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Title: Essential Exercises for the Childbearing Year: A Guide to Health and Comfort Before and After Your Baby Is Born by Elizabeth Noble, Raul Artal ISBN: 0-9641183-1-9 Publisher: New Life Images Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.08 (12 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Essential Exercises for the Childbearing Year
Comment: I have been reading the 1982 version of this book, not realizing there was a new edition. Happily while reading another book, The Mommy Guide, I read an interview with the author of Essential Exercises, Elizabeth Noble, and found out there was a more recent edition. Anyway, in the interview Ms. Noble refers to the importance of doing abdominal isometric exercises within 24-hours of giving birth. She states that the abdominal muscles are still flexible at this point and it's possible to shorten them in order to begin toning your stretched out midsection. Have any of the readers of this book tried this? Does it work? I would love to contact the author regarding this exercise, but the e-mail address listed on this page comes back undeliverable. If you're reading this Elizabeth, could you e-mail me at [email protected]? Overall, the 1982 edition is amazingly helpful. It's great to get the advice of a physcial therapist regarding proper movement during pregnancy. I look forward to reading the current edition.
Rating: 5
Summary: A must read for those who interact/instruct pregnant women!
Comment: I am a physical therapist who has used this book as a basis for my "Prenatal exercise and Body Mechanics" Class. I have recommended it to my patients and to other professionals who teach prenatal classes. The author adds a unique perspective by inviting women to "think outside of the box" and take responsibility for their bodies before, during and after their pregnancy. The partner exercises are very well received by my patients (our hospital averages 300 births per month). I am also the mother of 21 month old triplets and I used the book as a personal reference and guide throughout my pregnancy. The book helped me to understand and appreciate just how fortunate we are as women to be able to bear children. The author's detailed description about the pelvic floor and the emphasis on the importance of the exercises is information that should be shared with young women BEFORE their pregnancy. I have been surprised by the number of my patients who have never heard of Kegel exercises or who have no idea they have a pelvic floor! A great book to pass along to all women!
Rating: 2
Summary: Probably not for women who are already exercisers
Comment: Although this book has some really interesting points on abdominal exercises (although the other reviewers are right about the poor organization; and, there are typos and visually the pages are very cluttered), it absolutely does not offer an overall fitness program. It's much more like a physical therapy program focussed on abs and pelvic floor. So, if what you're looking for is supplemental exercises to add, it may be fine for you, but I'm going back to the drawing board to find a more all-purpose pregnancy exercise book. Plus, I think I can handle more than three or four crunches (I think she says you can do "up to five").
Also, be aware that the author has a judgmental streak. I may agree with some of her digs at the medical establishment (I was delighted, for example, to hear her pooh-pooh the idea that lying or exercising on your back will cause supine hypotension), but when she aims her barbs at women with bad posture, for example, it seems counter-productive (I could do without the screaming jagged "NO!"s next to the pictures of incorrect posture).
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Title: Exercising Through Your Pregnancy by James F. Clapp III ISBN: 1886039593 Publisher: Addicus Books Pub. Date: 15 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Ina May's Guide to Childbirth by Ina May Gaskin ISBN: 0553381156 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 04 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Birthing from Within: An Extra-Ordinary Guide to Childbirth Preparation by Pam England, Rob Horowitz ISBN: 0965987302 Publisher: Partera Pr Pub. Date: July, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Wise Woman Herbal for the Childbearing Year (Wise Woman Herbal Series, Book 1) by Susun S. Weed, Janice Novet ISBN: 0961462000 Publisher: Ash Tree Pub Pub. Date: June, 1985 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: The Birth Partner, Second Edition by Penny Simkin ISBN: 1558321950 Publisher: Harvard Common Pr Pub. Date: 01 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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