Natural childbirth the Bradley way
Details an alternative to Lamaze childbirth that includes a more natural breathing method and a totally unmedicated birth that many second-time parents prefer.
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New York, New York :
Plume, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC,
2017.
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| Edition: | Revised edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Getting ready
- The first stage of birth
- The second stage of birth
- Controversies in childbirth.
- Getting ready. An introduction by Susan McCutcheon and Peter Rosegg
- How is the Bradley method unique?
- How to choose your childbirth teacher
- Choosing your doctor or your midwife
- Nutrition: How does your garden grow?
- Drugs during pregnancy
- Weighing evidence
- Sexuality and birthing
- The mechanics of labor and birthing
- Exercises: getting your body ready for birthing
- The first stage of birth. Getting ready for labor
- More on relaxation: backaches to breathing
- About pain- and more relaxation tools
- The six needs of a laboring woman
- The emotional map of labor
- First-stage labor
- The second sage of birth. Pushing: the second stage of labor
- Completing the pushing stage
- Drugs during labor
- Controversies in childbirth. Evidence-based medicine versus belief-based medicine
- Inductions (early inductions)
- What to expect with an induction
- Late inductions
- The Mother's dilemma and the doctor's dilemma
- The episiotomy
- Cesarean surgery
- Controversies in hospital birthing
- More questions for your doctor or birth attendant
- Breast-feeding.
