Sally's review
What to Expect When You're Expecting, Third Edition
by Heidi Murkoff, Arlene Eisenberg, Sandee Hathaway
What many, many books would you recommend?
Hi Chanel! There are lots of books out there on pregnancy and birth that reflect the whole continuum of opinions and attitudes. For me, I think of my and my family's health as our responsibility, and we partner with doctors when we feel the need. I love our family doctor, so it isn't that I'm against doctors.
For half way between mainstream and totally hippie, there are the Dr Sears books. He and his wife, and now his 2 pediatrician sons, have written a veritable library: The Pregnancy Book, The Birth Book, The Baby Book, The Attachment Parenting Book, etc...
Heading on down the continuum (in no particular order):
Birthing From Within: encourages you to address your fears, using different art activities and such. Fear is a tremendous impediment to safe, good birth, so addressing fears makes a considerable difference.
Ina May's Guide to Childbirth: She's the original hippie homebirth midwife. But in her decades of attending births, she has had such terrific statistics that she deserves respect and attention to her methods.
Gentle Birth Choices
anything by Michel Odent (a French OB who advocates for homebirth and mothers' freedom to birth instinctively because it's safer)
anything by Sheila Kitzinger (a British midwife)
You might want to check out the bookshelf for the GR group Pregnancy adn Childbirth. They look like a good assortment, although I haven't read even half of them.
http://www.goodreads.com/group...
I hope I didn't offend you with my review for What to Expect. I read those books with my first pregnancy and felt disappointed with the whole "trust the doctor, don't worry about anything" feeling I got from them. Just my two cents!
Thanks, I wasn't upset by your review at all. I have a lot of questions that "What to Expect. . ." didn't answer, and I am looking for more books to read. Thank you for the recommendations.
Sally's review
What to Expect When You're Expecting, Third Edition by Heidi Murkoff, Arlene Eisenberg, Sandee Hathaway
Sally's review
rating:
bookshelves:
non-fiction,
parenting
It may be appropriate to read these books as an introduction to pregnancy and birth, but you must not stop here!
The books in this series may be helpful if you know absolutely nothing about how pregnancy and birth are managed in mainstream America, or if you hate asking questions from your doctor. But in my opinion, there are many, many books out there that educate and prepare women to understand, deal with and manage their pregnancies and births as partners with their health care providers, not as quiet, non-questioning, passive patients.
The books in this series may be helpful if you know absolutely nothing about how pregnancy and birth are managed in mainstream America, or if you hate asking questions from your doctor. But in my opinion, there are many, many books out there that educate and prepare women to understand, deal with and manage their pregnancies and births as partners with their health care providers, not as quiet, non-questioning, passive patients.
What many, many books would you recommend?
Hi Chanel! There are lots of books out there on pregnancy and birth that reflect the whole continuum of opinions and attitudes. For me, I think of my and my family's health as our responsibility, and we partner with doctors when we feel the need. I love our family doctor, so it isn't that I'm against doctors. For half way between mainstream and totally hippie, there are the Dr Sears books. He and his wife, and now his 2 pediatrician sons, have written a veritable library: The Pregnancy Book, The Birth Book, The Baby Book, The Attachment Parenting Book, etc...
Heading on down the continuum (in no particular order):
Birthing From Within: encourages you to address your fears, using different art activities and such. Fear is a tremendous impediment to safe, good birth, so addressing fears makes a considerable difference.
Ina May's Guide to Childbirth: She's the original hippie homebirth midwife. But in her decades of attending births, she has had such terrific statistics that she deserves respect and attention to her methods.
Gentle Birth Choices
anything by Michel Odent (a French OB who advocates for homebirth and mothers' freedom to birth instinctively because it's safer)
anything by Sheila Kitzinger (a British midwife)
You might want to check out the bookshelf for the GR group Pregnancy adn Childbirth. They look like a good assortment, although I haven't read even half of them.
http://www.goodreads.com/group...
I hope I didn't offend you with my review for What to Expect. I read those books with my first pregnancy and felt disappointed with the whole "trust the doctor, don't worry about anything" feeling I got from them. Just my two cents!
Thanks, I wasn't upset by your review at all. I have a lot of questions that "What to Expect. . ." didn't answer, and I am looking for more books to read. Thank you for the recommendations.