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Baby and Beyond: Overcoming Those Post-Childbirth Woes
During the year after giving birth, some mothers struggle to recover from the wearying days, sleepless nights, and assorted other troubles – mental, physical, and spiritual – that childbirth brings.
If you’re one such woman, know that you don’t stand alone. Author Allison Auth has experienced all these woes and more, growing wise along the way in the art of postpartum life – a healing art she illuminates and shares here with you.
In these lively, plainspoken pages, Auth introduces you to powerful exercise, health, and nutrition practices that can relieve – and often even eliminate – most of the troubles you might suffer during that difficult year after your baby is born. These practices will help you find the energy, balance, and healing – physical and spiritual – that you need to care confidently for your loved ones, your home, and your soul. Auth will even teach you a surefire way to slay, once and for all, the toxic temptation to compare yourself unfavorably with that “perfect mom” next door, whose hair is always tidy, clothes neat, and house clean.
Here, you’ll also learn:
-How to deal with unfulfilled expectations when your careful birth plans go awry
-How vitamins, sleep, and exercise can help you sustain your loving relationship with your spouse – and with God!
-How to deal with Natural Family Planning uncertainties during the year after giving birth
-How to overcome self-directed negativity about your post-pregnancy body
-What to do when even small household tasks seem overwhelming
How to combat discouragement when your postpartum spiritual life grows feeble
-How to open yourself to friendship with other new mothers (and why you must)
-Why sustained self-care is critical to your well-being . . . and your family’s
-Three ways to weather the stages of your child’s development and the seasons of family life
-And much more!
Whether you’re struggling through a “dark night” of genuine postpartum depression or simply enduring a frustrating roller coaster of emotions, Auth’s wealth of experience and bright wisdom will help you finally experience what you’ve been longing for since before your baby’s birth: the inexpressible joys of motherhood.
If you’re one such woman, know that you don’t stand alone. Author Allison Auth has experienced all these woes and more, growing wise along the way in the art of postpartum life – a healing art she illuminates and shares here with you.
In these lively, plainspoken pages, Auth introduces you to powerful exercise, health, and nutrition practices that can relieve – and often even eliminate – most of the troubles you might suffer during that difficult year after your baby is born. These practices will help you find the energy, balance, and healing – physical and spiritual – that you need to care confidently for your loved ones, your home, and your soul. Auth will even teach you a surefire way to slay, once and for all, the toxic temptation to compare yourself unfavorably with that “perfect mom” next door, whose hair is always tidy, clothes neat, and house clean.
Here, you’ll also learn:
-How to deal with unfulfilled expectations when your careful birth plans go awry
-How vitamins, sleep, and exercise can help you sustain your loving relationship with your spouse – and with God!
-How to deal with Natural Family Planning uncertainties during the year after giving birth
-How to overcome self-directed negativity about your post-pregnancy body
-What to do when even small household tasks seem overwhelming
How to combat discouragement when your postpartum spiritual life grows feeble
-How to open yourself to friendship with other new mothers (and why you must)
-Why sustained self-care is critical to your well-being . . . and your family’s
-Three ways to weather the stages of your child’s development and the seasons of family life
-And much more!
Whether you’re struggling through a “dark night” of genuine postpartum depression or simply enduring a frustrating roller coaster of emotions, Auth’s wealth of experience and bright wisdom will help you finally experience what you’ve been longing for since before your baby’s birth: the inexpressible joys of motherhood.
137 pages, Paperback
Published November 1, 2019
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April 11, 2025
Went on a retreat led by the author this past weekend and bought her book there. It is very practical and accessible which I appreciate. I realize that anything about diet/nutrition is very overwhelming to me, so those sections of the book were hard for me to take in. But I was able to pick a couple of things that felt accessible to me. Tomorrow I am handing this off to a friend who is 4 months in to postpartum round 2 ❤️
March 23, 2025
Reading this book during my 2nd postpartum and it’s honestly like a breath of fresh air.
I found it encouraging and also very relatable and has encouraged me to go a little easier on myself and remember that we do not have to do it all by ourselves.
“When we are emptied of self , then God can fill us with His divine life. In the words of John the Baptist , “ He must increase , but I must decrease” ( John 3:30)”
I found it encouraging and also very relatable and has encouraged me to go a little easier on myself and remember that we do not have to do it all by ourselves.
“When we are emptied of self , then God can fill us with His divine life. In the words of John the Baptist , “ He must increase , but I must decrease” ( John 3:30)”
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