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The Childbearing Year

The childbearing year holds a special place in my heart.

When I first gave birth 34 (yikes!) years ago, I was struggling to bring forth a deep inner knowing that would direct the conscious birth of my baby. I felt that birth was a magnificent transformational experience and I was driven to create an environment that would honor the transformational aspects of birth.

As I birthed and raised my five children, I experienced in those childbearing years, great expansion of my consciousness. I have worked professionally as a traditional midwife, lactation consultant, La Leche League counselor, childbirth educator, and herbalist to use measures that would be supportive and facilitating of the natural expansion of consciousness inherent in each journey through the childbearing year.

As I participate in the birth of my grandchildren, I look with awe and amazement as we evolve the way we welcome, protect, comfort and support the next generation and the mothers who carry them safely to us.

The childbearing year is a very crucial time in a women's life. Going through such tremendous changes in such a short period of time, a you will need special and concentrated care. Your body is capable of making all the incredible and momentous adjustments that are needed. In order to do this, however, there are several important factors that need to be present in childbearing year care.

• Your body must have concentrated, balanced nourishment to fuel all of it's self-regulation and expansion processes.
• You should be in a state of harmony, rest and relaxation so that the growth, development and healing processes of your body are unhampered.
• Childbearing year support should have a pattern and flow that matches the dynamics of that childbearing period.

Traditionally, special practices are essential in safeguarding the health, well-being, and integrity of the childbearing mother, and in protecting and assisting the expansion of consciousness for the mother, family and entire community.

Evenstar Childbearing Year products, services and programs are designed to support and uphold the immense, powerful and integral healing surrounding the birth of the baby – and you, the mother. We are here to nourish this process, and build strength and energy for the equilibrium and focus to care for the mother, the baby and to stabilize the family and integrate the community.

Ways we help support your Childbearing Year: 

Brain Chemistry Optimization Profile reveals how to positively affect your mood and energy – even while pregnant!

Functional Health Tests – to help you understand and correct fundamental functional imbalances that can have a significant impact on the pregnancy journey

Adrenal Stress Test - measures your response to stress and reveals adrenal imbalances that may be impacting your health.

Gastrointestinal Health Panel - non-invasively evaluates gastrointestinal function and health

Food Allergy Test - With this test you can determine the primary cause of hidden adverse food reactions.

Childbearing Year Coaching – having a baby is one of the most important life transitions you will make. Whether you are expecting your first, second, third or more baby – everything will change. Get the support you need and want to transition gracefully into motherhood.

Nutritional and Wellness Childbearing Year Programs

Preconception program
Our preconception wellness program focuses on natural means of supporting optimal reproductive health and takes you through a step by step personalized program discovering what you should be doing and what you should be avoiding. This is a lifestyle adjustment approach, using non-invasive, low technology tools based on preventive wellness care.

Pregnancy Diet
What you eat is important for you and your baby. Basic Daily Pregnancy Nutritional Guidelines for First Trimester, Second Trimester, and Third Trimester

Labor and Birth Preparation and Management
Recommendations for labor and birth herbs.

Postpartum Recovery and Breastfeeding Program
Pregnancy is more than a 9 month process. If you chose to breastfeed, plan on having another baby, or want to regain a pre pregnancy figure, you should know how the process continues for up to a year after the baby is born. While breastfeeding the nutritional link between mother and baby remains as important as it was during pregnancy. While the mother provides the baby with the best nature can offer, she also must make sure she eats a good diet to replenish her body’s nutrient stores.

Evenstar Herbs

The Childbearing Year Herbal Catalog - In traditional cultures, childbearing women are provided with special diets, herbs and foods, often given to them in a ceremonially prescribed manner. The women are cared for with special baths, exercises, bodywork and teas. Here are extraordinary herbal products with special formulas dedicated to all phases of the childbearing year.

• Oils
• Tonics
• Infusions
• Teas – including the “World Famous” Abundant Milk Tea
• Herbal baths

Plus Custom Blended Herbal Formulas – Herbal formulas developed specifically for your conditions and personal history.

Getting Started

If you are interested in any Childbearing Year Program, give me a call at 434-263-4996 or email to schedule a time to go over your questions and review your situation.

If you feel ready to begin - Great! Let’s get started. You can call me at 434-263-4996 or email to schedule a complimentary session so that we can talk about your unique, individual needs and get you started.

Congratulations! You will be taking an exciting, rewarding, and life-changing journey.

Call 434-263-4996
or email for more information.