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    Birth Formations: What Multiple Home Births Teach About Living, Laboring, and Mothering in the Now: New Moms, New Families, #2
    Birth Formations: What Multiple Home Births Teach About Living, Laboring, and Mothering in the Now: New Moms, New Families, #2
    Birth Formations: What Multiple Home Births Teach About Living, Laboring, and Mothering in the Now: New Moms, New Families, #2
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    Birth Formations: What Multiple Home Births Teach About Living, Laboring, and Mothering in the Now: New Moms, New Families, #2

    By Gloria Ng

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    A nuts-and-bolts approach on how to actualize the New Age concept of living in the present moment before conception, during pregnancy, throughout delivery and in the midst of postpartum motherhood for the busy woman who desires to do and have it all.

    Birth Formations: What Multiple Home Births Teach About Living, Laboring, and Mothering in the Now

    Encapsulates over ten years of practice in the holistic healing arts and alternative health field to tackle the sensitive and controversial note that all of our reality rests on our ability to think things through.

    The delicate and intense call of motherhood states unequivocally that:

    "You can't think your baby out."

    This book aims to break that one sentence down into doable parts. 

    Part I: Beginnings

    This section targets preconceived notions about how to create our reality/birth/presence/experience.

    Parts II, III, IV: Births

    These sections illuminate the lessons the author has learned and include exercises to process and prepare for delivery and a more smooth integration of these principles in daily life.

    Part V: Beyond

    This section gives you permission to fly. 

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGloria Ng
    Release dateFeb 5, 2015
    ISBN9781507083925
    Birth Formations: What Multiple Home Births Teach About Living, Laboring, and Mothering in the Now: New Moms, New Families, #2
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    Gloria Ng

    Multi-published, #1 Amazon bestselling author Gloria Ng is an Oakland-based mother of three who writes on Owl Time. Her work has appeared in anthologies, including YELL-Oh Girls! Emerging Voices Explore Culture, Identity, and Growing Up Asian American. (HarperCollins, 2001) Seeing the lack of bilingual books to read to her children, she created the Mama Gloria Chinese-English Bilingual Books series. If you listen well, you'll hear her hooting in the middle of the night. For forthcoming book updates, sign up for her newsletter: http://eepurl.com/fSDdD If you enjoyed this book, please help others find it by recommending this book to friends or family or posting a review on the site from which you purchased it. Gloria enjoys hearing from readers, writers, and reviewers. Contact or Interact with Gloria Online: Facebook: www.facebook.com/FengShuiGal Facebook Author page: www.facebook.com/GloriaFanPage Twitter: @fengshuigal Blog/Website: http://www.GloriaNg.com/ Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/fSDdD Patreon: http://patreon.com/GloriaNg

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      Birth Formations - Gloria Ng

      Praise for New Moms, New Families

      I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to convince a man to read this book but for women who are about to give birth or have just given birth, this book is a must read. It’ll save you a lot of pain.

      ~ Vivek Rajan Vivek, Author of A Great Sage and A Rascal Named Doku

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      ...quite multicultural and includes...entries dealing with very non-traditional approaches that were once outside the mainstream. All in all, an eclectic and often enjoyable read that new mothers or mothers-to-be may find helpful.

      ~ Rebecca Hazell, Author of Women Writers

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      There are a lot of practical tips and easy to implement action plans to smooth out this emotional time in early motherhood...and the intimate experiences these women share alongside their advice is inspiring and touching.

      ~ C. H. Lowe, Author of Someplace North of Here

      Birth Formations

      What Multiple Home Births Teach About Living, Laboring, and Mothering in the Now

      Gloria Ng

      A nuts-and-bolts approach on how to actualize the New Age concept of living in the present moment before conception, during pregnancy, throughout delivery and in the midst of postpartum motherhood for the busy woman who desires to do and have it all.

      Birth Formations: What Multiple Home Births Teach About Living, Laboring and Mothering in the Now

      Copyright © 2015 Gloria Ng

      ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

      Thank you for downloading this e-book. Please be aware that this e-book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. It may not be reproduced, uploaded to share on Web sites, e-mailed, or used in whole or in part by any means existing without written permission from the author, Gloria Ng, at www.GloriaNg.com or within the sharing guidelines at a legitimate library or bookseller. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Except for use in any review, the reproduction or utilization of this work in whole or in part in any form by any electronic, mechanical or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including xerography, photocopying and recording, in any information storage or retrieval system, is forbidden without the written permission of the author.

      WARNING: The unauthorized reproduction, sharing, or distribution of this copyrighted work is illegal. Criminal copyright infringement, including infringement without monetary gain, is investigated by the FBI and is punishable by up to five years in federal prison and a fine of $250,000.

