Your Birth Plan (eBook)

A Guide to Navigating All of Your Choices in Childbirth

Megan Davidson (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
336 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-5381-2158-0 (ISBN)

Infos

Expectant parents often discover that little in their lives has prepared them to make the decisions and plans needed as they approach birth. In Your Birth Plan, Megan Davidson, PhD, dispels the myth that there’s one right way or best way to give birth, helping readers navigate all their options as they plan for a positive birth experience.

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There is no right way or best way to give birth, but if you're pregnant, you're likely already hearing advice and stories about what you should do, how you should feel, and what you should want from your birth experience. Your Birth Plan is an intervention: it's a birth book that equally honors all paths and all pregnant people, guiding and empowering you to make informed decisions, without judgment or prescription, for your own positive birth experience. Long on information, short on opinions, Your Birth Plan is a how-to guide filled with practical descriptions, insights, stories and tips to make it easier for you to pick where, with whom, and in what way you would like to give birth. Your Birth Plan is comprehensive and free from judgment and prescriptions. It offers unbiased information about all birthing options, including birthing in a hospital, at home, or in a birthing center; having an epidural or an unmedicated birth; induction of labor; vaginal or Cesarean birth; and more. This is a new, inspiring, inclusive, and much-needed guide to help you plan for a birth where you are empowered to make your own choices and to have your needs met, whatever they are.

Autor

Megan Davidson, PhD, is a labor and postpartum doula, childbirth educator, and chest/breastfeeding counselor who supports pregnant people and their families without judgment or prescription. She is one of the most experienced doulas in the US, having attended 600 births and supported 1200 families postpartum. Megan has also published essays on the value of doula support, size bias in prenatal care, and body positive pregnancy. She lives and works in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, NY with her husband and two kids.

Inhalt

Preface: My birth storyIntroduction: birth like that Section 1: Where should I give birth? Chapter 1: Choosing your best birth location Chapter 2: Giving birth in a hospitalChapter 3: Giving birth in a birth centerChapter 4: Giving birth at home Section 2: Building your birth team Chapter 5: Working with a doctor Chapter 6: Working with a midwife Chapter 7: Doula support for your birth Section 3: Giving birth Chapter 8: LaboringChapter 9: Common interventions during labor & childbirth Chapter 10: Birth plans & labor coping strategies Section 4: Inductions, VBACs, twins, and Cesarean birthsChapter 11: Induction of labor: when, why, and what you can do to prepare Chapter 12: Having a vaginal birth after a Cesarean birth Chapter 13: Giving birth to twins/multiples Chapter 14: Cesarean birth Conclusion: birthing unapologetically

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.6.2019
• Zusatzinfo: 39 Illustrations including: - 39 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Schwangerschaft / Geburt
• Schlagworte: Baby • Birth • birth center • birth plan • birth plans • Breastfeeding • cesarean birth • Cesarean section • Childbirth • C-Section • Doula • homebirth • Hospital Birth • Labor • midwife • obstetrician • positive birth experience • postpartum • Pregnancy • Prenatal • TWINS • VBAC
• ISBN-10: 1-5381-2158-1 / 1538121581
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5381-2158-0 / 9781538121580