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Healthy babies don't just happen. The lifestyle of the prospective parents is a crucial factor in promoting fertility and ensuring a successful pregnancy. But the average North American diet is saturated with processed foods and environmental toxins are rampant - we must take responsibility for what we put into and onto our bodies to create optimum conditions for the childbearing year.Drawing on the author's own personal triumph over infertility, Conceiving Healthy Babies is a unique herbal guide geared to helping couples achieve balance in preconception, pregnancy, lactation, and beyond. Its individualized approach to fertility explains the importance of: Understanding, accepting, and celebrating our own bodies Basing our diets on organic, nutrient-dense foods that have been traditionally prepared Using whole plants in their original form for their medicinal benefitsPacked with detailed information on hundreds of different herbs with a focus on their roles in building healthy babies, this comprehensive manual is a roadmap to wellbeing.
About the Author
Dawn Combs is an ethnobotanist and homestead herbalist with over 20 years of experience. She lives here in Central Ohio with her husband Carson and her children, Aidan and Jacy. Dawn is an educator and an online and in-print contributor to Mother Earth Living, Mother Earth and Hobby Farms magazines, and travels the country speaking about botanical wellness and health sufficiency. She is co-owner of the herbal health farm Mockingbird Meadows and is also the director of its educational programs available at . Dawn is the author of Heal Local, 20 Essential Herbs for Do-it-Yourself Home Healthcare (New Society, 2015) and Conceiving Healthy Babies (New Society, 2014) .
