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Your Best Birth
By: Ricki Lake , Abby EpsteineBook Publisher: Hachette
Imprint: Grand Central Life & Style
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The national C-section rate is at an all-time high of 31 percent. Are all these C-sections necessary, or are some of them done simply for the sake of convenience? Inductions seem to be the norm, but are they always needed? Today, expectant mothers are often left feeling powerless, as their instincts are replaced by drugs and routine medical procedures.
What you are about to discover is that you have a choice, and you have the power to plan the kind of birth that's right for you -whether it is at a birth center, a hospital, or at home. In YOUR BEST BIRTH, internationally known advocates of informed choice Ricki Lake and Abby Epstein inspire women to take back the birth experience, with essential advice on:
· Positive and negative effects of epidurals, Pitocin, and other drugs and interventions
· Inducing vs. allowing your labor to progress naturally
· The truth behind our country's staggering C-section rate
· Assembling your birth team and creating your birth plan.
With chapters such as "Obstetricians: Finding Dr . Right," "Epidurals: You Haven't Got Time for the Pain," and "Electronic Monitors: Reading between the Lines," Lake and Epstein will encourage you to consider whatever your doctor, mother, and best friend may suggest in a new light. The book also includes inspiring birth stories, including those from well-known personalities, such as Laila Ali and Cindy Crawford. Packed with crucial advice from childbirth professionals, and delivered in a down-to-earth, engaging voice, YOUR BEST BIRTH is sure to renew your confidence and put the control back where it belongs: with parents-to-be!
"Abby Epstein and Ricki Lake have taken a wonderful and constructive approach to ensuring an optimal birthing experience. Their language creates a 'climate of confidence' for pregnant women and their families, who must make key decisions about where, how and with whom to give birth in a health care system often unresponsive to our needs. This book is like a good friend giving wise counsel." --Judy Norsigian, co-editor of Our Bodies, Ourselves: Pregnancy and Birth and Executive Director, Our Bodies Ourse
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| Title of eBook: Your Best Birth | |
| Release Date: 05-01-2009 | |
| Publisher: Grand Central Life & Style |
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| Parent title | Your Best Birth |
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| Encrypted (DRM) | Yes |
| SKU | 9787770600289 |
| File size | 531 |
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Your Best Birth
Section One
KNOW YOUR OPTIONS
What kind of birth do you want?
Dare to think, just for a moment, that you could actually get the kind of birth that exactly suits your needs, the needs of your baby, and your desires. What would it look like? Where would you be? Who would you have around to support you when things got tough? Would you want something for the pain right away? Or would you like to give birth without drugs? And in those precious moments after your baby takes his or her first breath, is that child resting on your chest? Or being examined by a doctor to make sure that everything is okay? If you close your eyes and piece together all the different elements, what sequence of events would make you happiest and most secure?
Considering how unquestioning most of us are about the inevitability of giving birth the American way, it’s hard to know where to start in creating a birth of your own design. Where do you start to ask questions? Who do you ask them of? The place to start is with you.
For generations back everybody in your family has had their babies in the hospital, most likely. When your friends and your relatives go to the hospital to give birth, you don’t see what happens there. (For many decades, even fathers weren’t allowed in maternity wards.) You only see the result: your loved one propped up in bed holding that scrunchy-faced little newborn. The baby is the focus of most of the anxiety and most of the attention after the birth, so your experience of the hospital recedes quickly into the background. We’re going to tell you what the typical hospital birth is like for the mom because we expect no one has ever described it to you.
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