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 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-important mind-body connection to how to give birth without technological intervention. Filled with inspiring birth stories and practical advice, this invaluable resource includes: • Reducing the pain of labor without drugs--and the miraculous roles touch and massage play • What really happens during labor • Orgasmic birth--making birth pleasurable • 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 necessarily tell you • The best ways to work with doctors and/or birth care providers • How to create a safe, comfortable environment for birth in any setting, including a hospital • And much more Ina May’s Guide to Natural Childbirth takes the fear 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.

Ina May's Guide to Childbirth "Updated With New Material"

Ina May Gaskin

Reference

Bantam]

Ina May's Guide to Childbirth

Medical Books

Medicine

Ebury Digital

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 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-important mind-body connection to how to give birth without technological intervention. Filled with inspiring birth stories and practical advice, this invaluable resource includes:• Reducing the pain of labor without drugs--and the miraculous roles touch and massage play• What really happens during labor• Orgasmic birth--making birth pleasurable • 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 necessarily tell you• The best ways to work with doctors and/or birth care providers• How to create a safe, comfortable environment for birth in any setting, including a hospital• And much moreIna May’s Guide to Natural Childbirth takes the fear 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.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Women's Health

San Val

A definitive guide for the aspiring midwife, filled with information that will help you choose the path of midwifery that best matches your needs, capabilities and passion.

Paths to Becoming a Midwife: Getting an Education

Barbara Katz Rothman

Penny Simkin

Robbie Davis-Floyd

Sharon Wells

Virginia Jackson

Kitty Ernst

Katherine Camacho Carr

Midwifery Today Inc

Ina May Gaskin asserts that the way in which women become mothers is a women's rights issue, and it is perhaps the act that most powerfully exhibits what it is to be instinctually human. Birth Matters is a spirited manifesta showing us how to trust women, value birth, and reconcile modern life with a process as old as our species.

Birth Matters

Pinter Martin Ltd

Die selbstbestimmte Geburt

Karmienie piersia w.2

Parenting & Relationships

Parenting

Wydawnictwo CoJaNaTo

Ina may's guide to childbirth and dude you're gonna be a dad! and what to expect 3 books collection set

Heidi Murkoff

John Pfeiffer

Vermilion/Adams Media/Simon & Schuster UK

Please Note That The Following Individual Books As Per Original ISBN and Cover Image In this Listing shall be Dispatched Collectively: Ina May's Guide to Childbirth, Give Birth Like a Feminist, Hypnobirthing, Expecting Better 4 Books Collection Set: Ina May's Guide to Childbirth: Ina May Gaskin, America's leading midwife, shares her exceptional birthing wisdom in this intuitive guide to childbirth. By sharing a wealth of knowledge generated by three decades of experience she explains why the natural birthing process, when left to its own devices, can proceed so beautifully on its own. In this invaluable book Ina May teaches you: what really happens during labour; how to create a safe, comfortable environment for birth in any setting; tips for maximising your chances. Give Birth Like a Feminist: From the importance of birth plans to your human rights in childbirth, and including birth stories from women across the world, this call-to-arms will help you find your voice, take an active role in your choices, and change the way you think about childbirth. Hypnobirthing: Expert hypnobirthing teacher and founder of The Positive Birth Company Siobhan Miller has made it her mission to change the way women around the world approach and experience birth. Through her teaching she seeks to educate and empower women - and their birth partners - so that they can enjoy amazing and positive birth experiences, however they choose to bring their babies into the world. Expecting Better: Pregnant women are often treated as if they were children, given long lists of items to avoid - alcohol, caffeine, sushi - without any real explanation from their doctors about why. They hear frightening and contradictory myths about everything from weight gain to sleeping on your back to bed rest from friends and pregnancy books.

Ina May's Guide to Childbirth, Give Birth Like a Feminist, Hypnobirthing, Expecting Better 4 Books Collection Set

Vermilion/HQ/Piatkus/Orion Sp

Please Note That The Following Individual Books As Per Original ISBN and Cover Image In this Listing shall be Dispatched Collectively:\nExpecting Better, Ina May's Guide to Childbirth, Baby Food Matters 3 Books Collection Set:\nExpecting Better: 
A groundbreaking guide to pregnancy: empowers women with the facts and allows them to make their own decisions. FREAKANOMICS meets WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU'RE EXPECTING.Award-winning Emily Oster debunks myths about pregnancy to empower women while they're expecting.Pregnant women are often treated as if they were children, given long lists of items to avoid alcohol, caffeine, sushi - without any real explanation from their doctors about why.\nIna May's Guide to Childbirth: 
The international bestseller that has helped millions of women trust in their body - and their baby - and give birth without fear.Drawing on over 40 years' experience, internationally acclaimed midwife Ina May Gaskin shows you how to use the mind-body connection to help labour progress calmly and safely.\nBaby Food Matters: 
Baby Food Matters makes feeding your child easier. This book sorts through the conflicting advice and includes practical, easy-to-follow guidance on what and how to feed your baby in those all-important first thousand days - from pregnancy to their second birthday.The quality of nutrition a child receives and the way they are fed can have a lasting impact on their future health.

Expecting Better, Ina May's Guide to Childbirth, Baby Food Matters 3 Books Collection Set

Emily Oster

Hayley Syrad

Orion Spring/Vermilion/ Yellow Kite

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