My Baby Zen & Twin Zen Story

by Mariana Convery
(Beverly Hills, FL)

My name is Mariana, I am 40 years old and have a beautiful 9-year-old boy, Bryan, and my 8-month-old twin girls, Heather and Megan. I had been wishing for a little girl for about 7 or 8 years now. I am an avid practitioner of meditation and visualization; it has healed me in so many aspects of my life.

Anyway, before getting pregnant with the twins, I had a beautiful feminine room set up that I used for meditation time. On the center of the window sill overlooking the garden I had two rose Yankee candles and around the candles I had a set of twin dolls praying. Well, after about a year of meditating and visualization, guess what? I got pregnant with two beautiful twin girls.

The downside of the pregnancy was that I had hypermesis gravidarum throughout my whole pregnancy. For those of you not familiar with it, that is where you can continuously vomit for 17 to 24 hours non-stop and I had severe morning sickness for nine months. It was very difficult.

But the worst part of the pregnancy was that at almost every doctor's visit, I was reminded of how I was "a very high-risk pregnancy;" that preterm labor is a very high probability for me; they reminded me constantly of my age, 39, and that I could still have the chance of carrying children with Down's syndrome. And on and on the negative input went.

I truly believe that if I didn't have the comfort of meditation to relax and soothe me, I wouldn't have carried my amazingly healthy 6lb 5 oz and 6lb, 10 oz twins to 38 and a half weeks. As I got into my 18th week of pregnancy, I started using prenatal speakers with my meditations, using my own breathing techniques and very soft gentle music. Well, after the babies were born, we all were so amazed at these sweet, quiet little babies. They barely even cried. To this day, I take them to the movies, I take them everywhere. I am constantly stopped because people are just amazed at how quiet and calm and happy and smiley they are. At my church, everyone would just keep asking me, what do you do to have such sweet babies? And that's where my idea arose.

I created a guided meditation CD for pregnant women accompanied by music I selected and bought from various composers and musicians. So here I am, raising my beautiful children and from them came a gift I could give to other women in the world to help reduce the risks of complications during pregnancy such as high blood pressure, premature labor, and especially for high-risk pregnancy, I created my Twin Zen and Baby Zen CDs.

Namaste to you all, which means I bow to the spirit of light that is within you and also within me.