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Birthing a better way : 12 secrets of natural childbirth / Kalena Cook & Margaret Christensen ; foreword by Christiane Northrup.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cook, Kalena, 1958-
- Series:
- Mayborn literary nonfiction series ; no. 4.
- Number 4 in the Mayborn literary nonfiction series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pregnancy--Popular works.
- Pregnancy.
- Natural childbirth--Popular works.
- Natural childbirth.
- Infants--Care--Popular works.
- Infants.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (384 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- 12 secrets of natural childbirth
- Birthing a better way : twelve secrets of natural childbirth
- Place of Publication:
- Denton, Tex. : University of North Texas Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Birthing a Better Way: 12 Secrets for Natural Childbirth presents a fresh, proactive, and positive approach to why you may want to consider the safest and most satisfying kind of birth-natural childbirth-especially in these times of overused medical interventions. Kalena Cook, a mother who experienced natural childbirth, and Margaret Christensen, M.D., a board certified obstetrician-gynecologist, have written this much-needed book for expectant mothers and their caregivers, imparting proven safe or "evidence-based" information with compelling narratives. Think of What to Expect in Natural Chil
- Contents:
- Secret 1: read positive stories
- Secret 2: get informed and shop around
- Secret 3: turn scared into sacred
- Secret 4: don't take labor lying down
- Secret 5: know there's a reason for the squeezin'
- Secret 6: learn hospital strategies
- Secret 7: find out how birth centers bridge the choice
- Secret 8: meet true stay-at-home moms
- Secret 9: make a mind-body-spirit commitment
- Secret 10: transform life's challenges
- Secret 11: go confidently with expert encouragement
- Secret 12: prepare for baby's arrival.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-10906-9
- 9786613109064
- 1-57441-333-3
- OCLC:
- 723944057
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