Prenatal Yoga and Natural Childbirth, Third Edition
Prenatal Yoga and Natural Childbirth, Third Edition Books
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This book provides guidance and instruction in yoga for a healthful pregnancy and gentle birth. The central section of the book is devoted to detailed descriptions of postures and movements and includes helpful photos illustrating the postures. Throughout, the author gives sage and sensible advice to the mother-to-be and promotes a woman’s aptly to make her own choices about the birthing environment and the method of her baby’s delivery.
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What I was expecting was a book about YOGA for pregnant women and how it influenced and may possibly be used during NATURAL CHILDBIRTH. What I got instead was a running advertisement for “freebirth” or unaided birth AND some kind of nameless and unidentifiable and unending lesson in her private theology.
I did like the same thought in most Unaided type books: that uninhibited, unimpeded birth in a trusting environment is the best and ideal birth, and the one we all deserve. What I did not like was that the resolution, the only resolution, is to birth absent of trust and interdependence within the community, and her constant mantra that self-suffienciency was the sign of a right and mature adult.
A Note to Jewish readers: this woman claims to be a Jew ending a cycle of violence by not circumscising her son(s), yet in the prayer to conceive him, she and her spouse pray to not only more than ONE G-d, but also to Jesus. Not just so Jewish.
Rating: 2 / 5
The thing that has everlastingly amazed me, and many other people, about Jeannine Parvati, is her uninhibited combination of the power, perceptivity and instincts of an ancient curandera with the skills and sophisitication of a modern professional midwife. I can’t converse in from the perspective of a woman, but I was the first to welcome all 3 of my children into this world. At such times, Jeannine Parvati has helped me to contact the macrocosm through my microcosm. She is everlastingly able to extrapolate from her own private experience to the power-giving archetypal, and to communicate that extrapolation in a usable way. “Nine powers of nine flowers,/Nine powers in me combined,/Nine buds of plant and tree./Long and white are my fingers/As the ninth wave of the sea.”
Rating: 5 / 5
I am a prenatal yoga instructor and have have had two babies of my own at home… even I plotting this book was too out there! If you want someone’s private account of multiple home births and the astrological signs of everyone she comes into contact with, then this is the book for you. Otherwise, I urge Yoga Journal/Lamaze’s Yoga for Pregnancy video.
Rating: 1 / 5
A wonderful narrative full of many gorgeous pictures! I like this book and the woman who wrote it. She is a star in the birthing community and her work is timeless.
Rating: 5 / 5
I will hold this book dear for years to come. It is a book from a different era, that is to be sure. Its survival in a sea of newer and digitally supported media for prenatal yoga is a testament to its quality. It truly shocked me during my first read (it is very much a guide to living and birthing naturally and Parvati-Baker leads by example) but as I familiarized myself with Parvati-Baker and her family I grew to appreciate and know the material without bias.
As a guide to the excersize of yoga itself, it is very helpful. With photograph demonstrations, instructions and the author’s private commentary on each pose, the reader can follow by the side of easily. As motivation and support for natural childbirth, it is equally effective. She gave me the strength I needed to prepare for natural childbirth, and she reminds readers that birthing is a natural bodily function like any other, and that we are fully equipped to handle it ourselves.
The guide is dotted with poems and anecdotes from Parvati-Baker that are spiritual and touching.
This reader highly recommends this book as a guide and a companion through pregnancy and childbirth.
Rating: 4 / 5