The Greatest Pregnancy Ever: Keys to the MotherBaby Bond - Softcover

Tracy Wilson Peters, CLD, CLE, CCCE, has been a lifelong advocate for babies. Peters founded CAPPA, Childbirth and Postpartum Professionals Association in 1998. Peters serves as the CEO. CAPPA is the largest childbirth organization in the world. For over a decade CAPPA's mission has been to offer comprehensive, evidence-based education, certification, professional membership, and training to childbirth educators, lactation educators, labor doulas, antepartum doulas, and postpartum doulas worldwide. Nationally known as a pregnancy expert, she has authored numerous journal and magazine articles, keeping both professionals and expectant families in tune to what is happening in the world of women's healthcare. Peters has appeared on many television networks, including FOX, CBS, NBC, and ABC and has been featured in The Atlanta Journal,Fit Pregnancy Magazine, Pregnancy and Newborn Magazine, Atlanta Parent Magazine, and Essence Magazine. Peters' publications, videos, and educational materials are sold by top health education companies world-wide. Peters has been working with expectant women and families for more than 20 years, attending hundreds of births as a professional labor doula (professional childbirth assistant) in the process. She worked as the lead childbirth instructor for over seven years at Kaiser Permanente, the nation's largest HMO, and taught childbirth education classes to more than 3000 families. With over twenty years experience working with women in the childbearing year, Laurel Wilson, IBCLC, CLE, CCE, CLD takes a creative approach to working with the pregnant family. Using journaling, birth art, visualization, experiential exercises, and the yogic tradition, Laurel helps women connect with their inner resources to discover their true beliefs about themselves, their relationships, and their abilities to birth and parent their children. Laurel is Executive Director of Lactation Programs and Faculty for CAPPA, Childbirth and Postpartum Professional Association. She acts as the Customer Advocate for InJoy Birth and Parenting, teaching webinars and producing podcasts for professionals. She served as the Program Coordinator for Swedish Medical Center and Presbytarian St. Luke's Medical Center in Colorado, which combined serve nearly 4000 expectant families a year. She owns MotherJourney Childbirth Services--training childbirth, lactation, and postpartum professionals, as well as expectant families on integrative and holistic information as it pertains to today's Millennial family. She has her degree in Maternal Child Health: Lactation Consulting and is an internationally board certified lactation consultant. Laurel has received her training with Union Institute and University, Healthy Children, DONA, ALACE, CAPPA, Birthworks, Whole Birth Yoga, and Prenatal Parenting. She strives to provide the latest techniques, research, and programs to her clients by attending yearly conferences and workshops in the birth and lactation field. Laurel loves to blend today's recent scientific findings with the mind/body/spirit wisdom she has gleaned throughout the years. Laurel is certified as a lactation counselor, childbirth educator, labor doula, lactation educator, Prenatal Parenting™ Instructor, and pre-and postpartum fitness educator. Offering education and movement classes to families in private and hospital settings, Laurel has created teaching strategies that facilitate better understanding of the change processes during the childbearing year. Laurel has been joyfully married to her husband for 20 years and has two beautiful teenagers, whose difficult births led her on a path towards helping emerging families create positive experiences. She believes that the journey into motherhood is a life-changing rite of passage that should be deeply honored and celebrated.

The Greatest Pregnancy Ever is a treasure. It should be the very first thing a pregnant woman reads in fact, every woman who intends to have a baby will be thrilled with the empowering message here. ~Christiane Northrup, M.D., ob/gyn physician and author of the New York Times bestsellers: Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom and The Wisdom of Menopause. --Christiane Northrup, MD

What today's families need is the opportunity to connect within, which results in deeper intimacy. This quote from Laurel and Tracy's new book, The Greatest Pregnancy Ever: New keys to the Mother-Baby Bond sums up what family therapy researchers have known for decades: Family processes that promote connection over disconnection are key to healthy growth and development of children and parents alike, throughout the family life cycle. The portal to accessing the inner knowledge present in every pregnant woman is focusing through the heart-to-heart connection with her baby. This book helps to bring alive awareness as a woman works with nature to bring forth life. The Greatest Pregnancy Ever presents a foundation for motherhood. -Gayle Peterson, LCSW, PhD Author, An Easier Childbirth, Birthing Normally and Making Healthy Families . --Gayle Peterson

