Nurture

LOOM is a centre in Los Angeles that provides all manner of support services to mums-to-be and new mums. In this book, Erica Chidi Cohen, LOOM founder, doula, and chef, walks readers through preparing for motherhood from a holistic, comprehensive perspective. With a curated approach, Nurture focuses on everything from the relationships between baby, mother, and partner, to nutrition, exercise, and self-care practices, the birthing process, breastfeeding, the post-partum shift, and caring for the 0- to 3-month-old baby. Chidi Cohen aims to offer all-encompassing answers to overarching questions about birth and the mothering experience, including how to have ease in pregnancy, curate birth preferences, find balance as self-identity changes, and be a successful mother and partner through the transition into motherhood. In keeping with the culture of LOOM, the book is friendly, non-judgmental, nondenominational, and gently straight-talking, it includes worksheets and lists, features 40 charming and useful referen