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Product Description Find balance and enhance fertility with whole food and whole plants Healthy babies don't just happen. The lifestyle of the prospective parents is a crucial factor in promoting fertility and ensuring a successful pregnancy. But the average North American diet is saturated with processed foods and environmental toxins are rampant―we must take responsibility for what we put into and onto our bodies to create optimum conditions for the childbearing year. Drawing on the author's own personal triumph over infertility, Conceiving Healthy Babies is a unique herbal guide geared to helping couples achieve balance in preconception, pregnancy, lactation, and beyond. Its individualized approach to fertility explains the importance of: Understanding, accepting, and celebrating our own bodies Basing our diets on organic, nutrient-dense foods that have been traditionally prepared Using whole plants in their original form for their medicinal benefits Packed with detailed information on hundreds of different herbs with a focus on their roles in building healthy babies, this comprehensive manual is a roadmap to wellbeing. The reference guide is rounded out by complete information on herbal use before, during, and post-pregnancy, and special attention is paid to supporting nursing and lactation. Whether you are have experienced challenges in conceiving or just want to ensure that your pregnancy is as natural and uncomplicated as possible, Conceiving Healthy Babies is an indispensable guide. Dawn Combs is an ethnobotanist and herbalist who apprenticed with Rosemary Gladstar. After resolving her own infertility diagnosis through whole foods and natural herbal remedies, she chose to specialize in helping women rebalance their bodies for fertility. Review "This is a must-read for any couple struggling to get pregnant and start a family. Heartfully honest, the author shares her own deeply personal story as she explores the depth of the problems surrounding fertilty – or lack of it. After endless amounts of experience and research – and two successful pregnancies – this woman who was tagged "infertile" has a whole lot to say on the subject. This a wise, truthful empowering book, and offers some of the best advice I've seen on the subject of creating healthy thriving babies. May Conceiving Healthy Babies find its way into the hands and heart of every woman and man who needs to read it." —Rosemary Gladstar, herbalist and author "It's been said that genius is focus. If this is so, and I suspect it is, there is true genius revealed in this book. Dawn Combs' conversation about building healthy babies has documents the path of a devoted warrior. Dismissing the deluded conclusions of medical authorities that her reproductive system was "broken," Dawn and her husband, using natural methods, rekindled balance in their bodies and conceived a healthy child. And a second one. Congratulations! Herein is a vivid testament that our health is natural and both men and women have options when necessary to revive and experience it." —James Green, herbalist and author, The Male Herbal and The Herbal Medicine-Maker's Handbook " Conceiving Healthy Babies is a guide to living well along with being a guide to healing fertility issues. The focus on preconception care is the right approach to creating ad raising healthy children. As an integrative pediatrician whose practice focuses on whole food nutrition and keeping the gut healthy, Dawn's book resonates with my philosophy of care for my patients and their families. Conceiving Healthy Babies provides a roadmap for couples and families to healthfully navigate preconception, pregnancy and lactation and ultimately the raising of the healthiest child possible." —Dhanu Sant, MD, WholeKids Pediatrics "I am so excited about this book. I can't wait to get it into the hands of our clients. It is clear, concise and informative, and this information is immeasurably need