Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth
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- ISBN13: 9780553381153
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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What you need to know to have the best birth experience for you.
Drawing upon her thirty-plus years of experience, Ina May Gaskin, the nation’s leading midwife, shares the benefits and joys of natural childbirth by showing women how to trust in the very ancient wisdom of their bodies for a healthy and fulfilling birthing experience. Based on the female-centered Midwifery Model of Care, Ina May’s Guide to Natural Childbirth gives expectant mothers comprehensive information on everything from the all-vital mind-body tie to how to give birth lacking technological intervention.
Filled with inspiring birth tales and practical advice, this invaluable resource includes:• Sinking the pain of labor lacking drugs–and the miraculous roles touch and massage play
• What really happens during labor
• Orgasmic birth–building birth delightful
• Episiotomy–is it really necessary?
• Common methods of inducing labor–and which to avoid at all costs
• Tips for maximizing your chances of an unmedicated labor and birth
• How to avoid postpartum bleeding–and depression
• The risks of anesthesia and cesareans–what your doctor
doesn’t automatically tell you
• The best ways to work with doctors and/or birth care providers
• How to make a safe, comfortable environment for
birth in any setting, including a hospital
• And much more
Ina May’s Guide to Natural Childbirth takes the dread out of childbirth by restoring women’s faith in their own natural power to give birth with more ease, less pain, and less medical intervention.
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I’m in my 34th week of pregnancy and wanted to read up on what to expect when I give birth. This book was reccomended to me, but I couldn’t stand this book. Ina May pounding the messages of “hospitals are evil”, “Doctors are idiots” and “Men who aren’t your spouse are all clueless” was too much. Since the book had been reccomended to me, I was trying to make my way through it (After skipping half of the “empowering” birthing tales in the first half of the book) but when I got to the message of “ALL prenatal screening and tests are unecessary and postentially harmful” I had enough. I’m returning this book to get something, anything better.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
The “seventh heaven” of childbirth? Having an orgasm as you push your baby into the world? Giving birth on a “farm” completely free of medical interventions? These are a few of the thoughts this book touts to its readers, while simultaneously discrediting many legitimate obstetric procedures. This book does more to make women feel guilty and inadequate for requiring medical interventions with their births than it does to empower women with tools to use to reach the goal of natural childbirth. Most importantly, it loses sight of the fact that the essential goal of childbirth is not to forsake all tablets, but rather for both mother and baby to emerge from the experience healthy.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This book is sweet and ancient-fashioned but it is all about giving birth at THE FARM with midwives. For somoeone like me who knows I will have the baby in a hospital with a doctor, though naturally, the book did nothing for me. It in fact made me feel like what I wanted to do was not excellent enough. Plus, half of the book was just people’s dull tales, all of which were pretty much the same. If you are in my shoes, don’t buy this book.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
I read this book together with a lot of additional books during my wife’s pregnancy. The experience reports might be nice for people who like it (which I don’t) but the second advisery part is completely unbalanced. The world is not black and white as this book wants to make you reflect. None of the described evils that supposedly awaits you if you choose a doctor and a hospital during your pregnancy ever happened to us so far. This might have been significant 40 years ago but with a small knowledge and curiosity nowadays you can easily get the best of both “worlds” (a differentiation that place me off straight away). You certainly should not use this book as your only source of information.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
Item was recieved in brilliant time and condition.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5