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Ina Mays Guide To Childbirth

by Ina May Gaskin

ISBN13: 9780553381153
ISBN10: 0553381156
Condition: Standard
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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.

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The cofounder of The Farm Midwifery Center and author of "Spiritual Midwifery" now shares her knowledge and wisdom about the "true capacities of the female body." This amazing book takes the fear out of childbirth, recasting it as the positive experience it should be, and includes inspiring and instructive birth stories from women who have used the midwifery model of care at The Farm.

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In 1976, Gaskin wrote "Spiritual Midwifery, " the handbook for midwives. Gaskin now shares with all women her knowledge and wisdom about what she calls the "true capacities of the female body, " based on her more than three decades as a midwife.

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Filled with inspiring birth stories and practical advice, this invaluable resource includes: Reducing the pain of labour without drugs - and the miraculous roles touch and massage play.

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: Jenny, September 22, 2006 (view all comments by Jenny)
Ina May's Guide to Childbirth is a long-needed addition to modern-day natural childbirthing resources. In this easy-to-read text, Ina May Gaskin begins with numerous birth stories as told by women who've experienced the empowering gift of birthing children naturally. The stories illustrate the innate power of women's bodies to gestate and birth human life. In a culture infused with fear about childbirth, these stories offer the reader a different and healing perspective-- that childbirth is not an event to be feared, but rather to be revered and relished and learned from. Key to enabling the birthing women are the midwives who support and encourage them as the births of the babies unfold. The sense one gains as one reads the birthing stories is that birth is sacred and manageable and possible and glorious; indeed, empowering.

The second part of the text is a breakdown of the components of modern day birthing choices available to women in mainstream care. User-friendly explanations of each component enable expectant parents to understand the available choices fully, as well as to understand the risks inherant in each intervention or test or available mode of care.

[a]Ina May Gaskin is perhaps the world's most reknowned midwife. She and her husband Steven Gaskin helped establish The Farm, a community in Tennessee, at which a highly succesful birthing center operates. She has done more than possibly any other person to bring midwifery back to into the consciousness and use of American women. She was president of the Midwives' Alliance of North America from 1996 to 2002, and in 2003 was selected as Visiting Fellow of Morse College at Yale University. She lectures all over the world to physicians and midwives, as well as to lay people, on issues of midwifery and topics surrounding the increasing maternal mortality rate in the United States. She is known for her championing of low-intervention birth, as well as for the outstanding statistics garnered at the Farm's birthing center in outcomes for women and babies. [These statistics were published in "The Safety of Homebirth: The Farm Study," authored by A. Mark Durand in the American Journal of Public Health, March 1992, vol. 82, pp. 450-452.] Ina May Gaskin is also the author of Spiritual Midwifery, now in its 4th edition.[/a]
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Product Details

ISBN:: 9780553381153
Author:: Gaskin, Ina May
Publisher:: Bantam
Location:: New York
Subject:: Pregnancy & Childbirth
Subject:: Natural childbirth
Edition Description:: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series Volume:: 31
Publication Date:: January 2003
Binding:: Paperback
Language:: English
Illustrations:: Yes
Pages:: 368
Dimensions:: 8.56x6.08x.77 in. 1.08 lbs.

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