Gentle Birth Choices
Author: Barbara Harper
FAMILY / CHILDBIRTH
”Should I give birth at home, in a birth center, or in a hospital? Should I see a midwife or an obstetrician for prenatal care? What approach to pain relief should I use during labor? How does a waterbirth work?”
Expectant parents are faced with a daunting array of choices to make about prenatal care, labor, and birth. In Gentle Birth Choices Barbara Harper, renowned childbirth advocate, nurse, midwife, and mother of three, explains all the available choices and shows how to plan a truly meaningful, family-centered birth experience. She dispels the medical myths that so often shift control of birth away from women and reimagines birth without fear or violence and with minimal pain. Harper reveals the abundant range of gentle birth approaches, including:
• giving birth in an independent birth center, at home, or in a hospital birthing room
• finding a primary caregiver who shares your philosophy of birth
• deciding how to best use current technologies
She also provides practical advice for couples wishing to explore options such as hiring a doula or laboring in water to avoid the unwanted effects of drugs and epidurals.
“Exactly the sort of guide that pregnant women have been needing to help them sort through the myriad choices and options that confront them today.”
ROBBIE DAVIS-FLOYD, author of Birth As an American Rite of Passage
“Gentle Birth Choices provides a new model of maternity care that reduces the need for high-tech crisis intervention and focuses instead on preparation and health.”
HEALTHWORLD
“A must-have for expectant mothers and their loved ones. . . . Gentle Birth Choices is an intelligent and sympathetic guide to birthing options that explores nontraditional ways that put women and their babies first.”
NEW AGE RETAILER
The author’s accompanying 60-minute Gentle Birth Choices DVD blends interviews of midwives and physicians with footage of six different birth experiences--including a home birth, waterbirths, vaginal birth after a prior Cesarean section, and birth with other children present. The DVD vividly demonstrates the strength of women during childbirth and the healthy and happy outcome of women exercising gentle birth choices. It is a moving and powerful instructional tool, not only for expectant parents, but also for midwives, hospitals, birth centers, and doctors.
“Brace yourself for a powerful experience. This remarkable production combines art, education, and politics. Highly recommended.”
MOTHERING MAGAZINE
BARBARA HARPER’s passion for natural birth led to the founding in 1988 of Global Maternal/Child Health Association, a nonprofit organization dedicated to education and research about natural childbirth. She lectures worldwide on maternity care reform and waterbirth. She lives outside of Portland, Oregon.
Interesting textbook: Rivals or Ted White and Blue
The Yoga Tradition: Its History, Literature, Philosophy and Practice
Author: Georg Feuerstein
From the foremost living authority on yoga comes a work of impeccable scholarship. The Yoga Tradition. This is a complete overview of the great traditions of Raja, Hatha, Jnana, Bhakti, Karma, Tantra, Kundalini, Mantra and other, lesser-known yoga forms. It covers all aspects of Hindu, Buddhist and Jain yoga, including their history, philosophy, literature, psychology and practice. The book includes translations of more than 20 famous yoga treatises, such as the Yoga-Sutra of Patanjali, as well as a first-time translation of the ancient Hatha yoga text known as the Goraksha Paddhati. It is an essential resource for all students and scholars of yoga.
Booknews
The author is founder-director of the Yoga Research Center in Northern California and the author of 30 books on yoga. The present volume is a revised and greatly enlarged edition of the author's 1989 work, . Its objective is to give the lay reader a comprehensive introduction to Indian spirituality, to the evolution and complexity of yoga, and to the relationship of yoga to other aspects of India's culture. Chapters are arranged in sections on yoga foundations, pre-classical yoga, classical yoga, post- classical yoga, and power and transcendence in tantrism. This is a detailed historical and philosophical treatise for the serious student; don't look here for simple treatment of complex ideas, discussion of yoga postures, or a brief guide to spiritual growth. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Parabola - Edward Brennan
...[A] volume to which every serious student of Yoga -- indeed, everyone personally interested in this topic -- might seek access....Feuerstein's book can be recommended to just about every person who has embarked upon, or is seriously interested in, authentic spiritual practice.
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