Mindful Birthing

by Bardacke, Nancy

• ISBN13: 9780061963957
• ISBN10: 006196395X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-07-10
• Publisher: Harperone

Summary

In Mindful Birthing, pioneering nurse-midwife Nancy Bardacke provides expectant families everywhere with the tools they need to reduce the stress, fear, and pain associated with pregnancy and childbirth. Founder of the University of California San Francisco's Mindful-Based Childbirth Preparation course, Bardacke has spent four decades helping thousands of pregnant, birthing, and postpartum families and their infants apply mindfulness practice to their lives. Trained in mindful-based stress reduction by Jon Kabat-Zinn, her practical knowledge and keen insight will help guide families through the most positive birthing experience possible. Mindful Birthing includes a foreword by Kabat-Zinn himself.

Author Biography

Nancy Bardacke, RN, CNM, MA, is the founding director of the Mindfulness-Based Childbirth and Parenting (MBCP) program, which she currently leads at the UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine. She is also an assistant clinical professor in the UCSF School of Nursing. Visit the author at www.mindfulbirthing.org.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Foreword	p. xvii
Introduction	p. 1
Everything's Changing!	p. 7
Inner Preparation for Childbirth and Beyond	p. 17
The World in a Raisin	p. 31
The Breath: A Friend for Life	p. 43
Practicing Embodiment: The Body Scan	p. 57
The Dynamic Duo: Pain and Fear	p. 67
Mindfulness Practices for Being with Pain	p. 115
The Yoga of Childbirth	p. 137
Deepening and Expanding Your Practice: Sitting Meditation	p. 153
When You're Walking, Just Walk; When You're Birthing, Just Birth	p. 163
Mindfulness in Everyday Life	p. 171
A Day of Mindfulness Practice	p. 179
Befriending: Mindfulness in Relationship	p. 189
It's All About Kindness	p. 203
Loss, Grief, and Healing Through Mindfulness Practice	p. 219
Causes and Conditions: Navigating What Is	p. 225
Your Baby, Your Mindfulness Teacher	p. 253
Breastfeeding: A Dance of Connection	p. 269
Endings and Beginnings: A Last Class	p. 281
Life After Birth: A Reunion	p. 291
Birthing a Mindfulness Practice	p. 299
Epilogue	p. 317
Mindfulness-Based Childbirth and Parenting (MBCP) and Integrative Medicine: A Little More Background	p. 321
Resources	p. 329
Pleasant and Unpleasant Events Calendars	p. 335
Mindfulness Practices	p. 341
Notes	p. 343
Credits	p. 349
Index	p. 351
About the Author	p. 361
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