«I didn't have any indicators of risk, I come from a long
line of healthy births, as soon as I found out I was pregnant I knew I wanted a homebirth.
Not exact matches
To me, the real problem with this
line of thinking is that the very things that make childbirth so safe that homebirth advocates think a
healthy baby is guaranteed are the SAME things that homebirth advocates think ruin their
birth experience.
Twenty - one color photos and more than 100 detailed
line illustrations.The Book
of Baby Massage: For a Happier,
Healthier Child by Peter Walker and Janet Balaskas (Kensington Publishing) Co-written by the founder
of Britain's Active
Birth Centre.Baby Massage: Parent - Child Bonding Through Touch by Amelia D. Auckett and Dr Tiffany Field.
We have NICU nurses who are saying things along the
lines of, «Well, if moms were less strict about their
birth plan, if they compromised a little bit more, if they didn't have to have everything their way, then we'd probably have
healthier births in the hospital.»
So all
of us have to play our part in educating women, our friends and family members, about
healthy birth practices and also encouraging women to write letters
of complaint to their hospitals if they aren't satisfied and request changes be made to improve outcomes that are in
line with the
healthy birth practices outlined in our book Attached at the Heart and at www.lamaze.org.