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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! Watch the Video Replay on Love & Other Frequencies OFFERING 10% off everything Motherbees.com  →  with code nitsa10 15% off Living Libations Oils + Serums 15% off with our link →  https://livinglibations.com/soundfood (discount automatically applied) CONNECT With Guest Heng Ou Website: motherbees.com Instagram: @motherbees Books: The First Forty Days, Nine Golden Months , Awakening Fertility Host Nitsa Citrine @nitsacitrine @soundfoodspace Substack: Love & Other Frequencies 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 WAVELENGTH Ep. 107: Way of Devotion with Nina Lombardo  Ep. 57: Solstice Blessings with Nadine Artemis Ep. 90: Biohacking for Women with Dr. Karley Denoon ND  NOURISH This podcast is nourished by your donations and our partners: AWAVEAWAVE: enter CITRINE for 15% off at awaveawake.com LIVING LIBATIONS: enjoy 15% off all botanical beauty alchemy with this link https://livinglibations.com/soundfood(discount automatically applied) COOKMA: SOUNDFOOD for 15% off nourishing one-pot meals from cookma.co  MIKUNA: enter SOUNDFOODFAMILY for 25% off regenerative plant protein from Mikunafoods.com LIVING TEA:  SOUNDFOOD for 15% off all tea nourishment livingtea.net SUPERFEAST: enter CITRINE for 10% off our favorite tonic herbs + superfoods superfeast.com OSEA: enter CITRINE for 10% off oseamalibu.com sea-to-skin magic Kindly share this episode and leave us a review on APPLE or SPOTIFY it means the world to us and keeps these conversations evolving!