Birth as a Healing Experience: The Emotional Journey of Pregnancy Through Postpartum

ISBN-13: 9780789005762 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 142 str.

Lois Halzel Freedman

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A certified childbirth educator with 15 years of experience examines emotional and spiritual aspects of pregnancy and postpartum, using real-life stories to illustrate how women deal with past experiences of grief and loss during pregnancy in a therapeutic setting. She discusses medical and psychological consequences of cesarean sections and other

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Contents Foreword

• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Part I: Birth as Personal and Psychological Development
• Chapter 1: The Author's Own Story: Two Births and One Book
• Birth Number One
• The Second Baby: Practing the Lessons Learned
• Birth of a Career and a Book
• Chapter 2: Pregnancy and Childbirth in Women's Psychological Development
• Part II: Birth as a Medical Intervention
• Chapter 3: Contemporary Medical Interventions
• Background
• Common Medical Interventions
• Chapter 4: The Caesarean Section
• “Once a Cesarean, Always a Cesarean”: A Discussion
• Reducing the Cesarean Rate 8 Postpartum Effects
• Part III: Birth as an Experience of Empowerment
• Chapter 5: Support for Honoring the Experience of Childbirth
• The Childbirth Educator
• The Care Provider
• The Woman Listening to Her Inner Wisdom
• The Partner
• Labor Support from Another Woman
• Part IV: Birth as a Healing Experience
• Chapter 6: Vaginal Birth After Caesarean (VBAC)
• Preparation for VBAC
• Clients' Stories
• Chapter 7: Healing from Loss
• Working with Clients During Postpartum Period
• Chapter 8: Healing from Mother Loss
• Counseling Motherless Women
• Part V: Birth as a Sacred Experience
• Chapter 9: Circle of Women
• Compassionate Childbirth Preparation
• Bibliography
• Index
• Reference Notes Included

O autorze

Lois Halzel Freedman