The Positive Birth Book

The Best Selling Guide to Pregnancy, Birth at the Early Weeks

De: Milli Hill

Narrado por: Milli Hill

Challenging negativity and fear of childbirth, and brimming with everything you need to know about labor, birth, and the early weeks of parenting, The Positive Birth Book is the must-have guide for pregnant women. A widely acclaimed best seller since it was first published, it has empowered hundreds of thousands of women worldwide to make informed, positive choices about their births.

Fully revised and updated, this new edition will help you work out what kind of birth you really want, and learn how to maximize your chances of getting it.

Written in Milli Hill’s trademark warm and witty style, discover vital information on everything from building the ultimate birth plan to your choices and rights in the birth room; from optimal cord clamping to postnatal mental health; from the inside track on breastfeeding to a positive, gentle caesarean.

Whether you plan to have your baby in hospital, in a birth center, at home, or by elective caesarean, this essential, nonjudgmental guide shows you how to raise your expectations and have the best possible birth experience.

New for this edition:

• How to plan for a positive birth in difficult times
• Reworked chapter on choosing where to have your baby
• What you need to know about exercise in pregnancy from Charlie Launder, author of Bumps and Burpees
• Top tips for breastfeeding from Amy Brown, author of The Positive Breastfeeding Book
• New section on your rights in pregnancy and birth by Bashi Hazard of the Human Rights in Childbirth International Lawyers Network
• Essential information about your pelvic floor, core, and postnatal incontinence by Nikki Bergen, creator of the Belle Method, and Luce Brett, author of PSML

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Comprehensive for first-time listeners

If you’re pregnant for the first time and haven’t consumed other pregnancy books or resources yet, this is a comprehensive overview. If you’ve already read books by Ina May Gaskin or dabbled into postpartum care, this book might be repetitive. There are some good tips in here like the BRAIN and HEART acronyms to use through pregnancy.

Not for me.

While this book is fine, the approach is not for me. The home birth option isn't the method I want. I appreciate the "my choice" method mentioned in the first chapter, but I couldn't not get into the book.

Not as Empowering as I Would Have Imagined

I was so excited to start this book because I heard great things from recommendations on tiktok. I was encouraged by the first section of the book where it was mentioned that any birth you choose is great as long as you chose it; but the book seemed to slowly become more and more pro home birth, anti hospital assistance as it went on.

I actually started to get anxious the more I listened to it because it makes doctors and nurses seem like prison wardens who are going to make your experience terrible.

I think this book really caused me to get into my head too much and expect a negative hospital birth (even though I want a hospital birth).