The Birth That's Right for You

The Birth That's Right for You : A Doctor And a Doula Help You Choose and Customize the Best Birth Option to Fit Your Needs

An ob-gyn and a doula combine their experience to help you customize a childbirth approach that is right for your experience Too often, women's notions of how to give birth are formed by the well-meaning, but misguided, opinions of others. The Birth That's Right for You is the only book to draw upon the medical expertise of a prominent physician and the hands-on skill of a doula to help you tune out what everyone else thinks and tune in to what you know about yourself. This book presents the full range of birthing possibilities and helps you make informed choices to choose the method you truly want.

The Black Womans Guide to Breastfeeding

By Katherine Barber

This timely, up-to-date guide addresses the unique economic and social issues of black women while showing them why and how to breastfeed their children.

African American infants are twice as likely to die before their first birthdays as white infants, have the highest rate of asthma of any race and have a 35 percent higher prevalence of childhood obesity than white children. African American women are 2.2 times more likely to die from breast cancer and 30 percent more likely to die from ovarian cancer than white women.

All of these health crises can be remedied to some degree with breastfeeding, but virtually all breastfeeding literature on the market fails to speak to the financial, educational and cultural realities of many African American women. The Black Woman's Guide to Breastfeeding addresses the importance of breastfeeding in the African American community and provides all the practical advice African American mothers need to succeed at breastfeeding.

The Business Of Being Born

Is it conceivable that in the United States, profit is increasingly driving the business of birthing--sometimes at the expense of the best possible outcome for mothers and babies? Should birth be viewed and treated as a natural process or a potential medical emergency? This documentary, produced by Ricki Lake and directed by Abby Epstein, opines that money and fear are changing the way Americans give birth, and not necessarily for the better.

The Caesarean

By Michel Odent

Odent, a French obstetrician who introduced the concepts of hospital birthing rooms and birthing pools, addresses continuing questions related to caesarean birth, looking at reasons behind widely varying rates of the procedure, why other risky procedures have not been eliminated by the caesarean, and the long-term consequences for infants and mothers, as well as the impact of caesarean birth on trends in head size, the future of the midwifery-obstetrics relationship, and the possibility of a gentler society of citizens born by caesarean.

The Doula Advantage: Your Complete Guide to Having an Empowered and Positive Birth with the Help of a Professional Childbirth Assistant

By Rachel Gurevich

Book covers everything you need to know about labor, postpartum and antepartum doulas. Rachel Gurevich is the assistant editor for Myria Media Inc., an award-winning Web site for moms. The author of fabjob.com's Guide to Become a Doula, she writes for ePregnancy magazine and lives in Brooklyn, New York.

The Doula Book: How a Trained Labor Companion Can Help You Have a Shorter, Easier and Healthier Birth

By Marshall H., MD Klaus, John H., MD Kennell, Phyllis H. Klaus

For an entire generation of new parents, this warm, expert work has become the standard guide to the shortest, easiest, and healthiest childbirth. Now a thoroughly updated and revised edition offers new research showing how labor support reduces the rate of cesarean sections, length of labor, need for pain medicine, and number of episiotomies. New material also demonstrates the positive effects of having a doula on mother-infant bonding, how relatives or friends can be trained in labor support, and how hypnosis is used to ease and shorten labor. No expectant parent will want to be without this empowering and irreplaceable book.

The Doula Business Guide

Make a living doing work you love! The Doula Business Guide is a comprehensive, go-to manual for individuals and groups wanting to establish and grow a thriving doula service. This nuts and bolts manual covers the pros and cons of self-employment, small business set up and development, a variety of business models, nonprofit set-up and management, community-based and hospital-based doula program models, staying out of trouble with the IRS, contemporary marketing basics, grant writing for maternal-infant health initiatives, risk management for doulas and doula programs, setting boundaries with clients, personal safety strategies and self defense for outreach workers, and more. 400 pages of inspiration and useful information for launching a doula career or program.

The Doula Guide to Birth

By award-winning reporter Rachel Zimmerman and Ananda Lowe

If you or your female partner plans to give birth, this may be the most comprehensive and encouraging book you will find. If you've already given birth, you will find brand new information on celebrating or genuinely making peace with your experience. If you are a doula or healthcare professional, you'll find techniques that even experienced practitioners tell us are new to them. If you have family and friends who plan to give birth, or who have a past birth experience to make sense of, please buy a copy for them, too!

The Farmer and the Obstetrician

By Michel Odent

In his new book Michel Odent shows how farming and childbirth have been industrialized side by side during the 20th century — with dramatic and disturbing consequences. The similarities are striking. In both cases innovations have been presented as the long awaited solution to an old problem: the advent of powerful synthetic insecticides has, overnight, dramatically reduced the costs and increased agricultural productivity; the advent of the modern safe technique of caesarean section has offered serious new reasons to create gigantic obstetrical departments. At the turn of the new century the history of industrialized farming has suddenly speeded up.

The Greatest Pregnancy Ever: Keys to the MotherBaby Bond

by Laurel Wilson and Tracy Wilson Peters, Lotus Life Press, March 30, 2012.

The Greatest Pregnancy Ever is a treasure. It should be the very first thing a pregnant woman reads in fact, every woman who intends to have a baby will be thrilled with the empowering message here. ~Christiane Northrup, M.D., ob/gyn physician and author of the New York Times bestsellers: Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom and The Wisdom of Menopause.

Once in a great while a book comes along that impacts the lives of families forever. You will never view pregnancy and motherhood the same way again. Has anyone ever told you that you can get to know your baby and bond with her before she is even born? Are you looking for ways to address the physical challenges in pregnancy that don't require prescriptions? Are you aware that starting in pregnancy you can help your baby develop positive relationships with the important people in your life? Do you know that your baby's personality is shaped by your emotions, stress levels, and environment during pregnancy? Finally, here is a book written by real pregnancy experts that provides keys to unlocking the secrets of having the greatest pregnancy ever!