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What you need to know to have the best birth experience for you. Drawing upon her thirty-plus years of experience, Ina May Gaskin, the nation’s leading midwife, shares the benefits and joys of natural childbirth by showing women how to trust in the ancient wisdom of their bodies for a healthy and fulfilling birthing experience. Based on the female-centered Midwifery Model of Care, Ina May’s Guide to Natural Childbirth gives expectant mothers comprehensive information on everything from the all-important mind-body connection to how to give birth without technological intervention.
Filled with inspiring birth stories and practical advice, this invaluable resource includes:
• Reducing the pain of labor without drugs--and the miraculous roles touch and massage play
• What really happens during labor
• Orgasmic birth--making birth pleasurable
• Episiotomy--is it really necessary?
• Common methods of inducing labor--and which to avoid at all costs
• Tips for maximizing your chances of an unmedicated labor and birth
• How to avoid postpartum bleeding--and depression
• The risks of anesthesia and cesareans--what your doctor
doesn’t necessarily tell you
• The best ways to work with doctors and/or birth care providers
• How to create a safe, comfortable environment for
birth in any setting, including a hospital
• And much more
Ina May’s Guide to Natural Childbirth takes the fear out of childbirth by restoring women’s faith in their own natural power to give birth with more ease, less pain, and less medical intervention.
- Sales Rank: #1670 in Books
- Color: Paperback,
- Brand: Random House
- Published on: 2003-03-04
- Released on: 2003-03-04
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .70" w x 6.00" l, 1.00 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 368 pages
- Random House
From Publishers Weekly
Founding member and former president of the Midwives Alliance of North America and author of Spiritual Midwivery, Gaskin offers encouragement and practical advice in her upbeat and informative book on natural childbirth. Since the mid-1970s, Gaskin and the midwives in her practice on a Summertown, Tenn., commune known as "The Farm," have attended over 2,200 natural births. Gaskin, who learned the rudiments of her gentle birthing technique from the Mayans in Guatemala, has helped bring attention to the method's remarkably low rate of morbidity and medical intervention. Couples considering natural childbirth will get inspirational coaxing from more than a dozen first-person narratives shared by the author's clients. Gaskin decries what she sees as Western medicine's focus on pain during birth, arguing that natural birthing can not only be euphoric and blissful but also orgasmic (a survey of 150 natural birthing women "found thirty-two who reported experiencing at least one orgasmic birth"). The second half of Gaskin's book deals with the practical side of natural birthing, including how to avoid standard medical interventions such as epidurals, episiotomies and even prenatal amniocentesis that may be unnecessary, even dangerous, to mother or child. While this may not be the definitive guide to natural childbirth, it is a comfortable and supportive read for women who want to trust their bodies to do what comes naturally.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
Using history as her guide, nationally recognized midwife Gaskin explores what she hopes will be a renaissance in natural childbirth, something that she's been advocating since the mid-1970s. By focusing on how women of ancient civilizations and other modern peoples give birth, Gaskin puts our own hypersensitivities in perspective, uncovering a beautiful, sometimes orgasmic experience rather than a dreadful, painful one. Sure, pain is part of childbirth, but preparing for the pain in a realistic rather than sentimental way--whether giving birth at home or in a hospital--can be the key to a woman's ability to deal with it naturally. Within the pages of personal anecdotes, some touching, some startling, from Gaskin's patients and colleagues, every woman is sure to find something to relate to, whether or not she chooses to have a medicine-free labor. The helpful back matter features a glossary, a detailed resource list including advocacy groups and Web sites, and a bibliography that includes periodicals, rounding out an extremely comprehensive and up-to-date guide on the topic. Mary Frances Wilkens
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From the Inside Flap
What you need to know to have the best birth experience for you.
Drawing upon her thirty-plus years of experience, Ina May Gaskin, the nation's leading midwife, shares the benefits and joys of natural childbirth by showing women how to trust in the ancient wisdom of their bodies for a healthy and fulfilling birthing experience. Based on the female-centered Midwifery Model of Care, Ina May's Guide to Natural Childbirth gives expectant mothers comprehensive information on everything from the all-important mind-body connection to how to give birth without technological intervention.