      Author has tried to recreate events, locales and conversations from her memories of them. In order to maintain their anonymity in some instances, the author has changed the names of individuals and places and may have changed some identifying characteristics and details such as physical properties, occupations and places of residence.

      Although the author and publisher have made every effort to ensure that the information in this book was correct at press time, the author and publisher do not assume and hereby disclaim any liability to any party for any loss, damage, or disruption caused by errors or omissions, whether such errors or omissions result from negligence, accident, or any other cause.

      This book is not intended as a substitute for the medical advice of physicians. The reader should regularly consult a physician in matters relating to his/her health and particularly with respect to any symptoms that may require diagnosis or medical attention.

      Books written by Gloria Ng can be obtained either through the author’s official website:

      http://www.GloriaNg.com/

      or through select, online book retailers.

      For more about Gloria Ng, visit the About the Author section.

      Table of Contents

      Praise for New Moms, New Families

      Title Page

      Copyright Page

      Dedication

      Acknowledgements

      Author's Note

      I. BEGINNINGS

      Session 1: (Re)sort

      Session 2: Present

      Session 3: Water Babies

      Premise 1: Birth Trauma

      Premise 2: Life Regression Triangle

      Premise 3: Birthing Terrains

      Ground Zero

      Exercise 0.1: Inquire About Your Birth

      II. BIRTH ONE: HAPPINESS RETURNS

      Lesson 1: Baby Makes Two

      Exercise 1.1: Inquire About Yourself

      Lesson 2: Baby Makes Three

      Exercise 1.2: Differentiation

      Lesson 3: Trust

      Exercise 1.3: Prayers

      Lesson 4: Unity

      Exercise 1.4: Let Go

      Lesson 5: Reasons

      Exercise 1.5: Appreciations

      III. BIRTH TWO: WEALTH IS FOREVER

      Lesson 1: Treading Water

      Exercise 2.1: Circle Meditation

      Lesson 2: The Gift of Vision

      Exercise 2.2: Create a Visual

      Extra Credit: Birth Videos

      Lesson 3: Giving Word

      Exercise 2.3: Hypnobirthing Affirmations

      Lesson 4: Movement

      Exercise 2.4: Joyful Movement

      Lesson 5: Now Baby Makes Four

      Exercise 2.5: Inventory Your Resources

      List 2.5.1: My Resource List

      Exercise 2.6: Create Jobs

      List 2.6.1: Routines

      IV. BIRTH THREE: ROYALTY HAS VALUE

      Lesson 1: A Realm to Call Your Own

      Exercise 3.1: Claim Your Realm

      Lesson 2: Our Daily Rituals

      Exercise 3.2: Schedule Self-Nourishment

      Extra Credit: Transition Times

      Lesson 3: Birth as a Part of Daily Life

      Exercise 3.3: Mini-Births

      Lesson 4: Sacred Feminine

      Exercise 3.4: Values Roll Call

      Lesson 5: Now Baby Makes Five

      Exercise 3.5: Improvise

      V. BEYOND

      Parting Exercise: Take a Bath

      About the Author

      Also by Gloria Ng

      Dedication

      For all the mothers, all of our children, and many more to come

      Acknowledgements

      Special thanks to my children, my birth partner, my midwives and everyone who is directly and indirectly related to the facilitating a spiritual birthing-rebirthing experience. What you do matters.

      Author's Note

      When I meet other moms—mamas of one and mamas of two—they are truly amazed that I’ve been a stay-at-home mother of three young children. By young, I mean kids who are not of age to enter kindergarten yet.

      With an active firstborn who seemed my opposite in every way, I can’t begin to tell you just how much I’ve grown from a new mom the first time around to a new mom this third time around. I have learned so much and I am so grateful for the experience—both ups and downs.

      I wrote this book because of a very specific moment during a home birth that riled me up enough to put my proverbial pen to paper. That moment of revelation, connection, intimation, shook my world, and I suddenly felt the urgency to share exactly what I’ve learned from new age thinker (left-brained, rational, masculine grasp of being present) to postpartum integrator (right-brained, emotional, feminine grasp of being in the moment).

      So this book exists to honor that prime point in my labor and honor the mothers who have asked me how I do it, how I (by and large) seem so calm and restful amongst three kids (I do have my days, though...), and how I can still have enough time for me to be prolific in doing what I really love to do.

      Although I wrote this book with mothers in my mind, if you are a father or guardian and you find the information in this book helpful as well, then feel free to share with others and drop me a line as well. Of course, if you’re a mom, you’re more than welcome to write me as well.

      For the record, I am a "first

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