Spiritual Midwifery
Spiritual Midwifery Books
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The classic book on home birth! The first section details the experiences of parents and midwives during the birth experience. The second seciton is a technical manual for midwives, nurses, and doctors. Includes in rank on prenatal care and nutrition, labor, delivery-techniques, care of the new baby, and breast-feeding.
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I wasn’t really pleased with this book. It was “far out”. In the furthest sense of the word! There were women who were talking about being stoned during labor, and the use of “pet names” for various anatomy was a small much. The language is very 60’s. (And this is supposed to be the revised for the 90’s version!) There is some excellent factual in rank, but nothing that can’t be found in other books.
Rating: 2 / 5
I read this book to kearn more about childbirth and to find about about what natural birth has to offer. Even as the book had a lot of helpful in rank about various stages of labor enhanced by private experiences, it failed to convince me that natural childbirth is the best method of giving birth. First, to suport her top of view, Ina May Guskin (IMG) supplies us with private accounts of women who gave birth in her care. To consider this accounts sincerely the should have been authenticated by outisde authority. Also, it does not help that all accounts seem effectively like peas in a pod and not a single one expresses concerns or dislike about the administer. It just does not seem statistcally possible that not a single woman had a negative exprience or sought after to express some concerns.
What was more alarming is IMG airly discussion of several birth practices that for decades were deemed unacceptable by medicine. For example, she advocated drinking vodka on a daily basis to stop early contractions. I wonder what hurt this constant drinking made to the child and whether the contractions may possibly have been stopped by more harmless methods. (Otherwise, it seems that medical research pointing at high risk of harm to babies of mothers who drink during pregnancy should go out of the window). There are quite a few small conroversial tidbits like that in the book which IMG does not chose to address and, which potentially may possibly hurt a baby, whose mother takes her advice to heart.
All in all, fascinating book, which takes some fo the trepidation out of childbirth administer, but, at least for me, not convincing that natural childbirth is what would be best for my child.
Rating: 3 / 5
Hi. I bought this book to give to a midwife in Guatemala who is a Christian Missionary of AMISH descent. Reading the product description, it nearly sounds perfect! But, this book is not about CHRISTIAN spirituality as I plotting but the spiritual part of it is…Buddhism…or eastern. In case any of you are like me and looking for a Christian spiritual midwifery book…you might find this additional in rank helpful.
That’s all! (And, being a Christian, I can’t really in excellent conscience “endorse” this book with more than 1 star. Sorry.)
Rating: 1 / 5
First, I am a very open-minded person, raised by a hippy/Biker family. I really expected to identify with this book. Even as I appreciate the what Ina May’s movement accomplished during its time, I felt like the book was nearly a joke–verging more on detailing accounts of an occult community–A community of people living on ancient school buses in the woods, delivering each other’s babies.
The language is terrible—everything is described as “psychedelic,” etc–one woman even referred to her female parts using the huge “p” word. Even as they try to add a private touch by including individual narrations, it sounds more like a compilation of uneducated people describing their birth tales the way they were pressured to judge—NOBODY mentions feeling pain during labor. Honestly, I feel that the pressure of the community was so intense they wouldn’t have admitted to pain if they may possibly.
Also, many of the accounts were extremely erotic—link are encouraged to fondle one another during labor to keep connected and relaxed. In some accounts, a link would be making out, even as a midwife would massage the birthing mother in her “laboring parts”–turning the woman on and maintenance her relaxed. Not my cup of tea.
I had so small respect for the lifestyle and the language of the people that I didn’t get much out of the book.
Rating: 1 / 5
This book was written about the experiences of home births on “The Farm” which is in Tennessee. Evidently they had alot of success in avoiding c-sections and mortality. They view birth as natural and not as a medical illness as some OB’s are trained. The author is quite a favorite on the midwife address and conference circuit. The pictures will astound you. There are alot of statistics in the back. Is this book credible? I do not know. Many people would probably give this book a higher ranking. I just don’t quite know how to take it
Rating: 3 / 5