The Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better Birth by Henci Goer

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Practical Information for a Safe, Satisfying Childbirth
Award winning medical writer and birth activist Henci Goer gives clear, concise information based on the latest medical studies. Goer will help you compare and contrast your various options and show you how to avoid unnecessary procedures, drugs, restrictions, and tests. The book covers:

• CESAREANS ˇ BREECH BABIES ˇ INDUCING LABOR ˇ IVs
• ELECTRONIC FETAL MONITORING ˇ RUPTURING MEMBRANES
• COPING WITH SLOW LABOR ˇ EPIDURALS
• EPISIOTOMY ˇ VAGINAL BIRTH AFTER CESAREAN ˇ DOULAS
• DECIDING ON A DOCTOR OR MIDWIFE
• CHOOSING WHERE TO HAVE YOUR BABY
• AND MUCH MORE

Henci Goer specializes in birth issues. Her previous book, *Obstetric Myths Versus Research Realities*, is a highly-acclaimed resource for childbirth professionals. Goer has written consumer education pamphlets and numerous articles for magazines as diverse as Reader's Digest and Childbirth Instructor. For nearly 20 years, Goer has been a Lamaze-certified childbirth educator and labor support professional (doula).

What People Are Saying

Penny Simkin
In Henci Goer, thinking women have a champion, and maternity caregivers have a challenger. Henci has applied her impressive intellect, wisdom, writing skills, common sense, and wit to produce The Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better Birth. She analyzes and makes sense of a prodigious amount of recent obstetric research, boils it down, and summarizes its findings. And, on the basis of these findings, she makes practical recommendations for better births. Not one to pull the wool over anyone's eyes, Henci lets the reader in on her whole thinking process, providing scientific references, summaries of the articles, and logical recommendations-all in a highly readable, user-friendly format.
— Penny Simkin, P.T. internationally known speaker, birth educator, doula, doula-trainer co-author of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn and author of The Birth Partner

Product Details

• ISBN: 0399525173
  
• ISBN-13: 9780399525179
• Format: Paperback, 384pp
• Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
• Pub. Date: October 1999
• Edition Number: 1
• Sales Rank: 17,215