Alice Grist - Dear Poppyseed: A Soulful Mommas Pregnancy Journal

Written in a personable and instantly engaging way one minute you find yourself smiling, nodding your head in agreement and the next weeping at the sheer beauty of the heartfelt letters Alice writes to her unborn child. Simply the most divine pregnancy book you will ever read.

Charlie Plunkett author of The True Diary of a Mum-to be and Babys First Year www.charlieplunkett.co.uk

Dear Poppyseed is a poignant account of pregnancy that manages to be both grounded and spiritual. Reading it evoked so many memories of my own three pregnancies and made me long to feel those precious first days of knowing and glowing once more. Alice successfully captures the universal emotions of motherhood through this intimate diary

Lucy Pearce author Moods of Motherhood and Moon Time: a guide to celebrating your menstrual cycle. Contributing editor JUNO magazine.

Poppyseed is a refreshing combination of being light hearted, informative, honest and deep. It touched my heart immediately, and is a must for anyone who is pregnant or thinking of having children. Bonding begins in the womb and this book is a wonderful example of how to welcome and connect lovingly to your baby from the earliest moments. I encourage all parents to follow in Alices footsteps and write a pregnancy diary, liberally interspersed with love letters to their own poppyseed.

Kitty Hagenbach child & parent psychotherapist Co founder of Babies Know www.babiesknow.com

As a man I find the story insightful and very moving on occasions. I love the depth of honesty and attention to detail that is both fascinating and also makes me squirm. I especially enjoyed the transformations occurred in all three of you as the birth draws nearer and nearer, and how the birth took so much longer than expected. The soulful mother has to trust her daughter to emerge when she needs and wants to, not when the doctors told her it might happen.

Nick Clements Author of The New Ages of Men and Alpha Wolf

Any woman who wishes to have a soulful pregnancy and birth cannot afford to be without this book! Written with honesty, humor; every emotion and physical symptom rings true in a way I havent read before in a pregnancy book. Intrinsically, this is book about balance. Balance between the physical and spiritual, the needs of the mum and the baby, the alternative and the medical. It shows that in all ways all of these can be in harmony, if approached in a soulful and mindful way.

I laughed out loud, I worried with her and I supported her through her birth even though I knew that her baby had been born. This shows how caught up I was in this wonderful book!
Colette Brown author of Menopause, A Natural and Spiritual Journey

Writing this through tears! I feel as though I have just given birth, without the grunting. What an amazing book this is. Written in an honest way that shares the happiness, funniness and anxiety of the whole growing a baby process. Describing it as an emotional roller coaster doesnt come close. My advice: if youre pregnant, want to be, have/havent been, or any combination of nature that may or may not involve having a baby, read this book. Youll be sharing the experience with Alice, James, the bunnies and the cats. Dear Poppyseed, I love you

Barbara Ford Hammond author of The Psychic Way

Ive not yet had to read a book about pregnancy, babies or being a momma and guess what? After reading Poppyseed, Im never going to have to read another, because this is the most beautiful, honest and heart-filled book about the journey to mummahood youll ever read. Alice shares candidly her thoughts, feelings and experiences - everything from nipples that feel like theyre on fire, to the sweet declarations of love to Poppyseed - I laughed out loud, I cried and I feel better knowing that if ever Im blessed to experience mummahood, Alice has totally got my back!

Lisa Clark author of SASSY: The Go-for-it Girls Guide to Becoming Mistress of Your Destiny

Many books have been written on impending motherhood, but none truly get how a mother to be feels in preparation for bringing baby into the world. All the fears, the excitement, the preparation for birth itself, is covered here - This book is simply wonderful, you will feel like Alice is holding your hand whilst you go through the journey yourself. And, perhaps it will inspire you to write something similar for your own child - a true gift, for both of you!

Anna Rodgers author of How to thrive in our toxic world - a guide to health, beauty, parenting and conscious living

Dear Poppyseed is the personal journey of a mother during pregnancy. Its an honest account of her vulnerabilities, hopes, insecurities, dreams and visions as a mother-to-be.

Alice Grists pregnancy journal reminds us all that parenting is a rich world with so much potential for growth, even before the baby arrives in our arms. Mothers around the world will feel united at the common threads we share on this path of pregnancy. Mother and child will look back upon this journal and see it as an integral part of their lives; a record of possibility scribed from the open heart of a beautiful and inspired mother. By sharing this intimate book, other parents will feel supported and inspired during their pregnancies.

Veronika Sophia Robinson Author and Founder / Editor of The Mother Magazine

First published by Soul Rocks Books, 2013
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Text copyright: Alice Grist 2012

ISBN: 978 1 78099 647 9

All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in critical articles or reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without prior written permission from the publishers.

The rights of Alice Grist as author have been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

Design: Stuart Davies

Printed and bound by CPI Group (UK) Ltd, Croydon, CR0 4YY

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Alice Grist is the author of The High Heeled Guide to Enlightenment and The High Heeled Guide to Spiritual Living (Prediction Magazine Best Book Award 2012). This, Dear Poppyseed, A Soulful Mommas Pregnancy Journal, is her third book.

Alice contributes articles to a number of magazines online and in print. She is the imprint publisher of Soul Rocks books, publishing soulful, edgy and entertaining writings for the next generation.

She lives with her husband James, their two cats, and of course, her little Poppyseed

Follow Alices continued journey as a Soulful Momma here: www.alicegrist.co.uk