Conscious Conception
Websites and blogs
12 Minute Video to Make You Fall in Love
This video describes a beautiful practice for couples to begin to know each other more intimately prior to conception and to begin intentional conversation around parenthood and family.
Ovulation Awareness by Samantha Zipporah
A free e-book on understanding your fertility cycle and Natural Family Planning.
Samantha offers holistic ways to claim your power in fertility, sex, and beyond. Conscious conception and miscarriage/abortion.
A Complete Guide to Empowered Miscarriage at Home
1 in 4 pregnancies end in miscarriage. This article is a complete guide to all of your options during this difficult time. Written by Dr. Aviva Romm, MD, a woman on the forefront of holistic medicine.
Vaginal Steaming - Do-It-Yourself Tutorial
Steamy Chick offers this free tutorial for anyone interested in Vaginal Steaming. Yoni steaming is a traditional postpartum care method, also used for self-treatment of PCOS, regulating your moon cycle and overall wellness.
Books
Shamanic Wisdom for Pregnancy and Parenthood: Practices to Embrace the Transformative Power of Becoming a Parent by Anna Cariad-Barrett, DMin
Anna Cariad-Barrett dives deeply and poignantly into the dying and rebirthing of ourselves into the sacred archetypes of mother and father. She names clearly the distinction between having children and becoming a parent.
The Continuum Concept: in Search of Happiness Lost by Jean Liedloff
An anthropological exploration of what conditions and environments are expected by all humans beginning with life in the womb. What happens when the expectations that have grown out experience and evolution are not met? What happens when the continuum of human experience innate in all of us is disrupted?
Theology of the Womb: Knowing God Through the Body of a Woman by Christy Angelle Bauman
“This is an exploration of the significance of a womb that must shed and bleed before it can create. How will we engage our body which cyclically bleeds most of our life and can build and birth a human soul? How will we honor the living womb that lives and sometimes dies within us?” -Author’s note
Podcasts
Fertility Hour - Discover evidence-based strategies, tips and resources to help you when trying to conceive.
The Fertility Hour podcast interviews leading experts in the fields of natural fertility, holistic medicine and preconception-care.