Birthing Spirit

Please leave me article, link and book recommendations in the comments at the bottom of the page!

All my fertility clients recieve a copy of this article which I think explains how Chinese Medicine views fertility, charting and the menstrual cycle beautifully:

• Gauging a woman’s health by her fertility signals: Integrating Western with Traditional Chinese Observations

I recommend that they have a look at these books and find one that speaks to them (or that is kept in their local library). Chinese Medicine is an art and practitioners all bring their own interpretations and practices to it.  Its important to find a practitioner that you feel comfortable with, the same applies to books.

• The Infertility Cure by Randine Lewis
• Fertility Wisdom: How Traditional Chinese Medicine Can Help Overcome Infertility
  by Angela C Wu
• The Tao of Fertility: A Healing Chinese Medicine Program to Prepare Body, Mind, and Spirit for New Life
  by Daoshing Ni and Dana Herko

In Chinese Medicine the heart or spirit and the reproductive system are intimately linked, so I also recommend that couples find ways to nourish themselves and use their preparation time to explore any outstanding or ongoing emotional issues and stress. Nourishing yourself might be meditation, yoga, long baths, massages, walks on the beach, cooking or hanging out with friends – whatever helps you relax and return to your centre.

I highly recommend The Work of Byron Katie and provide book suggestions listed below:

Fertility

• The Way of the Fertile Soul: Ten Ancient Chinese Secrets to Tap into a Woman’s Creative Potential by Randine Lewis
• The Mind-Body Fertility Connection: The True Pathway to Conception by James Schwartz

General

• Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life by Byron Katie
• A Thousand Names for Joy by Byron Katie
• I Need Your Love – Is That True?: How to Stop Seeking Love, Approval, and Appreciation and Start Finding Them Instead by Byron Katie
• The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
• A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle

If you like to know all about charting your cycle and nutrition and supplements I recommend:

• Natural Fertility by Francesca Naish
• The Natural Way to Better Babies by Francesca Naish & Janette Roberts

and the Foresight Preconception website which has a wealth of research-based information. Foresight Preconception in the UK boasts a 74.8% success rates in couples previous diagnosed “infertile”

Further Resources:

Books

• Endometriosis: A Key to Healing and Fertility Through Nutrition by Dian Shepperson Mills & Michael Vernon
• PCOS and Your Fertility by Colette Harris & Theresa Cheung

Links

• Easy Babies
• Foresight Preconception
• Garden of Fertility
• The Fertile Soul
• Natural Fertility Management – Contraception
• Garden of Fertility
• Endometriosis