The Birth Partner Handbook : Everything You Need to Know for a Healthy, Positive Birth Experience

The Birth Parter Handbook is a concise, contemporary guide for today's birth partners, showing them exactly what they can do to help create a positive birth experience, whether the mother gives birth naturally or with medication, at home, in a childbearing center, or in a hospital. With a special emphasis on the psychological changes of labor, this guide also introduces a new approach to understanding labor made popular through the author's nationwide childbirth workshops, called the "laboring mind response." Birth partners will gain new insight into the mother's altered state of mind and altered behavior during labor, and be given an easy-to-follow, eight-step method that teaches the mind to cooperate with the body and will help make childbirth less stressful and more natural for the mother. "'The Birth Parter Handbook' is a concise, contemporary guide for today's birth partners, showing them exactly what they can do to help create a positive birth experience, whether the mother gives birth naturally or with medication, at home, in a childbearing center, or in a hospital."--Publisher description Title Page 2 Copyright 3 Contents 4 Chapter One 6 Chapter Two 22 Chapter Three 50 Chapter Four 76 Chapter Five 100 Chapter Six 116 Chapter Seven 128 Chapter Eight 136 Chapter Nine 160 Chapter Ten 180 Chapter Eleven 206 About the Author 230 Notes 232 Back Cover 242 9781402237799