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

By: Genevieve Howland, Cynthia Mason, Maura Winkler

Narrated by: 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..