Bonding Before Birth: Prenatal Nurturing for Your BabyBonding Before Birth combines up-to-the-minute research with enlightened and compassionate wisdom. This book explores what science knows about babies in the womb and explains why mother-baby bonding is so vital for the future well-being of mother, father, and baby. Dr. Miriam Stoppard writes about the feelings that expectant parents experience during the first, second and third trimesters and promotes the significance of rites of passage through pregnancy, from adjusting to the changes that parenthood brings to celebrating your future as a family. |
Contents
Foreword 6 | 6 |
1 Benefits of bonding 8 | 8 |
2 Becoming parents 42 | 42 |
3 How I affect my unborn baby 78 | 78 |
4 Bonding through choices 110 | 110 |
5 Bonding through birthing 140 | 140 |
Baby names 178 | 178 |