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The Birth Partner, Third Edition: A Complete Guide to Childbirth for Dads, Doulas, and All Other Labor Companions (Birth Partner: A Complete Guide to Childbirth for Dads, Doulas, &) By Penny Simkin ( Harvard Common Press )
Release Date: 2007-01-15
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If you want to learn how best to help an expectant mother have a happy and healthy childbirth, The Birth Partner, Third Edition is the only book you'll need. For almost 20 years, husbands, partners, friends, relatives, and doulas have turned to this book for guidance on being a supportive partner in the delivery room. The expanded third edition includes the most up-to-date information about techniques, devices, and medications for easing labor pain; tests and treatments of the fetus and newborn; strategies to help labor progress; potential medical procedures and interventions; and how best to help the mother during the early days after the birth. And, with its easy-to-use format and new illustrations, the The Birth Partner is the essential guide have on hand in the delivery room.
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Well-balanced
This book has detailed information regarding the entire birth process. It has a very balanced approach regarding birthing naturally and medical intervention. I found it to be extremely helpful as I was getting ready to have a baby for the first time.
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 Only My Partner Didn't Read It ( j_maffei )
I bought this book thinking my husband would read, but I ended up doing the reading. This book is incredibly thorough and covered everything I felt I needed to know about the birthing process, labor, possible complications, the choice to involve drugs, the types of tests performed on the baby, and so much more. It supports natural birth, but not overly so and gives you good information from which to make informed decisions. Despite my intentions to have a natural birth, it just didn't work out. But I felt I had the information I needed when things didn't go as planned and I had to change course. I wasn't too into the parts that were addressed specifically to the partner, and what the partner could do, so I just skipped over those. But if you actually were the partner reading the book, I can see how they might be helpful.
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Good enough to buy!
I borrowed this, along with several similar books from the library to prepare for giving birth in about two months. I found this one to be the most comprehensive and easiest to understand (for both myself and my husband). The book is well organized and is sectioned in such a way that you (or better yet, your partner who is NOT in labor),can quickly turn to pain relieving techniques or other important info when the need arises. The illustrations are clear and relevant, as are the explanations. One of the things I really appreciated about this book was the description of the stages of labor/birth, so that you can understand how and why your laboring body is doing what it is doing at a particular time, and what you can expect as a result of your body's actions. It also provides detailed descriptions of pain relief, from natural measures to drugs offered by hospitals. More importantly, it describes the positive and negative effects of the use of said techniques and drugs, and advises at which stage of labor they are most effective. Even though this is not a book that will be useful to me after my pregnancy, I think it will be invaluable to us leading up to and during labor.
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Fantastic reference book ( smtmsalwys )
I appreciated this book and all of the information it contained. It was extremely easy to read - even my husband read some of it with me.
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Great Reference for Partners AND Moms-To-Be ( katerskater2003 )
I actually read this book before my husband did and I found it extremely helpful. I like Simkin's very practical approach to birth very much and was particularly impressed by her differentiation between "pain" and "suffering." Too often, the natural childbirth books that I've read try to convince you that birth isn't actually painful. Simkin acknowledges that there is pain associated with birth but stresses that pain does not have to be accompanied by suffering. Suffering comes about when your needs are not met or you are unable to cope with the pain. Childbirth can absolutely be free of suffering and I took great confidence in her emphasis on this distinction.
Overall, the book is a great resource. Excellent step-by-step overview of the stages of labor and comfort measures to go with each. Highly recommended!
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