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This is absolutely a must read for anyone interested in birth. I LOVE LOVE LOVE this book. The first half is filled with amazing birth stories; the second half is filled with more of the technical aspect of birth but is so very easy to understand.
This book kept me positive about my choice to birth naturally, and gave great insight to midwifery. This book is the ABC's of natural childbirth, an uplifting and positive take on the birthing process.
still has the highest caesarean section rate of any industrialized nation. Love your body and your baby. Not only did I not have fear, I had a foundation of love for my babies and pure surrender to the power of my own body to do this incredible thing. Babies are not meant for "removal" like tumors. I first read this book in 1978 when I visited the Farm for a summer in my late teens.
Vaginal birth helps them breath, release certain enzymes, stimulate glandular activities, and other normal responses not present in a caesarean surgical birth. My midwife had just moved and the doctor I used for a hospital birth was more than happy to let me have a "home birth" in the hospital and a vaginal breech, no routine interventions, etc. Read this book. Allow your births to be your greatest rite of passage - and mind-blowing fun. 1/4 of all babies born in the U.S. This is most often due to the routine use of infant monitors and epidurals and other drugs which immobilize the mother.
The following year, I studied in the first state certification program for lay midwives in Arizona where this, along with Margaret Myles "Textbook for Midwives", was one of our main textbooks. because I was clear that a breech was a variation not a complication of childbirth. Giving birth is a joy and does not have to be medical torture. I gave birth to two children in the late 80s and because of this book and its heartfelt wisdoms and solid and grounded medical knowledge, gave birth with no pain. are surgically removed from the mother's body. The U.S.
My second birth was a breech. My knowledge which started from this book, set me up to have amazing births and help others do the same.
I personally loved the 'hippie' language. I have a used, well read first edition of this book. I plan on becoming a homebirth midwife, and I would highly recommend this book to all pregnant women, midwives, and anyone else who is interested in birth. It made the stories seem more personal and real(after all, it was written by hippies in the 70s). I finished reading it last night, and I love it. It's nice to hear postive stories about natural birth.
She refers to the vaginal area as the Puss. The language in the book is easy to understand and places birthing and its phases into easily understood wording. Not my reference but interesting and non-clinical none the less, she explains that she uses terms that are comfortable to her and that are easily understood by mothers and that midwives should do the same for her their practices. This book is a good introduction to midwifery. It is also a great book of inspiring stories for mothers considering home birth or unmediated birthing.
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