Featured Authors

	Diana Farrell is an author who holds a Masters Degree in Psychology as well as advanced training in a number of alternative therapies. She struggled herself with infertility for many years. Through her journey to successful pregnancy, she discovered a wealth of information and learning about rare methods and techniques that can greatly improve a couple’s chances of overcoming infertility and getting pregnant. The Full Embrace™ Pregnancy Success Program is a compilation and refinement of Diana Farrell’s discoveries and research. The end result is a highly effective, integrated and holistic system of overcoming infertility. It is her mission and great pleasure to share these methods with as many couples as she can in the hopes that more people can realize the dreams so basic to being human and dear to the heart of many – having a baby. Diana Farrell, M.A. makes her home with her family on the beautiful California coast. Her sincere desire is for you to use this site to find valuable information that will ultimately be just what you need to achieve pregnancy success.
	Pinky McKay is an Internationally Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) who runs her own private practice in Melbourne, Australia, and is a breast feeding specialist consultant for the best selling baby magazines in Australia (Practical Parenting) and New Zealand (Littlies). Pinky is also a leading Australian baby care author of best selling books, including 'Sleeping Like a Baby', '100 Ways to Calm the Crying' and 'Toddler Tactics' (Penguin Australia). She has helped thousands of women just like you, enjoy breastfeeding with confidence.
	Catherine Beier, CBE, MS CCC-SLP/L Catherine Beier has supported and empowered birthing women and families as an independent childbirth educator, author, and webmaster since 2000. She is also on the Advisory Board of the International Academy of Baby Planner Professionals, an organization dedicated to raising awareness in new and expecting parents by informing them of all the services and supports that exist to assist them in making informed birth and parenting choices. In addition to her work in the birth world, Catherine maintains a small private practice serving children and adults with communication disorders.  She is a summa cum laude graduate of Illinois State University with degrees in Speech-Language Pathology and Vocal Performance, is certified by the Amercian Speech-Language-Hearing Association and additionally holds an Early Intervention Specialist credential in both evaluation and treatment for serving children from birth through age 3. She provides private and telephone consultations, teaches independent childbirth education classes, writes evidence-based articles on natural childbirth and pregnancy, and speaks on childbirth topics to parents and professionals. Catherine is the owner and webmaster of GivingBirthNaturally.com which provides evidence-based natural childbirth and pregnancy information to parents and professionals.  She stays updated on the latest research on childbirth and pregnancy so she can provide parents and professionals with accurate information. Her book, Birth Outside the Box, was published in 2008. Catherine provides childbirth education classes to clients in her area through individual office visits and group sessions, and works with clients and groups throughout the world through her online childbirth classes.  She also writes and publishes guided imagery and relaxation scripts for use in pregnancy, birth and the postpartum period. Catherine’s home and her practice are located in central Illinois, where she resides with her husband, two daughters, Eden, age 7, and Iris, age 5,  and their menagerie of pets.
	Wai Chong is a mother of three children, aged 7, 5 and 2.  She loves to share her experiences in prenatal training and parenting with readers. She is a practising social worker and counsellor.  She enjoys working with children and their families. She was graduated with a Degree of Social Work from Hong Kong Baptist University in 1990. In 1995, she completed Certificate course of Train-the-trainer workshop organized by Academy of Success in Singapore. A keen learner, she believes in continuous learning and improvement.  She has a Master Degree in Social Sciences (Counselling) from the University of South Australia in 2002. She has been a Certified Humanistic NLP Practitioner, Certified Neuro-Linguistic Programming Practitioner and Certified Time-Based Technique Practitioner by Competence Strategies International since 2004. She completed the Graduate Certificate Course of Expressive Therapies for Emotional Growth in Adolescence and Children using Emotional Release Counselling and Sandplay conducted by Expressive Therapies Institute of Australia in 2005. She is a trained facilitator of Parenting with Confidence Workshops organized by Focus on The Family Singapore Ltd. (Website:www.family.org.sg) She is a Graduate of Right Brain Education Teacher Training Course in March 2007. (Website: http://www.rightbraineducation.com) In her ebook -Connecting With Your Unborn Baby, she shares her knowledge, experience and activities gained from her learning, training and personal life. She hopes that the book will help in bringing out awareness for mothers to the needs of their unborn babies and she urges mothers to connect and bond with them as soon as possible.