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Mothering the Mother: African American Postpartum Traditions, Recipes and Healing

Mothering the Mother: African American Postpartum Traditions, Recipes and Healing

Paperback

Women's HealthAnthropologyPlant Based Remedies

Publisher Price: $19.99

PREORDER - Expected ship date January 27, 2026

ISBN10: 0306835436
ISBN13: 9780306835438
Publisher: Balance
Published: Jan 27 2026
Pages: 336
Language: English
A renowned midwife, doula trainer, and Master of Public Health celebrates the lost art of African American postnatal healing practices in this practical, essential guide to maternal health.

As a mother, grandmother, and traditional midwife, Shafia M. Monroe intimately knows about childbirth and the fourth trimester. For over forty years, she's helped thousands give birth, and has taught thousands more how to support birthing parents, all integrating the deep wisdom of African American healing traditions. Long suppressed by the white medical establishment, these practices--such as belly binding, heat, herbs, the lying-in period, and the taking-out-of-bed ritual--are powerful healing tools. Using them, we mother the mother through a healthy postpartum period.

While this framework will be powerful healing for all mothers, the information in this book can save Black mothers' lives; with African American women disproportionately suffering from maternal mortality and morbidity, there is an urgent need for an embrace of African American postpartum care that surrounds the new mother and her baby with community, love, and protection. Mothering the Mother is a resource for Black women and communities to reclaim their cultural traditions for a healthy postpartum recuperation.

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