The Doula Book: How a Trained Labor Companion Can Help You Have a Shorter, Easier, and Healthier Birth
- ISBN13: 9780738206097
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Product Description
The complete and essential guide to birth with a doula by the “undisputed experts in the field.”– Los Angeles Times
More and more parents-to-be all over the world are choosing the comfort and reassuring support of birth with a trained labor companion called a “doula.” This warm, authoritative, and irreplaceable guide absolutely updates the authors’ earlier book, Mothering the Mother, and adds much new and vital research. In addition to basic advice on finding and working with a doula, the authors show how a doula reduces the need for cesarean section, shortens the part of labor, decreases the pain tablets required, and enhances bonding and breast feeding. The authors, world-celebrated authorities on childbirth with combined experience of over 100 years working with laboring women, have made their book obligatory to every woman who wants the healthiest, safest, and most joyful possible birth experience.
A Merloyd Lawrence Book
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I was a bit bored with this book, only becasue I already knew all the stuff in it. With the exception of a few chapters the book goes way far into detail about things may possibly care less about. If you are trying to research and learn about doulas, than this is your book. There are lots of studie on the benifits of doulas.
Rating: 4 / 5
Read other books and find that this is for people in the maybe 70’s! It is not fascinating for my 2004 life. Don’t be fooled by the horror tales and read other books that depict the excellent points and terrible points but not just the terrible.
Rating: 1 / 5
I bought this book because I am interested in having someone with me during my labor who can provide some of the “warm fuzzies” and constant attention that perhaps my OB and nursing staff cannot. What I found in this grossly outdated book was a clear statement hostile to pain tablets during labor, likening it to a “non-birth.” It was when I saw that statement, coupled with other, unfounded, horror tales about epidurals that I realized I had come across an extreme political perspective (much like the abortion debate) as different to a well-rounded, informative and soothing description of what a doula can offer. If I were a doula, I would be horrified by what I hope is a very narrow minded attitude of their work.
Rating: 1 / 5
I bought this book because I’m apt a birth doula. This book well to be honest it has fantastic stats and in rank but that is all this book is. Yes the entire book is stats of how awesome doulas are! So, unless you have to buy it for a doula cert or you want to rub some stats in someone’s face then don’t buy this book! Luckily for me it’s a small book so I was able to make it all the way through well most of the way through.
Rating: 3 / 5
Essentially the same book as “Mothering the Mother” with some updated in rank about doula training… also includes suggested birthing poses and relaxation & visualization techniques.
Rating: 4 / 5