• Enjoy a healthier pregnancy

• Be better prepared for life as a new mother

• Assemble a dynamite health care team

• Communicate more effectively with your health care providers

• Organize yourself and your home to enjoy a smooth transition to family life

• Bond more easily with your baby

  Only $ 21.95

Chock full of tips from experienced moms, Getting Ready for Baby:

• Begins with you – your pregnancy story, a letter to your baby, and more.
• Helps you to decide upon your ideal birth.
• Has a place for you to write your birth plan.
• Includes dad in your pregnancy.
• Is sensitive to single moms whose partner is not a part of her life.
• Helps you organize your home and your life before your baby is born.
• Includes a list for the people you want to call right after your birth.
• Ends with you – your birth story and pregnancy highlights

To help you improve your pregnancy experience, Getting Ready for Baby:

• Helps you establish your ultimate health care team.
• Provides pages for you to write down how your body is changing, and your questions.
• Offers suggestions to celebrate your journey to motherhood.
• Lists what you absolutely need before your baby is born and the things that can wait.
• Includes a list of items to pack if you are having a hospital birth, including natural remedies to help you recover more quickly.
• And much more!

Organize your pregnancy into five manageable steps:

Step 1 – Decide on the type of birth that you’d like and then interview and select your ultimate health care team to support your choices for pregnancy, labour and birth.

Step 2 – Use the planner section to make note of your body changes and your questions so that you are well prepared for your appointments with your caregiver and support professionals.

Step 3 – Organize your homes and your lives to make a smooth transition to becoming a family.

Step 4 – Prepare for labour and birth spiritually, emotionally and physically.
 
Step 5 – Plan ahead to make life easier during those energy-charged first weeks after your baby is born.

Getting Ready for Baby:

• Has a place for you to write down how your body is changing, how you are feeling and all of your questions.

• Includes pages for you to organize your thoughts before your scheduled caregiver appointments. We’ve designed a place to write down the answers to your questions and record your test results.

• Has a section for your birth plan.

• Is beautiful enough to be a keepsake. We’ve designed a place to include pictures at each trimester so that you can look back and remember your body changes throughout your pregnancy.

• Includes dad in the pregnancy and provides pages for him to write down messages from his heart as well as his perspective of your pregnancy and birth.

• Is sensitive to single moms whose partner is not a part of her life. We have designed our planner to be able to remove the dad contribution pages if that is appropriate.

• Has a section to record the fun things of pregnancy: how you found out that you were pregnant, how you shared the news.

• Offers mom-to-mom tips throughout the book from experienced moms who have found easier ways to handle pregnancy, birth and postpartum recovery.

• Includes a master to-do-list for tasks that need to be completed before the baby is born and weekly to-do-lists to manage your time.

• Has a place for you to write down baby gift ideas that you would love to have in case someone asks what you really need or want.

• Offers suggestions to celebrate your journey to motherhood and activities for you to prepare for your labour and birth spiritually, emotionally and physically.

• Helps you become better informed and prepared for breastfeeding before you have your baby. Your chance of success increases significantly this way.

• Has a list of baby things that are organized into what you absolutely need before the baby is born and the baby things that can wait for a bit.

• Includes a list of items to pack if you are having a hospital birth, including natural remedies to help you recover more quickly. We’ve thought of a few things that many people forget and we’ve included spaces for you to add everything that is important to you.

• Has a place for your birth story and to record all the information of your baby’s birth: time of birth, weight, length, attendants, etc.

• Contains the essentials of a weekly planner: calendars, week at a glance pages, to-do-lists, contacts, favourite websites and baby gifts you receive when you are on the go.

• Includes a page to list the people you want to call right after your baby is born. This is usually the partner’s job. If the names and numbers are handy, it is so much easier.

• Has a place to look back over your pregnancy, labour and birth and note the highlights – the funny things, the challenging moments and how you have changed.

Getting Ready for Baby and the Calm Baby Cookbook were created entirely by Canadians and printed in Calgary, Alberta.

Dr. Melanie Beingessner is a chiropractor, a breastfeeding counsellor, a certified infant massage instructor and the mother of three fabulous children.  She is the author of The Calm Baby Cookbook and Getting Ready for Baby: a practical five-step guide to help you prepare for labour, birth and for life as a family.  She is also the co-founder of Becoming Parents – a prenatal program that teaches about the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual transformation of pregnancy and birth and how to facilitate an easier transition of becoming a family.  Dr. Beingessner is currently co-writing a book based on the Becoming Parents prenatal program. 

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