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Your season

Pregnancy

You're growing a person. That's allowed to be hard.

Comfort for the aches, plain answers to the questions, and honest talk about what the books skip.

For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb.
Psalm 139:13
Illustration for the pregnancy seasonPregnancy

For this season

Reading and resources

The Well
Educational

Five nutrients most moms are quietly low on

By Lissa Edge

Food first, no protocol, and nothing you need to buy from us. Just the ones that come up again and again.

The Home
Educational

What the first trimester doesn't tell you

By Lissa Edge

The hardest trimester is the one you're supposed to go through without telling anyone.

The Home
Educational

Safe sleep, plainly

By Lissa Edge

Five rules, the reason behind each, and an honest word about what to do when you're past exhaustion.

The Well
Educational

Before you're pregnant: what actually matters

By Lissa Edge

A short list, and one item on it has to be started before you know you're pregnant to work at all.

The Home
Educational

Trimester by trimester: what's actually happening

By Lissa Edge

A plain map of the whole thing, without the fruit comparisons.

The Home
Personal Experience

Preparing siblings for a new baby

By Lissa Edge

The regression is normal, the jealousy is normal, and there are a few things that genuinely make it easier.

The Well
Educational

Early signs of pregnancy, and when a test will actually tell you

By Lissa Edge

Most early symptoms are shared with PMS, which is why searching them never settles anything. Here's what does.

Guide
EducationalAffiliate links

The Village Guide to Pregnancy Comfort

By Lissa Edge

By the third trimester your body is carrying a load it was never asked to carry before.

Elsewhere in the Village

A gentle reminder: Fruitful Village shares educational information about natural and holistic family wellness. It isn't medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment, and it doesn't replace your midwife, OB, or pediatrician. Please talk to your provider before starting anything — especially for babies under twelve months, in pregnancy or while breastfeeding, or alongside any prescription. Read the full disclaimer.

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The Gate

Nobody hands you the manual.

The fathers' side of this house. Written for him, in his language — so you can send him something rather than summarize it.

The Workshop · The Forge · The Watch · The Field

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The other door

The Village

You don't have to do motherhood alone.

Lissa's side of this house, and where most of it began. If she sent you here, this is what she has been reading.

The Well · The Table · The Garden · The Chapel · The Home

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