Your Best Birth Know All Your Options, Discover the Natural Choices, and Take Back the Birth Experience
by Lake, Ricki; Epstein, Abby; Moritz, JacquesEdition: Reprint
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Pub. Date: 2010-04-05
Publisher(s): Grand Central Life & Style
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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.
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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