Doula's Guide to Empowering Your Birth: A Complete Labor and Childbirth Companio

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Doulas empower mothers to plan for and secure the birthing experiences they want. Lindsey Bliss provides the resources for creating a sound birth plan and having a positive childbirth experience.

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Lindsey Bliss, who has assisted as a doula at hundreds of births and is herself a mother of seven, reveals here all the wisdom and advice that the doulas, also known as childbirth coaches, share with the new mothers who hire them.This book covers the period from pregnancy, through birth, to fourth trimester healing, and the beginnings of family life. The focus, however, is on preparing for birth--including topics like how to pick the right childbirth class and the right birthing method. Youll also see how to assemble the team of professionals, family members, and friends who will support you through labor and birth. Bliss also covers labor and birth, as well as the 11th hour decisions about pain medications and cesarean sections.Blisss tone throughout is at once authoritative and confident as well as warm and encouraging. Her concern in her practice as well as in these pages is to listen to and help secure each new moms own personal vision of a birthing experience that is safe, fulfilling, and meaningful.

Author Biography

Lindsey Bliss is a widely respected doula, or childbirth coach, who is quoted frequently in New York and national media. She is a co-founder of the doula agency Carriage House Birth, which has assisted in more than 1100 births in New York and Los Angeles since 2011. Herself the mother of seven children, including two sets of twins, she knows labor and childbirth well both personally as well as professionally. She lives in New York City.

Table of Contents

IntroductionYour PregnancyYou're Pregnant! Now What?Announcing Your PregnancyMorning Sickness Remedies The Do's and Don'ts of PregnancyHow to Have a Positive PregnancyNutritionBody ChangesReducing Anxiety During PregnancyAll-Inclusive Pregnancy and BirthNaming Your BabyAssembling Your Support TeamChoosing Your Care ProviderChoosing a Birthing Method and Childbirth Education ClassesCreating Birthing PreferencesWorking through Past TraumasBirthingLaboring Giving Birth Post-BirthFourth Trimester HealingNewborn Heaven/Chaos Transition into Parenthood ReferencesIndexAbout the Author

Review

Lindsey Bliss is an exceptional woman with years of life experience as the mother of seven children and hands-on experience as a doula who has dedicated her life to serving new mothers in both prosperous and underserved communities. The Doula's Guide to Empowering Your Birth translates medical language into plain English and explains the many choices available to you, so that you can be empowered in your birth. * Elizabeth Bachner, owner, midwife, and clinic director, GraceFull birthing center, Los Angeles * An inspired and essential guide to creating the birth you desire! The Doula's Guide to Empowering Your Birth offers a golden opportunity to have your own personal, experienced doula guide you to an understanding of the many choices you have for you and your baby in birth and beyond. Lindsey Bliss, an experienced and wise doula, has witnessed birth in many ways and provides in these pages the tips and wisdom you need to prepare for a safe, empowered, powerful, and truly memorable birth. * Debra Pascali-Bonaro, creator of the Pain to Power and co-author of Orgasmic Birth * Lindsey Bliss is the go-to guide for anyone interested in a mindful pregnancy and empowering birth. * Colleen Wachob, Co-Founder of mindbodygreen * We doctors know that having a doula by your side is the secret ingredient for an amazing birth. Among doulas, Lindsey Bliss is the best of the best and in this terrific book she shares her secrets with you. * Jaqueline Worth, M.D., OB/GYN, Village Obstetrics, New York City, and Mt. Sinai School of Medicine *

Long Description

Doulas empower mothers to plan for and secure the birthing experiences they want. Lindsey Bliss provides the resources for creating a sound birth plan and having a positive childbirth experience. Lindsey Bliss, who has assisted as a doula at hundreds of births and is herself a mother of seven, reveals here all the wisdom and advice that the doulas, also known as childbirth coaches, share with the new mothers who hire them. This book covers the period from pregnancy, through birth, to fourth trimester healing, and the beginnings of family life. The focus, however, is on preparing for birth--including topics like how to pick the right childbirth class and the right birthing method. Youll also see how to assemble the team of professionals, family members, and friends who will support you through labor and birth. Bliss also covers labor and birth, as well as the 11th hour decisions about pain medications and cesarean sections. Blisss tone throughout is at once authoritative and confident as well as warm and encouraging. Her concern in her practice as well as in these pages is to listen to and help secure each new moms own personal vision of a birthing experience that is safe, fulfilling, and meaningful.

Review Quote

We doctors know that having a doula by your side is the secret ingredient for an amazing birth. Among doulas, Lindsey Bliss is the best of the best and in this terrific book she shares her secrets with you.

Description for Sales People

Doula's are a niche market and books directed toward them, such as HCP's previous title The Birth Partner, have proven to

Details ISBN1558328955 Author Lindsey Bliss Pages 208 Publisher Harvard Common Press,u.s. ISBN-10 1558328955 ISBN-13 9781558328952 Format Paperback Imprint Harvard Common Press,U.S. Place of Publication Boston, MA Country of Publication United States Media Book Subtitle A Complete Labor and Childbirth Companion for Parents to Be DEWEY 618.2 Illustrations 30 line art illustrations Language English Audience General/Trade Year 2018 Publication Date 2018-01-11 UK Release Date 2018-01-11 AU Release Date 2018-01-11 US Release Date 2018-01-11 NZ Release Date 2017-09-26 We've got this

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