Birth Formations: What Multiple Home Births Teach About Living, Laboring, and Mothering in the Now: New Moms, New Families, #2
By Gloria Ng
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A nuts-and-bolts approach on how to actualize the New Age concept of living in the present moment before conception, during pregnancy, throughout delivery and in the midst of postpartum motherhood for the busy woman who desires to do and have it all.
Birth Formations: What Multiple Home Births Teach About Living, Laboring, and Mothering in the Now
Encapsulates over ten years of practice in the holistic healing arts and alternative health field to tackle the sensitive and controversial note that all of our reality rests on our ability to think things through.
The delicate and intense call of motherhood states unequivocally that:
"You can't think your baby out."
This book aims to break that one sentence down into doable parts.
Part I: Beginnings
This section targets preconceived notions about how to create our reality/birth/presence/experience.
Parts II, III, IV: Births
These sections illuminate the lessons the author has learned and include exercises to process and prepare for delivery and a more smooth integration of these principles in daily life.
Part V: Beyond
This section gives you permission to fly.
Gloria Ng
Multi-published, #1 Amazon bestselling author Gloria Ng is an Oakland-based mother of three who writes on Owl Time. Her work has appeared in anthologies, including YELL-Oh Girls! Emerging Voices Explore Culture, Identity, and Growing Up Asian American. (HarperCollins, 2001) Seeing the lack of bilingual books to read to her children, she created the Mama Gloria Chinese-English Bilingual Books series. If you listen well, you'll hear her hooting in the middle of the night. For forthcoming book updates, sign up for her newsletter: http://eepurl.com/fSDdD If you enjoyed this book, please help others find it by recommending this book to friends or family or posting a review on the site from which you purchased it. Gloria enjoys hearing from readers, writers, and reviewers. Contact or Interact with Gloria Online: Facebook: www.facebook.com/FengShuiGal Facebook Author page: www.facebook.com/GloriaFanPage Twitter: @fengshuigal Blog/Website: http://www.GloriaNg.com/ Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/fSDdD Patreon: http://patreon.com/GloriaNg
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Birth Formations - Gloria Ng
Praise for New Moms, New Families
I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to convince a man to read this book but for women who are about to give birth or have just given birth, this book is a must read. It’ll save you a lot of pain.
~ Vivek Rajan Vivek, Author of A Great Sage and A Rascal Named Doku
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...quite multicultural and includes...entries dealing with very non-traditional approaches that were once outside the mainstream. All in all, an eclectic and often enjoyable read that new mothers or mothers-to-be may find helpful.
~ Rebecca Hazell, Author of Women Writers
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There are a lot of practical tips and easy to implement action plans to smooth out this emotional time in early motherhood...and the intimate experiences these women share alongside their advice is inspiring and touching.
~ C. H. Lowe, Author of Someplace North of Here
Birth Formations
What Multiple Home Births Teach About Living, Laboring, and Mothering in the Now
Gloria Ng
A nuts-and-bolts approach on how to actualize the New Age concept of living in the present moment before conception, during pregnancy, throughout delivery and in the midst of postpartum motherhood for the busy woman who desires to do and have it all.
Birth Formations: What Multiple Home Births Teach About Living, Laboring and Mothering in the Now
Copyright © 2015 Gloria Ng
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Table of Contents
Praise for New Moms, New Families
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Author's Note
I. BEGINNINGS
Session 1: (Re)sort
Session 2: Present
Session 3: Water Babies
Premise 1: Birth Trauma
Premise 2: Life Regression Triangle
Premise 3: Birthing Terrains
Ground Zero
Exercise 0.1: Inquire About Your Birth
II. BIRTH ONE: HAPPINESS RETURNS
Lesson 1: Baby Makes Two
Exercise 1.1: Inquire About Yourself
Lesson 2: Baby Makes Three
Exercise 1.2: Differentiation
Lesson 3: Trust
Exercise 1.3: Prayers
Lesson 4: Unity
Exercise 1.4: Let Go
Lesson 5: Reasons
Exercise 1.5: Appreciations
III. BIRTH TWO: WEALTH IS FOREVER
Lesson 1: Treading Water
Exercise 2.1: Circle Meditation
Lesson 2: The Gift of Vision
Exercise 2.2: Create a Visual
Extra Credit: Birth Videos
Lesson 3: Giving Word
Exercise 2.3: Hypnobirthing Affirmations
Lesson 4: Movement
Exercise 2.4: Joyful Movement
Lesson 5: Now Baby Makes Four
Exercise 2.5: Inventory Your Resources
List 2.5.1: My Resource List
Exercise 2.6: Create Jobs
List 2.6.1: Routines
IV. BIRTH THREE: ROYALTY HAS VALUE
Lesson 1: A Realm to Call Your Own
Exercise 3.1: Claim Your Realm
Lesson 2: Our Daily Rituals
Exercise 3.2: Schedule Self-Nourishment
Extra Credit: Transition Times
Lesson 3: Birth as a Part of Daily Life
Exercise 3.3: Mini-Births
Lesson 4: Sacred Feminine
Exercise 3.4: Values Roll Call
Lesson 5: Now Baby Makes Five
Exercise 3.5: Improvise
V. BEYOND
Parting Exercise: Take a Bath
About the Author
Also by Gloria Ng
Dedication
For all the mothers, all of our children, and many more to come
Acknowledgements
Special thanks to my children, my birth partner, my midwives and everyone who is directly and indirectly related to the facilitating a spiritual birthing-rebirthing experience. What you do matters.
Author's Note
When I meet other moms—mamas of one and mamas of two—they are truly amazed that I’ve been a stay-at-home mother of three young children. By young,
I mean kids who are not of age to enter kindergarten yet.
With an active firstborn who seemed my opposite in every way, I can’t begin to tell you just how much I’ve grown from a new mom the first time around to a new mom this third time around. I have learned so much and I am so grateful for the experience—both ups
and downs.
I wrote this book because of a very specific moment during a home birth that riled me up enough to put my proverbial pen to paper. That moment of revelation, connection, intimation, shook my world, and I suddenly felt the urgency to share exactly what I’ve learned from new age thinker (left-brained, rational, masculine grasp of being present) to postpartum integrator (right-brained, emotional, feminine grasp of being in the moment).
So this book exists to honor that prime point in my labor and honor the mothers who have asked me how I do it, how I (by and large) seem so calm and restful amongst three kids (I do have my days, though...), and how I can still have enough time for me to be prolific in doing what I really love to do.
Although I wrote this book with mothers in my mind, if you are a father or guardian and you find the information in this book helpful as well, then feel free to share with others and drop me a line as well. Of course, if you’re a mom, you’re more than welcome to write me as well.
For the record, I am a "first