Dawn Combs - Conceiving Healthy Babies: An Herbal Guide to Support Preconception, Pregnancy and Lactation

Praise for

Conceiving Healthy Babies

This is a must-read for any couple struggling to get pregnant and start a family. Heartfully honest, the author shares her own deeply personal story as she explores the depth of the problems surrounding fertilty or lack of it. After endless amounts of experience and research and two successful pregnancies this woman who was tagged infertile has a whole lot to say on the subject. This a wise, truthful empowering book, and offers some of the best advice Ive seen on the subject of creating healthy thriving babies. May Building Healthy Babies find its way into the hands and heart of every woman and man who needs to read it.

Rosemary Gladstar, herbalist and author

Its been said that genius is focus. If this is so, and I suspect it is, there is true genius revealed in this book. Dawn Combs conversation about building healthy babies has documents the path of a devoted warrior. Dismissing the deluded conclusions of medical authorities that her reproductive system was broken, Dawn and her husband, using natural methods, rekindled balance in their bodies and conceived a healthy child. And a second one. Congratulations! Herein is a vivid testament that our health is natural and both men and women have options when necessary to revive and experience it.

James Green, herbalist and author, The Male Herbal and The Herbal Medicine-Makers Handbook

Conceiving Healthy Babies is a guide to living well along with being a guide to healing fertility issues. The focus on preconception care is the right approach to creating ad raising healthy children. As an integrative pediatrician whose practice focuses on whole food nutrition and keeping the gut healthy, Dawns book resonates with my philosophy of care for my patients and their families. Conceiving Healthy Babies provides a roadmap for couples and families to healthfully navigate preconception, pregnancy and lactation and ultimately the raising of the healthiest child possible.

Dhanu Sant, MD, WholeKids Pediatrics

I am so excited about this book. I cant wait to get it into the hands of our clients. It is clear, concise and informative, and this information is immeasurably needed in a medical environment where infertility is treated as a one-treatment-fits-all issue, rather than as a multifaceted and individualized wellness issue. I especially like the reccurring message that each person has their own best formula for healthy balance and listening to your body is the key to finding yours. Thank you for this gift to childbearing women.

Nina McIndoe, CPM, Executive Director, Center for Humane Options in Childbirth Experiences

This is a wonderful book and a welcome addition to any herbal or natural birthing library.

Stephen Harrod Buhner, award-winning author, Herbal Antibiotics and Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm

Couples who find themselves frustrated when navigating fertility options in our modern system will find an exhale of relief in Dawn Combs Conceiving Healthy Babies. This brilliant new book offers straightforward, practical advice on natural methods for fertility support from a place of personal experience. Couples will find reassurance in her guidance on nutrition, herbs, and plant-based solutions for building a healthy baby. The time-honored teachings reintroduced through this book find modern relevance through pragmatic and thoughtful recommendations on how to weave them into daily practice. Every couple struggling to conceive should read this book.

Emily Ruff, herbalist and director, Florida School of Holistic Living and Florida Herbal Conference

Conceiving Healthy Babies is written with the knowledge of understanding. First of all, understanding what it is like to be told by a broken healthcare system that one is broken. Secondly, the understanding that comes from taking control of ones own health in order to regain the balance that is our birthright. And finally, the understanding that comes from having an academic AND working knowledge of the herbs grown on her own biodynamic family farm. Dawn Combs is a teacher and a healer in the truest sense of these words.

Dr. Kathryn M. Bennett, DC, Worthington Optimal Wellness

Copyright 2014 by Dawn Combs.

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Cover design by Diane McIntosh.

All images iStock (Newborn: hannamonika; Red Raspberry Leaf: anna1311; Dandelion: UroshPetrovic; Gingko leaves: Tihis; Hops: nndemidchick)

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Paperback ISBN: 978-0-86571-780-0

Ebook ISBN: 978-1-55092-574-6

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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Combs, Dawn, author

Conceiving healthy babies : an herbal guide to support

preconception, pregnancy and lactation / Dawn Combs.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Issued in print and electronic formats.

ISBN 978-0-86571-780-0 (pbk.).--ISBN 978-1-55092-574-6 (ebook)

1. Pregnancy--Nutritional aspects--Popular works. 2. Lactation--Nutritional aspects--Popular works. 3. Preconception care--Popular works. 4. Fertility, Human--Nutritional aspects--Popular works. 5. Herbs--Theraputic use--Popular works. I. Title.

RG559.C57 2014 618.242

C2014-904449-6

C2014-904450-X