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Title: Water birth: the concise guide to using water during pregnancy birth and infancy (1990)
Authors: Janet Balaskas and Yehudi Gordon This book provides encouragement and all the necessary advice for parents contemplating a water birth. Written for expectant parents and midwives, this book provides practical information and discusses the benefits of the using water for meditation, relaxation, and exercise during pregnancy, childbirth and during infancy. Title: Home Birth Bound: Mending the broken weave (2000)
Author: Maggie Banks In Home Birth Bound Maggie takes her readers on a journey of discovery about birth in New Zealand – the way it was, the way it is, and the way it should be. Be prepared to be touched emotionally; like a great novel Home Birth Bound has the potential to make you cry and make you angry. This is another welcome book to add to the home birth debate. Written in a clear and readable style it carries with it much passion and warmth from an author who has been through, and challenged, her experiences of hospital and home birth midwife, and mother. |
Title: New Active Birth: A Concise Guide to Natural Childbirth (2012)
Author: Janet Balaskas Active Birth helps women and their partners prepare for a more liberated, more natural and therefore more comfortable childbirth experience. Active Birth wisdom applies throughout the pregnancy and enables you to develop the body’s natural resources and to deal with the instinctive experience of childbirth. Title: Rediscovering Birth (2000)
Author: Sheila Kitzinger Rediscovering Birth is a reliable source of information and guidance for pregnant women and anyone who is thinking of having a baby. Sheila Kitzinger explores the universal experience of pregnancy and childbirth and looks closely at feelings and behaviour in pregnancy, the physical and spiritual experience of giving birth, the role of the midwife, the bonds that are traditionally formed between mothers and midwives and ideas about birth in many different cultures. Sheila's principle aim is to enable women and their partners to make informed choices about their own unique experiences of birth and parenthood. |
Title: Heart and Hands: A Midwife's Guide to Pregnancy and Birth (2004, 4th ed.)
Author: Elizabeth Davis Hearts and Hands includes valuable hints for turning breech and posterior babies, mediating pain in labour, and supporting newborn physiology. This book provides information on what to expect during each stage of pregnancy, birth, and postpartum, to empower parents and birthing helpers to create a truly woman-centered birth experience. The Year After Childbirth: Surviving the First Year of Motherhood (1994)
Author: Sheila Kitzinger This book provides the information and comforting support every woman needs to survive the physically, emotionally, and socially turbulent first year following the birth of a child. There is no shortage of baby-care books, but this is the only authoritative mother-care book available. Sheila provides down to earth advice and information every woman needs to know about this roller-coaster year: how her body changes physically and emotionally; tips about breastfeeding and nutrition; the developmental stages in her baby's life; how her husband is coping and their relationship is changing; sex; and finally, coming up for air after the first twelve months. |
The Face of Birth - The Documentary
Running Time - 87min Our society is slowly learning that we need to take responsibility for our own health. Part of this movement is women taking responsibility for their own births, after all no one else actually delivers the baby - not the doctor or the midwife. The mother delivers the baby. The film makers met many amazing mothers who kindly opened their hearts and lives to share the most important and personal experience of their lives and interviewed top experts from around the world. The evidence is mounting and awareness is growing about the benefits of a natural physiological childbirth. And yet it is getting harder and harder to have a natural birth within the hospital system. |
Beyond the Face of Birth - Meet the Experts. Running Time - 231min
Meet the Experts is a series of extended interviews that gives access to some of the world's top childbirth experts. Choose from over 100 topics as experts from Australia, the UK and the USA share their knowledge and experience. Extended interviews with: Sheila Kitzinger Michel Odent Richard Porter Ina May Gaskin Robbie Davis-Floyd Hannah Dahlen Sally Tracy Rhea Dempsey |
The Face of Birth - Birth Stories
Running Time - 111min Birth Stories goes Beyond the Face of Birth documentary to share compelling birth stories from nine diverse women who choose different models of care for their pregnancies. Although they each have different outcomes, all have empowering experiences. Featuring almost two hours of content, including previously unseen, extended-interview footage, this film is a 'must see' for anyone expecting a baby, birth professionals or people who just love a good birth story. |
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