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The Doula Book: How a Trained Labor Companion Can Help You Have a Shorter, Easier, and Healthier Birth
John Kennell
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Description for The Doula Book: How a Trained Labor Companion Can Help You Have a Shorter, Easier, and Healthier Birth
Paperback. For all expectant parents who want to reclaim normal birth, the authoritative guide to support in labor Series: A Merloyd Lawrence Book. Num Pages: 272 pages, photos. BIC Classification: VFXB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 175 x 12. Weight in Grams: 440. How a Trained Labor Companion Can Help You Have a Shorter, Easier and Healthier Birth. 272 pages, photos. Parents-to-be who want a shorter, healthier, and easier birth are increasingly choosing the help of a trained labor companion called a "doula." This is a guide to support in labor that includes research results showing how labor support reduces: rates of cesarian section; length of labor; use of episiotomy; and, pain medication required. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: VFXB. Dimension: 227 x 175 x 12. Weight: 440.
For an entire generation of new parents, this warm, expert work has become the standard guide to the shortest, easiest, and healthiest childbirth. Now a thoroughly updated and revised edition offers new research showing how labour support reduces the rate of cesarean sections, length of labour, need for pain medicine, and number of episiotomies. New material also demonstrates the positive effects of having a doula on mother-infant bonding, how relatives or friends can be trained in labour support, and how hypnosis is used to ease and shorten labour. No expectant parent will want to be without this empowering and irreplaceable ... Read more
For an entire generation of new parents, this warm, expert work has become the standard guide to the shortest, easiest, and healthiest childbirth. Now a thoroughly updated and revised edition offers new research showing how labour support reduces the rate of cesarean sections, length of labour, need for pain medicine, and number of episiotomies. New material also demonstrates the positive effects of having a doula on mother-infant bonding, how relatives or friends can be trained in labour support, and how hypnosis is used to ease and shorten labour. No expectant parent will want to be without this empowering and irreplaceable ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Hachette Books
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Series
A Merloyd Lawrence Book
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780738215068
SKU
V9780738215068
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Ref
99-10
About John Kennell
Marshall H. Klaus, MD, internationally known neonatologist, is professor emeritus of pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine. Distinguished pediatrician John H. Kennell, MD, is professor emeritus of pediatrics at Case Western Reserve Medical School. Psychotherapist Phyllis H. Klaus, MFT, LMSW, is widely known for her practice and teaching of the psychology of pregnancy.
Reviews for The Doula Book: How a Trained Labor Companion Can Help You Have a Shorter, Easier, and Healthier Birth
Sacramento Book Review, June 2012"Has been a mainstay for both couples considering hiring a doula and women in training to become a doula for years...This book is a great place for women to start when looking to learn more about labor companions. It is full of valuable knowledge and useful personal anecdotes that pregnant women and potential doulas alike will ... Read more