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Mindful Motherhood

Practical Tools for Staying Sane During Pregnancy and Your Child's First Year

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From hormones to stretch marks, labor pains to diaper changes, motherhood is an adventure like none other. The rapid changes in your body, your lifestyle, and your very identity call for a certain mental agility. Mindfulness can help you meet the challenge and approach every experience with your new baby with open eyes and an open heart.

Easy ten-minute meditation exercises and yoga poses throughout this book will help you cultivate greater flexibility and mindful awareness during pregnancy, childbirth, and your baby's first year. Whenever you have a moment to spare, open Mindful Motherhood and discover a skill that will help you find balance and fulfillment during those times when you feel most overwhelmed.

Co-published with the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS).

Mindful Motherhood contains what so many other parenting books omit:: the consoling information that each mother has the ability to know, deep within, how to care for her child. Mindful Motherhood is a gem.
-Christiane Northrup, MD, author of Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom

Wise, soothing, and helpful-this is really good stuff for new mothers.
-Jack Kornfield, author of The Wise Heart

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    • Library Journal

      May 5, 2009
      From the hormones and pains of pregnancy to handling a colicky baby who just won't sleep, motherhood can be overwhelming. Vieten, a psychologist specializing in mood disorders at the California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute, presents the Buddhist concept of mindfulness (nonjudgmental awareness of present-moment experience) as a way for new and expectant moms to deal with difficult situations while staying connected to the baby. Verdict: Vieten's approach-more psychological than spiritual-will benefit moms who are open to Eastern philosophies but aren't necessarily interested in becoming practicing Buddhists. Directed at readers new to mindfulness and motherhood, the book-like the concept it introduces-is realistic, aware, and compassionate. A good choice for public libraries.-Mindy Rhiger, St. Paul, MN

      Copyright 2009 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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