This book is 100 pages total, including 37 pages of unbiased information describing hospital procedures and birth options so you can be truly prepared to make informed
decisions about your birth experience.
If you don't have any living family or close friends that have had a baby, you can still find out
about the birth experience from pregnancy books and birthing classes.
Adroit commissioned a Quality Study at a major metropolitan Level III Maternity Center to quantify how moms
felt about their birth experience using the LDM - 100 Labor & Delivery Mirror.
More than 1,000 BabyCenter ® moms completed the survey, candidly answering
questions about their birth experiences, including how they handled the pain, what they thought of their caregiver, how supportive their partners were, and more.
Naomi Wolf interviewed
moms about their birth experiences and quotes them throughout her book, Misconceptions: Truth, Lies and the Unexpected on the Journey to Motherhood.
And if you've already given birth, what if you could turn back the clock and transform the crushing anger, sadness and
guilt about your birth experience... into genuine, loving acceptance and peace?
One postpartum follow - up visit to celebrate the birth of your baby,
debrief about your birth experience, and answer any questions you have during the early postpartum period.
Research shows that families who feel involved in their birth process as active decision - makers talk about their births as «good ``; families who feel steam - rolled or ignored in the decision - making process report feeling more
trauma about their birth experiences.
I told her that if I had known that birth is about so much more than just «getting the baby out,» that if I had known that I would be processing and working through my feelings
about that birth experience for the rest of my life, then I would never have been so flippant, so unattached and uninvolved, so dangerously naive in my preparation for my daughter's birth.
Gather together in one another's homes or in local restaurants, cafés, and parks,
talk about your birth experiences, and breastfeed your babies openly, while your older women friends can be companionably supportive to help you gain confidence.
When you
write about your birth experience, you preserve those special memories, you help your children understand where their own story started, and you may even be able to heal yourself if your birth was less than you expected.
Throughout my pregnancy I listened to other mothers» war
stories about their birth experience, I read the books (The Baby Book by William and Martha Sears), took the childbirth classes, but no way could I fully comprehend what giving birth would be like.
-LSB-...] has a story (that I'm too squeamish to read)
about her birth experiences.
Our own Jennifer Lance has a story (that I'm too squeamish to read)
about her birth experiences.
have
about their birth experience.
This may sound counter-intuitive, but women who used epidural pain relief have less positive feelings
about their birth experience than women who use no medical pain relief.7, 8 No matter what methods of pain relief a woman used, low levels of pain have not been found to be associated with high levels of enjoyment during labor.9 So what matters for a good birth experience?
So how you FEEL
about your birth experience is indeed a very big deal.
When a friend and I were talking
about birth experiences, I said that I'd had the gamut of birth experiences and could just have normal births from now on and she responded: «No you haven't.