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

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We took the classes, I talked to other moms, I read everything I could get my hands on (including this book), I read a billion birth stories on birthwithoutfear, but in this case, Knowledge was NOT Power.

When my turn came around, I still felt woefully unprepared and not a little bit terrified of childbirth. I wound up spending a lot of my pregnancy terrified of what would happen to me at the hospital, and convinced that medical professionals would make traumatic what would otherwise be an awesome and beautiful experience. this is a really good book that a patient recommended to me when I told her I was REALLY WORRIED about actually giving birth. La realidad de nuestro siglo y sobretodo en ciudades, es que el parto aunque sea muy humanizado y respetado y sin violencia, es muy diferente a cómo lo platican en el libro. Under his care I was able to have a Leboyer birth experience, but the hospital gowns and masks meant to create a more "sterile" environment were just that--sterile, cold, and intimidating.Ina May's Guide to Childbirth is skewed toward natural childbirth and can get a little culty, especially all the stories about The Farm, but I found the information in the second part of the book really helpful even when planning for a hospital birth. Her constant reminder that deliveries at her clinic rarely need medical intervention doesn't paint a full picture. Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's pageview limit.

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! They teach us the occasional difference between accepted medical knowledge and the real bodily experiences that women have--including those that are never reported in medical textbooks nor admitted as possibilities in the medical world.For all intents and purposes, it appeared that we were people geared toward state-of-the art technology, people who would accept the latest and greatest, even when it came to childbirth. Birth stories told by women who were active participants in giving birth often express a good deal of practical wisdom, inspiration, and information for other women. 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.