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FOREWORD BY SARA GOTTFRIED, MD
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION: A Great Joy Is Coming
CHAPTER ONE: Holistic Mama Prep
Before the bedroom: Getting your body ready for easier and healthier baby-making
CHAPTER TWO: Boosting Your Fertility
Understanding and taking control of your body chemistry to optimize your reproductive health
CHAPTER THREE: Perfecting Preconception
The holistic mama’s guide to the best nutritional supplements
CHAPTER FOUR: Preconception Detox
Eliminate the everyday foods and toxins that impede your fertility
CHAPTER FIVE: Recipe for a Super Baby
Foods that heal, strengthen, protect, and nourish
CHAPTER SIX: Weeks 1 through 13: Your First Trimester Guide
Holistic lifestyle remedies for pregnancy symptoms, and health care provider options you may have never known about
CHAPTER SEVEN: Weeks 14 through 26: Your Second Trimester Guide
What to eat and how to thrive
CHAPTER EIGHT: Weeks 27 through 40: Your Third Trimester Guide
Equipping you with everything you need for your third trimester, delivery, and postpartum
CHAPTER NINE: The Ultimate Postpartum Survival Guide
Balancing your hormones quickly and effectively
CHAPTER TEN: Becoming a Super Dad
A quick guide to your partner’s nutrition and well-being, from preconception to postpartum
CHAPTER ELEVEN: Nature’s Medicine: Homeopathy
A primer on natural, plant-based remedies for everything pregnancy related
CHAPTER TWELVE: Recipes and Meal Plans to Support Your Journey
CONCLUSION
APPENDIX A: Food Glossary
APPENDIX B: Buying Organic and the Dirty Dozen
APPENDIX C: Food Effects on Acid-Alkaline Body Chemistry
APPENDIX D: The Five Most Common Food Sensitivities
APPENDIX E: Could It Be Candida?
APPENDIX F: Improving Symptoms of IBS and Overall Digestive Health
APPENDIX G: Doula Questionnaire
APPENDIX H: Homeopathy Remedy Guides
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
RESOURCES
NOTES
MEET THE AUTHORS
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