Ina May's Guide to Childbirth

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I was hoping for more practical advice from this book for remaining calm and focused during labor, but apart from maybe two breathing techniques, I found her advice to be very self-centered. I found it irresponsible and cowardly to say that she recognizes the need for modern medicine, but then dumps all over it. However, she failed to note that part of the problem was the large number of women who demand epidurals. Overall, I'm glad I read this book and I truly believe that it has better equipped me for my son's upcoming birth. Or, in this books case, an extremely one-sided look at how wonderful birth is only if you are at home, with a midwife having an orgasm as your baby comes into the world (the alternative being a piece of meat in line at the slaughter house where your chance of death is greatly increased, aka.

If the natural childbirth books hadn't made me so insanely fearful of what labor in the hospital would be like, I would've gone in earlier and probably wound up taking drugs, which I really didn't want to do.I felt like my body had betrayed me by failing at this most basic task of womanhood, which my female relatives have done countless times without issue. This is all well and good, I guess, if you are planning an all-natural home birth, but far from true for hospital births. When reading you do get a clear idea of how experienced of a midwife Ina May is and you can respect her talent and expertise in her field.

Books like this exist because women have had a variety of birth experiences, all with their pros and cons that deserve to be heard and taken seriously. No matter what your birth plan or outcome, I think this kind of book can only do good to help you extinguish fear and make your journey easier whether to a subtle or massive degree.Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth takes the fear out of childbirth by restoring women’s faith in their own natural power to give birth with more ease, less pain, and less medical intervention. I raised my eyebrows when she stated that routine Rhogam injections at 28 weeks was internationally controversial.