Home Birth

Drawing upon her 40-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. 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.

Are you dreaming of an empowering, peaceful birth at home and need some guidance to make it happen? Are you planning an unassisted birth or are freebirthing and want to make sure you know what to do every step of the way? Perhaps you are healing from a past traumatic birth and are looking for answers and a better option for you and your baby.

Hypnotherapist and experienced doula Sophie Fletcher shares with you the secrets to having a safe, natural and positive birth. Using a powerful combination of mindfulness, hypnosis and relaxation techniques, Sophie will ensure you feel genuinely excited and completely prepared for birth. With stories from women who have successfully used the tools in this book, and downloadable hypnosis and relaxation tracks.

The original Spiritual Midwifery, published in 1976, introduced an entire generation of young women to the possibility of home birth and breast feeding. It also breathed new life into the all-but-vanished field of midwifery. The current edition of this classic book on home birth is now an audiobook, with updated information on the safety of natural childbirth, new birthing stories, and the most recent statistics on births managed by The Farm Midwives.

What can parents do to help their youngest children in their task of self-formation? How does the Montessori method of hands-on learning and self-discovery relate to the youngest infants? This authoritative and accessible book answers these and many other questions. Based on Dr. Maria Montessori's instructions for raising infants, its comprehensive exploration of the first three years incorporates the furnishings and tools she created for the care and comfort of babies.

In this book we will share our incredible experiences of having 4 successful unassisted home births in 5 years! A safe unassisted home birth is possible! Scroll up and purchase today to learn how!

This course reveals the tools and knowledge you need to have a fulfilling birth, with little to no pain. All of this you can do in the comfort of your own home and at your own pace. The Hypnobirthing Home Study Course is a complete birth education course. You can be fully prepared for your best possible birth experience. There is no need to attend any other hypnobirthing or birth preparation class, as this is a course that covers natural birthing, alternative options, and the best interventions.

The definitive guide to childbirth from the home of hypnobirthing. More than 100,000 copies sold worldwide, helping countless babies into the world. Fifteen unique relaxation scripts to help prepare you for a calm and confident birth. KGH is the home of hypnobirthing, KGH is taught in hospitals, antenatal classes, and by midwives and birthing professionals all around the world. The KGH Teacher training course is accredited by the Royal College of Midwives and is the source material for many other hypnobirthing books and courses.

This is the first book in a series of three. In the first book, Birth Stories and Midwife Notes: In God We Trust, Marianne describe how she became a midwife and Christian, and then includes several birth stories compiled during the early years of Christian Midwife Homebirth Service. These birth stories are written by the brave women who endured different kinds of labors and births, including husbands catching their babies, and water births. The second book, Born at Home, Praise the Lord!, contains mainly birth stories and some midwife notes from the later years. It chronicles many exciting ...

You’re pregnant. You’re hoping for a natural birth. You’re hoping for a magically natural birth. A crazy part of you is even curious about homebirth. But homebirth is crazy, isn’t it? Homebirth: Safe & Sacred is a carefully researched foray into the many misconceptions surrounding the safety of American birth—the safety of both American homebirth and American hospital birth. Kim describes homebirth and homebirth midwifery with an in-depth look at statistics, training, and the quality of care midwives are able to provide their clients.

About this book No more powerful transformation is available to a woman than that of the unhinderd birth of her child. As a woman's body opens to the life of her baby, so too is she opened to the rawness and beauty of woman-hood. At the culmination of an unhindered pregnancy and birth, a woman is left with an increased sense of strength and confidence as a woman and a mother. This often fearful and dreaded event of childbirth is largely misunderstood and shrouded in mystery. The harmful routines and common procedures performed during pregnancy, labor and birth more often than not strip the ...

The acclaimed writer A. M. Homes was given up for adoption before she was born. Her biological mother was a twenty-two-year-old single woman who was having an affair with a much older married man with a family of his own. The Mistress's Daughter is the ruthlessly honest account of what happened when, thirty years later, her birth parents came looking for her.

In the 21st century, women are supposed to have a choice about where they give birth. But when that choice is home, women often encounter obstacles, despite robust evidence that birth at home is safe, beneficial, and should be available for women who want it. Why Home Birth Matters is a clear discussion of the reality of modern home birth which aims to show how the home environment supports and powers the birth process, while encouraging parents to consider how it might work for them.

In Birth Without Fear, January Harshe - founder of the global online community Birth Without Fear - delivers an honest, positive, and passionate message of empowerment surrounding everything that involves having a baby. It's a guide that fills in the considerable cracks in the information available to women and families when they're preparing to welcome a child - covering care provider choices, medical freedom, birth options, breastfeeding, intimacy, postpartum depression, and much more.

WARNING: Reading this book while on the throne will make your bathroom breaks exceptionally entertaining, potentially causing delays in resuming your regular schedule! Ever pondered why reading in the bathroom makes you feel extra enlightened? Or the surprising truth about why some birds can sleep while standing up? (Hint: It's not due to their impeccable balance!) Hold onto your plungers, curious minds! Get ready to embark on an unforgettable adventure through history, science, pop culture and the bizarre... in the pages of "At Home On The Throne", a hilariously addictive Bathroom Reader! ...

Whether you have visions of a cozy home water birth, giving birth in a birth center free of pain meds and intervention, or a hospital birth with the latest technology and emergency care access just in case—Natural Birth Secrets provides the ultimate pregnancy-to-postpartum training. Throughout this book, you will find a unique approach on how to have the most healthy, deeply positive, and empowered journey through pregnancy, birth, and becoming a mama postpartum. You will learn how to optimize your fertility preconception, natural healthful living, holistic modalities for common issues ...

Treasuring the feeling of pregnancy, all good things must come to an end at some point – despite a nervous mom’s wishes. Lily and John have gone through many things to get to this point, but nothing can ever prepare you for the instant you lay eyes on your child for the first time. * * * This is a short story set in the Healing Hearts Sweet Romance series and does not stand alone. It should be read after Remember Home and is a little bit of emotional tenderness dealing with pregnancy, childbirth, and that precious time that follows for the Griffin family.

From the 1940s through the 1960s, young pregnant women entered the front door of a clinic in a small North Georgia town. Sometimes their babies exited out the back, sold to Northern couples who were desperate to hold a newborn in their arms. But these weren't adoptions - they were transactions. And one unethical doctor was exploiting other people's tragedies. Jane Blasio was one of those babies.

Peter Kovacs teaches part-time at a community college and tends bar to make ends meet. When a newborn baby is found alive in a trash can in an alley next to the school, Peter tries to find out what happened. A parallel narrative—one that eventually intersects the main story—recounts a Japanese high school student’s growing alienation from his life of pointless striving. Birth Pangs is a literary mystery about abandonment, home, and family triggered by the discovery of a baby in an alley.

From evolution to the epidural and beyond, Tina Cassidy presents an intelligent, enlightening, and impeccably researched cultural history of how and why we're born the way we are. Women have been giving birth for millennia, but that's about the only constant in the final stage of the great process that is human reproduction. Why is it that every culture and generation seems to have its own ideas about the best way to give birth?