Publisher's Synopsis
A week-by-week pregnancy and birthing guide from renowned Hollywood doula Carson Meyer-brimming with empowering advice to help expectant mothers care for their bodies, nurture their babies, and make confident decisions throughout pregnancy, birth, and postpartum.
In this groundbreaking pregnancy book, Carson Meyer draws on her experience as a birth doula helping hundreds of families welcome their babies into the world. With a holistic focus on wellness, health, and spirituality, Growing Together offers birthing parents an empowering approach to pregnancy and childbirth that is too often missing in today's standard care.
This is a weekly guide to caring for and honoring your body and your baby through every phase of the life-changing experience of becoming a parent-from the first positive pregnancy test through the fourth trimester. Featuring easy-to-follow guidance and illuminating information to help you feel informed, confident, and calm, the content includes:
- Enriching wisdom from professionals
- Simple-to-follow activities and rituals
- Expert tips for every birth environment
- Nourishing recipes to help you feel grounded in your body and connected to your child
- And much more
Growing Together is an invaluable resource and a comprehensive must-have handbook for every expecting parent.
DOULA EXPERTISE: An experienced doula who treats birth as an empowering process, Carson Meyer brings a unique and informed perspective to this pregnancy guide. In addition to her one-on-one work, she offers courses on doula training, nutrition counseling, and a "Growing Together Circle," an all-in-one birth prep course and community circle for expecting parents.
MODERN PREGNANCY & PARENTING BOOK: This comprehensive guide incorporates testimonials, research, and science with a more spirit-centered and relaxed approach. A unique companion to typical bestselling pregnancy books, Growing Together offers a resource for expecting parents to turn to from conception through the first one hundred days after birth to access a full spectrum of user-friendly holistic resources and information.
PREGNANCY GIFT: An outstanding pregnancy planner for first-time moms or parents navigating new additions to the family, this nurturing guidebook makes an excellent self-purchase or present for pregnancy announcement or baby shower celebrations.
Perfect for:
- Expecting parents, first-time mothers, or experienced moms eager for a new approach to pregnancy and childbirth
- Gift-giving to expecting wives, partners, sisters, granddaughters, coworkers, friends, or couples
- Readers of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn; Like a Mother; Bumpin': The Modern Guide to Pregnancy; The Fourth Trimester; and the What to Expect When You're Expecting series
