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“This book has both an authoritative feel and a comfortable, personal style. It's written from the trenches and will be a good resource for parents-to-be, educators, and health workers.”–Suzanne Arms consumer advocate and author/photographer of Immaculate Deception II
“ . . . an unflinching examination of the technological paradigm that erroneously defines birth as a biological event only.”–Elizabeth Davis, B.A., C.M. author of Heart & Hands: A Midwife's Guide to Pregnancy and Birth
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Includes a chapter by Dr. John Gray, author of the best-selling, Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus." Henkart and her collaborators inform women about the current realities of childbirth in America. They provide the reader with facts, figures, cesarean prevention techniques, and alternative approaches to the aggressive routines used by the medical profession today. The technology that "saves" many mothers and babies in childbirth is the same technology that robs many women of their right to birth naturally. Consequently, of the one million cesarean sections that will be performed in America next year, over half will be unnecessary. Women deserve to be informed about the realities of childbirth. They deserve to be encouraged to take responsibility for themselves and to trust the miracle of birth. It is through their conscious, educated choices that our children will be allowed a peaceful and natural beginning in life.
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“This book has both an authoritative feel and a comfortable, personal style. It's written from the trenches and will be a good resource for parents-to-be, educators, and health workers.”–
“ . . . an unflinching examination of the technological paradigm that erroneously defines birth as a biological event only.”–
Product Description
Includes a chapter by Dr. John Gray, author of the best-selling, Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus." Henkart and her collaborators inform women about the current realities of childbirth in America. They provide the reader with facts, figures, cesarean prevention techniques, and alternative approaches to the aggressive routines used by the medical profession today. The technology that "saves" many mothers and babies in childbirth is the same technology that robs many women of their right to birth naturally. Consequently, of the one million cesarean sections that will be performed in America next year, over half will be unnecessary. Women deserve to be informed about the realities of childbirth. They deserve to be encouraged to take responsibility for themselves and to trust the miracle of birth. It is through their conscious, educated choices that our children will be allowed a peaceful and natural beginning in life.
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Andrea Frank Henkart has a Bachelor's Degree in Sociology from UCLA, two teaching credentials with an emphasis on alternative methods of education from UCLA Graduate Division, and a master's Degree in Psychology from Sonoma State University. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
professional childbirth assistant, technocratic myth, cesarean prevention, silent knife, unnecessary cesarean sections, birth plan, cesarean rate, birthing women, major abdominal surgery, vaginal birth, fetal monitor, laboring woman, repeat cesareans, cesarean birth, childbirth education classes, hospital birth, birth experience Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, International Cesarean Awareness Network, Marin County, Nancy Wainer Cohen, American Rite of Passage, Healing Cesarean Section Trauma, Robbie Davis-Floyd New!
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Andrea Frank Henkart has a Bachelor's Degree in Sociology from UCLA, two teaching credentials with an emphasis on alternative methods of education from UCLA Graduate Division, and a master's Degree in Psychology from Sonoma State University. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
professional childbirth assistant, technocratic myth, cesarean prevention, silent knife, unnecessary cesarean sections, birth plan, cesarean rate, birthing women, major abdominal surgery, vaginal birth, fetal monitor, laboring woman, repeat cesareans, cesarean birth, childbirth education classes, hospital birth, birth experience Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, International Cesarean Awareness Network, Marin County, Nancy Wainer Cohen, American Rite of Passage, Healing Cesarean Section Trauma, Robbie Davis-Floyd New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Birth as an American Rite of Passage by Robbie E. Davis-Floyd on page 25, page 37, and Back Matter
- Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus: The Classic Guide to Understanding the Opposite Sex by John Gray on page 109, page 133, and Back Matter
- Natural Pregnancy by Janet Balaskas on page 57, and Back Matter
- Men, Women and Relationships: Making Peace with the Opposite Sex by John Gray on page 109, and Back Matter
- Birth Reborn by Michel Odent on page 8, and Back Matter
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