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The Best Birth: Your Guide to the Safest, Healthiest, Most Satisfying Labor and Delivery
by Sarah McMoyler, Armin Brott
from Da Capo Press

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Excellent book
  I went into labor unexpectedly five weeks before my due date. Having read this book I felt very well informed about what to expect during labor and delivery. The information in this book allowed to me make informed decisions about pain relief during labor and mechanical interventions during delivery. I used this book in combination with a more traditional lamaze class. Following the delivery of our healthy baby girl (she was just a little anxious to come into the world), I truly did feel like we had had... more info

• A MUST-READ: BIRTH AS A PARTNERSHIP
  Sarah McMoyler brings a wealth of experience and practical guidelines to expectant mothers (and fathers, like me!) in this book. What sets the McMoyler Method apart from Bradley, Lamaze, and other 20th century gurus of birthing:
  1) The father/partner CAN help! In fact, he can be the mother's primary support during the labor process-- and why not? We are in this together from the moment of conception. Instead of relegating us to working a video camera or standing helplessly on the sidelines, McMoyler... more info

• Not the best title for this book!
  As a certified and experienced childbirth educator and doula, I have a lot of concerns about this book. Probably the biggest concern I have is the philosophy of trusting in our current maternity care system that is placing our U.S. infant mortality rate in 32nd place world-wide, rising maternal mortality rates and the risk of leaving the hospital with a cesarean scar - the highest in history (nearly one in every three births). Personally, I will trust the system when the U.S. is in the top 5. For all the... more info

• Not Evidence Based! Better books on Birth are available.
  As a Childbirth Educator, Mother of Two, and advocate for woman's right for informed consent I was really disappointed in this book. You would think an RN would write a book that is evidence based right? Not the case. For one example- Though there are some nice relaxation techniques mentioned she has totally ignored the piles of research showing that birth doulas reduce the intervention rates, help woman in creating safer and happier births. I live in the Bay Area, in the same area that the author lives.... more info

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