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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 benefits

Packed 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. The reference guide is rounded out by complete information on herbal use before, during, and post-pregnancy, and special attention is paid to supporting nursing and lactation. Whether you are have experienced challenges in conceiving or just want to ensure that your pregnancy is as natural and uncomplicated as possible, Conceiving Healthy Babies is an indispensable guide.

Dawn Combs is an ethnobotanist and herbalist who apprenticed with Rosemary Gladstar. After resolving her own infertility diagnosis through whole foods and natural herbal remedies, she chose to specialize in helping women rebalance their bodies for fertility.

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Daum Combs is an ethnobotanist and herbalist with over 20 years experience in women's health issues. She owns Mockingbird Meadows and is the director of the farm's Eclectic Herbal Institute. After resolving her own infertility diagnosis through whole foods and natural herbal remedies, she chose to specialize in helping women rebalance their bodies for fertility.

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Ethnobotanist Combs, in this memoir-cum-herbal guide, chronicles her experiences with pregnancy and breastfeeding, before offering an abundance of suggestions to other would-be parents. Combs, to demonstrate that she knows whereof she speaks, describes how she suffered a miscarriage before setting out to rebalance her body and synchronize it with natural rhythms. In doing so, she claims to have learned that "building a baby does not begin at conception." She encourages prospective mothers to create a healthy environment long before attempting to conceive, writing that parents-to-be can use herbal therapies to enhance fertility and health. She supports a diet of "nutrient-dense, traditional foods and farm fresh products" to promote gut health and proper digestion-grass-fed, organic meats and raw milk included. Readers may be most interested, though, in Combs's color-coded "Healthy Baby Herbal Reference Guide," which recommends various herbs as being most effective for preconception, pregnancy, and lactation, and also names herbs to avoid or use with caution. This intriguingly unusual pregnancy guide strives to leave readers not only educated about the medicinal powers of plants, but also empowered to rely on their own intuition and best judgment. (Nov.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

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Acknowledgments	p. xi
Preface	p. xiii
Foreword	p. xvii
Introduction	p. 1
Journey to Family	p. 5
Our Infertility Story	p. 5
Preparing Traditional Whole Foods	p. 14
Asking the Herbs for Help	p. 16
My First Pregnancy	p. 19
My First Birth	p. 20
Nursing Troubles	p. 24
My Own Formula	p. 29
My Second Birth	p. 33
Choosing a Path	p. 36
Strategies of Building a Healthy Baby	p. 39
Herbal Therapies for Fertility	p. 39
Herbal Therapies for Your Partner	p. 44
Foods for Preconception	p. 47
The Mental Component in Fertility	p. 53
Alternative Therapies	p. 54
Breast Health and Building Your Baby	p. 56
Preconception and Pregnancy	p. 60
Foods for Pregnancy and Lactation	p. 64
Chiropractic and Low Milk Supply	p. 70
Supplemental Feeding Equipment	p. 71
Mental Component in Breastfeeding	p. 73
The Concept of Nursing Through	p. 75
General Herb Use	p. 81
Determining the Quality of Herbs	p. 83
Sustainable Suppliers	p. 85
Standardised Method versus the Simplers Method	p. 87
Whole versus Isolated Constituents: The Side Effects of Ethnobotany	p. 89
A Word About Supplements	p. 92
Homeopathics	p. 93
Essential Oils	p. 94
Flower Essences	p. 95
General Herbal Components to Watch	p. 95
Cleansing and Deroxing	p. 98
Prescription, OTC and Illegal Drugs	p. 103
A Final Word	p. 104
Healthy Baby Herbal Reference Guide	p. 107
Using the Herbal Guide	p. 107
Foods and Supplements	p. 297
Afterword	p. 313
Further Reading	p. 317
Notes	p. 319
Glossary	p. 327
Appendices
Appendix A Whole-Food/Whole-Plant Resources	p. 331
Appendix B Baby Formulas	p. 335
Appendix C Breast Massage Techniques	p. 339
Appendix D Child Dosage Table	p. 343
Appendix E United Plant Savers	p. 345
Appendix F Comfrey: Poison or Panacea?	p. 347
Appendix G Gluten-Free Lactation Cookies	p. 349
Appendix H Build a Baby Worksheet	p. 351
Index	p. 358
About the Author	p. 375

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