For a nerd as myself, I really enjoyed her insight and you cannot help to be incredibly impressed by the track record for Ina May as a midwife. Motherhood is Not a Competition: Why Pressure Moms to Strive for the "Perfect" Natural Childbirth (and make them feel guilty if that isn't in the cards)? The confidence that these women gained from one another was a significant factor in why the midwifery care at The Farm has produced such good results. Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously.

While these are certainly useful as illustrative examples of how it all goes down, they tend to get rather repetitive and could certainly stand to be scaled back a bit. If you really, really, really want a natural childbirth in a birthing center or at home this is a good book for you.Sometimes Gaskin stretches a little to far in her attempt to debunk every single medical procedure and doesn't always have the most current data. Reading this book gave me the confidence to know that I am capable of a natural and pain- relief free birth if I open my mind to the fact that my body is able to do it. i liked the second part more, and found the information thought-provoking in many instances, but overall it left me worried and doubting my choice to use a doctor/hospital/epidural, etc.

Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's pageview limit. The whole intense experience was deeply invigorating and actually GAVE me the energy I needed to cope with the first couple of difficult weeks with a new baby. Donna asked if I wanted to go see a midwife, but I decided to hold off until I was sure I wasn't getting excited over nothing. I raised my eyebrows when she stated that routine Rhogam injections at 28 weeks was internationally controversial. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.hospital birth, it's awfully hard to argue with the data she's gathered from thousands of natural childbirths.