This book explores the history of birth practices and presents the benefits and problems of childbirth techniques during the past 100 years. Presentation of the physiology of birth, birth as a sexual event, importance of the father being face to face during birth. Shows birth as much more than just a medical event and the importance of giving birth consciously and joyfully, why people give birth at home and the benefits and safety of intimate husband/wife homebirth. 
Discusses the husband and wife "dyad," mother/infant bonding, attachment parenting, why the hospital environment isn't the best place for birth, and why husbands need a more central role during birth. Section on how to create peace and harmony in marriage and practical advice on breastfeeding and general pro-family/mothering encouragement. Provides how-to tips and helps alleviate fears and anxieties about birthing without medical professionals. Several birth stories by couples who purposely choose to birth at home alone. 
Main thesis of the book: that birth is a normal, womanly, physiological function and that women are not biologically incompetent. Since birth is uncomplicated, there need not be third parties interfering in what should be a private event among lovers. 
"What has robbed sex of its dynamism? It is man's failure to realize that childbirth is as much a part of the marital encounter as is coitus. Because of his ignorance, man has created a corporeal communication gap which prevents married couples from attaining the level of development that is their due." (p. 104)

Birth and the Dialogue of Love

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Moran, Marilyn A.

Women's Health

Terra Pub.

Marilyn A. Moran's seminal work on couples childbirth brought back to print for future generations to enjoy. From Marilyn's introduction in her own words - "This book is an exploration of the interpersonal aspect of childbirth for husband and wife and its effect on their growth and development in two-in-oneness." Author Marilyn A. Moran, the first advocate for husband and wife unassisted homebirth says, “Childbirth is a dialogue, not a monologue. The husband gives his wife a love gift and nine months later, she gives the gift of a baby into his loving hands. She’s present and accepting of his gift during coitus; he should participate and accept her gift during birth…At the moment of childbirth, when a woman is making her response to the genital gesture her man had initiated, no one should come between them then, not even briefly.” She said, “It is imperative that couples abandon the doctors’ quasi-pathological approach to birth…When an obstetrician steps in between the lovers at the moment of birth to catch the baby, the cyclic giving and receiving of significant genital gifts is shattered.” Originally published in 1981, the second edition of Birth and the Dialogue of Love remains faithful to its original content. The medical technology has changed since 1981, but the biological process and emotional power of birth has not. The birth stories read like love stories. What couple wouldn’t want to give birth in a sensual, romantic, loving environment? This classic and groundbreaking book explores a concept that might seem challenging and foreign to many. However, Moran says about the birthing mother, “Groundless fears and cultural taboos are the only obstacles holding her back from the goal nature intended that she achieve.”

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Birth and the Dialogue of Love

Birth and the Dialogue of Love