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Ina May's Guide to Childbirth

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So take some of the comments with a grain of salt because Ina May is talking from her experience which is outside the hospital and from her experiences on the Farm.

And if one more person tells me how great the Moosewood Cookbook is, I will heave a bag of whole grain flour at her. Long story short (seriously, I just wrote my whole birth saga in 10 long paragraphs and deleted them because this is a BOOK REVIEW), my birth did not go according to plan either. Ina May pushes back against the idea that midwives can only be present for “normal,” non-complicated births and includes stories of breech babies, shoulder dystocia, women who were told they had a too small pelvis, etc. It took a lot of the mystery away and clarified that labor was more than "hours of the worst pain in your life and very scary" like everyone tells you.Overall, I'm glad I read this book and I truly believe that it has better equipped me for my son's upcoming birth. Update three years later: I think of this book's discussion of sphincters every time I try to get 30 seconds of privacy to go to the bathroom. Genesis 3:16 (ESV) says “To the woman he said, ‘I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children.

The benefits of medical tests were skimmed over while the possible harm of these tests was thoroughly covered. The whole intense experience was deeply invigorating and actually GAVE me the energy I needed to cope with the first couple of difficult weeks with a new baby. Her constant reminder that deliveries at her clinic rarely need medical intervention doesn't paint a full picture.

However, she failed to note that part of the problem was the large number of women who demand epidurals. She shuns prudishness in our culture, and encourages women to make birth (or, rather, allow birth) to be a sexual experience, yet totally respects the fact that most women are too prudish to have a stranger (especially a man) in the birthing room with them, without adverse effects to the progress of labor. Women have a special bond with their babies given to them by God, and childbirth is one of the times in life when this is abundantly clear.

Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's daily session limit.I felt like my body had betrayed me by failing at this most basic task of womanhood, which my female relatives have done countless times without issue.

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