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Right Time Baby : The Complete Guide to Later Motherhood
Claudia Spahr

Right Time Baby : The Complete Guide to Later Motherhood

A lively and informative guide, Right Time Baby dispels many of the outdated myths concerning older motherhood and gives useful advice for increased fertility and a healthy baby. Conceived as media-friendly and easy to digest, it hits the Zeitgeist and empowers later mums rather than adding to their anxiety.

The past ten years has seen the conception rate for European women over thirty-five soar. This trend is international and increasing as we get healthier. The subject is rarely out of the news with many celebrities having children later. Women today postpone childbearing due to higher education, pursuing careers and enjoying their independence. They also spend longer looking for the right partner.

The quirky, personable narrative is the book’s main voice but various inserts reveal facts, quotes, practical tips and useful information. The chapters are bite size on everything you need to know about conception, pregnancy, childbirth and the baby’s first year. It is a book to dip into covering all the medical concerns but also incorporating holistic opinions and more up-to-date integrated approaches. The book includes pregnancy yoga, parenting trends and the latest research in neuroscience, nutrition and psychology. It also covers:

• preparing for pregnancy and motherhood
• how to improve egg quality and prolong fertility so you can get pregnant naturally
• exercises, relaxation techniques, mind-body connection for conception
• how to increase your chances of success at IVF
• making the most of your pregnancy, month by month
• ways to avoid miscarriage
• pregnancy yoga and natural remedies for common pregnancy ailments
• how to have the best birth possible
• from me to mum – adjusting to lack of sleep, relationship changes and that other job
• parenting secrets and concepts from around the globe to inspire new mothers

Packed full of useful tips from top medical experts, scientists and world authorities, including Ina May Gaskin and Dr Marilyn Glenville, this book is a complete guide for the woman who’s lived a full life before giving birth. Right Time Baby is an intelligent, entertaining book aimed at inspiring the biggest transition of any woman’s life.

Book Details:

  • Author: Claudia Spahr
  • Published Year: 2011
  • Rights Sold
    • UK: Hay House
    • Korea: Miraebook
    • Croatia: Skorpion
    • Poland: Grupa Wydawnicza Helion SA
    • Holland: Jeroen von Gignomai
    • China: Shandong Science and Technology Press Co.,
Claudia Spahr

Claudia Spahr

Claudia Spahr was born in Yorkshire to Swiss parents and educated at Bradford Girls’ Grammar School. At age fifteen her family left the rolling hills of Bronte-land for the alpine pastures of Switzerland. Aside from the mild culture shock, school was in German but luckily Claudia just about passed her Baccalaureate. She began her studies at Berne University and then returned to the UK, where she completed a BA in Writing and Publishing with Film and Literary Studies.Claudia began her radio career at the BBC German Service in London and then trained as a journalist with Swiss Radio Int...
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Book Reviews

  • "  Very easy to read and informative."
    Dr Yehudi Gordon, author and renowned gynaeocologist
  • "  Claudia Spahr has written a wise, informative and entertainingpregnancy and birth guide that is perfect for both older mothersand equally relevant if you’re still in your teens or twenties. Don’t missthis one!"
    Ina May Gaskin, author and founder of The Farm Midwifery Centre
  • "  At last a book that puts the risk factors into perspective andencourages older women to become mothers! Claudia Spahr offers atreasure trove of useful guidance about the wonderful options there arefor a positive and life-changing pregnancy at any age. Written with atwist of humour, this book will inspire and inform as much as it willamuse you. "
    Janet Balaskas, Founder Active Birth and pregnancy yoga pioneer
  • "  I’m glad there’s finally a book I can hand all the terrified women who come to me in their thirties. Right Time Baby is just the right medicine for women who want to have a baby but who have been led to believe that their fertile time is drawing to a close. Nothing could be further from the truth. Take heart, read this book and tap into your fertility birthright. "
    – Christiane Northrup, MD, author of Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom
  • "  The book by Claudia Spahr is perfectly adapted to our time because many sentences end with a question mark. Delayed motherhood is an unprecedented situation on the five continents. When facing new situations the priority is to phrase new questions.– "
    Dr Michel Odent, founder Primal Health Research Centre
  • "  This book gives women a timely and positive understanding that pregnancy over 35 is not just a possibility, but a source of joy and delight. Claudia offers oodles of useful tips and helpful information, presented in a really accessible and down-to-earth manner. A fabulously helpful resource."
    Uma Dinsmore-Tuli, author and pregnancy yoga pioneer
  • "  The time is right for a book like this. I shall be recommending Right Time Baby to all my pregnant clients.  "
    Dr Jonathon Dao, ND OMD