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The Best Books You Should Read During Pregnancy

Once you start your pregnancy journey, you embark on the most challenging yet rewarding journey of your life of becoming a mother, your physical and mental wellbeing is of utmost priority. Reading books comes in handy, and books are considered the best companion during pregnancy.

This blog talks about all the best books to read during pregnancy. Reading these books will help you prepare for the next nine months and beyond!

1. Pregnancy: What the Indian Woman Always Wanted to Know, But Was Afraid to Ask

This book, written by Nutan Lakhanpal, gives you simple, scientific and reliable information to help you get away with irrational fears or unnecessary anxieties. The book explains everything about delivery, answers to questions about gaining weight, diet, exercise to be done, breathing patterns to be followed and the position you need to adopt during labour. It also talks about postnatal care to be taken by both you and the baby and offers invaluable time-tested home remedies too.

2. Baby Proof

This novel by Emily Giffin is a story about what happens to an ideal couple when they suddenly desire different things, and there is no compromise. This book is about a successful editor at a publishing house in Manhattan, Claudia Parr, who never wants to become a mother--which, according to her, is a significant hurdle to marriage. And then she meets Ben, who, miraculously, feels the same way and the two fall in love and marry. All's well until one of them has a change of heart and wants a baby.

3. Dear Mother: Poems on the Hot Mess of Motherhood

This is the first collection of poetry from Bunmi Laditan, and this collection of poems is about motherhood which offers plenty of humour, sweetness, and seriousness. Laditan beautifully captures the honesty, rawness, sheer joy and total madness of motherhood in this book. He is also the bestselling author of Confessions ofa Domestic Failure and creator of The Honest Toddler.

4. Eleven Hours

No other writer has ever portrayed the wonder of childbirth quite like Pamela Erens in her novel -Eleven Hours. The story is told from the perspectives of two female characters who are soon-to-be mothers. The story unfolds, as labour does, as a continuous experience, moving fluidly across time and point of view without chapter breaks, with barely a pause for air.

5. Pregnancy Blues: What Every Woman Needs to Know about Depression During Pregnancy

This book is by Shaila Kulkarni-Mistri, a leading reproductive psychiatrist and a pioneer in women’s mental health and reproductive issues. For many women, the joys of pregnancy are often dimmed by fear, sadness & confusion, causing depression. The book is the first to focus exclusively on depression during pregnancy.

6. Garbh Sanskar

The book "Ayurvedic GarbhaSanskar" was originally written in Marathi by Dr Balaji Tambe and serves as a guide for couples looking forward to starting a family. The book is a comprehensive guide to people who want to know everything about conceiving, pregnancy, and delivery to nurturing the little one for up to 2 years. The book further elaborates on various ancient Ayurvedic practices that lead to the complete well-being of the mother and child's physical, spiritual, and psychological health.

7. Religious Books (like the Bhagwad Gita)

Bhagwad Gita - the ancient Indian text talks not only about the philosophical aspects of life but also helps to deal with the practical aspects of life. It helps to narrow down the gap between a mother and a parent. Further, it is also believed that narrating the Bhagwad Gita during pregnancy aids in the baby's overall development.

Conclusion

Reading books during your pregnancy helps you have a good time and be better prepared for this new phase of your life. Books also help you in learning & rediscovering yourself as a person, a woman and of course, as a mother. The books recommended in this blog can thus prove to be valuable companions in your maternity time.

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Published on February 11, 2022