This book offered a variety of suggestions for making an unmedicated birth more comfortable, from massage suggestions to diagrams of various positions for labor and birth to a recipe for "labor-ade. Full of information, realistic and not sentimental, The Happy Birth Book will help you work towards a good birth.

Lastly I review this book with the knowledge that our soon to be born baby will have birth defects, which were picked up at the 20 week scan. New for this edition:How to plan for a positive birth in difficult timesReworked chapter on choosing where to have your babyWhat you need to know about exercise in pregnancy from Charlie Launder, author of Bumps and BurpeesTop tips for breastfeeding from Amy Brown, author of The Positive Breastfeeding BookNew section on your rights in pregnancy and birth by Bashi Hazard of the Human Rights in Childbirth International Lawyers NetworkEssential information about your pelvic floor, core and postnatal incontinence by Nikki Bergen, creator of the Belle Method, and Luce Brett, author of PSML 'Completely changed my way of looking at giving birth'Ella Mills, Deliciously Ella'Full to bursting with useful stuff - and so refreshing to read something positive about all types of birth. Another brilliant book to come out in 2023, this book thinks about motherhood from a variety of lenses, helping mothers understand why their experience might be so confusing or discombobulating. I had my mind set on c section and I still do, but I've become a lot more confident in my journey now that I've learned more about childbirth and what it can be like for different people. This book was published in 1994 and I would love to see the authors publish an update with more current information and updates to the many predictions they made throughout.You will understand what your body can do uninhibited, what support you need and when, and how to work with your midwife and doctor. This book might help you understand a wee bit more about how you are feeling, and have more confidence to approach motherhood in a way that suits you.

Combined with 'The Psychology of Babies', this can be really helpful in learning to trust in the relationship between you and your baby. I've read where other people said if you were to read one book on childbirth this would be the book they would recommend. In the tradition of Random Family and Evicted, a gripping blend of rigorous, intimate on-the-ground reporting and deep social history of reproductive health that follows three first-time mothers as they experience pregnancy and childbirth in today’s America. My personal experience tells me that no matter how relaxed I am, I'm still going to experience cervical stretching as painful, and that for me, more active pain coping practices will work better.Lynne Murray is a developmental psychologist who has studied babies for decades and she has a wonderful way of helping you see things from your baby's perspective. This book talks about traumatic births and came about as a result of Sheila's experiences listening to women with birth trauma.