[image shadow=”true” border=”true” href=”http://www.amazon.com/Pregnancy-Childbirth-Newborn-4th-Complete/dp/143917511X” size=”medium” align=”left”]http://www.katiebachand.com/birthdoula/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Untitled-1-227×300.jpg[/image]By Penny Simkin, April Bolding, Janelle Durham, Janet Whalley, & Ann Keppler
The 4th Edition of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn covers prenatal care, decisions revolving around where to give birth, labor support techniques, birth plans, medical interventions, relaxation, newborn care and feeding, postpartum adjustment, with a strong emphasis on parental choice. Includes revised discussions on nutrition and fitness during pregnancy, new information on complementary medicine methods such as acupuncture, new summaries of warming signs of complications, up-to-date research-based information on interventions during childbirth, revised statistics on cesarean birth and vaginal birth after cesarean, plus much more! (497 pages).