The Doula's Guide to Empowering Your Birth (eBook)

A Complete Labor and Childbirth Companion for Parents to Be

Lindsey Bliss (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
208 Seiten
Harvard Common Press (Verlag)
978-1-55832-939-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Experienced doula, Lindsey Bliss, shows you how to prepare physically and mentallyfor every element of having a child, from pregnancy to fourth trimester inThe 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 tofourth-trimester healing. The focus, however, is on preparing for birthincluding 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.1.2018
• Zusatzinfo: 30 b-w illustrations
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Schwangerschaft / Geburt
• Schlagworte: Active • anxiety relief • At home • Birth • birthing • birthing from within • birth plan • body changes • Bradley • Breastfeeding • Cesareans • Childbirth • Choices • Coach • comfort measures • Dad • Doula • doula match • easier • empowered • empowered birth • empowered motherhood • epidurals • expectant parents • expecting • FASTER • first-time • fourth trimester • gentle • Guide • Healthy • hiring a doula • holistic • honest • Hospital • HypnoBirthing • Infant Care • informed • journey • judgment free • Labor • Lamaze • LGBT • LGBTQ • Mama • Match • Maternity • Meditation • Mindful • mom-to-be • Mongan Method • morning sickness • mother • Naming • natural childbirth • natural childbirth book • New • newborn • nonjudgmental • Nutrition • Obstetrics • options • pain free • Partner • Position • postpartum • Pregnancy • Preparation • Pushing • questions • Reclaiming • Relaxation • Stress • Support team • Take Back • techniques • Tip • Training • transition into parenthood • Unmedicated • unmedicated childbirth • VBAC • Wellness • why hire a doula • wisdom • without fear • Yoga
• ISBN-10: 1-55832-939-0 / 1558329390
• ISBN-13: 978-1-55832-939-3 / 9781558329393