If I could pick just one it would be Ina May's Guide to Childbirth. The birth stories were awesome in helping me to see the many variations in labor. Also, becuase they are told from the mothers point of view they gave me a lot of insight into what they were thinking/feeling, and therefor how I might best be able to help my mothers.
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Not a book- not a training or certification program... but talking... LISTENING.. to woman after woman. Old women, dying women, young women, any woman. Listen to their stories over and over again. Hear the grief in them, the rage, the loss... sometimes the joy and celebration. Only in listening to the women have I pieced together an understanding of the process of birth, the uniqueness of each woman, each baby, each family, the politics and medicalization of birth, the effect of grief and loss, the in your face denial of loss in this society and it's affects. The HUGE lifelong significance of birth to each woman - it's affect on relationships, on sexuality, on the child. Only through reading countless stories at ICAN of cesarean and VBAC have I understood that field and a cesarean mom's potential journey.
I do not see how any book- no matter how good, thorough, on target it is can even begin to take the place of the women's individual stories. So please, aspiring birthworkers... LISTEN to the moms!!!!
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I do not see how any book- no matter how good, thorough, on target it is can even begin to take the place of the women's individual stories. So please, aspiring birthworkers... LISTEN to the moms!!!!
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wise words, thanks for the post
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your dd's name is beautiful btw
Originally Posted by ariahsmum Not a book- not a training or certification program... but talking... LISTENING.. to woman after woman. Old women, dying women, young women, any woman. Listen to their stories over and over again. Hear the grief in them, the rage, the loss... sometimes the joy and celebration. Only in listening to the women have I pieced together an understanding of the process of birth, the uniqueness of each woman, each baby, each family, the politics and medicalization of birth, the effect of grief and loss, the in your face denial of loss in this society and it's affects. The HUGE lifelong significance of birth to each woman - it's affect on relationships, on sexuality, on the child. Only through reading countless stories at ICAN of cesarean and VBAC have I understood that field and a cesarean mom's potential journey. I do not see how any book- no matter how good, thorough, on target it is can even begin to take the place of the women's individual stories. So please, aspiring birthworkers... LISTEN to the moms!!!! Stepping off soapbox
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wise words, thanks for the post
your dd's name is beautiful btw
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