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Preparing for Childbirth: Guided Imagery Exercises to Ease Labor and Delivery

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I am a doula and mother, and purchased this CD after reading the good reviews about it. I was pretty disappointed when I got it home and listed to it, and certainly wouldn't recommend it to any of my clients. I felt like it was 98% medically directed and maybe 2% true guided imagery/relaxation focused. I found it distracting (and almost innapropriate) to have a male voice talking you through the childbirth process. I also was rather taken aback by the fact that he refers to the baby as 'it' throughout the CD. That disturbed me, even though I'm sure he was trying to find a way to not have to say 'He or She' every time. As he was describing the birth process and calling the baby 'It', the result was an over-medicalized, objectification of the baby, male view point of childbirth. The opposite of this CD, which I would highly recommend to any laboring/pregnant woman is Belleruth Naparstek's 'Health Journey' series! Skip this one - it's not at all what most pregnant mama's need.

I listened to this before I gave birth to my first child. There is a part that you can listen to during labor but I didn't feel like it when the time came. I did use the techniques from this cd more than I used the techniques from the childbirth class I took. If you like to plan and prepare, I would buy this and listen to it every night for a month or two before you give birth. It's hard to say why it helps but it does.

I listened to this cd the last month of pregnancy to accompany my childbirth classes (Hypnobirthing). I loved it. The guys voice is soooo relaxing that I fell asleep many times listening to it. I highly recommend it to ACCOMPANY, not substitue, your childbirth classes. I will be buying these for all my frineds that want a naturall birth. It would still be usefull if you plan on getting an epidural too.

Very pleased with this CD. I enjoy listening to it as I prepare to have my baby. Very good guided imagery and ideas to use while in labor. I am planning to have a natural no medicine delivery and found useful tools in this CD.

i used this with my pregnancy, kind of forgot it for a moment during labor,lol!
but it was a very good tool to have.
very relaxing

I bought this CD without hearing a sample. There is no music in the visualizations and I, personally, didn't like listening to a male voice talking about childbirth.

I bought a few different CDs to compliment my hypnobirthing class- I believe in the value of deep relaxation but as a Christian woman there are too many with new age type mumbo jumbo philosphies incorporated. This format is very simple, very relaxing without the new age quackery