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Pros
I highly recommend this book to any mother who wants to be fully informed and in her power while bringing life into this world. Her work is fascinating and reading story after story of women’s journeys was for me very empowering. The chapter on “sphin... Read More
There is room for midwives to be woven into the birth experience more readily. She also goes into when intervention is absolutely necessary and when it’s for the convenience of the obstetrician.
Cons
The first half of the book is just a bunch of birth stories ranging from the 1970's-present. Pretty much all of them are hippies giving birth at the farm. She jumps around all over the place and actually useful tips are buried in thick chunks of text ... Read More
The medical stats, information about hospitals, even her viewpoint on hospitals is grossly outdated and biased against medical establishments. She even has a section about why ultrasounds are no good and unsafe and says we should question the doctors ... Read More
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Quality
She said that this book helped more than anything to be comfortable and ease any stress and fear with the birth process
The first half has stories from women on their birth experience all different types of stories which was helpful in showing ho... Read More
Although it was empowering to hear about all of these natural births i can admit as a first time mom intending to have my baby ... Read More
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She also goes into when intervention is absolutely necessary and when it’s for the convenience of the obstetrician
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natural, first, medical and thyroid. - Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
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- This product had a total of 8,106 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jun 4 2023.
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However it did give me some serious anxiety about birthing in a hospital which i dont think was good for my mental health in this pregnancy
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Everyone i have told my birth plan to has told me i’m crazy and that i should just take all the pain meds i’m offered
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I really started feeling like the natural birth i wanted was impossible
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My family usually has bad stories with medical experiences
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But my sister in law only felt slight cramping with her fourth birth felt like pooping went to the toilet and caught her daughter instead
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I thought it was going to be super hippy and all “energy this and that”
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I ended up going into labor early and i was able to recall the adviceinformation from the book and use it for my delivery
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