Your Best Birth Know All Your Options, Discover the Natural Choices, and Take Back the Birth Experience

by Lake, Ricki; Epstein, Abby; Moritz, Jacques

• ISBN13: 9780446538145
• ISBN10: 0446538140
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-04-05
• Publisher: Grand Central Life & Style

Summary

With their groundbreaking film The Business of Being Born, Ricki Lake and Abby Epstein changed the way we view childbirth in the U.S. Now their empowering book will change how you view your own child's upcoming birth.

Author Biography

RICKI LAKE is an actress, host of the long-running Ricki Lake talk show, and natural childbirth advocate, based in LA and New York.

ABBY EPSTEIN is a New York-based filmmaker and natural childbirth advocate.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Preface Ricki and Abby: Our Best Births	p. xiii
Introduction Your Birth Is Your Business	p. xxvii
Know Your Options	p. 1
Not Your Mama's Birth Plan	p. 7
Your Best Birth Place	p. 34
Putting Your Dream Team Together	p. 61
Obstetricians: Finding Dr. Right	p. 64
Midwives: Not Just for Hippies Anymore	p. 76
Doulas: Labor's Love	p. 93
The Guest List: Birth as a Private Party	p. 101
For Sexual Abuse Survivors, a Healing	p. 109
Interventions: The Slippery Slope	p. 115
Epidurals: You Haven't Got Time for the Pain	p. 119
Inductions and Pitocin: Let's Get This Party Started	p. 124
Electronic Monitors: Reading between the Lines	p. 138
Episiotomies, Vacuums, and Forceps: The (Un)Kindest Cut	p. 143
Cesarean Sections and VBAC: To C or Not to C	p. 148
Take Back Your Birth	p. 167
Loving Your Labor	p. 174
Bonding with Baby	p. 194
Epilogue	p. 205
Acknowledgments	p. 209
Appendix	p. 211
Resources for Your Best Birth	p. 217
Index	p. 229
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