Natural Health after Birth: The Complete Guide to Postpartum Wellness

By Aviva Romm

Provides essential advice for adjusting to the many challenges facing women during the first year after giving birth. * Offers practical tips for finding balance between being fully immersed in the beautiful but demanding path of motherhood and maintaining a sense of self. * Provides helpful herbal tips and recipes and includes gentle yoga exercises. * Addresses a new mother's need to replenish her body, mind, and spirit so that she can nurture her child. * By the author of The Natural Pregnancy Book and Vaccinations: A Thoughtful Parent's Guide . New mothers need care and support to adjust to the myriad challenges facing them after birth: changing body image, lifestyle, work arrangements, and relationships. Midwife, herbalist, and mother of four, Aviva Jill Romm shares her insights into how to make this crucial time a happy one. She provides essential advice for preparing for the postpartum period, coping during the first few days after the birth, establishing a successful breast-feeding relationship, getting enough rest, eating well even with a hectic schedule, and finding time to regain strength and tone with gentle yoga exercises. Woven throughout are helpful herbal tips and recipes to make the first year of motherhood a naturally healthy one. Natural Health after Birth also addresses a new mother's need to replenish her body, mind, and spirit so that she can nurture her child. This book provides support both for women who plan to be home full or part time during the first year and those who must return to their jobs soon after the birth. With humor and compassion, Romm offers mothers practical wisdom for attaining the delicate balance between being fully immersed in the beautiful but demanding path of motherhood and maintaining a sense of self.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0892819308
• ISBN13: 9780892819300
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Healing Arts Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

This is a GREAT book!

I've been in the birth field for over 30 years and this is one of the most helpful books I've read on postpartum recovery. Aviva has done a fantastic job writing this book. I'd like to see it on every suggested reading list for pregnant & postpartum mothers!

Excellent resource!

This book is a must for any mom to read, whether new or experienced. It has been a great resource for me as a future post partum doula.

My Postpartum Bible!

This book held my proverbial hand through the postpartum period. For clogged ducts, a fussy baby, hormonal swings, nutritional needs, and bigger life questions this book offered calm, moderate, thorough, step-by-step advice for new mothers. I recommend it for all new moms

What every new mom needs to read!

A friend recommended this book as we both started our second pregnancies. I'm so glad she did!! This book is great for first time moms and moms who have already had their first babies - excellent perspectives on what we go through after birth and gentle, reassuring advice on how to cope. A must read!

A Book for Body, Mind and Spirit

Aviva Jill Romm's book is destined to have widespread appeal for its compassionate and wise advice. I am grateful to Aviva for having so much vital information in one volume. The topics are Herbs, Nutrition, Yoga, and Practical Wisdom and sagely begins with Chapter One -- The Birth of a Mother. Her chapter on Replenishing Yourself -- Body, Mind and Spirit is particularly wonderful and the photos of the mother and newborns are full of soul. Both Robin Lim's (After The Baby's Birth) and Aviva's books make the best baby shower / Blessing Way gifts! For too many years postpartum has been neglected in terms of self-help guidebooks and within a moon of one another in 2002 came two excellent contributions to what I hope to see is the growing body of knowledge for new mothers. This is a book I will give my children and grandchildren!