Mindful Birthing: Training the Mind, Body, and Heart for Childbirth and Beyond

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