Dawn Combs. (2014). Conceiving Healthy Babies: An Herbal Guide to Support Preconception, Pregnancy and Lactation. New Society Publishers.

Dawn Combs. 2014. Conceiving Healthy Babies: An Herbal Guide to Support Preconception, Pregnancy and Lactation. New Society Publishers.

Dawn Combs, Conceiving Healthy Babies: An Herbal Guide to Support Preconception, Pregnancy and Lactation. New Society Publishers, 2014.

Dawn Combs. Conceiving Healthy Babies: An Herbal Guide to Support Preconception, Pregnancy and Lactation. New Society Publishers, 2014.

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   • bioText: Dawn Combs is an ethnobotanist and herbalist with over 20 years experience in women's health issues. She owns Mockingbird Meadows and is the director of the farm's Eclectic Herbal Institute. 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.
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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.

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     October 6, 2014
     Ethnobotanist Combs, in this memoir-cum-herbal guide, chronicles her experiences with pregnancy and breastfeeding, before offering an abundance of suggestions to other would-be parents. Combs, to demonstrate that she knows whereof she speaks, describes how she suffered a miscarriage before setting out to rebalance her body and synchronize it with natural rhythms. In doing so, she claims to have learned that “building a baby does not begin at conception.” She encourages prospective mothers to create a healthy environment long before attempting to conceive, writing that parents-to-be can use herbal therapies to enhance fertility and health. She supports a diet of “nutrient-dense, traditional foods and farm fresh products” to promote gut health and proper digestion—grass-fed, organic meats and raw milk included. Readers may be most interested, though, in Combs’s color-coded “Healthy Baby Herbal Reference Guide,” which recommends various herbs as being most effective for preconception, pregnancy, and lactation, and also names herbs to avoid or use with caution. This intriguingly unusual pregnancy guide strives to leave readers not only educated about the medicinal powers of plants, but also empowered to rely on their own intuition and best judgment.

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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...

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Acknowledgments
Preface
Foreword by Carson Combs
Introduction

A Journey to Family
Our Infertility Story
Preparing Traditional Whole Foods
Asking the Herbs for Help
My First Pregnancy
My First Birth
Nursing Troubles
My Own Formula
My Second Birth
Choosing a Path

Strategies for Building a Healthy Baby
Herbal Therapies for Fertility
Herbal Therapies for Your Partner
Foods for Preconception
The Mental Component in Fertility
Alternative Therapies
Breast Health and Building Your Baby
Preconception and Pregnancy
Foods for Pregnancy and Lactation
Chiropractic and Low Milk Supply
Supplemental Feeding Equipment
Mental Component in Breastfeeding
The Concept of Nursing Through

General Herb Use

Determining the Quality of Herbs
Sustainable Suppliers
Standardized Method versus the Simplers Method

Whole versus Isolated Constituents: The Side Effects of Ethnobotany
A Word About Supplements
Homeopathics
Essential Oils
Flower Essences
General Herbal Components to Watch
Cleansing and Detoxing
Prescription, OTC and Illegal Drugs
A Final Word

Healthy Baby Herbal Reference Guide
Using the Herbal Guide
Foods and Supplements
Afterword
Further Reading
Notes
Glossary

Appendices
Appendix A: Whole-Food/Whole-Plant Resources
Appendix B: Baby Formulas
Appendix C: Breast Massage Techniques
Appendix D: Child Dosage Table
Appendix E: United Plant Savers
Appendix F: Comfrey: Poison or Panacea?
Appendix G: Gluten-Free Lactation Cookies
Appendix H: Build a Baby Worksheet

Index
About the Author

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