The Doula Book : How a Trained Labor Companion Can Help You Have a Shorter, Easier, and Healthier Birth

Klaus, Phyllis H., Kennell, John H., Klaus, Marshall H.

ISBN 10: 0738215066 / ISBN 13: 9780738215068

Published by Grand Central Publishing, 2012

About this Item

Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Doula Book : How a Trained Labor Companion Can Help You Have a Shorter, Easier, and Healthier Birth
• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0738215066
• ISBN 13: 9780738215068
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 3rd ed.
• Condition: Good

About this title

Synopsis

For an entire generation of new parents, this warm, expert work has become the standard guide to the shortest, easiest, and healthiest childbirth. Now a thoroughly updated and revised edition offers new research showing how labour support reduces the rate of cesarean sections, length of labour, need for pain medicine, and number of episiotomies. New material also demonstrates the positive effects of having a doula on mother-infant bonding, how relatives or friends can be trained in labour support, and how hypnosis is used to ease and shorten labour. No expectant parent will want to be without this empowering and irreplaceable book.

About the Author

Marshall H. Klaus, MD, internationally known neonatologist, is professor emeritus of pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine. Distinguished pediatrician John H. Kennell, MD, is professor emeritus of pediatrics at Case Western Reserve Medical School. Psychotherapist Phyllis H. Klaus, MFT, LMSW, is widely known for her practice and teaching of the psychology of pregnancy.