Heart & Hands: A Midwife's Guide to Pregnancy & Birth | Elizabeth Davis

Heart & Hands: A Midwife's Guide to Pregnancy & Birth | Elizabeth Davis | GREAT book

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	Heart & Hands: A Midwife's Guide to Pregnancy & Birth Elizabeth Davis Celestial Arts, 2004 - 312 pages average customer review:based on 23 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

For over two decades, HEART & HANDS has been a beloved guide for both midwives and parents interested in the benefits of midwifery care. This all-new fourth edition has been revised from start to finish, featuring updated material that emphasizes independent midwifery, physiologic (natural) birth, and the art of nonintervention. Midwifery expert Elizabeth Davis includes valuable hints for turning breech and posterior babies, mediating pain in labor, and supporting newborn physiology. Davis also reveals the keys to postpartum recovery, with practical tips on breastfeeding for busy mothers. Comprehensive and compassionate, HEART & HANDS remains a dog-eared classic for parents, midwives, and other birthing helpers.

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To the person who said: More pronography then medical guidance

This reader has an issue with a woman's whole body. In many birth books all you see is from the wasit down like the woman is not a whole person. When we focus on the whole picture (a womans torso, breasts and FACE!) we remember this isn't a birthing machine that needs fixing; this is a person, a woman, a mother.

GREAT book

I would recommend this book to anyone pursuing a natural birth. It helped me to understand many of the things that my midwife did, as well as to have faith in the strength of my body. Reading this before labor helped me to make it through 20 hours of back labor without even so much as an aspirin. I would highly recommend this book to parents-to-be!

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Wonderful book

We have six healthy, intelligent and well adjusted children! The first two were born in the hospital with a CNM (certified Nurse Midwife). The next two were born at home with a PCM (professionally certified midwife) and the last two my husband and I delivered alone. The two books most helpful to us were this one and Special Delivery by Rahima Baldwin. It is informative, factual, and easy to read. If you need practical information as well as courage to birth at home, read this and your mind will be put at ease. You are not "crazy" to consider this option!

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Great Resource Manual

This book was a little too in-depth for the average reader, but was excellent for practical information and training purposes. I found it worked best as a resource rather than a study item. The author was knowledgeable and communicated well.

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