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Ina May Gaskin
A guide to childbirth. It explains why the natural birthing process, when left to its own devices, can proceed so beautifully on its own. It teaches you: how to create…
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Sarah Buckley
Using medical and epidemiological research plus women’s experiences, this work demonstrates that ‘undisturbed birth’ is almost always healthier and safer than hospital births.
Explores the health and psychological benefits of breastfeeding. This guide is filled with helpful advice, medical facts and real-life stories that can help mothers understand how and why breastfeeding works…
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Many women are taking back their right to choose the kind of birth they desire, realizing that many birth interventions have adverse effects on mother and baby. In this book…
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Here is the 4th edition of the classic book on home birth that introduced a whole generation of women to the concept of natural childbirth. Back again are even more…
America’s leading midwife explains why birth is a feminist issue.
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A leading authority on midwifery offers expectant mothers an alternative to hospital birthing, explaining how to create a mutually supportive relationship among birth-care providers and make informed choices.
From the nation’s leading midwife and the author of Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth comes this deeply compassionate and comprehensive guide to making breastfeeding a joyful experience for both mother…
Ina May Gaskin asserts that the way in which women become mothers is a women’s rights issue, and it is perhaps the act that most powerfully exhibits what it is…
Providing technical expertise for midwives, nurses and doctors, this book features information on labour, delivery, care of the new baby, and breast-feeding, all from a spiritual perspective.
Tadashi Yoshimura
No matter how science has progressed, childbirth, in essence, has remained unchanged from ancient times…(it) is the last natural process left to us, writes internationally lauded obstetrician Dr. Tadashi Yoshimura…
Becky Reed
A book of photographic images of birth, with accompanying birth stories by the mothers and their midwives.
Grantly Dick-Read
In an age where birth has often been overtaken by obstetrics, Dr Dick-Read’s philosophy is still as fresh and relevant as it was when he originally wrote this book. Essential…
Aviva Jill Romm
A revised and updated edition of the classic handbook for women seeking a safe, organic, eco-friendly, and natural pregnancy, featuring an integrative-based approach with new medical, herbal, and nutritional information.
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Anni Daulter
In today’s western cultures, the typical pregnancy focuses on the baby to the exclusion of the woman herself, so that the entire experience has become more about preparing for the…