Finally there is a pregnancy book that focuses of the very important MotherBaby bond that exists before and after the pregnancy! The Greatest Pregnancy Ever: Keys to the MotherBaby Bond by Laurel Wilson & Tracy Peters meets the need of parents by providing in their book what is needed to understand about the motherbaby bond and how it forms the dynamic of the family. At no other time in their child s life do parents influence who that child will be, both emotionally and physically, than during pregnancy and the first years of a child s life. Cutting-edge research is discovering that the experience in the womb and the early moments of birth and early infancy are the most formative moments our lives. Wilson & Peters blend today's recent scientific findings with mind/body/spirit wisdom. Their exciting new book offers insights and tips on making pregnant women comfortable during pregnancy, addressing their fears and anxieties, tips on managing stress in their lives, and creating a way of life that will transform the women and their babies. Each section of the book gives a concise explanation of the best way to navigate the content outlined in each chapter and explains how the reader can best use the content. The keys that the title refers to relate to the concept of being able to B.O.N.D. This bonding connection is imperative to baby, mother, and her partner for the overall health and wellness of their family. The format of the book is innovative and is organized in the following segments: B.O.N.D. - Keys to Bonding B-Be-ing, Conception, The Beginnings O-Observing, The First Trimester N-Nourishing, The Second Trimester D-Deciding, the Third Trimester I wholeheartedly believe childbirth educators, nurses, midwives and doulas will benefit by sharing the knowledge in The Greatest Pregnancy Ever: Keys to the MotherBaby Bond with all of their patients and clients. Paulina (Polly) Perez, RN,BSN, FACCE, LCCE, CD Author of Special Women, The Nurturing Touch at Birth, & Doula Programs --Paulina Perez --Polly Perez

What today's families need is the opportunity to connect within, which results in deeper intimacy. This quote from Laurel and Tracy's new book, The Greatest Pregnancy Ever: New keys to the Mother-Baby Bond sums up what family therapy researchers have known for decades: Family processes that promote connection over disconnection are key to healthy growth and development of children and parents alike, throughout the family life cycle. The portal to accessing the inner knowledge present in every pregnant woman is focusing through the heart-to-heart connection with her baby. This book helps to bring alive awareness as a woman works with nature to bring forth life. The Greatest Pregnancy Ever presents a foundation for motherhood. -Gayle Peterson, LCSW, PhD Author, An Easier Childbirth, Birthing Normally and Making Healthy Families . --Gayle Peterson

Finally there is a pregnancy book that focuses of the very important MotherBaby bond that exists before and after the pregnancy! The Greatest Pregnancy Ever: Keys to the MotherBaby Bond by Laurel Wilson & Tracy Peters meets the need of parents by providing in their book what is needed to understand about the motherbaby bond and how it forms the dynamic of the family. At no other time in their child s life do parents influence who that child will be, both emotionally and physically, than during pregnancy and the first years of a child s life. Cutting-edge research is discovering that the experience in the womb and the early moments of birth and early infancy are the most formative moments our lives. Wilson & Peters blend today's recent scientific findings with mind/body/spirit wisdom. Their exciting new book offers insights and tips on making pregnant women comfortable during pregnancy, addressing their fears and anxieties, tips on managing stress in their lives, and creating a way of life that will transform the women and their babies. Each section of the book gives a concise explanation of the best way to navigate the content outlined in each chapter and explains how the reader can best use the content. The keys that the title refers to relate to the concept of being able to B.O.N.D. This bonding connection is imperative to baby, mother, and her partner for the overall health and wellness of their family. The format of the book is innovative and is organized in the following segments: B.O.N.D. - Keys to Bonding B-Be-ing, Conception, The Beginnings O-Observing, The First Trimester N-Nourishing, The Second Trimester D-Deciding, the Third Trimester I wholeheartedly believe childbirth educators, nurses, midwives and doulas will benefit by sharing the knowledge in The Greatest Pregnancy Ever: Keys to the MotherBaby Bond with all of their patients and clients. Paulina (Polly) Perez, RN,BSN, FACCE, LCCE, CD Author of Special Women, The Nurturing Touch at Birth, & Doula Programs --Paulina Perez --Polly Perez