Eating for Fertility, Pregnancy, Postpartum and all Cycles of the Feminine

We are honored to welcome the luminous Heng Ou—author of The First Forty Days, Nine Golden Months, and Awakening Fertility, founder and CEO of Mother Bees—for an expansive conversation spanning from conception to birth, postpartum care, lineage healing, and the sacred act of nurturing the mother as the foundation of family wellness.

In this heartfelt dialogue, Heng shares stories from her three births, ancestral traditions, and the intuitive wisdom that has guided all her creations. We explore how our hormonal cycles and stages of womanhood are not isolated events, but initiations into a lifelong relationship with self-healing, surrender, listening and resonance.

Tune in for

• Awakening Fertility as a state of body trust, playfulness & surrender
• Preconception nourishment and the power of oysters, anchovies, salmon roe & mineral-rich foods
• Letting go of control as the gateway to conception
• Home birth, water birth & trusting the body's innate intelligence
• Hypnobirthing, intuition & minimizing outside noise
• Traditional Chinese postpartum care, confinement & "sitting the month"
• Why rest, warmth, broths & deep nourishment are non-negotiable after birth
• The emotional realities of postpartum, sleep deprivation & breastfeeding challenges
• Creating postpartum containers with doulas, midwives & family care teams
• Mother Bees as a movement of food, service & maternal restoration
• Healing generational wounds through nurturing the mother first
• How children mirror their mother's inner healing work
• Gut health, warming foods & cycle-based nourishment for women
• Small daily transitions as portals of self-care for exhausted mothers
• Resonance, intuition & following the body's "pull" as spiritual practice

We Love You, Heng!

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With Guest Heng Ou Website: motherbees.com Instagram: @motherbees Books: The First Forty Days, Nine Golden Months , Awakening Fertility

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MENTIONED

The First Forty Days by Heng Ou

Awakening Fertility by Heng Ou

Continuum Concept

Alex Olson of Pacific Prenatal

Mother Bees postpartum soups & broths

Hypnobirthing

Traditional Chinese "sitting the month" practices

Acupuncture for fertility & cycle health

Magnesium Salts

Living Libations Frankincense, Rose Absolute & Blue Tansy essential oils

Catherine Shainberg Dream Birth

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