Gentle Birth Choices: A Guide to Making Informed Decisions
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- Synopsis
- Believe it or not, birth resulting from a normal pregnancy needn't take place in a hospital. Harper explains why birthing centers and home births, along with other "gentle birth choices," are beneficial to both mother and baby. With a foreword by Robbie Davis Floyd, who wrote Birth as an American Rite of Passage (1992), Gentle Birth Choices also features a history of how childbirth came to be so technological and blasts myths such as why fetal monitors save babies (they don't, very often). Harper also discusses giving birth in water and explores the connection of mind and body during labor and birth. It also contains resources for finding midwives, questions to ask midwives or doctors and other resources in the appendices.
- Copyright:
- 1994
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 268 Pages
- Publisher:
- N/A
- Date of Addition:
- 05/20/08
- Copyrighted By:
- Barbara Harper
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Health, Mind and Body, Parenting and Family
- Submitted By:
- Amber W
- Proofread By:
- Therese McCabe
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.