Husband-Coached Childbirth

The Bradley Method of natural childbirth utilizes the teamwork approach to help fathers work with mothers to provide a joyful birthing experience that eliminates drugs, shortens labor, lessens complications, and promotes healthy newborns.

Henci Goer has provided the information needed in very readable terms for all women to have a better birth. Backed with extensive research, Goer clears up common misconceptions and obstetrical myths that are running rampant in childbirth in this country.

The Birth Book is divided into three parts: "Preparing for Birth," "Easing Pain in Labor," and "Experiencing Birth." You'll find details about vaginal births; cesareans; VBACs; water births; home births; best birthing positions; drugs; pain; designing your own birth plan; the humor, chemistry, and sexuality of birth; and many birth stories.

This book guides the reader through a history of birth and birthing procedures, dispels the myths perpetuated by the medical establishment and presents alternatives to hospital birth. For those who are unable to birth outside of a hospital, the author provides guidance so that one may obtain the best, "gentle" birth possible.

This book covers all of the common concerns a new mother might have as well as discussing the value of "mothering through breastfeeding." This book has stood the test of time and continues to offer the wisdom of La Leche League as well as all the most up-to-date research available

The most authoritative, comprehensive guide to the critically important concern of reducing the risks to one's baby before conception is sure to become a classic in the field of preventive medicine.

This traditional, popular guide to pregnancy covers every possible aspect of the prenatal period: pregnancy tests; choosing a caregiver; month-by-month fetal development; eating correctly; sex during pregnancy; common illness symptoms; and childbirth options, including cesarean section and pain medications.