Gentle birth choices / Barbara Harper.
I tiakina i:
| Kaituhi matua: | |
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| Hōputu: | Pukapuka |
| Reo: | English |
| I whakaputaina: |
Rochester, Vt. :
Healing Arts Press,
[2005]
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| Ngā marau: |
Rārangi ihirangi:
- Foreword / Robbie David-Floyd
- Introduction
- 1. Gentle beginnings
- Wonderfully made
- Ingredients for a gentle birth
- 2. The medicalization of childbirth
- Our legacy of birth
- From midwife to physician
- The promise of science
- Pain relief : the era of "twilight sleep"
- Hospital births for everyone
- Unraveling prenatal testing
- Medical legal dilemma
- The results of medical intervention
- 3. Dispelling the medical myths
- Myth : the hospital is the safest place to have a baby
- Myth : maternity care should be managed only by a physician
- Myth : the electronic fetal monitor will save babies
- Myth : all babies should be born on or before their due date
- Myth : drugs for pain relief won't hurt the baby
- Myth : once a cesarean, always a cesarean
- Myth : an episiotomy heals better than a tear
- Myth : birth needs to be sterile
- Myth : the older you are, the more difficult your birth will be
- Myth : it's better not to eat or drink in labor
- Myth : family and friends interfere during birth
- Myth : the baby needs to be observed in a newborn nursery
- Myth : baby boys need to be circumcised
- 4. A gentle revolution
- Birth without fear
- Birth without pain
- Birth without violence
- Birth reborn
- Birth without rules
- Birth with consciousness
- Women take back their births
- 5. Midwifery in America : a growing tradition
- The midwives model of maternity care
- The evolution of midwifery
- Midwifery revolution
- The politics of midwifery
- A midwife for every mother
- 6. Waterbirth
- Why waterbirth?
- Waterbirth history
- Beyond the Leboyer bath
- Labor pools in France
- Making waves in the United States
- The United Kingdom takes the plunge
- Waterbirth around the world
- Questions everyone asks about waterbirth
- Just for providers
- The future of waterbirth
- 7. The mind-body connection
- Womb ecology
- Mind-body response
- Listening to your body
- Listening to your baby
- Mind-body preparations for a gentle birth
- The sexuality of childbirth
- Holistic prenatal preparation
- Mind, body, spirit in unity
- 8. Creating gentle birth choices
- Planning your birth
- What women want
- Consumers create choices
- Health care for all women and children by 2015
- Appendix A. Questions to ask a doctor
- Appendix B. Questions to ask a midwife
- Appendix C. Sample birth plan
- Appendix D. Sample letter to hospital
- Appendix E. Resources.