With Mindful Birthing, Nancy Bardacke, nurse-midwife and mindfulness teacher, lays out her innovative program for pregnancy, childbirth, and beyond. Drawing on groundbreaking research in neuroscience, mindfulness meditation, and mind/body medicine, Bardacke offers practices that will help you find calm and ease during this life-changing time, providing lifelong skills for healthy living and wise parenting.
SOME OF THE BENEFITS OF MINDFUL BIRTHING:
- Increases confidence and decreases fear of childbirth
- Taps into deep inner resources for working with pain
- Improves couple communication, connection, and cooperation
- Provides stress-reducing skills for greater joy and wellbeing
Product Details
ISBN-13: 9780061963957
Media Type: Paperback(Original)
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication Date: 07-10-2012
Pages: 384
Product Dimensions: 6.02(w) x 8.80(h) x 1.03(d)
About the Author
Nancy Bardacke, RN, CNM, MA, is the founding director of the Mindfulness-Based Childbirth and Parenting (MBCP) program, which she currently leads at the UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine. She is also an assistant clinical professor in the UCSF School of Nursing.
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