# Choices in Pregnancy and Childbirth

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- Authors: [John Wilks](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-wilks)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2015-08-21

## Description

This is a comprehensive and empowering guide to facilitating a positive pregnancy and birth experience, and ensuring lasting emotional and physical health for mother and baby. Countering increasingly medicalized attitudes towards pregnancy and birth among many healthcare providers, this research-based book discusses the benefits of a more natural approach. It reveals the often undisclosed effects on a child's long-term development of accepted medical practices, such as induction, C-section, surgical interventions and pain-relief medications. It offers advice on how these practices can be avoided, for example with techniques to encourage optimal fetal positioning, by optimising the birth environment, and through drug-free pain management methods. Ultimately, it enables practitioners to support parents in informed, confident decision-making by giving a balanced account of the complex array of options available throughout pregnancy and birth. With invaluable contributions from midwives, doulas, mothers, and doctors, and tried-and-tested advice on sleep, exercise, diet and therapies, this will a very useful reference for anyone working with women and babies. The information will also be relevant to prospective and new parents.

## Editions

### Choices in Pregnancy and Childbirth

- Publisher: singing_dragon
- ISBN: 978-18-4819-219-5
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2015-08-21
- Language: en_GB

### Choices in Pregnancy and Childbirth

- Publisher: singing_dragon
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-08-5701-167-1
- Published: 2015-08-21
- Language: en_GB