Not the best book for someone having a hospital birth

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	• Ina May's Guide to Childbirth Ina May Gaskin Bantam, 2003 - 368 pages average customer review:based on 209 reviews view larger image
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Not the best book for someone having a hospital birth

Positives -For the very few who are going to have a home birth this book is ideal. The book is beautiful in the sense that it puts us back in touch with the fact that nature built us to have babies and emphasizes the sheer beauty of childbirth.
Negatives - On the other hand, a significant part of the book is dedicated to home births therefore, it left me quite disinterested after numerous home birth stories and techniques knowing that this will not be my experience. Many of the mothers who shared their birth stories were quite antagonistic at times when mentioning their experience with hospitals and doctors. This, I feel, is not a healthy mind set for the average first time mom giving birth in the average hospital these days.

In hindsight, after having given birth without using the epidural, I realize that this book does give you many techniques on achieving the proper mindset for a natural childbirth. However, I recommend skimming the first half of the book (the birth stories) and getting right to the the second half which is authored by Ina May. She is not as anti-hospital birth as some of those who share their birth stories seem to be. If I had to rate just her half of the book I would give it 4 stars or maybe even 5 just for the originality of some of the information she highlights (the chapter, weirdly enough, on sphincters is fascinating stuff!).

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Ina May's Guide to Childbirth

This is great book for folks who would like to contemplate opting for a birth experience that occurs in a holistic and non-hospital setting. Through the use of many stories -- told in first person by women who were assisted in delivering by Ina Mae or her colleagues -- and a clear discussion of how the body can be aided (or thwarted) during labor, Ina Mae helps demysticize and demedicalize the process and thereby empowers the
reader to make an informed choice about the way that they want to bring their child(ren) into the world.

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birth book

Great reading material for info on natural birth stories and this book really promotes midwifery as the way to go for giving birth.

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is it real??

I think this is a much needed book for moms all around. It reminds us that bad news travels easily and we need to hear more good news about what the body is capable of and what women are built to do.

A must read for any pregnant woman.

As a first time mom preparing for natural childbirth (that's drug free, not just vaginal) I found this book to be very inspiring and it helped me to have confidence in my body. These days women are taught that they aren't capable of having a baby without all of the latest medical interventions and drugs available. I have always felt that childbirth is a natural process but doctors treat pregnant women like they are sick and childbirth is treated as a dangerous event in which the mother and child need to be rescued from one another. The first half of this book has great natural childbirth stories written by mothers and it has given me invaluable information to use for my own impending birth. I am reading it a second time now and hi-lighting passages that I want to remember. The second half of the book is about the medical procedures that are commonly used in the United States and how much more dangerous they are than what we are led to believe. How can The United States of America have one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the industrialized world? While all of these birth stories happen outside of a hospital there is still a great deal of information and confidence to be had if you are going to be giving birth in a hospital with a doctor. Take control of your birth experience because it is a miracle whether it is treated as such in the hospital or not.

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