The Headspace Guide To...A Mindful Pregnancy: As Seen on Netflix

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I’m not use to meditate more than 10 minutes a day, and I found myself meditating 20 minutes straight! You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Two hours a week for five weeks, the mindfulness group learned different meditations and how to cultivate awareness and acceptance of their thoughts and emotions.

Birthing people need tremendous emotional support right now as they face uncertainty, and this book addresses that important, and often overlooked, need. Some things I was skeptical of scientific proof, but I liked the meditation sections and all the yoga poses they walk you through. John and Julie Gottman explain what to do—and what to avoid—so your arguments actually make your relationship stronger. In a small 2010 pilot study, 27 women in their third trimester of pregnancy participated in the MBCP program with their partners. In interviews, participants talked about learning to stop struggling and accept things as they are; they remembered to stop and breathe, and then take conscious action rather than acting out of anger or frustration.The thought of giving birth can be scary, especially if other women have been telling you about what it was like for them or you’ve been reading gory stories. Sarah Rudell Beach’s simple techniques can be incorporated easily into everyday life, helping you to become aware of your lifestyle: Are you taking on too much?

If you find mindfulness helpful, then this book about how to apply it to fertility, pregnancy, parenthood, and loss seems pretty useful, and I'd definitely recommend it.The study’s mindfulness training was set up by midwife and mindfulness teacher, Nancy Bardarke, and included modules on mindfulness meditation, awareness of breathing and the body. Jen, an entrepreneur friend of mine who recently had her first child, was put on bed rest and couldn’t even exercise to keep her stress down.