Heather Grzych - The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility: A Natural Approach to Getting Pregnant

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Praise for The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility

Its about time we had a book like this one! The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility provides a friendly and honest approach to Ayurvedas wisdom and how modern women can apply it to improve their health before conception. From her research as well as from personal experience, Heather Grzych has created a trustworthy guide into what can be a sensitive topic. Ayurveda is a gold mine for women on the journey to conception, and Heather offers clear and practical guidance to readers. This book is a boon to women!

Kate ODonnell, author of The Everyday Ayurveda Cookbook, Ayurveda Cooking for a Calm, Clear Mind, and The Everyday Ayurveda Guide to Self-Care

The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility offers a new and refreshing perspective on not just fertility but health for women. This guide is overdue, as it offers an approach that includes rest and self-love something our current society doesnt always revere but can greatly benefit from.

Sarah Kucera, author of The Ayurvedic Self-Care Handbook

Getting pregnant is a sacred meditation. Heather Grzych has put together essential aspects of fertility in a way thats easy to understand and comfortable to execute. This is a perfect book for all those who are looking to conceive a new life mindfully.

Chandresh Bhardwaj, spiritual adviser and author of Break the Norms

Relax and work with nature to conceive a new life for yourself and your family. This is a book Id be glad to recommend to my treasured clients, as well as my beloved thirtysomething daughter. With nesting, resting, nourishment, and easy-to-experience processes, Heather Grzych draws effectively on the depth and knowledge of her revered mentor, Dr. Sarita Shrestha, Ayurvedic ob-gyn. A must-read.

Amadea Morningstar, author of The Ayurvedic Cookbook and Easy Healing Drinks from the Wisdom of Ayurveda

The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility is an excellent resource for not just fertility but also a healthy and happy pregnancy. Conscious parents with a healthy diet and lifestyle will create enlightened babies. This is a very important topic in todays busy modern culture. I congratulate Heather Grzych on her own journey, culminating in a wonderful book.

Dr. Suhas Kshirsagar, BAMS, MD, Ayurvedic physician and bestselling author of The Hot Belly Diet and Change Your Schedule, Change Your Life

Heather Grzych writes about fertility and Ayurveda with both learned and innate knowledge. Using her own experiences and those of her clients, as well as the ancient teachings from Ayurveda, she has created a tableau of fertility on the physical, emotional, and spiritual level. Beautifully written and easily accessible, this is an important book for all women not just those who want to get pregnant. Heather has distinct knowledge and insight about how the female body works and shares it in an honest, direct, beautiful way. A wonderful, necessary addition to the canon of books on Ayurveda and self-care.

Susan Weis-Bohlen, Ayurvedic practitioner and author of Ayurveda Beginners Guide and Seasonal Self-Care Rituals

Copyright 2020 by Heather Grzych

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The material in this book is intended for education. It is not meant to take the place of diagnosis and treatment by a qualified medical practitioner or therapist. No expressed or implied guarantee of the effects of the use of the recommendations can be given or liability taken.

Text design by Tona Pearce Myers

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Grzych, Heather, date, author.

Title: The ayurvedic guide to fertility : a natural approach to getting pregnant / Heather Grzych.

Description: Novato, California : New World Library, [2020] | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: A guide to getting pregnant and giving birth to a healthy child using the ancient Indian medical system of Ayurveda, the sister science of yoga. The book covers topics such as adopting an Ayurvedic diet, practicing yoga, cleansing toxins, and creating a healthy environment for conception.-- Provided by publisher.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020002480 (print) | LCCN 2020002481 (ebook) | ISBN 9781608686803 (paperback) | ISBN 9781608686810 (epub)

Subjects: LCSH: Conception--Popular works. | Fertility, Human--Popular works. | Medicine, Ayurvedic--Popular works.

Classification: LCC RG133 .G78 2020 (print) | LCC RG133 (ebook) | DDC 613.9--dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020002480

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020002481

First printing, May 2020

ISBN 978-1-60868-680-3

Ebook ISBN 978-1-60868-681-0

Printed in the United States on 30% postconsumer-waste recycled paper

10987654321

To my son, Gabriel, who came to me in a sleeping dream
and has made my life a waking dream.

And to all the lovers and all the mothers for staying wild.

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As the old saying goes, when the student is ready, the teacher will appear. Thankfully, the teacher, Heather Grzych, has appeared with her book, The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility. The students are ready, and the need is urgent.

Ive had many patients come to me for fertility, but one immediately comes to mind: an extremely stressed, high-strung, type A thirty-nine-year-old medical doctor, who demanded she get pregnant within the next three months because after that she had some prescheduled events that she could not miss. She calculated that she had about a four-week window she could take off work in the next year to deliver the baby and then get back to her eighty-hour workweeks. For her plan to work, she had to get pregnant soon. I told her babies have their own schedule and it is impossible and unwise to try to control their arrival. When I proposed revising her plan to include pregnancy preparation, nesting, and dialing down her workload, it only irritated her.

I have been practicing Ayurveda full-time since 1986, and while I do not consider myself a fertility expert, my Ayurvedic practice has attracted what has seemed like an inordinate number of fertility patients, most in their late thirties or early forties. Clearly, in some cases infertility requires Western medical intervention. Ayurveda, however, addresses this issue from a truly holistic mind-body-spirit perspective.