Megan Davidson

Your Birth Plan (eBook, ePUB)

A Guide to Navigating All of Your Choices in Childbirth

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

There is no right way or best way to give birth, but if you're pregnant, you're likely already hearing advice and stories about what you should do, how you should feel, and what you should want from your birth experience. Your Birth Plan is an intervention: it's a birth book that equally honors all paths and all pregnant people, guiding and empowering you to make informed decisions, without judgment or prescription, for your own positive birth experience. Long on information, short on opinions, Your Birth Plan is a how-to guide filled with practical descriptions, insights, stories and tips to make it easier for you to pick where, with whom, and in what way you would like to give birth. Your Birth Plan is comprehensive and free from judgment and prescriptions. It offers unbiased information about all birthing options, including birthing in a hospital, at home, or in a birthing center; having an epidural or an unmedicated birth; induction of labor; vaginal or Cesarean birth; and more. This is a new, inspiring, inclusive, and much-needed guide to help you plan for a birth where you are empowered to make your own choices and to have your needs met, whatever they are.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781538121580
• Artikelnr.: 56835314

Autorenporträt

Megan Davidson, PhD, is a labor and postpartum doula, childbirth educator, and chest/breastfeeding counselor who supports pregnant people and their families without judgment or prescription. She is one of the most experienced doulas in the US, having attended 600 births and supported 1200 families postpartum. Megan has also published essays on the value of doula support, size bias in prenatal care, and body positive pregnancy. She lives and works in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, NY with her husband and two kids.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: My birth story Introduction: birth like that Section 1: Where
should I give birth? Chapter 1: Choosing your best birth location Chapter
2: Giving birth in a hospital Chapter 3: Giving birth in a birth
centerChapter 4: Giving birth at home Section 2: Building your birth team
Chapter 5: Working with a doctor Chapter 6: Working with a midwife Chapter
7: Doula support for your birth Section 3: Giving birth Chapter 8: Laboring
Chapter 9: Common interventions during labor & childbirth Chapter 10: Birth
plans & labor coping strategies   Section 4: Inductions, VBACs, twins, and
Cesarean births Chapter 11: Induction of labor: when, why, and what you can
do to prepare Chapter 12: Having a vaginal birth after a Cesarean birth
Chapter 13: Giving birth to twins/multiples Chapter 14: Cesarean birth
Conclusion: birthing unapologetically