Birthing methods

Most women giving birth in rural communities throughout the Third World cannot enjoy the 'benefits' of modern medical assistance.

America's most loved and respected doctors, Michael Roizen and Mehmet Oz, tell you what to expect when you're expecting.

Highlighting the experiences of midwives who provide care to women opting outside of guidelines in the pursuit of physiological birth, Claire Feeley looks at the impact on midwives themselves, and explores how teams and organisations support or discourage women's birth choices.

Highlighting the experiences of midwives who provide care to women opting outside of guidelines in the pursuit of physiological birth, Claire Feeley looks at the impact on midwives themselves, and explores how teams and organisations support or discourage women's birth choices.

The use of warm water immersion throughout the birthing process is renowned for its physical and psychological benefits, yet waterbirth is still vastly underrepresented as a birthing method across the globe.

The most anticipated part of pregnancy is giving birth; yet most pregnancy books devote only a chapter or two to this miraculous event and the physical discomfort that accompanies it.

This book critically analyzes the place of caesarean in childbearing at the beginning of the twenty first century.

The rhetoric of choice is much used in UK health policy and home birth is one of the three options that women are entitled to choose between when deciding where to have their baby.

Supporting Women to Give Birth at Home describes and discusses the main challenges and issues that midwives and maternity services encounter when preparing for and attending a home birth.

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To be at the birth of a baby is special, yet there is an increasing secularisation and reliance on technology in contemporary maternity care, particularly in the western context.

Supporting Women to Give Birth at Home describes and discusses the main challenges and issues that midwives and maternity services encounter when preparing for and attending a home birth.

Why do so many American women allow themselves to become enmeshed in the standardized routines of technocratic childbirth--routines that can be insensitive, unnecessary, and even unhealthy?

Examining mothers of newly diagnosed disabled children within the context of new reproductive technologies and the discourse of choice, this book uses anthropology and disability studies to revise the concept of "e;normal"e; and to establish a social environment in which the expression of full lives will prevail.

"e;This is one of the best books I have read on the subject"e; The Sun"e;Fresh, witty and reassuringly down-to-earth"e; You MagazineFed up with advice that did not take into account a less than perfect pregnancy, Dr Chiara Hunt and Marina Fogle set up their pregnancy course, The Bump Class, in London in 2013.

The rhetoric of choice is much used in UK health policy and home birth is one of the three options that women are entitled to choose between when deciding where to have their baby.

For acupuncturists and birth professionals, this book explains how yin/yang and other principles of Chinese medicine can improve birth experiences as well as outcomes.

Every year, millions of women have their lives turned inside out by the experience of pregnancy.

Arguing that contemporary maternity services provide a toxic environment both in which to practise and to give birth, this book looks at how we can change this.

An insider's guide to getting the best for you and your baby in pregnancy and birth - by a midwife who knows it all.

'The thing about having a second baby is it's likely to differ a lot from your first experience.

One new mother in twenty is diagnosed with traumatic stress after childbirth.

Arguing that contemporary maternity services provide a toxic environment both in which to practise and to give birth, this book looks at how we can change this.

Is the experience of childbirth becoming 'globalised'?

Highlighting aspects of birth often taken for granted, ignored or left silenced, this book questions the art and meaning of childbirth.

In Deutschland variieren die Kaiserschnittraten in den einzelnen geburtshilflichen Abteilungen erheblich.

This new edition provides an up-to-date and thoughtful guide to supporting women in labour, looking at a range of techniques and approaches that promote a safe and positive experience of birth for women and their families.

The use of warm water immersion throughout the birthing process is renowned for its physical and psychological benefits, yet waterbirth is still vastly underrepresented as a birthing method across the globe.

Drawing on years of midwifery experience of waterbirth, this collection of stories, based on real-life events, illuminates a rewarding way of birth and emphasises the theoretical knowledge, skills, understanding, and resilience needed to practice well.

Certified birth doula and hypnobirthing coach, Emma Armstrong, wants women to have the power to influence their birth experience, by tuning in to their body and brain.

As research in neuroscience increasingly points to the unparalleled influence of the first 1000 days of life from conception to two years of age in determining the baby's life trajectory, the need for high-quality early parenting education delivered by knowledgeable and dedicated professionals becomes ever more apparent.

A comprehensive, evidence-based guide to all aspects of operative vaginal birth, accompanying the RCOG Operative Birth Simulation Training (ROBuST) course.

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This pocket-sized book, presented in an easy-to-follow format, is designed as a tool for students and professionals to carry in any setting, providing a quick reference guide to supporting women during labour.

This pocket-sized book, presented in an easy-to-follow format, is designed as a tool for students and professionals to carry in any setting, providing a quick reference guide to supporting women during labour.

Childbirth guru Dr Gowri Motha, who practises with Dr Yehudi Gordon - author of Birth and Beyond - shows women how her revolutionary method helps women carry the baby to full term, have less intervention in the birth; feel less pain in labour, and feel happy and in control.

** As seen on the Victoria Derbyshire show ** Providing you with everything you've ever wanted to know about pregnancy, this is the definitive guide from conception to the first few weeks' at home with your newborn*** 'I wish there'd been a book like this when I was pregnant.

Dieser praxisnahe Ratgeber begleitet Sie auf Ihrem persönlichen Weg zum Wunschkind - von der Kinderwunschphase bis zu den ersten Wochen als Mama.

Dieser praxisnahe Ratgeber begleitet werdende Eltern auf ihrem Weg in ein neues Lebenskapitel.

Schwanger werden ist ein natürlicher Prozess, der durch mentale und körperliche Vorbereitung positiv beeinflusst werden kann.

An empowering, unbiased guide and essential toolkit for pregnancy, labour, birth, breastfeeding and your baby's first year by GP and TV presenter, Dr Sara Kayat.

A refreshingly honest and reassuring guide to pregnancy, birth, and life with a baby, featuring over 100 real-life accounts from parents.

The ebook edition of Janet Balaskas classic, bestselling guide to active pregnancy and childbirth.

The midwife: medical professional, friend in a woman's hour of greatest need, potent social and cultural symbol.

The midwife: medical professional, friend in a woman's hour of greatest need, potent social and cultural symbol.

Las transformaciones economicas y sociales que se produjeron en Espana durante la segunda mitad del siglo XX, provocaron un cambio sustancial en la vivencia del parto para las mujeres, que pasaron de ser actos intimos en el domicilio de las parturientas con la atencion de una matrona, a ser actos quirurgicos y medicalizados en los grandes centros hospitalarios.

The Sunday Times bestseller'Delivering my first baby is a memory that will stay with me forever.

Birth doula and hypnobirthing coach Emma Armstrong, wants you to take time to connect to your brain, body and baby throughout your unique pregnancy journey.