Filled with inspiring birth stories and practical advice, this invaluable resource includes: - Reducing the pain of labor without drugs--and the miraculous roles touch and massage play
- What really happens during labor
- Orgasmic birth--making birth pleasurable
- Episiotomy--is it really necessary?
- Common methods of inducing labor--and which to avoid at all costs
- Tips for maximizing your chances of an unmedicated labor and birth
- How to avoid postpartum bleeding--and depression
- The risks of anesthesia and cesareans--what your doctor
doesn't necessarily tell you
- The best ways to work with doctors and/or birth care providers
- How to create a safe, comfortable environment for
birth in any setting, including a hospital
- And much more
Ina May's Guide to Natural Childbirth takes the fear out of childbirth by restoring women's faith in their own natural power to give birth with more ease, less pain, and less medical intervention.
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143 of 160 people found the following review helpful.
I felt deceived...
By Lunarshan
I relied heavily on reviews to decide which childbirth preparation route to go, so I think its only fair that I share my experience. To be clear, I mainly used this book and the hypnobabies home study program to prepare for giving birth. I was also really inspired by "The Business of Being Born".
Along with all the hours spent reading and re-reading this book, and completing the hypnobabies program with my supportive and engaged husband, I did numerous other things to prepare such as prenatal yoga, choosing the best and most experienced midwife I could find, creating the optimal birth environment etc. I trusted the message of the book and program so much that I opted for a home water birth.
In retrospect, I guess I felt sort of invincible. I thought I was set for a totally empowering, but challenging (of course) birth experience. I sort of imagined I would be like this earth mother goddess, trusting my instincts and allowing my body to do exactly what it was designed to do. After all, how could it go wrong? I was very healthy, have practiced yoga for over 10 years, have a high pain tolerance, was super prepared etc...
Well, the way my birth unfolded was sort of like some massive cosmic joke. After all of my hormone fueled rants against the over-medicalization of birth and my clarity about the right way and environment to give birth in, I gave birth to my son flat on my back, under the harsh glare of fluorescent lights, in a hospital, with the assistance of forceps, surrounded by strangers and completely numb from the waist down. I suppose when I step back from all of the grief, agony and trauma involved, it's really sort of funny in a way.
The most amazing thing about the way I ended up giving birth is that I didn't care, when it came right down it, I really didn't care about any of that. I was so deeply relieved that my son was ok, that I was ok, and that it was over, finally over... After 39 hours of unimaginably painful back labor, with a baby whose head size was in the 90th something percentile, which was cocked at an angle despite my midwife's best efforts at manually repositioning him, after two hours of intense and unproductive pushing at home, and going on no sleep at all, what does and doesn't really matter becomes so much more clear.
In the end, I felt duped by the message of this book. If you read between the lines of all the useful information about labor and delivery in this book, there's a clear message that women's bodies are flawlessly designed to birth babies, and except for rare instances it only ever goes wrong because doctors get involved and start mucking things up with interventions. If women are provided the right kind of support, guidance, and environment, they will trust their bodies enough to birth their babies in a relatively peaceful and uncomplicated way.
The problem with the message of this book is that it isn't exactly true. To be clear, I think this message can be very helpful in preparing women whose births are uncomplicated and it probably sets them up for a better birth experience. For the women who aren't so lucky, and yes I do think luck has a lot to do with it, the message can really do a disservice. Not only was I not prepared for the way my birth actually happened, but I felt completely confused and deceived. It has taken me months and months to process how so much of what I had held true about birth was wrong.
Not only was I ill prepared for the way my birth happened, but I was also ill prepared for the aftermath. I completely believed that giving birth vaginally was the absolute best and safest way to go. Well again, not so much in my case. I've spent the last six months in physical therapy trying to undo the damage done to my pelvic floor by all the prolonged pushing and use of forceps. I hope to avoid surgery, but I've since come to learn that depending on the study, eleven to nineteen percent of women will undergo pelvic floor surgery at some point in their life. Two of the major risk factors are prolonged second stage of labor and the use of forceps. Just another possible pitfall I had no awareness of before giving birth.
