The Complete Illustrated Birthing Companion: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating the Best Birthing Plan for a Safe, Less Painful, and Successful Delivery for You and Your Baby
Language: English
Published by Fair Winds Press, 2012
- Softcover
- Used
Seller: Country House Library, Gloucester, United KingdomCountry House Library
AbeBooks seller since October 24, 2025
Condition: Used - Good
£ 5.78
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketSeller Inventory # CHL10887291
- Title
- The Complete Illustrated Birthing Companion: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating the Best Birthing Plan for a Safe, Less Painful, and Successful Delivery for You and Your Baby
- Author
- French, Amanda
- Publisher
- Fair Winds Press
- Publication year
- 2012
- Condition
- Used; Good
- Binding
- paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1592335330
- ISBN 13
- 9781592335336
- Item weight
- 772 grams
How to give birth is the most important decision of a woman’s pregnancy, but navigating the maze of options is overwhelming. The Complete Illustrated Birthing Companion clearly lays out the process for eight successful birthing plans from home births and hospital births to a natural unmedicated delivery and C-sections. Each path outlines the latest research on every technique and procedure from water birthing to medications and includes “Real Deal” and “Inside Information” sections that detail the huge variations parents-to-be sometimes encounter. Written by an OB/GYN, nurse/midwife, and neonatal nurse, this photo-filled essential guide presents the most balanced and comprehensive perspective on all aspects of delivery today including red flags that indicate when another birthing plan may be more appropriate as well as helpful strategies and trimester-by-trimester schedules for the smoothest birth experience possible.
“Every expecting mom is hungry for information and guidance. The Complete Illustrated Birthing Companion is that and so much more! In order to attain our personal best throughout pregnancy, as well as during and after childbirth, access to information and services are key. Women need to feel prepared and supported going into motherhood.”—Christy Turlington Burns, Author, Living Yoga: Creating a Life Practice, and Founder, Every Mother Counts “The authors have taken a comprehensive, straightforward, and truly unbiased look at the many childbirth options available to women today. This is an indispensable guide for expectant mothers everywhere.”—Alexa Joy Sherman, deputy editor, Natural Health magazine “From the best experts in the field of childbirth, The Complete Illustrated Birthing Companion is a real-life guide to the entire process of having a baby. Most importantly, it explains the spectrum of choices, from drug-free home birth to what to expect during a C-section, and everything in between. Don't go into labor without it!” —Peg Moline, editor-in-chief, Fit Pregnancy magazine
"Synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
About the Author
Susan Thomforde, C.N.M. has been a practicing nurse midwife for more than 27 years. She's been called "a midwife's midwife"-the highest compliment in midwifery. Susan has taught classes on emergency delivery for the Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) conference. She was a member of the Tufts University faculty while working at St. Margaret's Hospital and has been an adjunct faculty member for Yale University, Case Western Reserve University and University of Pennsylvania midwifery students. She resides in the Boston area.
Jeanne Faulkner, R.N., has a 20-year history as a labor and delivery, postpartum, neonatal and NICU nurse and a ten-year history as a health writer/journalist. She shares her real world perspective and practical advice on the obstacles and opportunities Suparents face both inside and outside the hospital in her weekly column for Fit Pregnancy Magazine online called Ask The Labor Nurse. She is also an advocate, writer, speaker and lobbyist for global women's and maternal health issues and has traveled with CARE (a global humanitarian organization) to work with mothers around the world. She lives in Portland, OR.
Dana Rousmaniere is a Boston-based writer, editor and author who has written for print and online publications including Good Housekeeping, Healthy Living, Living Fit, Women's Health, The Atlantic Monthly Online, Babble.com, CaféMom.com and more. She was Managing Editor of Fit Pregnancy Magazine online for many years, and has also held positions as Senior Producer at Lifetime Television Online and New Media Editor for Hearst Publishing. Her Fit Pregnancy blog, The Charlie Chronicles, was a finalist for the 2007 Maggie Awards for Best Regularly Featured Web Column. Dana continues to write and work for some of the most-visited parenting sites online, including Babble.com and CaféMom.com.
"About the title" may belong to another edition of this title.
Country House Library
Gloucester, United Kingdom
AbeBooks seller since October 24, 2025
Shipping rates from United Kingdom to U.S.A.
| Item | 14 to 45 business days | 5 to 10 business days |
|---|---|---|
| First item | £ 4.10 | £ 8.85 |
Payment methods
Store description
Preloved and vintage books. First editions and collections.
Specialty
VintageSeller's business information
Bluebell Abbey Ltd
5 Pywell Road
Corby, United Kingdom NN17 5WA
Right of withdrawal
If you are a consumer you can withdraw from the contract in accordance with the following. Consumer means any natural person who is acting for purposes which are outside his trade, business, craft or profession.
Information regarding the right of withdrawal
Statutory right to withdraw
You have the right to withdraw from this contract within 14 days without giving any reason.
The withdrawal period will expire after 14 days from the day on which you acquire, or a third party other than the carrier and indicated by you acquires, physical possession of the last good or the last lot or piece.
To exercise the right of withdrawal, electronically fill in and submit a clear statement on our website, under "My Purchases" in "My Account". We will communicate to you an acknowledgement of receipt of such a withdrawal on a durable medium (e.g. by e-mail) without delay.
To meet the withdrawal deadline, it is sufficient for you to send your communication concerning your exercise of the right of withdrawal before the withdrawal period has expired.
Effects of withdrawal
If you withdraw from this contract, we will reimburse to you all payments received from you, including the costs of delivery (except for the supplementary costs arising if you chose a type of delivery other than the least expensive type of standard delivery offered by us).
We may make a deduction from the reimbursement for loss in value of any goods supplied, if the loss is the result of unnecessary handling by you.
We will make the reimbursement without undue delay, and not later than 14 days after the day on which we are informed about your decision to withdraw from this contract.
We will make the reimbursement using the same means of payment as you used for the initial transaction, unless you have expressly agreed otherwise; in any event, you will not incur any fees as a result of such reimbursement.
We may withhold reimbursement until we have received the goods back, or you have supplied evidence of having sent back the goods, whichever is the earliest.
You shall send back the goods or hand them over to Country House Library, Gloucester, United Kingdom, without undue delay and in any event not later than 14 days from the day on which you communicate your withdrawal from this contract to us. The deadline is met if you send back the goods before the period of 14 days has expired. You will have to bear the direct cost of returning the goods. You are only liable for any diminished value of the goods resulting from the handling other than what is necessary to establish the nature, characteristics and functioning of the goods.
Exceptions to the right of withdrawal
The right of withdrawal does not apply to:
- The delivery of newspapers, journals or magazines with the exception of subscription contracts; and
- The supply of digital content which is not supplied on a tangible medium (e.g. on a CD or DVD) if you accepted when you placed your order that we could start to deliver it, and that you could not withdraw once delivery had started.