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Title: Ina May's Guide to Childbirth by Ina May Gaskin ISBN: 0-553-38115-6 Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: 04 March, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.92 (39 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Empowering and Informative
Comment: Ina May's informal approach to the topic of natural childbirth enables the reader to access detailed and empowering information about the physical, mental, and emotional process of giving birth. The first half of the book includes birth stories from many women who have experienced both medical and natural births. Their personal stories help the reader understand the impact of both approaches and make a more informed decision. This section of the book would be especially helpful to women with few friends/family from which to seek advice, or those who have heard primarily "horror stories" about birth. The second half of the book is a guide to achieving a natural birth in many different settings, from home to hospital. The book is easy to read, informative and empowering because you come away with so much knowledge. I also appreciated the fact that the author avoids using "hippy speak", or a dialect that everyone can understand. Some natural childbirth guides use more slang. Definitely read this book if you are pregnant or planning to become pregnant!
Rating: 5
Summary: Ina May's Guide to Childbirth By: Ina May Gaskin
Comment: I have worked as a Labor & Delivery Nurse for the past 10 plus years. I have taught childbirth education for the past 5 years to couples who want research based factual information on the birth process. I have witnessed the truly miraculous journey many women have embarked upon in giving birth. To my dismay though or should I say disillusionment, many women were introduced to the routine medicalization of birth to help facilitate and expediate the birth process. These routine medical interventions many times were performed for the convenience of the Obstetrician not with the best interests of the laboring woman and baby at heart and left many emotional scars as well as insults to both the mother and to the baby.
Ina May's book explores the options available to women and their families in the childbirth arena. Birth can occur without routine medical interventions! True and factual accounts of births by women are narrated in the first half of this book along with researched, fact based information regarding birth and how it can and should occur. There are options for birth for everyone it can be individualized and completely different for each and everyone.
This is an informative and inspiring book that gets to the heart and soul of what transpires during the birth of a family. I agree as many others have stated that this book is a must read for every childbearing woman out there. I recommend this book to women in my own childbirth education classes. I have been transpired and mainly inspired by the birth stories presented along with Ina May's account of childbirth in the past, present and what lies ahead for the future. I now teach my childbirth classes with more heart, inspiration and fevere since reading this great book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Courageous and Empowering Book!
Comment: The warmth, intelligence and humor of Ina May Gaskin really come through in this book, as does her concern with safe and supportive surroundings for all women during birthing. Ina May and her fellow midwives at The Farm are responsible for major research demonstrating the safety of home birth and birthing-center births.
I value this book primarily for giving me a first-person perspective of labor and delivery, in the words of both midwives and birthing women (and their partners). I also felt that the exploration of aspects of birth not usually talked about was great--orgasmic birth, use of nipple and clitoral stimulation to help with labor and delivery, careful pushing and breathing and laboring positions to prevent perineal tears, the pelvic press to help with shoulder distocia, etc. These are topics you won't find in any depth in "What to Expect," etc!
The underlying assumption in this book is that women can give birth naturally if they are prepared, supported and surrounded by fearless and knowledgable labor attendants. Ina May tells us that our bodies can do this, that we have reserves of body and mind that our indutrialized Western culture has discounted, and that we can each reclaim the feminine power of birth.
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Title: Spiritual Midwifery by Ina May Gaskin ISBN: 1570671044 Publisher: Book Pub. Co. Pub. Date: 01 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Birthing from Within: An Extra-Ordinary Guide to Childbirth Preparation by Pam England, Rob Horowitz ISBN: 0965987302 Publisher: Partera Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better Birth by Henci Goer, Rhonda Wheeler ISBN: 0399525173 Publisher: Perigee Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Birth Partner, Second Edition by Penny Simkin ISBN: 1558321950 Publisher: Harvard Common Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Active Birth: The New Approach to Giving Birth Naturally by Janet Balaskas ISBN: 1558320385 Publisher: Harvard Common Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 1992 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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