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    <body><![CDATA[This has been such a great book to help prepare for birthing.  Whether you are planning to have a homebirth, birthcenter birth, epidural, hospital or cesarean birth, this birth will help you to create the kind of experience you are looking for!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Gives ideas on how to prepare and cope with childbirth in a natural way, but too instructive and too &quot;new age&quot;.. <br/><br/>I wonder why there are rarely books that talks about natural childbirth in a more scientific manner rather than &quot;new age&quot;]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[With the caveat that this is comfortable reading for touchy-feely, artsy-fartsy types (but perhaps too far out in orbit for logical/practical types), I found the book very helpful for understanding my previous natural birth and for preparing for my second.  The author takes a much more open, feminin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62638029">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I mainly loved the chapter on figuring out how we cope with pain (whatever our individual method may be) and then ideas for how to use tools in labor that work best for us.  Also had fun ideas for pregnancy art, lots of other great stuff but most helpful for me in relation to how I process pain - do...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48638887">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Another really great book. Granted, at times I did feel like it was a little too earth-mothery-hippyish-new-agey. However, its central argument is a really good one--that women can learn all they want about the technical (objective) side of the birth process, but they will not be experiencing birth ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15248066">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Certainly Birthing from Within offers something different from all the rest of the pregnancy/birth books. It is one of the only books I have found that discusses in depth the function of anxiety during pregnancy and how to &quot;worry productively.&quot; I thought most of her advice was really pract...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10044239">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[There were a lot of things I hadn't considered in birth that I found to be thought-provoking and help me nail-down some of my own feelings this time around and also process the birth experience I had with my son. I did not agree with her on some points AT ALL (bottle introduction etc.), but on the w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75856874">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was recommended by my midwife, and how glad I am that she suggested it. Filled with ways to prepare mentally for childbirth, it's a gem. I didn't do every (not even most) of the activities it suggests, but the ones I did work on genuinely helped calm and focus me. <br/><br/>I'd recommend...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60010995">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[There were some good things in this book, like Non-Focused Awareness, that were useful, but overall this book wasn't for me. There seemed to be an undercurrent of &quot;how to be a birth warrior / how to avoid being a victim&quot; that didn't really appeal to me. <br/><br/>Also, I was completely t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43466971">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was kind of different...I guess she just had a different viewpoint and approach to things than I do.  My midwife recommended this book to me, and when I started to read it I thought something like, &quot;Oh boy, here goes weird...&quot;  But I actually stopped feeling that way before too l...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15223801">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this one in preparation for Ian's arrival and enjoyed various aspects of it.  It's very artsy...and although I didn't spend much time drawing or painting my birth plan, I felt pretty &quot;crunchy&quot; all the same.  For Baby K3, I'm looking specifically for meditation ideas and have already...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43827143">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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