Get Some Headspace is the ultimate guide to improving your life with just 10 minutes of meditation each day. The results suggest that incorporating mindfulness into antenatal education can help mums to cope better with their fears.

These stress-busting and mood-lifting effects mirror those found in mindfulness programs for the general public, but can mindfulness help with the specific anxieties and fears that go along with pregnancy? As a matter of fact, a midwife told me that she didn't have much to tell me because without trying to be pregnant I already do everything that needs to be done on a daily basis. Could mindfulness help reduce premature births in women who are most at risk for them, including low-income and older women?I believe this book has the potential to be a good companion for anyone trying to implement a little meditation and Mindfulness during pregnancy. Obviously, this is more useful for someone actually going into labor but still a good read for a partner as he doesn't deal with some overall anxiety-inducing points in general. It was important to let the happiness and news sink in a bit for us before sharing with others—time and space helped make the news feel somewhat real. the first time mums who have somehow managed to accept the circumstances, embrace their new life and give themselves fully to the role of motherhood.

A lot of this was interesting but I was looking for something more specific to mental health in pregnancy (and I'd already dabbled with the Headspace app) so, sadly, I did not find what I was looking for in this book.However, this section of the book is when he veers farthest away from meditation and mindfulness, so it’s not surprising that this was the least helpful. Be careful with the baths as she mentions "warm" baths not "hot" and while she says to add flowers into a hot bath, she also says to wait until it has cooled-down to go into it. The thought of giving birth can be scary, especially if other women have been telling you about what it was like for them or you’ve been reading gory stories. It didn't put me off that this was written by a man, however, I don't think a lot of readers will appreciate the anecdotes of his wife Lucinda breezing through pregnancy - hardly gaining any weight and tying herself in knots doing yoga. The only thing that gets in the way of 'me time' is wanting to be someplace else, or doing something different.

More a book on meditation/mindfulness with the word pregnancy slapped on the cover - not what I expected at all. This book had moments of good advice within it, but some of the advice would have been better received if it had been written by the women with whom the author had consulted, not writing it from a man’s perspective. I grazed a couple but started to feel overwhelmed by what I might learn and fearful the more I read about miscarriage.Two hours a week for five weeks, the mindfulness group learned different meditations and how to cultivate awareness and acceptance of their thoughts and emotions. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc. still, probably worth reading if you happen to want to start cultivating mindfulness at that special time in your life. We headed over to our neighborhood reservoir for a walk, silent and smiley, exchanging part-confused part-happy looks, until we got two-thirds the way around to the green meadow.