With the wit, humor, and style that have made her Comfort Book series so popular, new mother Jennifer Louden brings her expertise to the wonderful world of pregnancy. From the blissful moments to the panic attacks, Louden guides women through the precarious emotional terrain of pregnancy and early motherhood with exercises, tips, and advice on a range of subjects including:
your changing body image and self-esteem
fears about your relationship with your partner
a rational approach to eating (and eating and eating)
dream exploration and the creation of a pregnancy comfort journal
the joyous--and chaotic first months of motherhood
and much more!
This insightful, practical, and very comforting guide will speak to first-time and experienced mothers alike with this simple but vital message: taking care of yourself during pregnancy lays the groundwork for healthy and happy motherhood.
With the wit, humor, and style that have made her Comfort Book series so popular, new mother Jennifer Louden brings her expertise to the wonderful world of pregnancy. From the blissful moments to the panic attacks, Louden guides women through the precarious emotional terrain of preganancy and early motherhood with exercises, tips, and advice on a range of subjects including: your changing body image and self-esteem fears about your relationship with your partner a rational approach to eating (and eating and eating) dream exploration and the creation of a pregnancy comfort journal the joyous and chaotic first months of motherhood and much more!
This insightful, practical, and very comforting guide will speak to first-time and experienced mothers alike with this simple but vital message : taking care of yourself during pregnancy lays the groundwork for healthy and happy motherhood.
About the Author
Jennifer Louden, author of the bestselling The Woman's Comfort Book and The Couple's Comfort Book, leads workshops across the country.
She lives in Santa Barbara, California, with her husband Christopher and their baby Lillian.
Product Details
Paperback: 240 pages
Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco; First Edition edition (May 26, 1995)
Jennifer Louden is the best-selling author of The Woman's Comfort Book, The Couple's Comfort Book, The Pregnant Woman's Comfort Book, The Woman's Retreat Book, and Comfort Secrets for Busy Women. She is both a personal coach and social commentator, who has taken the concept of "comfort" and self-care, and made these essential concepts irresistible and essential to women around the world. Jennifer is a cultural visionary, harnessing her extraordinary ability to recognize women's comfort as both a fundamental need and an innate desire.
As women's roles and voices have evolved, so has Jennifer's mission, transforming from a well-read self-help author to a cultural leader and life guide, inspiring women to develop their own recipe for emotional, physical, spiritual and work-life balance. With Jennifer's prompting, women are encouraged to find their personal truths, to explore and unearth their purposes in life, purposes that resonate most authentically with their innate wisdom, creating the truest comfort of all.
Jennifer's books have been translated into nine languages and have been bestsellers in both Germany and the U.S, reaching hundreds of thousands of women. Jennifer has taught her lively workshops and delivered her humorous and motivational keynotes across the U.S., Canada, and Europe at hospitals, women's health centers, corporations, and universities. She has created and led innovative women's retreats since 1992, from the Omega retreat center to the wilds of Canada to corporate retreats. She is also a certified coach, and graduated from Newfield Network's program.
Jennifer has been featured in major publications and regularly shares her voice with an enthusiastic national audience. Her media appearances have included the Oprah Show, Later Today, as well as MS-NBC, CNN, and Fit TV. Articles about her work have appeared in Glamour, Shape, People, Redbook, Good Housekeeping, Self, New Woman, Ladies Home Journal, Yoga Journal, Health, InStyle, and Parents, as well as many local papers.
Jennifer's name has become synonymous with comfort and the multi-minding woman. Recognizing the genuineness of Jennifer's vision and the depth at which people have bonded with her message, major forward-thinking companies - from Proctor & Gamble to Martha Stewart's Omnimedia - have seen the value of utilizing Jennifer as spokesperson, editor, or purveyor of truth, and always as an embodiment of authenticity.
Jennifer lives on an island in Puget Sound with her husband, cinematographer Christopher Mosio, and their daughter, Lillian.
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 starsI want to buy this one for all of my pregnant friends., July 13, 2000
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This review is from: The Pregnant Woman's Comfort Book: Self-Nurturing Guide to Your Emotional Well-Being During Pregnancy and Early Motherhood (Paperback)
This book was very helpful to me during and after my pregnancy. The book includes chapters on physical, emotional and spiritual aspects of pregnancy and helps you plan for the postpartum period. Louden offers practical suggestions (for instance, think of food in terms of colors and try to include every color each day) and ideas for you to explore about your ideal birth, what you will miss about your life before the baby, etc. There were many times when I was going through something and could find just the chapter to fit my situation (i.e. "I am a body without a brain"). And I was glad I went through the postpartum chapters before my daughter was born. During those first two insane months of motherhood, I could go back to my journaling based on those chapters and remind myself of the things that were important. Thanks to Jennifer's suggestions, I had even created lists of resources to turn to when things got tough.
One reviewer mentions the new-agey aspects of the book. I am also not particularly comfortable with that brand of spirituality, but I just ignored those parts, which only made a small portion of the book. The book is good enough that the parts I skipped didn't detract from its value to me.
Also, don't skip this book if you are adopting a baby. Although you may not relate to the chapters about the physical aspects of pregnancy, there are plenty of chapters that explore your feelings about motherhood, so this book will work for you.
I highly recommend this book to mothers-to-be of all types!
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This review is from: The Pregnant Woman's Comfort Book: Self-Nurturing Guide to Your Emotional Well-Being During Pregnancy and Early Motherhood (Paperback)
I would read this book whenever I felt I was trying to do too much during my pregnancy or when I was tired of reading dry books about those months of incubation.
The parts which particularly appealed to me had to do with ways to pamper myself when I was pregnant. Ms. Louden provided step-by-step ways to slow down and treat myself to little escapes both mentally and physically.
I liked the tone of her book too: spiritual yet written with a sense of humor as well.
Once I had my baby, I appreciated what she wrote about how to respond to "gate keepers."
I have given this book to a number of friends and they have all enjoyed it.
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5.0 out of 5 starsI found this book to be a comfort., April 11, 1999
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This review is from: The Pregnant Woman's Comfort Book: Self-Nurturing Guide to Your Emotional Well-Being During Pregnancy and Early Motherhood (Paperback)
This book is especially helpful for women who are having an emotionally or physically difficult pregnancy. Although I didn't have to use a lot of the actual techniques suggested in the book, it was very comforting to know that someone else understood why I've been depressed at times during my third pregnancy. Women don't often share the negative aspects of being pregant out of fear that it may sound like they don't want the baby. This book helped me get through my depression and I'm happy to say that I no longer need the book. However, if I ever get depressed again, I'll look into Jennifer Louden's other books! Her book was so comforting to me!
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