Spirit in Pregnancy and Birth

Author: Colette van Heerden

Featuring contributions by: Sister Lorraine Raik-Spiegel, Courtney Ward,
Sally Baker, Dr Vicki Comperé

Practical and spiritual care, ceremonies and celebrations

Do you know how to ignite your intuitive flame for powerful parenting? Would you like to have angels present at the birth of your baby? Do you wish to know how to make this grand entrance into the big, wide world a much more gentle, harmonious and loving experience?

This book takes you from conception to well after birth in a manner that teaches spiritual awakening through five ceremonies designed to assist you in understanding the power and purpose within you, your body, your baby, and the process of pregnancy and birth.

The book incorporates many positive tools including which archangels and goddesses to call upon to protect and support you whilst in labour; which crystals to use to soften the bombardment of new tactile experiences your baby is having; how to create a positive, supportive environment for your baby; understanding and honouring the development of your baby from a spiritual perspective.

Spirit in Pregnancy and Birth aims to empower mothers-to-be with more spiritually enriched infor­mation with regard to pregnancy, birth and babies’ needs so as to awaken and enliven the inner voice and wisdom that they have already been gifted with.

A table of contents and the author's introduction can be viewed at the bottom of this page.

About the author and contributors

Colette van Heerden
Colette is mother to daughters Michelle and Emma Jade. She is also a doula and im­passioned supporter of natural and empowered birth in its truest form. Colette is a spiritual healer, counselor and con­scious voice channel, working with the Ascended Masters, Goddesses and the Angel­ic, Archangelic and Crystal Kingdoms as well as working alongside the Benevolent Intergalactic Beings of the Light. Colette’s role currently, in service to All That Is, is to bring forth ceremonies that enrich and empower the lives of those that utilize them.

Sister Lorraine Raik-Spiegel
Lorraine has a professional medical and surgical career spanning more than 35 years. She is a service provider in the Healthcare Industry of South Africa, specialising in training. The training she provides is to increase one’s knowledge of the human body, on all levels: physical, emotional, spiri­tual and mental. Her training is aimed at Complementary Health therapists and indeed, anyone requiring therapy or training to understand the Body, Mind, Emotions and Spirit. Lorraine is a registered private practitioner of Integrative Medicine and a Quantum Biofeedback practitioner. She is also a member of the SA Fellowship of Anti-aging and Integrative Medicine.

Courtney Ward
Courtney is a talented artist, actor, musician, doula and mother. She is especially gifted in her spontaneous ability to apply her artistic gifts and musical talents in a group dynamic in aid of personal transformation and creativity. A brilliant didgeridoo player, Courtney uses this instrument as her voice for Mother Earth and a powerful tool to open up unseen worlds within. Courtney has been applying her musical gifts as a professional sound healer since 1998 in association with Vaughan Harris as a founding member of Sacred Sound. She has also worked with many other talented and renowned sound healers such as Chris Tokalon and international sound experts Nestor Kornblum and Michelle Averard from the Association of Harmonic Studies in Spain. Presently Courtney has been using her voice in chant and mantra to open an ancient dimension of sound and culture, reminding us of our interconnectedness to all of life and all times past, present and future. Courtney also regularly initiates interaction between wild dolphins and people in Southern Mozambique; being masters of sound healing and sonic vibration dolphins have been treasured teachers on her journey in sound.

Sally Baker
Sally is a mother. Currently she supports and educates parents as a doula, childbirth educator and breastfeeding supporter. She is involved with Birthing from Within and facilitating parents to find their inner resources to birth and parent with love, courage and strength. Prior to becoming a doula, Sally worked as a social worker and counselor at Family Life Center. She also offers counseling and support to parents who have had traumatic birth experiences, integrating her doula experiences and social work skills.

Dr Vicki Comperé
Dr Vicki Compère is mother to two strong and healthy sons, a doula and practicing homoeopath. Vicki is committed to the homoe­opathic philosophy of supporting the individual on all levels (physically, emo­­tionally and mentally) by taking into account the totality of symptoms presented by the patient to bring balance back to the person’s health. She works, diagnoses and treats holistically. Included in the moda­lities she uses are homoeo­pathy, nutrition, biores analysis, body align­ment and biokinesiology. She lectures on childhood illnesses and vaccinations, empowering parents to make informed health deci­sions for their children. She also lectures on various other topics including female health, diet, preventing and treating radiation damage, and much more.

Sample pages

Customer Reviews:

I highly recommend this book to anyone who may be embarking on the magnificent journey that is pregnancy and birth! It provided me such Divine and
spiritual insight into the pregnancy/birth experience that I battled to find in any other books. It also greatly assisted me in overcoming the
cultural fear toward birthing that has gripped the Western world, and reminded me of how grand and sacred the birthing experience is.rnrnIt contains
very powerful (yet practical) exercises, ceremonies and ideas that help prepare Mother and Father for the process of birth, as well as some beautiful
ceremonies to honour the sacred and divine being that is the result of that birth!rnrnMost importantly though, it very clearly contextualises
pregnancy and birth as the magnificently Divine and Spiritual experience that it is, and not just a biological process that we have become so fearful
of. I also loved the section on which Goddesses, Saints and Angels to call upon, as well as the sections on which crystals to use during pregnancy, as
well as which crystals to surround my baby with now that she is here.rnrnBoth my husband and I are extremely grateful for the unbelievable Love that
Collette clearly put into this book, as it helped us so much through the grandest experience of our lives. Our daughter is now 7 weeks old, and this
book has helped us honour her even more than we thought possible. This is the book that should be in every new parent's baby hamper!rnrnCandice, Cape
Town