Assistant Coach's Manual [Spiral-bound]

Susan Bek; Marjie Hathaway; Coni Sherman (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 2005

This is the Bradley Method(r) manual for Assistant Coach's at natural childbirth. Assistant coach's, sometimes called doulas are helpers at birth. This manual will help family members, and others, to be effective in supporting mothers and fathers as they do what well may be the most important work of their lives.

Product Details

• Spiral-bound: 110 pages
• Publisher: Academy Publications (January 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0931560039
• ISBN-13: 978-0931560033
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7.1 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #301,247 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A good book to borrow from your Bradley instructor., May 1, 2009

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Erinn M. Streeter (TLH, FL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Assistant Coach's Manual (Spiral-bound)

If you ever wanted to know how to be an effective assistant birth coach, this book is a valuable resource. It's well-organized in outline format with short, explanatory paragraphs. Its in-depth content about the assistant coach's role, responsibilities and how to recognize when it's time to act and what to do would be helpful to dads, doulas and other birth attendants.

However, I only rated this manual 3 stars due to its price. I'd pay $25.00 for a hardback, certainly. But this publication (I hesitate to call it a book) is a spiral, soft-bound one. Honestly, it looks like something printed at Kinko's. (It's possible the spiral binding is to provide ease-of-use in a labor setting, but I'd think it would be in the authors' best interests to bind this one more permanently, or at least have a hard-cover for it, so that it would be less easy to reproduce illegitimately.)

If possible, I recommend borrowing this one from your local Bradley instructors' library; according to my local instructor, it's required reading for Bradley teachers' recertification, so they should have a copy on hand. Also, Bradley instructors are able to purchase this one at a reduced price ($18.00, I believe, at the time of this review), so you may be able to order it through your instructor.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars its like birthing cliffnotes, August 17, 2008

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Kimberly Hudson "Kimberly" (NY, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Assistant Coach's Manual (Spiral-bound)

this is a great quick-read book. it provides you with the informational tools you need in order to have a successful natural birth.

3.0 out of 5 stars Informative, but dated, February 2, 2011

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Alyssa Cole "natural_birth_mom" (Salt Lake, UT) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Assistant Coach's Manual (Spiral-bound)

I am a former AAHCC teacher and I used to recommend this to my students who were having parents or other people attend their birth who wasn't necessarily supportive of their natural childbirth decision. It has a lot of info, but is a little too wordy. You'd be just as well off sitting down with them with your student manual and going over some of the info that you want them to know and to tell them what YOU expect out of THEM. Just my opinion though :)