Home Birth

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.

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.

From one of the most beloved authors of our time—more than six million copies of his books have been sold in this country alone—a fascinating excursion into the history behind the place we call home. “Houses aren’t refuges from history. They are where history ends up.” Bill Bryson and...

Random House presents the unabridged, downloadable audio edition of Mindful Hypnobirthing: Hypnosis and Mindfulness Techniques for a Calm and Confident Birth by Sophie Fletcher, read by the author. Hypnotherapist and experienced doula Sophie Fletcher shares with you the secrets to having a safe...

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.

An inclusive, non-judgmental, and empowering guide to pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum life that puts mothersfirst, offering straightforward guidance on all the options and issues that matter most to them (and their partners) when preparing for a baby. In Birth Without Fear, January...

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! ...

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 ...

Natural Hospital Birth, Updated Edition shows how to apply the guidelines and tactics of natural birth in a hospital setting, where 99 percent of births take place. Doula Cynthia Gabriel shows expectant mothers what they can do to avoid unnecessary medical interventions and how to take initiative and consciously prepare for the kind of birth they want to have. Also included are inspiring stories from other women who know firsthand that natural birth in the hospital is possible.

The remarkable true story of one of Britain's best-loved novelists, narrated by Lucy Worsley 'This book is a delight . . . I will return to Austen's novels with a greater appreciation of the hardships and hopes of her heroines.' - LISTENER REVIEW ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'I devoured this. Jane's story is...

Now, in audio for the first time, The Birth Partner remains the definitive guide to helping a woman through labor and birth. The Birth Partner includes thorough information on preparing for labor and knowing when it has begun; normal labor and how to help the woman every step of the way; epidurals and other medications for labor; pitocin and other means, including natural ones, to induce or speed up labor; non-drug techniques for easing labor pain; and more.

My husband announces our divorce at my forty-third birthday dinner—then brings his mistress out to watch me swallow it. Neil expects me to sign the settlement packet beside my untouched cake and let him call our ending mutual. Instead, I take off my ring, reject his terms, and ask the stranger-chef who witnessed everything what time he gets off work. Now Neil is telling our friends I cheated first—and offering me half of whatever cash remains after he secretly funded Bethany's future with marital money. But he underestimated what a transit planner can do with dates, account numbers, and...

Sophisticated, intelligent, impossible to put down, Maggie O’Farrell’s beguiling novels—After You’d Gone, winner of a Betty Trask Award; The Distance Between Us, winner of a Somerset Maugham Award; The Hand That First Held Mine, winner of the Costa Novel Award; and her unforgettable...

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.

A paradigm-shifting model of parenting children in two homes from an internationally recognized expert. A researcher, therapist, and mediator, Robert Emery, Ph.D., details a new approach to sharing custody with children in two homes. Huge numbers of children are affected by separation, divorce...

When life doesn’t go according to plan, it’s easy to feel unprepared and overwhelmed. This is my story where my husband and I went from a carefully crafted home birth plan into an emergency C-section that tested our faith, resilience, and ability to trust God. In this deeply personal short story book I endeavor to share my emotional journey from a planned home birth to a life saving surgery for my son, Gabriel. Through every unexpected twist, we came to see how the events that seemed chaotic at the time were divinely orchestrated. This is more than a birth story, it’s a testament to ...

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.

A game-changer for US high school seniors, and a great 18th birthday and graduation gift. This cleverly written book is specifically designed for teens to introduce them to many topics that will affect their adult lives. Instead of putting young people to sleep with extensive details they’ll immediately forget, the book uses short definitions and humorous cartoons to make the point easy to understand and remember. It offers a fantastic jumping-off point to start talking to your teens about grown-up topics. *** printed in black & white ***

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A New York Times Notable Book From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner: an emotional powerhouse of a novel about a modern Odysseus returning to a 1950s America mined with lethal pitfalls for an unwary Black man "Powerful. . . . Jaw-dropping in its beauty and audacity...

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 ...