The Positive Birth Book: A New Approach to Pregnancy, Birth and the Early Weeks

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It doesn’t shy away from the difficult emotions of parenthood, but offer a curious and compassionate stance. There are various books that I have recommended to people over the years, and I thought it might be useful to list some of them here. P>

As the rate of homebirth increases in the UK, this important new book offers a basic, practical guide for anyone involved in the planning, resourcing and facilitation of safe and respectful birth at home.

I hope to be better prepared to help laboring women to find the positions that will work the best for them. Thanks for telling it straight about birth, hospitals, circumscion, ultrasounds, the importance of nursing a human child with human milk, unnessecary medical interventions, and how a healthy woman should trust her body and a competent mid-wife! It is also refreshing to read something positive about all types of birth – I didn’t feel like I was being preached to. Unfortunately this is not cheap, but it is again a fascinating look at what your baby might be up to.Drawing on his extensive experience in the field, Professor Tong guides you through vital information to help prepare for a safe and happy birth day. While it is a little more anti-medical than I am, I think a lot of that is related to the fact that it was written in the 90's and a lot has changed in terms of hospital policy in the past few years.

J. Marsh, Judith O'Reilly, Kelly Clayton, Kim Nash, Leah Mercer, Liz Fenwick, Louise Jensen, Louise Mumford, Malcolm Hollingdrake, Marcia Woolf, Mark Stay, Marcie Steele, Natasha Bache, Nick Jackson, Nick Quantrill, Nicky Black, Patricia Gibney, Rachel Sargeant, Rob Parker, Rob Scragg, S. Think through your birth choices with this handy pack of 100 cards, based on Milli Hill's best-selling The Positive Birth Book. Yet the conflicting advice about pregnancy, labour and parenting can leave your head spinning – and make it highly unlikely you will get the birth you want. He also reminds the reader that birth doesn’t always go as planned, yet that doesn’t mean a plan can’t be laid out with hopes of what they want if it does go smoothly. Above all, The Happy Birth Book emphasises that you are the expert on you, reminds you that your mind and body are connected (surprisingly this is often overlooked), and encourages you to aim high for a good experience.I love that a member of the medical field is urging patients to think for themselves and define what their own birthing expirience should be as opposed to just knuckling under to what the hospital wants you to do!

However, I recommend this book to women who are struggling to come to terms with their birth, as sometimes understanding something about your needs in labour can be really helpful when looking at how those needs were or weren't met and how that made you feel.If you are struggling to find your own way as a parent, and feel bombarded with different approaches, this might be a bit of an antidote as it shows how varied (and at times contradictory) different childcare approaches are. This book offered a variety of suggestions for making an unmedicated birth more comfortable, from massage suggestions to diagrams of various positions for labor and birth to a recipe for "labor-ade. In remarkable detail and with great compassion, Grant recounts the ups downs, fears, joys, and everyday moments of each woman’s pregnancy and postpartum journey, offering a rare look into their inner lives, perspectives, and choices in real time—and addresses larger issues facing the entire nation, from discrimination in medicine and treatment (both gender and race-based) to fertility, family planning, complicated feelings about motherhood and career, and the stigmas of miscarriage and postpartum blues.

So why are we treating births like a production line, and not as the most natural thing in the world? My main fear in going for a natural birth is that I won't be able to handle it and I will feel like a failure for "giving up". As a mum of one who is nervous about giving birth again in the coming weeks, it's given me a fresh, more positive perspective and helped me to understand that I have rights! Milli Hill set up the Positive Birth Movement in 2012 with a passion to improve the experience of birth for women.The book's trademark Visual Birth Plan icons can be downloaded for free to help you create a birth plan for every eventuality.