Gentle Birth Choices: A Guide to Making Informed Decisions About Birthing Centers, Birth Attendants, Water Birth, Home Birth, Hospital Birth

Gentle Birth Choices: A Guide to Making Informed Decisions About Birthing Centers, Birth Attendants, Water Birth, Home Birth, Hospital Birth image
ISBN-10:

0892814802

ISBN-13:

9780892814800

Author(s): Barbara Harper
Edition: First Edition
Released: Jan 01, 1994
Publisher: Healing Arts Pr
Format: Paperback, 268 pages
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Description:

Barbara Harper outlines the elements of gentle birthing: support from loved ones, a reassuring and quiet environment with soft lighting, and minimal medical intervention. She shows you how to plan a meaningful, family-centered birth experience and discusses the many alternatives available, providing a new model of maternity care that reduces the need for high-tech crisis intervention and focuses instead on preparation and good health for mother and child.

With Cesarean section rates in some hospitals at more than 50%, women are acknowledging that childbirth reform is an essential aspect of reclaiming responsibility for our bodies and our lives.

Includes information on:

• Giving birth in a freestanding birthing center, at home, or in a hospital birthing room.

• Finding a primary care-giver who shares your philosophy of birth, whether midwife, doctor, or both.

• Deciding how to best use current technologies.

• Practical advice for couples wishing to explore the option of waterbirth, a choice that maximizes the attributes of water as a natural, pain-relieving relaxant and an alternative to drugs and their unwanted side effects.

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