Bed Rest Mom: Surviving Preganancy-Related Bed Rest With Your Sanity and Dignity Intact

By Cynthia Lockrey

'Bed Rest Mom' is a support book to help pregnant women navigate the emotions, isolation and uncertainty that comes with home or hospital-based bed rest, written by a mom who survived both types of bed rest with two difficult pregnancies. In this book, Cynthia Lockrey shares her personal experience of two high-risk pregnancies and offers practical advice to help women cope with being placed on home and hospital based bed rest.

'Best Rest Mom' focuses on the emotional realities women experience, offers practical advice on topics such as Asking for Help and Preparing for Hospital, and includes exercises to help move women through their journey.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Self-Counsel Press
• Release date: Feb 15, 2018
• ISBN: 9781770404908

Cynthia Lockrey

Cynthia Lockrey’s professional experience includes being a newspaper editor, magazine writer, corporate trainer, conference speaker, patient advocate, university and college instructor, community engagement advisor as well as public relations expert with over 20 years of experience. Her resume includes winning a Canadian Community Newspaper Award, three IABC awards and accolades for her conference speaking as well as corporate training. She has been a newspaper editor, magazine writer, corporate trainer, conference speaker, patient advocate, university and college instructor, community engagement advisor as well as public relations expert with over 20 years of experience. She has won a Canadian Community Newspaper Award, three IABC awards and accolades for conference speaking as well as corporate training. After her son was born, following a difficult pregnancy and traumatic birth, she spent three years as a patient advocate, serving on the perinatal health committee at London Health Sciences Centre in Ontario. Through her work on this committee, she was able to provide a patient’s perspective on maternal health, labour and delivery and neonatal intensive care (NICU) at the hospital where she spent six weeks in antenatal and another two weeks in the NICU with her son. She continues to be an advocate to ensure he gets the support and treatment needed, which is an uphill struggle in a medical system that doesn’t recognize the unique needs of children, and the education system is challenged to support children with lesser known conditions.

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