Ina May's Guide to Childbirth

Name: Ina May's Guide to Childbirth
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 5 (8 reviews)
Author: Ina May Gaskin
ISBN: 9781515978855

Author: Ina May Gaskin

Narrator: Randye Kaye

Unabridged: 14 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 12/24/2019

Categories: Nonfiction, Health & Fitness, Pregnancy & Childbirth

Synopsis

Drawing upon her forty-plus years of experience, Ina May Gaskin, the nation's leading midwife, shows the benefits and joys of physiological childbirth by showing women how to trust the ancient wisdom of their bodies for a healthy and fulfilling birthing experience.

Based upon the midwifery model of care that recognizes that spontaneous labor in healthy women cannot be improved upon, Ina May's Guide to Childbirth gives expectant mothers comprehensive information on everything from the all-important mind-body connection to how to give birth without technological intervention—as well as how to know when such intervention is necessary.

Filled with inspiring birth stories and practical advice, this invaluable resource includes:

● Reducing the pain of labor without drugs and the amazing role that touch and free movement play

● What really happens during labor

● Orgasmic birth—testimonies from those who experienced it

● And much more

About Ina May Gaskin

Ina May Gaskin founded the Farm Midwifery Center near Summertown, Tennessee, and served as its director for more than four decades. She has lectured all over the world at midwifery conferences and medical schools. A Visiting Fellow at Yale University and holder of two honorary doctorates, Ina May also teaches midwifery and writes books and articles for medical journals.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Louise on March 11, 2013

Don't be scared away by the hippy-dippiness of this book. I'm glad I wasn't. I read this book with a caveat: read the second section first, then the first section. It made so much sense, I'm not sure why the book wasn't organized that way in the first place. Ina May's Guide to Childbirth is skewed to......more

Goodreads review by Eileen on January 10, 2009

If you really, really, really want a natural childbirth in a birthing center or at home this is a good book for you. Personally, I will be giving birth in a hospital. This book uses scare tactics to decrease medical intervention. While I agree that it is best to have an uncomplicated, natural vagina......more

Goodreads review by Rachel on January 15, 2009

I just had my monthly midwife appointment and she lent me this awesome book. It's got everything, including a section on orgasmic birth. I find it refreshing to read something so real that attempts to turn our stereotypical hospital birth routine upside-down. The book is divided into two parts. The f......more

Goodreads review by Becca on August 08, 2009

My daughter's birth was amazing. Labor was not painful-- it was too big for that. More like getting hit by a tsunami, over and over. The whole intense experience was deeply invigorating and actually GAVE me the energy I needed to cope with the first couple of difficult weeks with a new baby. When I'v......more

Goodreads review by Danielle on August 27, 2008

So, as far as useful information goes, this book pretty much said the same thing as The Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better Birth, except without the same amount of research backing it up. Still helpful, but not especially new. Plus, she used the terms "Much more likely" or "much less likely" a lot,......more