Birthing a new life: books for growing from woman to mother.(cool stuff)(Bibliography)

Publication: Mothering

Publication Date: 01-SEP-05

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For this special issue of Mothering, I focused on reviewing books on pregnancy motherhood. Here you'll find practical advice from well-respected and new thing from choosing a midwife to breastfeeding challenges, as well as scholarly appraisals of the state of birth today. New work from birth-reform luminaries, such as Michael Odent's The Caesarean and Sheila Kitzinger's The Politics of Birth, is featured alongside recently revised but still dependable classics such as Nursing Four Baby by Karen Pryor and Gale Pryor. And because new mothers need emotional sustenance as much as they need a lactation consultant, a few uplifting memoirs are included as well. Rounding out the section is a passel of children's books to delight your budding babes,

Books

Elizabeth Davis's Heart & Hands: A Midwife's Guide to Pregnancy and Birth, fourth ed., revised and updated, is a well-loved book from one of in midwifery's finest practitioners. Though primarily for birth care providers, the manual also serves parents who want to be fully informed about the process of labor: Written with warmth and clarity, the book is beautifully illustrated with intimate black-and-white photos by noted photographer Suzanne Arms and drawings by Linda Harrison. (Celestial Arts, 2004)

The Official Lamaze Guide: Giving Birth with Confidence, by Judith Lothian. RN. PhD, LCCE, FACCE, and Charlotte DeVries of Lamaze International, is a no-nonsense handbook for laboring without medical interventions. Choosing a caregiver and a birth site, creating a birth plan, and finding drug-free comfort are among the issues covered. The authors point out that Lamaze is no longer a method but a philosophy: birth is normal and women can handle it, (Meadowbrook Press, 2005)

HypnoBirthing: The Mongan Method, by Marie F. Mongan, MEd, MHy, is an uncomplicated introduction to using hypnosis...

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