This compact book is designed to provide a practical, quick, clinical reference guide that birth attendants can easily slip into their birth bags. Seventy-five key remedies are briefly summarized for their applications in midwifery practice or self care. Prenatal problems, complications arising during labor and birth, and postpartum complaints of both mom and baby are covered. Featuring:
 A post-cesarean regimen to speed the healing process and reduce the need for pain medications that may interfere with breastfeeding A protocol to turn breech babies or reposition the posterior baby in late pregnancy A recommended birth kit of homeopathic remedies for midwives Casetaking hints
The newly updated 5th edition features an expanded therapeutic applications or repertory section designed to facilitate expedient choice of a remedy during labor. Also new in the 5th Edition, you will find short essays on:
 How does homeopathy differ from herbalism? How quickly should a person respond to a remedy? How do I know when to repeat a remedy? Combination remedies
Written by a midwife for midwives, mothers, and anyone who works with pregnant, birthing, or breastfeeding mothers and their babies. Find out why this is the “go-to” reference book for thousands of midwives!

Guide to Homeopathic Remedies for the Birth Bag: 5th Edition

Brennan, Patty

Reference

Dream Street Press

The landscape for doulas is ever changing, growing, evolving. With this new 3rd edition of The Doula Business Guide, Patty Brennan provides freshly-updated resources and insights into the business side of being a doula. As a growing number of end-of-life doulas are pioneering new approaches to compassionate support at the other end of the birth–death continuum, there will be many who can benefit from Patty’s guidance. She shows both new and seasoned doulas how to go from dream to reality, step-by-step, and make their living doing work they love. Discover why this book is required reading for a growing number of doulas of all kinds."Lest it sound daunting, this book is a good read! Patty’s honesty, conversational tone, humor, instructive stories and obvious expertise carry you through each chapter. She shares pearls of wisdom that she has gleaned from years of experience with many types of doula practice. This book is more than an excellent guide to business, but also a guide to the high road for each of us and to growth for the entire doula movement." — Penny Simkin, PT, co-founder of DONA International and prolific author."In her newly expanded Doula Business Guide and Workbook, Patty Brennan continues to dissolve the largest looming barrier for doulas—turning a work of heart into a professional practice. She gently companions readers through a comprehensive overview of launching and sustaining a successful business. Doulas not only learn about the ins and outs of organization and marketing, they learn about themselves—their strengths, fears and goals. I strongly recommend this invaluable resource to all aspiring and practicing doulas!" — Francesca Arnoldy, Program Director, University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine’s End-of-Life Doula Training and author of Cultivating the Doula Heart: Essentials of Compassionate Care

The Doula Business Guide, 3rd Edition: How to Succeed as a Birth, Postpartum or End-of-Life Doula

Business & Money

Business Development & Entrepreneurship

From many kitchens to yours . . . Whole Family Recipes-For the Childbearing Year & Beyond is more than a cookbook. While being a guide to nutritious and delicious meals the whole family will enjoy, it highlights foods that are especially needed by pregnant women, breastfeeding mothers, and their growing children. Taking a non-dogmatic and down-to-earth tone, the book focuses on incorporating vitamin- and mineral-rich foods and good quality fats into the diet. It playfully encourages parents to experiment with "new" foods as they transition to healthier food choices. In addition to yummy recipes, the book contains numerous tips for parents and a collection of essays devoted to nutrition during the childbearing year, including a unique piece on "The Birth Marathon-Food & Drink for Labor & Birth." The cookbook is a community effort. Contributors include midwives, doulas, moms and dads, with illustrations by children. Makes a great gift for those parents, doulas, and midwives in your life

Whole Family Recipes

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Birth, postpartum and end-of-life doulas will find guidance for visioning, organizing, planning and growing their businesses in Patty Brennan’s new Doula Business Guide Workbook: Tools to Create a Thriving Practice. The notion that heart-centered work and making money are somehow fundamentally incompatible is a false dichotomy. Choose a path of service to others AND thrive financially! The Workbook features practical, interactive tools designed to help you succeed, whether you are new to the world of self-employment or already a seasoned doula business owner. Focus your efforts with our checklists, step-by-step instructions, tip sheets, worksheets, exercises, questionnaires, strategies, planners, trackers and more. The Workbook is a great companion guide to our freshly updated and comprehensive Doula Business Guide: How to Succeed as a Birth, Postpartum or End-of-Life Doula, 3rd Edition. Get ready to implement your vision.

The Doula Business Guide Workbook: Tools to Create a Thriving Practice

DreamStreet Press

Make a living doing work you love! The Doula Business Guide is a comprehensive, go-to manual for individuals and groups wanting to establish and grow a thriving doula service. This nuts and bolts manual covers the pros and cons of self-employment, small business set up and development, a variety of business models, nonprofit set-up and management, community-based and hospital-based doula program models, staying out of trouble with the IRS, contemporary marketing basics, grant writing for maternal-infant health initiatives, risk management for doulas and doula programs, setting boundaries with clients, personal safety strategies and self defense for outreach workers, and more. 400 pages of inspiration and useful information for launching a doula career or program.

The Doula Business Guide: Creating a Successful Motherbaby Business

Center for the Childbearing Year Press

The Doula Business Guide 2nd Edition is the must-have, comprehensive resource for anyone seeking to establish an independent doula business or program. Over 300 pages of inspiration and useful information for launching your dream career and making it pay well. From start-up decisions and staying out of trouble with the IRS, through marketing, boundaries, grant writing and risk management strategies, this guide covers everything the doula entrepreneur and birth visionary needs to know.

The Doula Business Guide: Creating a Successful Motherbaby Business 2nd Edition

Lightning Source, Inc.

This book, by Patty Brennan, is intended to serve as a guide for concerned parents seeking to make an informed choice regarding childhood vaccination, stripped of all the frothing hysteria on both sides of the issue.
You’ll learn that all vaccines are not equal, each vaccine is a choice, and each family has a unique risk profile.
In these pages, parents will find all they need to know regarding:
<ul>
<li>controversial aspects of vaccines including efficacy, benefits and risks</li>
<li>steps vaccinating parents can take to prevent adverse reactions</li>
<li>strategies for enhancing natural immunity</li>
<li>and how government vaccine policy is made and the protection of parental rights.</li>
</ul>

Vaccines and Informed Choice: everything parents need to know

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Children's Health

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Dream, Organize, Plan, Grow ... The notion that heart-centered work and making money are somehow fundamentally incompatible is a false dichotomy. Choose a path of service to others AND thrive financially! Our new Workbook is filled with practical, interactive tools that will guide you to succeed, whether you are just starting out or are already a seasoned doula business owner. You will find: checklists, step-by-step instructions, tip sheets, worksheets, exercises, questionnaires, strategies, planners, trackers and more. Get ready to implement your vision. From doula business expert and author of The Doula Business Guide, 2nd Edition, Patty Brennan.

The Doula Business Guide Workbook: Tools to Create a Thriving Business

Women's Health

Postpartum Doula Workshop Manual: DONA International

Birth Doula Training Manual: Lifespan Doulas

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