experts including registered nurses, certified midwives, doulas, and lactation consultants. Encouraging, well-researched, and fun, The Mama Natural’s Week-by-Week Guide to Pregnancy and Childbirth is an essential companion for women everywhere to embrace natural pregnancy and reap all the benefits for both baby and mama.

Love this book.

Very good information. This book helped me get through my pregnancy and know what to do and not to do.

A MUST LISTEN!

Would you listen to The Mama Natural Week-by-Week Guide to Pregnancy and Childbirth again? Why?

I would definately listen to this book again - it is a wealth of information and super up-to-date.

So helpful for a first-time mom!

I really appreciate the way this book is broken out by week and how it covers a ton of different types of pregnancy-related topics: not just medical, not just social, not just development, not just nutrition. It's all of the above and more!

The audio quality and talent are good - very easy to listen to.

My only gripe is that so many places in the book mention a topic and then says "but more on that later." It's really repetitive and silly - just wait to give more on the topic.

I love this book!

I am currently 14 weeks pregnant and I love this book. Listening to each week ahead of time has truly helped me to understand what to expect, how my baby is developing, what my baby needs most at certain times, how my body will change, and provides healthy and unique meal options. Though the book is for a “natural” momma as shown in the title, I am very medical and plan on delivering in a hospital, and yet I feel everything in the book is benefitting me in some way. I had no idea about all of the options out there, and listening to this book gives me confidence each week in my decision making.

Pretentious

Had some good information but I could tell from my own research that there was a lot of biased and misleading/misinformation in this book. A lot of cherry picking. Just on a personal note too, the narrator sounds so pretentious it was so annoying the whole book..

Super helpful book full of fact based, naturally minded info

This book was recommended to me by my SIL and I absolutely loved it! Being a first time mama, having a weekly guide to help through pregnancy and lessen my fears and questions about birth is great. The recipes, pregnancy symptom relief methods, and midwife/doula input were particularly helpful. I also liked that the author included fact based info, citing studies done on the effectiveness or ineffectiveness of different practices, and helping the reader make an informed decision one way or another. The narrator had an easy to listen to voice, making the audible version of this book an excellent choice for a busy mama. I would definitely recommend this book to a friend. Well worth the read. I even found a copy in my birthing center’s library!

comprehensive natural childbirth manual

this really is the perfect overview to natural childbirth. it gives plenty of references and ideas that you can do more research into yourself. the readers and performance was also very high quality, enjoyable and very entertaining. there were some anecdotal examples, but most premises were based on science and statistics. highly recommend!

Fantastic job!

if you're going to be a new parent by this book. you'll learn a ton.

A must!!

This book has been my guide. It gives me knowledge that brings me peace. Thank you so much for it!!

Informative but annoying narrator

I cannot stand when the author does not read their own books, but that aside, it's not bad. Some of the claims & suggestions were a bit out there & impractical, but for the most part, I think you can learn a lot of good information in this book.

Something that drove me NUTS-- they mention the accompanying PDF for all the recipes & supporting documents.. WHERE TF IS THAT?! Damn provide a website for listeners to go to like every other audiobook. Good Lord. Some of those recipes sounded great & I would like to try, but nope. Can't get them I guess 🤷 & yes I tried Googling it