NURTURING THE MOTHER with Heng Ou

Description

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