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In this LOVE Issue….(digital issue)
Featuring Pinky McKay in Accidentally in Love, learn how we fall in love chemically with our babies and how this chemistry of attachment starts during pregnancy, is enhanced by natural birth and breastfeeding and is why mums are naturally hardwired to respond to their babies.
In Real Truth, Dr Jessica Zucker pHD discusses women’s bodies postpartum as you have never seen before in Changed by Motherhood.
Take the journey from fear to Love Your Labour.
Wondering how on earth you will be able to love your new baby as much as your first? Get the full juicy story in our Bonus Feature: Expanding Heart for Two by midwife Sheree Stewart
Birth Column: Reclaiming Mama Wisdom by Teresa Robertson
Positive Birth Story: My Blissful Beautiful Painfree Birth by Melissa
Real Truth: Throw Away the Clock – Pip Wynn Owen
Empower Me- Falling in love all over again…with your partner! /What happened to my sweetheart? /Love the primate in you
Preggi Cuisine: Postnatal Boost Baby Beet Pumpkin & Feta Salad by nutritionist Kathleen
Ask the Midwife: Desperate for me-time as new mother / Struggling to bond with new baby/ Creating a relaxed and loving environment in hospital?/ Sex no longer feels spontaneous, or even remotely enjoyable- will I ever get pregnant? by Tanya Strusberg
Healthy & Fit 4 Birth: Love Your Labor by Pip Wynn Owen
Sarah Hudson –
I just finished reading the Empowering Birth Magazine – LOVE Issue! It was fantastic – so positive & uplifting from beginning to end All the articles were very informative and provided good food-for-thought. My favourites were:
❤ Ask the Midwife – Tanya Stusberg shared really valuable & down-to-earth advice on creating a relaxed & loving environment to birth in your hospital suite; having “me” time when you have a newborn; and the different ways mother’s fall in love with their babies
❤ Pinky McKay’s “Accidentally in Love” – it’s great to be reminded that the bond between parent & child is both natural & strong!!
❤ Melissa Eliyahoo’s story of her birth – I love hearing real life stories about all types of things, especially birth, where everyone is so different & everyone’s experience is so different. Hearing Melissa describe her birth as “beautiful blissful pain free” certainly challenged my assumptions around how positive birth could be, in the best possible way
The post partum exercise advice and recipe was also great! Really, the whole magazine was great… When you spend a few hours absorbed reading something so positive like Empowering Birth, it makes you feel so content & confident afterwards that you realise that a lot of what you’ve been exposed to has actually been quite negative and fearful.
Sarah Hudson from pop’d