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By Sheri Menelli.
Providing both inspiration and education, this guide to natural childbirth offers 48 personal accounts of labor and delivery without medication. Revealing the many options women have beyond birthing location, the testimonials offer insight into the joys, concerns, and realities of natural birth. From delivering at home with a midwife and hearing the right words from a hospital nurse at just the right moment to describing a combination of the Bradley method and acupuncture at a birthing center and discussing a child’s birth at home in warm water, this resource combines personal insight with referential information. A glossary of terms and a resource guide to books, magazines, websites, videos, and CDs, and listings of childbirth classes and instructors nationwide are also included.
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This book is recommended by one of my birthing moms:
This book was wonderful for me to read. In fact, I checked it out from the library several times to reread it as often as I could. It has stories of women who had unmedicated births, sometimes even unassisted home births. It doesn’t have anything to do with education about labor and delivery, just story after story about real women who really accomplished unmedicated births. It really helped alleviate the fear factor by showing me many different types of women who really did it.