I don't mean to sound bitter, and have no intention of invalidating all of the lovely birth stories that women share. I think it's awesome that such an important life event goes so well for so many women. I think women should do whatever they can to increase their odds of having a positive birth experience. At the same time, I think it's important to realize that birth is an act of nature, and just as in nature, things can become very chaotic and even destructive. I feel as if I have been humbled by mother nature. I really get that we don't have complete control over this experience of giving birth. People have known this for ages.
Honestly, if I regret anything, I regret putting myself in a situation where medical care and pain relief was not available when I so desperately needed it. The thing about giving birth is that you don't really know what you're going to need until you do. If I give birth again, it will be in the most mom and baby friendly hospital I can find, with the most enlightened and skilled doctor or midwife I can find, and with an awesome doula. I will prepare for a natural birth, but I will be open and I will be humble about it. I will trust my limits and my instincts. If I do need pain relief, I'm going to completely own that, and will feel very lucky to have the option for it when so many women in the past didn't, and so many women in other parts of the world don't.
I have come to believe that most concerns about pain relief in labor are completely overblown by the natural childbirth community. Apparently, now there is such a thing as a walking epidural that allows for mobility and some sensation. If given far enough into labor, it is much less likely to result in a c-section. This type of low dose epidural is also much less likely to result in a baby that is born drugged. Also, there are countless women who are able to successfully breastfeed after getting an epidural, which I know is a concern for many women.
One last thing I want to share about The Farm where Ina May delivers, is that their safety statistics are actually pretty misleading. I say this because I was so impressed by The Farm's low rates of interventions and amazing safety statistics that I falsely believed that my home birth could be just as safe as a hospital birth. I've since come to learn that safety statistics for The Farm only take into account births that happen there and don't include the outcomes of women they transfer to the hospital mid-labor. Apparently, of those women who end up being transferred to the hospital, there is a much higher likelihood of maternal or fetal death than if they had been in the hospital all along. I think this is really important to know when considering a home birth because depending on the source, 15-25% of home births will end up in the hospital.
All of that being said, I'm giving the book two stars for having a lot of useful and well presented information, and as for the three stars I subtracted, well you've probably already gathered my reasons for that.
So, whatever approach to childbirth preparation you choose and however your birth experience ends up unfolding, I hope most of all that you end up feeling empowered, supported, safe and without regret.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Proceed with Caution
By Kelsey
Ok... So I just found out I was pregnant a few weeks ago and I've been really interested in finding 'natural' childbirth methods to avoid an epidural. My friend recommended this book to me and it's... a little weird. This is my first pregnancy and I was NOT prepared for what I was about to read.
The first half of the book is really hippy-like birthing stories about women from the 1970s and before... so I'm thinking 'It's 2016, my baby will be born in 2017... why am I reading stories from like a hundered years ago?'. So I skipped over most of the first half and got to the first chapter, which is sort of an introduction, sort of a list of terrible things that happen during labor. The first few pages I read I was smiling and getting excited about potentially getting though our first birth without an epidural... by the time I got to the last couple pages in the chapter I was crying and yelling to my husband that my ribs here going to break when I had the baby. So... I haven't actually picked up the book again since then, and that was about a week ago. I want to finish the rest of the book, and I want to be prepared for the birth when it happens... I think I was just really taken aback by the graphic photos and descriptions contained in the very beginning of the book.
I'll update my review when I have finished the book! But it might be a while...
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Not as useful as I would have hoped given high ratings
By Quetzal
Not quite what I expected. This book had a LOT of fear-mongering about modern medicine. Railing on ultrasounds of all things, shaming doctors for daring to prescribe calcium and magnesium sulfate (which are dietary supplements by the way) for pre-eclampsia over their suggestion of sticking to a vegetarian diet (which has only been substantiated by their anecdotal evidence), etc. It made me doubt the rest of the content of the book.
I'm already convinced to try to have a natural birth, but if worst comes to worst I feel like if I end up having to get medical help that it'll be the end of the world according to this book.
It was lacking in practical advice and a clear picture of what the birthing process was like, which is what I was mainly looking for. It felt like a sales pitch for birthing at "the farm."
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