Creating Your Birth Plan: The Definitive Guide to a Safe and Empowering Birth
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Manufacturer: Perigee Trade
Written By: Marsden Wagner, Stephanie Gunning
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 618.4
EAN: 9780399532573
ISBN: 0399532579
Label: Perigee Trade
Manufacturer: Perigee Trade
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: 2006-06-06
Publisher: Perigee Trade
Studio: Perigee Trade
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Editorial Reviews for Creating Your Birth Plan: The Definitive Guide to a Safe and Empowering Birth
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Creating Your Birth Plan helps expectant mothers make informed decisions about the assistance they'll require for childbirth. Designed to encourage collaboration between pregnant women and their caregivers, it includes information on:
- What to expect when delivering in a hospital, in a birthing center, or at home
- How to select an advocate to ensure expectant mothers' wishes are honored by their caregiver
- The natural stages of labor in a problem-free birth
- Explanations of various medical or surgical interventions, and potential complications and benefits of each
- Natural alternatives to drugs, technology, and surgery
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Summary: This book helped me have the beautiful birth I wanted to have!
Comment: I can't say enough good things about this book! When I found out I was pregnant, I didn't know the first thing about birth! I had not planned to have a baby. I thought that a woman was given a doctor and a midwife at birth, that they worked together, and that a woman was given the choice from there on where she wanted to have her child. How wrong I was!
I felt that this book was very well written - it informed the future mother of her available choices, along with the risks and benefits involved. I thought that it was very unbiased. The doctor simply stated fact, and backed his words with research from a number of good sources. I also very much appreciated the suggestions he gave on questions to ask your healthcare providers. I opted to have a home birth with the help of a midwife, but I had to see a doctor as well. My first doctor refused to work with midwives, so I left his care and looked for another doctor. I used the suggestions from this book in selecting and questioning my next doctor. We didn't see eye to eye on a number of things I included in my birth plan, however, thanks to the suggestions in this book, I was able to stand my ground and explain my feelings tactfully. After that, we continued to have an excellent working relationship.
Reading the information in this book gave me the strength to keep my resolve and go through with my birht plan, even during the hardest parts of my labor. I had a wonderful experience, and my son and I are both very healthy and happy. I would say that ANY pregnant woman, or woman who plans to become pregnant, should read this book! It will inform you what your options are, and will ensure that no matter what decisions you make, you will be able to get the treatment you want.
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Summary: Practical Advice for Thinking Women
Comment: I read this book and instantly had the facts that I needed to talk to my OBGYN and family members about the risks of medical births. It was great! I have since loaned it to many other women you can finally make an informed decision about their birth preferences. p.s. my totally natural birth was amazing even though I was in a horrible hospital.
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Summary: Great content, logically organized
Comment: I purchased this book after seeing Marsden Wagner in the documentary "The Business of Being Born" (another eye-opener, let me tell you). I found this book to be perfect as I plan to attempt natural childbirth for my first child. It is logically organized to take you through every step of the birth process---where to deliver, with whom, and with what interventions. He covers everything from induction to epidurals to c-sections, and for each item really spell out when they are medically necessary and when they are just....not. He does so in a way that is not preachy or judgemental if you do decide to have interventions, but gives you all the facts. Obviously the author favors less intervention, but acknowledges that there are times and places for all of them. After reading this I feel like I can walk into my birth prepared to ask the right questions before blindly accepting an intervention I hoped to avoid. Great book, not just for natural childbirth types, but for anyone wanting to be informed.
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Summary: Too judgemental
Comment: I thought this book was very judgemental and it seemed like the writer was presenting their feelings as fact. I found that a simple conversation with my husband beforehand and another with my nurse (face it, it's the nurse that's with you most of the time!) when we got to the hospital was all I needed.
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Summary: Good resource
Comment: This is a useful book, though the author is certainly not "neutral" in her opinions. If you are hoping for a natural birth, this book will likely make you feel more confident in that decision. It is definitely anti-medical intervention.
My only complaint about the book relates the the chapter on pain management. As it's laid out, the only two options you have are 1) completely natural (position, hypnosis, aromatherapy, etc.) or 2) an epidural. I would have liked to see a little more information about other drug options. More than just that, "they are not in common use anymore."
As a soon-to-be first-time mother, I've looked to my own mother's experiences for guidance. She had 4 healthy vaginal births (all over 8 pounds, one over 10 pounds) without epidurals. However, she swears by the "wonderful" drugs she was given. She doesn't remember the name but only that it was administered through an injection in her hip.
So for me, even if the author advises against drugs for pain management, I would have appreciated some discussion of her reasons why as well as the relative flaws and merits of the non-natural alternatives to an epidural that are available.
But other than this omission (and likely I'm in the minority here), it is a very nicely written book with a lot of helpful information.
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