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1: Great Resource Manual
This book was a little too in-depth for the average reader, but was excellent for practical information and training purposes. I found it worked best as a resource rather than a study item. The author was knowledgeable and communicated well.
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2: To the person who said: More pronography then medical guidance
This reader has an issue with a woman's whole body. In many birth books all you see is from the wasit down like the woman is not a whole person. When we focus on the whole picture (a womans torso, breasts and FACE!) we remember this isn't a birthing machine that needs fixing; this is a person, a woman, a mother.
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3: GREAT book
I would recommend this book to anyone pursuing a natural birth. It helped me to understand many of the things that my midwife did, as well as to have faith in the strength of my body. Reading this before labor helped me to make it through 20 hours of back labor without even so much as an aspirin. I would highly recommend this book to parents-to-be!
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4: More pronography then medical guidance
While certain anatomical photos are certainly necessary to help explain birth, this book goes way beyond medical visuals and seems to have gone out of its way to include pictures that border on pornography. There's even diagrams that were amended to include "details" clearly not necessary to serve as an effective visual aid. Moreover, why it is necessary to have so many waistup shots of women's breasts and pretty blatnat ones to boot when a baby comes out of the body waist below is beyond on us. We tried at first to ignore the pictures and read the book, but it just got so obscenre for us, we shelved it with plans to throw it away. Men buying Penthouse will definitely like this book!
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5: Wonderful book
We have six healthy, intelligent and well adjusted children! The first two were born in the hospital with a CNM (certified Nurse Midwife). The next two were born at home with a PCM (professionally certified midwife) and the last two my husband and I delivered alone. The two books most helpful to us were this one and Special Delivery by Rahima Baldwin. It is informative, factual, and easy to read. If you need practical information as well as courage to birth at home, read this and your mind will be put at ease. You are not "crazy" to consider this option!
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