A Good Birth, A Safe Birth
eBook - ePub

A Good Birth, A Safe Birth

Choosing and Having the Childbirth Experience You Want

  1. 368 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

A Good Birth, A Safe Birth

Choosing and Having the Childbirth Experience You Want

About this book

Based on a survey of two thousand women and responses from readers of the first and second editions, this complete and accurate guide enables women and their partners to take control of the childbirth experience. Diana Korte and Roberta M. Scaer, both long-time La Leche leaders, analyze today's childbirth options and help readers to choose among them – to find "Dr. Right" (or a midwife), and perhaps a labor assistant, too, and to pick a hospital, birthing center, or home birth. They describe the pros and cons of medications, fetal monitoring, induction of labor, and other medical interventions during birth, and they tell readers how to avoid an unnecessary cesarean section and ensure that all their wishes are followed. In chapters such as "If You Don't Know Your Options, You Don't Have Any," "The Obstetricians Black Bag of Interventions," and "How to Have a Normal Vaginal Birth (and Avoid an Unnecessary Cesarean)", Korte and Scaer are refreshingly frank but never dogmatic; they want their readers to decide for themselves what's best for them.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Table of Contents
  3. Dedication
  4. Copyright
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Author's Note
  7. Introduction
  8. 1. What Women Want
  9. 2. The Pleasure Principle
  10. 3. If You Don't Know Your Options, You Don't Have Any
  11. 4. Understanding Doctors
  12. 5. Finding Dr. Right
  13. 6. Obstetricians' Beliefs About a "Safe Birth"
  14. 7. The Obstetrician's Black Bag of Interventions
  15. 8. The Cesarean Epidemic
  16. 9. Having a Cesarean Is Having a Baby
  17. 10. Appreciating Your Feelings
  18. 11. Your Childbirth Support Group
  19. 12. How to Have a Normal Vaginal Birth (and Avoid an Unnecessary Cesarean)
  20. 13. The Nurse: Your Help on the Inside
  21. 14. Your Baby Doctor
  22. Epilogue
  23. Appendix A: How to Be a Changemaker
  24. Appendix B: Reader Questionnaire
  25. Appendix C: The Three Surveys
  26. Appendix D: Your List of Helpers
  27. Appendix E: Mother-Friendly Childbirth
  28. Appendix F: Bibliographic References
  29. Index
  30. Footnotes