A Natural Health Care Program for Mothers-To-Be, New Mothers and their Newborn Babies
Enhance Your Experience of Childbearing: Utilize the time-tested knowledge of Ayurveda
Providing specialized consults for couples during the periods of preconception, pregnancy, labor & delivery, and the post-partum period.
Preconception Consultations includes knowledge to:
- Enhance health and vitality for both parents
- Support fertility
- Create an ideal inner and outer life to nurture new life
- Provide prospective parents with guidance on diet, herbal supplements, daily routine, and rejuvenation procedures to support the ability to conceive and the ability to support pregnancy
Pregnancy through Delivery Consultations provide:
- Guidelines to support mother’s mental and physical health
- Specific monthly recommendations for support of mother’s health and fetal development
- Knowledge to support father’s role and nurture ideal relationship between parents
- Information to create an ideal environment for labor
- Points of care for mother and newborn at the time of delivery
Postpartum Homecare Program Consultations includes:
- Guidelines for specialized care of mother and newborn to facilitate mom’s recovery and newborn’s adaptation to new environment
- Advice related to ideal postpartum diet, herbal preparations, and healthy routine
- Specific points of care for the newborn
- Guidelines for baby’s first year
A Wonderful Beginning…
This program is an in-home program provided by a licensed massage therapist trained in our Ayurvedic postpartum program.
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Restores balance to the physiology
enabling mothers to recover more quickly and completely from the demands of pregnancy and delivery.
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Increases strength and vitality
to create an overall sense of well-being.
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Has been reported by mothers to reduce postpartum symptoms
such as fatigue, weight problems, sleep disorders, digestive problems and depression.
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Provides mothers with knowledge and techniques
to give their baby the best start in life.
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Teaches mothers the HealthyHappy-Ayurveda® baby massage
to enhance their baby's digestion, to prevent gaseous discomfort, to promote better sleep, and to improve behavior and activity patterns.
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Enlivens the communication and sharing between parents and their new baby.
The Raj
HealthyHappy/Mother&Baby Program is sponsored by The Raj, America’s premier Ayurveda Health Center. Located in Fairfield Iowa, The Raj opened its doors in 1992, pioneering the use of Ayurveda medicine in the North America.
Ayurveda is one of the oldest, most comprehensive, continuously practiced systems of medicine in the world, with a written history dating back more than 5,000 years. In recent years, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the founder of the Transcendental Meditation® program, inspired an initiative with the leading Ayurvedic physicians and scholars to restore the integrity and authenticity of Ayurveda. The result is the Maharishi Ayurveda program, which brings to modern medical care a comprehensive approach to the prevention and treatment of disease and to the promotion of health and longevity. The Maharishi Ayurveda program contains a comprehensive specialty that deals with women's health. It provides a broad range of programs designed to maximize the health of women including a program for the post-partum period, and to ensure the best possible start in life for the newborn baby. This traditional knowledge of the care of the mother and newborn baby forms the foundation of HealthyHappy/Mother&Baby Program.
Meet Our Team
As a Nurse Practitioner, Margaret Mullins’ career in the nursing profession spans a number of decades. Throughout her career, her primary focus has been on the health of women and children. In 1985 she started working clinically with Maharishi Ayurveda (MAV) in Washington DC. In this position, she had the experience of working with numerous Vaidyas (Ayurvedic physicians).
Margaret became a Nurse Practitioner in 1992 and completed the MAV physician’s training two years later. She has provided MAV consultations in clinics in Washington DC, Iowa, and North Carolina.
In addition to her work with MAV, Margaret worked in multiple allopathic medical settings maintaining her skills as both an RN and later a Nurse Practitioner. Margaret owned a pediatric practice in Silver Spring, Maryland from 1992 to 1996, and continued her work in allopathic medicine in North Carolina through the Boone, NC District Health Department, working as an Nurse Practitioner primarily in pediatrics, from 1996 to 2016.
Margaret participated in the original development of the HealthyHappy/Mother&Baby program in 1989, administered and provided Mother-Baby care during her years at the Ayurveda Clinic in Washington DC , and co-authored the book: Blissful Baby–Healthy and Happy Pregnancy with Maharishi Vedic Medicine (1996). In 2008, Margaret created an online certificate Mother baby course for Brandman University in California. This course led to creation of the expanded healthy happy mother baby course by an international team of Vaidyas (Ayurvedic physicians) and Western healthcare providers. Margaret brought the expanded happy healthy mother baby course to MIU in 2017 where she taught it both on campus and online.
Manohar Palakurthi, BAMS, PhD, is an Ayurveda physician (vaidya) and a teacher and expert in the Maharishi Ayurveda and Maharishi Nadi Vigyan (Pulse Assessment). Manohar trained with three of the worlds top experts in Maharishi Ayurveda; Balaraj Maharishi,(world renowned herbalist), BD Triguna (worlds renowned pulse diagnosis expert), and VM Dwivedi (Vice chancellor of University of Jam Nagar). He has also worked closely with Asta Vaidyas and their traditional practices (Keraleeya Panchakarma).Manohar graduated from Nagarjuna University in India AP,(1978-83)
Vaidya Manohar was instrumental in establishing Panchakarma centers in USA, Europe and South East Asia . He practices as an Ayurveda clinical consultant, teacher, and course developer for health professionals and modern physicians. He has presented seminars and lectures on Maharishi Ayurveda all over the world. He has trained in Maharishi Aroma Therapy (France), and Ayurveda Ophthalmology (Kerala).He was one of the principal developers of the Maharishi Ayurveda HealthyHappy–Mother&Baby Program.
Vaidya Manohar serves as Ayurveda products technical consultant and product development research for Maharishi Ayurveda Institutes in India, Netherlands, United States, Japan, and Italy. He is a Professor of clinical medicine (Ayurveda) physiology and health and curriculum developer for Ayurveda courses at the Maharishi International University.
Vaiday Manohar is also an expert in the Panchakarma, the profound Ayurvedic purification treatments at the heart of The Raj programs; treatments that once helped maintain long life for the royal families of India.
For More Information
about the HealthyHappy/Mother&Baby Program
PLEASE CONTACT:
Margaret Mullins MSN, PNPC, FNPC
National Director US Healthy Happy Mother Baby program
Email: hhmotherbaby@gmail.com
Contact Margaret with inquiries regarding the Healthy Happy Mother Baby (HHMB) program. If you are interested in a consultation, Margaret can provide a list of certified HHMB consultants.
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