The Doula's Guide to Empowering Your Birth: A Complete Labor and Childbirth Companion for Parents to Be (Paperback)
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Experienced doula, Lindsey Bliss, shows you how to prepare physically and mentally for every element of having a child, from pregnancy to fourth trimester in The Doula's Guide to Empowering Your Birth.
Lindsey Bliss, who has assisted as a doula at hundreds of births and is herself a mother of seven, reveals here all the wisdom and advice that doulas share with the new mothers who hire them.
The Doula's Guide to Empowering Your Birth covers the period from pregnancy through labor and birth to fourth-trimester healing. The focus, however, is on preparing for birth-including topics like how to pick the right childbirth class and the right birthing method for you. You'll also learn:
How to handle and treat morning sickness What things you can do during pregnancy, and what to avoid How to reduce anxiety during pregnancy, including meditation and ritual baths How to assemble the team of professionals, family members, and friends who will support you through labor and birth Tools, tips, and positions for labor How to approach last-minute decisions about pain medications and cesarean sections Post-partum information, including breastfeeding, newborn care, and the transition into parenting
Bliss's tone throughout is at once authoritative and confident as well as warm and encouraging. Her concern in her practice as well as in these pages is to listen to and help secure each new mom's own personal vision of a birthing experience that is safe, fulfilling, and meaningful.
Publisher: Harvard Common Press,U.S.
ISBN: 9781558328952
Number of pages: 208
Dimensions: 229 x 150 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
Lindsey Bliss is the go-to guide for anyone interested in a mindful pregnancy and empowering birth. * Colleen Wachob, Co-Founder of mindbodygreen *
An inspired and essential guide to creating the birth you desire! The Doula's Guide to Empowering Your Birth offers a golden opportunity to have your own personal, experienced doula guide you to an understanding of the many choices you have for you and your baby in birth and beyond. Lindsey Bliss, an experienced and wise doula, has witnessed birth in many ways and provides in these pages the tips and wisdom you need to prepare for a safe, empowered, powerful, and truly memorable birth. * Debra Pascali-Bonaro, creator of the Pain to Power and co-author of Orgasmic Birth *
Lindsey Bliss is an exceptional woman with years of life experience as the mother of seven children and hands-on experience as a doula who has dedicated her life to serving new mothers in both prosperous and underserved communities. The Doula's Guide to Empowering Your Birth translates medical language into plain English and explains the many choices available to you, so that you can be empowered in your birth. * Elizabeth Bachner, owner, midwife, and clinic director, GraceFull birthing center, Los Angeles *
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