Description
| Product ID: | 9780738215068 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | The Doula Book |
| Subtitle: | How a Trained Labor Companion Can Help You Have a Shorter, Easier, and Healthier Birth |
| Authors: | Author: John Kennell, Phyllis Klaus, Marshall Klaus |
| Page Count: | 272 |
| Subjects: | Pregnancy, birth and baby care: advice and issues, Pregnancy, birth & baby care |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating For all expectant parents who want to reclaim normal birth, the authoritative guide to support in labor For an entire generation of new parents, this warm, expert work has become the standard guide to the shortest, easiest, and healthiest childbirth. Now a thoroughly updated and revised edition offers new research showing how labour support reduces the rate of cesarean sections, length of labour, need for pain medicine, and number of episiotomies. New material also demonstrates the positive effects of having a doula on mother-infant bonding, how relatives or friends can be trained in labour support, and how hypnosis is used to ease and shorten labour. No expectant parent will want to be without this empowering and irreplaceable book. |
| Imprint Name: | Da Capo Lifelong |
| Publisher Name: | Hachette Books |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2012-04-03 |
