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Ina May's Guide to Childbirth: Updated With New Material

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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. And when it comes to giving birth, I don't know if you can know what to truly expect until you are in the situation. Due to complications, Pelly delivered our older son by emergency c-section four weeks early, without experiencing a single contraction. For a nerd as myself, I really enjoyed her insight and you cannot help to be incredibly impressed by the track record for Ina May as a midwife.

If you’re pregnant, I would recommend skipping her chapter on maternal mortality in the US if you think this may increase your anxiety.The media and social pressure often make it seem like the fate of the world (or at least the future well-being and societal value of our kids) rests on basic parenting decisions like whether or not to use cloth diapers or BPA-free sippy cups. But here's the thing -- I wonder sometime how often our deference for what we're told is good for us gets in the way of what really makes us comfortable. I also liked subtle nuances such as helping the baby's head stretch the mother out without tearing, not relying on cold machines such as ultrasound and internal fetal monitors, knowing how to deliver breech babies, and having faith in the universe. Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously. I gave birth in a birthing centre in the UK, and I was able to apply most of the strategies from this book successfully.

Deborah said I was one centimeter dilated and loose, which I attribute to her absolute gentleness and the strong rapport I felt with her. Really helpful for people who fear birth, see it as a scary medical event, or just want to be inspired as to the sacred and spiritual event that birth can be. This is all well and good, I guess, if you are planning an all-natural home birth, but far from true for hospital births. You can't deny shes a bit of a hippie and some things she says you may not be able to get on board with, but for me (having given birth twice) her words reflect largely what ive learnt in hypnobirthing and this book filled my head with positive, empowering and exciting feelings of birth! V. and that the hospital required an internal fetal monitor, although I could sign a legal waiver and not have the monitor.Ina May’s Guide to 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. I didn't like him because my legs weren't shaved and I was cold and because he had two, pretty, tiny nurses (whose legs probably were shaved) stare at me the whole time (I'm sure for our mutual protection, but still), and because he said "now try to relax" which has to be the most useless, most insensitive thing to say, ever (implication: there's something wrong with you if under these oh-so-pleasant circumstances you can't relax), and I wanted to give him a hard kick, pull down my skirt, and go home. The historical and worldwide accounts of birth Gaskin provides is comforting to read about as well as the explanation of the process. hospital birth, it's awfully hard to argue with the data she's gathered from thousands of natural childbirths.

The hope was that Pelly's birth experience would be smooth, and having observed it, I'd feel better when my turn came around. So while I appreciate Ina May's mind/body approach to childbirth, I think she's promoting a culture of mommy shaming. Although Ina May may seem hippie dippie to some (she does include some out there ideas), her relationship to OBs in Tennessee, her birth stats from the thousands of births she’s attended, and her balance between respecting ancient wisdom/intuitive, physiologic birthing and scientific data all make her a wonderful person to learn about the beautiful process of birth from. Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's daily session limit.She shuns prudishness in our culture, and encourages women to make birth (or, rather, allow birth) to be a sexual experience, yet totally respects the fact that most women are too prudish to have a stranger (especially a man) in the birthing room with them, without adverse effects to the progress of labor. As a believer, I should accept that there are parts of life that will be painful and not try to eliminate the discomfort outright, but trust God’s providence through it.

Then I took another star away for the lack of positive information about hospital birth and lack of other statistics, by state, stating what the cesarean rate was vs natural birth, as well as drug use during labor. Ina may gaskin is one of the best midwives to listen to if you are looking for material that will help you have an empowering birth experience.I looked at the clear blue November sky and the brown oak leaves left on the trees and basked in the warmth of the sun. My wife and I have two boys: she carried and birthed the oldest; I carried and birthed the youngest. After having an antibody scare myself and following women who deal with anti-D antibodies during pregnancy, the few sentences she had on sensitization were not enough to fully understand the risky (and potentially heartbreaking) future pregnancies of those who are sensitized. So take some of the comments with a grain of salt because Ina May is talking from her experience which is outside the hospital and from her experiences on the Farm. There was a of useful advice and if the whole book would have been like that, it would have easily been a five star book!

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