AYURVEDIC GARBHA SANSKAR

Book excerpt: Originally written in Marathi, ‘Ayurveda Garbha Sanskar’ is a book that serves as a guide to a couple who are looking to start a family, starting out by getting pregnant, giving birth to a healthy child and nurturing the little one. The book comprehensively provides people everything that a person wants to know about conceiving, pregnancy and delivery to nurturing the little one for up to 2 years of age. Not simply a book laden with known-lectures, rather this book can be seen as an elaboration of various ancient Ayurvedic practices that leads to the complete well-being of the mother and child’s physical, spiritual and psychological health. It also advises on the traditional herb mixes, yoga, music and mantras that the new-mothers or the mothers-to-be may find helpful. Besides, this book also charts a nutritious Ayurvedic diet-plan for the couples to detoxify their bodies and be healthy in the right sense of the term. Once a mother conceives, she must be able to nourish and condition the little one in her womb. Likewise, this book also provides a month-by-month nutrition plan that helps in proper nourishment of the baby. Yoga and full-body herbal oil massages during pregnancy are also recommended for the mothers-to-be along with a list of health tonics prescribed in this book. In order to reach out to more people worldwide, this book has been translated in English, and is available in hardcover.