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Excellent Books on Prenatal Preparation,
Birth, Natural Nurturing, Attachment and Health -Updated:August 23, 2005
_________________________________________________________________VITAL TOUCH - How Intimate Contact with Your Baby Leads to Happier, Healthier Development
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by Sharon Heller-
Why do American babies rank among the least held on earth?
Throughout human evolution, babies have enjoyed intimate physical contact with their mothers. In cultures around the world, parents' arms are used to comfort their babies, from holding and carrying them to rocking them to sleep.
In this probing and insightful book, psychologist Sharon Heller uses evolutionary psychology to examine why social pressures and a desire for self-sufficiency have caused Americans to distance ourselves physically from our children. Our overreliance on infant carriers, strollers, swings, and cribs as parenting substitutes often prevents us from attaining physical closeness with our children, causing increased fussiness in infants and creating conflict for the mothers. Drawing from an inspiring array of cultural and anthropological sources, The Vital Touch explores all the psychological, physiological, and sensory benefits that occur when parent and baby are in touch - and what happens when they're not - and shows us how we can provide a soothing and nurturing environment in which our children will thrive.
Here is a book that affirms the value of touch as the most essential medium through which we can communicate and bond with our babies.
Written by: Sharon Heller, Ph.D.Heller does first rate job of informing and educating us to the neural development of our young and the harm we do when we try to short circuit the natural development of our children in their primal year.This is a must read for anyone considering prudent prenatal education. It is pertinent to the educator, parent to be, pediatrician, obstetrician, family physician, medical administrator, health insurance actuary or anyone with an interest in the survival of the species.
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The Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better Birth
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by Henci Goer- This is a must read for anyone considering prudent prenatal education. It is pertinent to the educator, parent to be, pediatrician, obstetrician, family physician, medical administrator, health insurance actuary or anyone with an interest in the survival of the species.
Practical Information for a Safe, Satisfying ChildbirthAward winning medical writer and birth activist Henci Goer gives clear, concise information based on the latest medical studies. Goer will help you compare and contrast your various options and show you how to avoid unnecessary procedures, drugs, restrictions, and tests.
Henci Goer specializes in birth issues.
Henci Goer, award-winning medical writer and internationally known speaker, is the author of The Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better Birth. Her previous book, Obstetric Myths Versus Research Realities is a highly-acclaimed resource for childbirth professionals, and she is an acknowledged expert on evidence-based maternity care. Goer has written consumer education pamphlets and numerous articles for magazines as diverse as Reader's Digest and the Journal of Perinatal and Neonatal Nursing. Currently, she appears on ParentsPlace.com as the Birth Guru. For over twenty years, Goer has been a Lamaze-certified childbirth educator and labor support professional (doula).Comments
"With the help of this book, any intelligent person can obtain the information necessary to make informed choices. This unique book will provide the tools and confidence to have the best possible birth experience."
- Don Creevy, M.D., FACOG obstetrician-gynecologist, Clinical Assistant Professor, Stanford University Medical School"In Henci Goer, thinking women have a champion, and maternity caregivers have a challenger. Henci has applied her impressive intellect, wisdom, writing skills, common sense, and wit to produce The Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better Birth. She analyzes and makes sense of a prodigious amount of recent obstetric research, boils it down, and summarizes its findings. And, on the basis of these findings, she makes practical recommendations for better births. Not one to pull the wool over anyone's eyes, Henci lets the reader in on her whole thinking process, providing scientific references, summaries of the articles, and logical recommendations -- all in a highly readable, user-friendly format."
- Penny Simkin, P.T.internationally known speaker, birth educator, doula, doula-trainer, co-author of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn,author of The Birth Partner"The Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better Birth puts the power of the latest scientific research childbirth into the hands of women to help them discern the facts from the myths and make informed decisions about their maternity care."
- Maureen P. Corry, M.P.H., Executive Director, Maternity Center Association
_______________________________________________Birth Healthcare
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by Dr. Miriam Stoppard-
This is a concise little birthing primer. Well written, illustrated and designed. It is very easy to read and answers most questions.
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MICHEL ODENT a saviour in the field of obstetrics and advocate of natural childbirth and nourishment
- my personal hero and nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize!Michel Odent is an internationally famous childbirth pioneer. For more than twenty years, he was head of Pithiviers maternity hospital, and it was there that he first noticed the strong attraction to water that many women have when giving birth.
