Tending to Your Womb
Uphill Books (Verlag)
978-1-943370-35-1 (ISBN)
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In her practice as a Doctor of Physical Therapy specializing in pelvic health, Dr. Anietie "Tia" Ukpe-Wallace sees evidence nearly every day of the disconnection between women and their bodies. That disconnect has a variety of sources—trauma, embarrassment, miseducation—and manifests as both a lack of understanding and awareness and a reluctance to physically connect with their own bodies.
Tia was 32 years old when she herself suffered a stillbirth halfway through her first pregnancy. It was her first major loss, but would not be her last; and it would set her on the path to learning everything she could about her own body, not only the anatomy and the physiology, but also reconnecting with the feelings and sensations of her own womb and its attendant emotional aspects: love, joy, as well as distrust, fear, anger and grief.
Tending to Your Womb is the book that Tia wishes she had when she started her own journey towards conception, pregnancy, loss, and, eventually, motherhood. Through self-care exercises, science-based information, and her own personal experiences and those of her patients, she helps women better understand and reconnect with their own bodies. The heart of the book is walking women through the journey from conception through pregnancy, with the full spectrum of outcomes considered.
The book includes:
Gentle guidance for exploring one’s own anatomy, with abdominal massage and journaling prompts
Information about menstruation, perimenopause and menopause
An in-depth examination of the causes and challenges of infertility
An honest, detailed review of many of the conditions that can arise to complicate a pregnancy
A prescription for post-partum self-care
A powerful and lovely inquiry into the many types of grief related to the reproductive journey—especially that of losing a child.
Tia’s holistic approach draws on traditional knowledge (“to tend to our womb is not new”), and honors the relationships between the reproductive system and the rest of the body: for example, our feet, posture, breasts, heart, and brain. She encourages women to get personal with their anatomy, become curious observers of their own bodies, and become their own best advocate in a medical maternity care system that is not stacked in favor of women, and even less so for women of color.
Tending to Your Womb is a compassionate and trustworthy guide to improving your relationship with your most intimate parts.
Dr. Anietie (Tia) Ukpe-Wallace, PT, DPT, is an orthopedic and pelvic health physical therapist who specializes in providing a continuum of care and support from pregnancy loss to postpartum, while emphasizing the importance of self-care. Tia’s life-long fascination with the human body and its inner workings ultimately led her to this path and a practice that has morphed from one of structure and ego to one framed by humility and independent thinking. Following her own formal introduction to movement in college, and eight years teaching yoga, Tia’s own chronic struggles surrounding her pelvic floor and multiple miscarriages inspired her personal interest in a part of the body that is rarely talked about and often misunderstood. And it was the loss of her first child at 20 weeks of pregnancy that prompted her to offer holistically based pelvic care to a population that needs it, at the most vulnerable time in their life. Tia is a wife, mother to her 9-year-old daughter and a Doctor of Physical Therapy in Oakland, California, where she offers both telehealth and clinic-based physical therapy services through her practice, Self-Care Physio.
Foreword by Jill Miller
Preface
Chapter 1: Getting to Know Your Body
Chapter 2: Establishing Your Baseline
Chapter 3: Exploring Womb Wisdom Around the World
Chapter 4: The Womb’s Web of Connection Throughout the Body
Chapter 5: A Hiccup in the Womb
Chapter 6: Navigating the Trek Towards Conception
Chapter 7 : The Five S’s of Fertility Foundations and Womb Health
Chapter 8: When Your Journey Has a Few Bumps in the Road
Chapter 9: Reemerging Through the Fog of Grief
Chapter 10: Chasing the Rainbow: Challenging Fertility and Pregnancy After Loss
Chapter 11: Postpartum: Stepping into Uncharted Waters
Chapter 12: Perimenopause and Menopause: Not a Pause but an Unfolding
Appendix A: Female Reproductive Anatomy References
Appendix B: List of Female Anatomy Structures
Appendix C: Massage with Coregeous Ball
Appendix D: Daily Self-Care Practices
Appendix E: Early Postpartum Recovery Guide
Appendix F: Strength Training Through the Reproductive Journey
Appendix G: The Effect of Climate Change and the Environment on Womb Health
Bibliography
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 4.6.2026 |
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| Zusatzinfo | Black and whilte illustrations |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 139 x 215 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Familie / Erziehung |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Lebenshilfe / Lebensführung | |
| Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Histologie / Embryologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-943370-35-4 / 1943370354 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-943370-35-1 / 9781943370351 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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