Or, in this books case, an extremely one-sided look at how wonderful birth is only if you are at home, with a midwife having an orgasm as your baby comes into the world (the alternative being a piece of meat in line at the slaughter house where your chance of death is greatly increased, aka. If the natural childbirth books hadn't made me so insanely fearful of what labor in the hospital would be like, I would've gone in earlier and probably wound up taking drugs, which I really didn't want to do. The days and weeks following my son's birth should have been the happiest of my life (well, barring the hormones rocking my boat, of course), but instead I had to spend the first year of my baby's life wrestling with guilt and shame and a sense of inadequacy, and that's just stupid.

Long story short (seriously, I just wrote my whole birth saga in 10 long paragraphs and deleted them because this is a BOOK REVIEW), my birth did not go according to plan either.

Con fotos de mujeres que no sufren durante el parto, consejos para prepararse y todo desde un punto de vista natural. I believe that holistic health and modern medicine can complement each other and that both have their faults. The science cited here, along with hospital procedures generally, is pretty outdated, which works nicely for the book's preferred method of persuasion: scare tactics.

The first half of the book contains only birth stories, which I think can be helpful if you have heard a lot of horror stories about birth, but the rest of it I cannot in good conscience recommend without serious qualifications.In the end (I had my baby two days ago), I think this hysteria about hospitals did ultimately help me. Payments made using National Book Tokens are processed by National Book Tokens Ltd, and you can read their Terms and Conditions here.

And if one more person tells me how great the Moosewood Cookbook is, I will heave a bag of whole grain flour at her. While a lot of her outrage seemed justified to me, it wasn't very helpful in a book that was supposed to be a "guide" to childbirth.I worried about giving birth - about how long it would take and how much it would hurt and whether or not I would grunt - but I never worried about dying.