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Stand and Deliver!: And other Brilliant Ways to Give Birth

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作者Emma Mahony
出版社Thorsons
ISBN9780007375820
出版时间2013-02-28
字数29.0万
分类进口书,外文原版书,励志自助,心灵

读书简介

A book full of practical information on choosing the best type of birth experience for you and your baby and what to do in the final 8 weeks to prepare. Full of humour and encouraging birth stories, every mother-to-be will find it invaluable. ? Emma Mahony, humorous Times columnist whose Double Trouble stories about her two young twins charmed the nation, now gives you a first book on birth and the 8-week run-up to it. Taking a practical but lighthearted approach, she helps every new mother-to-be feel in control and ready for the big day. ? With positive stories from women who insisted on the right birth for them, as well as advice from experts in the field of childbirth, such as midwives, obstetricians and advocates of natural and water births. Includes: ? Why a good birth experience is a great objective ? How and why it’s best to avoid a ‘medicalised’ birth ? Everything you need to know about Caesarians ? What every woman is entitled to before labour ? How to write a birth plan and why it is useful ? Illustrated throughout with lighthearted cartoons from The Times’ front page cartoonist.

目录

Cover

Title Page

Dedication

Epigraph

Contents

Ten Great Things About Births

Introduction

First Stage - Let’s Start at the Very Beginning …

Chapter 1: … A Very Good Place to Start

Chapter 2: Let’s Talk about Sex, Baby

Chapter 3: My Body Is a Temple

Chapter 4: Free Your Mind (and Your Ass Will Follow)

Chapter 5: Can You Feel It?

Chapter 6: Away with the Fairies

Second Stage - Birth Stories: Brilliant Ways to Give Birth

Chapter 7: Introduction: Water, Water Everywhere

Chapter 8: Water Birth in Hospital

Chapter 9: Water Birth at Home

Chapter 10: Laughter Birth

Chapter 11: Standing Birth

Chapter 12: Induction Birth

Chapter 13: Hoot Hoot Hout Birth

Chapter 14: IVF Birth

Chapter 15: Breech Birth

Chapter 16: Twin Birth

Chapter 17: Epidural Birth

Chapter 18: Yoga Birth

Chapter 19: Caesarean Birth

Chapter 20: Vaginal Birth after Caesarean (VBAC)

Chapter 21: Helping Hands: Useful Contacts

Third Stage - Eight Weeks to Go

Week 32: Where Do I Want to Give Birth?

Week 33: Antenatal Classes

Week 34: Know Your Birth Rights

Week 35: Write Your Birth Plan

Week 36: Tour the Hospital

Week 37: Glossary of Big Words Doctors Use around Birth

Week 38: Women Who Birth Well

Week 39: Am I in Labour?

Week 40: Physical Signs of Early Labour

References

Recommended Reading

Acknowledgements

Copyright

About the Publisher

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