Dr Odent is the founder of the Primal Health Research Centre in London, whose objective is to explore correlations between events during the perinatal period and later health. He has written many articles and books, including Birth Reborn, Primal Health, Water and Sexuality, The Nature of Birth and Breast feeding, We are all Water Babies and The Scientification of Love.
He is in great demand around the world as a lecturer and his teachings have influenced a generation of doctors, midwives and mothers._______________________________________________
The Farmer and the Obstetrician
by Michel Odent-This is his new books, published in 2001. It is an enlightening read and recaps some of the Scientification of Love along with new material on industrialized farming; showing the parallel in the western birthing model and repercussions. A great look at the medical model vs. natural model of birthing and nurturing our young and our planet. He lucidly points out our farming and birthing practices have become industrialized to our detriment and we must act now if there is to be a planet left for our children and children left for our planet.
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Birth Rebornby Michel Odent-
Excellent exposé of industrialized birthing model of western medicine. Michel offers alternate healthier choices for both baby and mother. He helps women to know and understand their innate knowledge and empowers them to trust themselves as the real experts of birth. Mixing personal reflections, medical information breathtaking photographs and moving stories by women who have given birth at his clinic, Dr. Odent offers a clear, detailed, practical depiction of what birth is like. He also briefly examines and describes the impact that birthing practices are having in what he calls the "post-electronic" age. Revised, second edition. Paperback. 1994.
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Scientification of Love - (1999)
by Michel Odent-
Michel Odent - veteran French obstetrician who pioneered the use of water birthing in hospitals and birthing rooms that mirror a home setting."If society's goal is the development of aggression and violence, then we have done everything right. " - Michel Odent
From Foreword: Why do all cultures ritually disrupt the first contact between mother and new-born baby? Why has there hitherto been an evolutionary advantage in developing human potential for aggression rather than the capacity to love? Until recently love was the realm of poets, artists and philosophers. Latterly...
Midwifery Today Review:
Only someone who has been both a medical doctor/researcher and a home birth midwife could write a book like this one, which explores love from a scientific angle yet with great respect for the beautiful orchestration of normal physiology as it works to its best capacity when it is undisturbed. Love, we learn, is a strategy for human survival.The author begins with the primal period which includes fetal life, the perinatal period and early infancy. He explores the behavioral effects of various hormones on birth, postpartum, and the interaction of mother and baby. Using this lens, he then examines the offspring in adulthood: has an undisturbed birth resulted in an expansive capacity to love, or have interventions of many kinds resulted in violent criminality, suicide, impaired sociability, schizophrenia?
The book goes on to explore human sexuality, mysticism, death and prayer as changed levels of consciousness. Odent discusses peak experiences and their impact on human health and well being. The human attraction to water and the physical adaptations of the human body to life in water are given a chapter, as is love at a molecular level, a fascinating look into the physiology of emotional states.
Odent's book gives the reader just enough to think about in regard to each subtopic he raises, while the reader is then compelled to find out more-both by doing further research of a formal nature and obeying the urgent need to tap one's deepest, purest intuition. This in itself sounds like an amazing incitement for an author to accomplish, but for anyone who has been in Odent's presence, it is not at all surprising. This fine book is quintessential Odent-passionate, inquiring and brilliant, with the kind of emerging logic that animates, excites and inspires.
A concise and eye opening text on the microbiology of attraction, conception, birth and our most important primal period. Michel Odent likens our current science to a large but broken mirror where the participants look only at their fractured part of it, in isolation. Warning that there seems to be no policy maker looking at the whole picture. He attempts rather well I believe to put the jigsaw puzzle together so that a more holistic view can be had. And what a view !...so desperately different than our current cultural understanding.
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Misconceptions: Truth, Lies, and the Unexpected on the Journey to Motherhood
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by Naomi Wolf-Naomi steps into the next phase of her life leaving her high flying life of feminism and politics; rubbing elbows with the movers and shakers to become a mom. She diarizes all the drama along the way and exposes the deliberate obfuscation of the birth experience by the medical profession and industry.
