If you or your partner are pregnant, or if you work with pregnant women, here is a book you simply must have. Written to help every woman birth well, this friendly and supportive aid to achieving natural birth in a hospital is now available through the Internet.
Based on the author's personal experiences as a mother and thoroughly researched from her base as a scientist, Sense and Sensibility in Childbirth provides authoritative information, original insights and effective advice on the most crucial childbirth issues, including:
The result is an invaluable guide to natural childbirth with confidence.
"Much needed guidance for women in labor ... absolutely persuasive ... instructs parents on how to incorporate supportive care into the traditional system of obstetrician-supervised hospital birth ... an important contribution." --The Kirkus Reviews
"This book educates women about their rights and options during labor and delivery. Here is an honest, balanced view of what goes on at birth." --Niels H. Lauersen, M.D., F.A.C.O.G., author of Childbirth With Love
"Sense and Sensibility in Childbirth is the best book on the subject." --Femmy De Lyser, author of Jane Fonda's Workout Book for Pregnancy, Birth and Recovery
"Important information not available in other books ... a complete plan for avoiding the lures which lead a woman away from natural birth. Those who will particularly benefit from this book are the professionals: physicians, midwives, childbirth educators and maternity nurses." --Penny Simkin, co-author of Pregnancy, Childbirth and the Newborn
"An important, clear, eminently readable, empowering and just plain good book." --Nancy Wainer Cohen, co-author of Silent Knife
Judith Herzfeld received her undergraduate degree at Barnard College, her Master of Public Policy degree at Harvard and her Ph.D. degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has taught at Harvard Medical School and is currently Professor of Biophysical Chemistry at Brandeis University.
Originally published by W. W.
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ISBN 0-393-3081-0