Product Description

Give your baby the best start in life with this practical guide to natural pregnancy. From preconception to pregnancy and postnatal care, fertility expert and midwife Zita West takes you through this special time suggesting safe and natural ways to enhance your experience. Covering the most effective complementary treatments, from acupuncture and yoga to tips on how to boost immunity and minimize morning sickness, this is the definitive guide to enjoying a healthy and natural pregnancy. ‘Zita West’s natural pregnancy programme represents the future of childbirth.’ – Daily Mail

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #129429 in Books
• Published on: 2005-07-07
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

About the Author
Zita West is an acupuncturist, nutritionist and midwife with her own Harley Street fertility practice. She has developed her own Zita West products, and her clients include Cate Blanchett, Davina McCall, Ulrika Jonson and Kate Winslet. Zita has been a midwifery expert on GMTV, Open House and This Morning and currently writes a weekly column in Prima Baby magazine. Zita lives in London.

Customer Reviews

Excellent, realistic,easy to use, therapies and advice
As a complementary therapist I found this book invaluable for researching the various conditions affecting women in pregnancy. It is well laid out with practical and ralistic advice for all the main conditions. It is very easy to pick up and put down as needed but makes very interesting reading.
Illustrations are excellent, especially for exercises
Tells you everything you need to know about keeping well throughout your pregnancy and what to expect in each stage.
Overall an excellent book.

A Must have read for every pregnancy
I had the previous book to this (which is almost exactly the same other than the cover) and it was such a wealth of advice through my third and fourth pregnancies.
I lent it to a friend, didn't get it back (!) and so brought the new edition for this pregnancy (my fifth).
Now on my fifth pregnancy, I admit I tend to find a lot of pregnancy books, and especially web information, somewhat patronising, basic and not that useful - but this book remains like a friend and a reference throughout. In fact, some of the 'pregnancy problems' listed can happen outside of pregnancy too, and what I've learned in the book has helped me in gently yet effectively treating many problems in my whole family!
Zita West focuses on natural remedies but in a clear pragmatic way, and she does not dismiss or rail against all Weatern medicine either, or classify women who have intervention, such as cesareans, as failures - which is a refreshing approach.
I've always found the suggested remedies easy to find, do or use - there are no obscure and complicated herbal mixes or postures like in some books. The sections on labour and birth are great to read, with a wealth of sound advice, but relatively short - you would need to read other books on this topic as well if this was your first birth and you wanted detailed information on labour.
I wish I'd had this book for my first pregnancy and would highly recommend it to anyone who has faith in nature's natural ability to help and heal, and wants more information on that.