She writes, "When I was pregnant for the first time, I did not knownor did my friends or the bright, self-directed women I interviewedthat we were entering a kind of tunnel of experience dictated in large measure by money and institutional politics that presented itself as the medically-objective best practises of prenatal and childbirth care. We thought that the birth stories we recounted to each other, whether easy or difficult or even traumatic, were ours alone, just fate or luck of the draw." (p. 21) That women's experiences are shaped by the politics of the world in which we live and that as a result women share many experiences ought not to be an eye-opening revelation for a feminist. Haven't we moved beyond this point? Sadly it reads like a book that could have been written 20 or 30 years ago for two other reasons as well, neither of them positive. First, not much has changed about the way childbirth occurs in North American culture in the past 30-40 years. Wolf notes there is a very thin veneer of woman-centred language, a consumerist ploy to appeal to placate pregnant women in the approach of many US hospitals. What this covers up is the routine medicalization of childbirth from IVs and epidurals to episiotomies and c-sections. New technology geared at prenatal testing only makes pregnancy more like a medical miracle and less like a routine, natural event.
Doubleday, 2001
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Baby Matters... What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Caring for Your Baby
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by Dr. Linda Folden Palmer
Should be compulsory reading for all educators, pediatricians, doctors, policy makers and parents and anybody else with an interest in preserving and promoting the species as opposed to promoting the gross national product...(interesting name we give to our nation's economy: ...GROSS national product.)
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Birth Without Violence________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
by Frédérick Leboyer
"One of the twenty books that changed the world."
- Utne ReaderA quick and easy read without heavy scientific language that walks us through a natural birth and how it can be, and should be, based on the natural order of things. Great photos of beaming ...actually smiling new born babies...not howling ...as are many babies birthed in our industrialized hospitals.
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Continuum Concept________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
by Jean LiedloffA book every parent should read. An easy to read, highly interesting and informative book written in easy English with profound effect. It is a study of man's capability for love and understanding without violence and disharmony. It studies a tribe called the Yaquena - a highly 'uncivilized' people of the Guatemalan jungle. They live in health and harmony with little loss of life, no word for WORK. Their children are a constant part of their life for the primal period and at the age of eighteen months receive a real bow and arrow. (For clarification that is one and half years old! It is not a typo, it is NOT to read 18 years!) Their daughters at age seven have successfully, single handedly negotiated a dugout canoe in rapids that seasoned adults out of the area would not attempt. People who truly understand that it takes a village to raise a child, and what we are capable of, if given a chance early.
Publisher: Perseus Publishing; ISBN: 0201050714; Reprint edition (January 1986) (Penguin Arkana)
This book started me on a quest to know more about the behaviour of North American children and what we could do different to create loving, caring, healthy, functional humans who are a credit to themselves, their families, communities and the planet and at peace.
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Mothering (Magazine) -________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Editor: Peggy Omara
A great no holds barred magazine dedicated to natural nurturing and all that it entails while in synchronicity with North American life. Should be in all waiting rooms and new parent homes. Does not cater to the conventional consumer culture or the commercial proponents who fund conventional magazines.
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Hyperactivity Hoax________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
by Dr. Sydney Walker
Walker, director of the Southern California Neuropsychiatric Institute, makes a dramatic case against the widespread use of the drug Ritalin to treat hyperactive children. Walker (A Dose of Sanity) points a finger at hurried doctors who treat symptoms without identifying underlying causes and blames managed health care (HMOs) for pressuring physicians into making hasty choices. Educators also get their share of Walker's criticism for attempting to push for the ADD (attention deficit disorder) or ADHD label (and the use of Ritalin) when kids are difficult in class (10 % of elementary school boys are on Ritalin, he notes). Rather than relying on easy labels, Walker urges parents to aggressively seek the root of their child's problem. To pinpoint the cause requires careful sleuthing and testing, which many physicians resist, Walker claims, choosing instead to "perpetrate the hoax" that hyperactivity is a disease instead of a symptom (of brain tumors, diabetes, allergies, to name a few). He exposes the possible side effects of Ritalin (potential addiction, psychotic reactions and cardiac arrhythmia), the more serious of which, according to the author, have been downplayed to benefit HMOs and pharmaceutical companies. This book is a disturbing but compelling must-read for any parent whose child shows signs of a hyperactivity disorder or is using Ritalin now.
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