A Good Birth, A Safe Birth: Choosing and Having the Childbirth Experience You Want - Couverture souple

Korte, Diana; Scaer, Roberta

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1558320415 ISBN 13 : 9781558320413

Editeur : Harvard Common Press, 1992

Synopsis

Based on a survey of two thousand women and responses from readers of the first and second editions, this complete and accurate guide enables women and their partners to take control of the childbirth experience.  Diana Korte and Roberta M. Scaer, both long-time La Leche leaders, analyze today’s childbirth options and help readers to choose among them – to find “Dr. Right” (or a midwife), and perhaps a labor assistant, too, and to pick a hospital, birthing center, or home birth.  They describe the pros and cons of medications, fetal monitoring, induction of labor, and other medical interventions during birth, and they tell readers how to avoid an unnecessary cesarean section and ensure that all their wishes are followed.  In chapters such as “If You Don’t Know Your Options, You Don’t Have Any,” “The Obstetricians Black Bag of Interventions,” and “How to Have a Normal Vaginal Birth (and Avoid an Unnecessary Cesarean)”, Korte and Scaer are refreshingly frank but never dogmatic; they want their readers to decide for themselves what’s best for them.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Diana Korte is the author of several books and the winner of more than forty journalism awards, including the American Academy of Pediatrics Award. She writes on parenting for the Los Angeles Times Syndicate and Mothering magazine. A mother of four, she lives in Boulder, Colorado.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Harvard Common Press
• Date d'édition: 1992
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1558320415
• ISBN 13: 9781558320413
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 368
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• Personne responsable: non disponible