SUPERNATURAL CHILDBIRTH: Experiencing the Promises of God Concerning Conception and Delivery
This book is highly recommended for anyone who is pregnant or trying to conceive. It helps get rid of any fears pregnancy and/or labor may bring and also includes inspiring testimonies from other women using these principles. The advice found in this book for a pain-free childbirth has been referred to as “God’s Epidural”. Search blog posts on the dangers of epidurals for more information.
PUSHED; The Painful Truth About Childbirth and Modern Maternity Care
“We know that if we take our otherwise healthy patient in LDRP, release her cuffs and bands, unplug the probes and sensors, and turn of the Pitocin and morphine, 9 times out of 10 her body will birth a baby with minimal interference or injury. . .”This provocative, highly readable expose raises questions of great consequence for anyone planning to have a baby in U.S., as well as those interested or involved in women's health care. It includes stunning quotes from doctors admitting the problems with conventional medical practices for childbirth, as well as discussion about Europe's efforts to bring back homebirth.
If you were to pick one book to read during pregnancy, I think it should be this one. The author covers more truthful information in the Introduction than any information an obstetrician would likely tell their patients in 40 weeks.
Get Me Out--A History of Childbirth from the Garden of Eden to the Sperm Bank
Similar to Pushed, this book is an incredibly concise and deep book bearing the facts of modern childbirth, but it does so by taking readers through the history of childbirth. Throughout the chapters, you will see how the picture of birthing centers and obstetricians got their start, and how something that started out that way could not ever be a very healthy entity with that foundation. I highly recommend this one as well.
INA MAY'S GUIDE TO CHILDBIRTH
Gaskin offers encouragement and practical advice in her upbeat and informative book on natural childbirth. After studying the Mayan method of childbirth, she has used her research to help thousands of women birth babies naturally. The second part of this book helps give women the information they need to avoid standard unnecessary medical interventions and to learn how to trust their bodies instead.
HEARTS AND HANDS: A Midwife's Guide to Pregnancy and Birth
This book is often called the “textbook” for student midwives but is a great read for parents-to-be. Reviewers recommend purchasing it rather than getting it from the library as you will be referring to things in it over and over. The 328 pages of this book include pictures, diagrams, and lots more helpful information to help a woman know what’s going on with her own body!
I encourage you to seek wisdom and arm yourself with the truth before your baby is born. It could very well change the rest of your life.
