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The Birth Partner

From the Publisher:
The Birth Partner is the definitive guide for preparing to help a woman through childbirth and the essential manual to have at hand during the event. Since the book's original publication in 1989, fathers-to-be,new mothers' friends and relatives, and professional doulas (labor assistants) alike have relied on Penny Simkin's guidance in caring for the new mother from the last few weeks of pregnancy through the early postpartum period.

Gentle Birth Choices

From The Publisher:
New parents are faced with a myriad of choices about pregnancy, labor, and birth. In Gentle Birth Choices Barbara Harper, renowned childbirth advocate, nurse, former midwife, and mother of three, helps to clarify these choices and shows how to plan a meaningful, family-centered birth experience. She dispels medical myths and reimagines birth without fear, pain, or violence. Harper explains the numerous gentle birth choices available, including giving birth in an independent birth center, at home, or in a hospital birthing room; finding a primary caregiver who shares your philosophy of birth; and deciding how to best use current technologies. She also provides practical advice for couples wishing to explore the option of using a doula or water during labor and birth to avoid the unwanted effects of drugs and epidurals. The Gentle Birth Choices DVD blends interviews with midwives and physicians and six actual births that illustrate the options of water birth, home birth, and vaginal birth after a prior Cesarean section. The DVD clearly reveals the strength of women during childbirth and the healthy and happy outcome of women exercising gentle birth choices.

Baby Catcher

From The Publisher:
Each time she knelt to "catch" another wriggling baby -- nearly three thousand times during her remarkable career -- California midwife Peggy Vincent paid homage to the moment when pain bows to joy and the world makes way for one more. With every birth, she encounters another woman-turned-goddess: Catherine rides out her labor in a car careening down a mountain road. Sofia spends hers trying to keep her hyper doctor-father from burning down the house. Susannah gives birth so quietly that neither husband nor midwife notice until there's a baby in the room. More than a collection of birth stories, however, Baby Catcher is a provocative account of the difficulties that midwives face in the United States. With vivid portraits of courage, perseverance, and love, this is an impassioned call to rethink technological hospital births in favor of more individualized and profound experiences in which mothers and fathers take center stage in the timeless drama of birth.

Pregnancy Childbirth and the Newborn

Co-written by one of the founders of Doulas of North America, this complete guide covers all aspects of childrearing from conception through early infancy. It tells what to expect during pregnancy and birth and how you can work with your caregivers to make childbirth a happy and healthy experience.

The Complete Book of Pregnancy and Childbirth

From The Publisher:
Reassuring, informative, and uniquely inspiring, The Complete Book of Pregnancy and Childbirth is the indispensable encyclopedic reference for expectant mothers from the moment of conception to the moment of delivery and beyond. With extraordinary photographs of labor and delivery, authoritative advice on natural childbirth, and an up-to-the-minute directory of useful organizations and resources, this fourth edition of the best-selling classic addresses the issues of greatest concern to today's parents.

The Doula Book:

How a Trained Labor Companion Can Help You Have a Shorter,
Easier and Healthier Birth
From The Publisher:
More and more parents-to-be all over the world are choosing the comfort and reassuring support of birth with a trained labor companion called a "doula." This warm, authoritative, and irreplaceable guide completely updates the authors' earlier book, Mothering the Mother, and adds much new and important research. In addition to basic advice on finding and working with a doula, the authors show how a doula reduces the need for cesarean section, shortens the length of labor, decreases the pain medication required, and enhances bonding and breast feeding. The authors, world-renowned authorities on childbirth with combined experience of over 100 years working with laboring women, have made their book indispensable to every woman who wants the healthiest, safest, and most joyful possible birth experience.

The Nursing Mother's Companion

From The Publisher:
With more than 500,000 copies sold in earlier editions, "The Nursing Mother's Companion" is the most widely recommended resource for breastfeeding women. 40 photos.60 line drawings.

The Ultimate Breastfeeding Book of Answers

From The Publisher:
Are you one of the all-too-many women who experiences unnecessary difficulties with nursing your child? Although breastfeeding is the natural and healthy way to nourish a baby, it's not always easy. The Ultimate Breastfeeding Book of Answers will help you overcome your fears, doubts, and practical concerns about breastfeeding. In this comprehensive guide, Dr. Jack Newman-a leading authority on infant care who has established breastfeeding clinics throughout the world-brings the most important facts about breastfeeding to you.

Ina May's Guide to Natural Childbirth From the Publisher:
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. 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.

The Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better Birth

From The Publisher:
Practical Information for a Safe, Satisfying Childbirth Award winning medical writer and birth activist Henci Goer gives clear, concise information based on the latest medical studies. Goer will help you compare and contrast your various options and show you how to avoid unnecessary procedures, drugs, restrictions, and tests.

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