Product Description: Former talk show host Lake, producer of the documentary The Business of Being Born, joins with Epstein, the film's director, to further probe the subject of birth in America. Asserting that the high tech, low touch trend in medicalized births has usurped parents' sense of power and choice, the authors present a detailed examination of the birthing experience, beginning with their own personal accounts. Employing the premise that although one can't predict what will happen during birth, one can prepare, they present options that women should consider, including home birth and the use of a midwife or doula.

• Hardcover: 272 pages
• Publisher: Wellness Central; 1 edition (May 1, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0446538132
• ISBN-13: 978-0446538138
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,547 in Books

Your Best Birth: Know All Your Options, Discover the Natural Choices, and Take Back the Birth Experience (Hardcover)

• Paperback: 88 pages
• Publisher: SCHIEL & DENVER PUBLISHING LIMITED (March 25, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1849030111
• ISBN-13: 978-1849030113
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5 ounces

The Ultimate Guide to Labour & Birth (Paperback)

Product Description: Maternal-newborn nursing is multi-faceted, challenging and rewarding. It provides multiple opportunities to touch lives and make a difference. In the new edition, those facets and their impact on maternal-newborn nursing is evident, while emphasizing that family members are co-particpants in care.  Because of the varied and rich opportunities for nurses, the theme emphasized in this edition are the many facets of maternal-newborn nursing. This thread is subtly woven throughout the book. Nursing students and professionals

• Hardcover: 1008 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall; 7 edition (February 7, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0135025850
• ISBN-13: 978-0135025857
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.7 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.1 pounds
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #11,955 in Books

Contemporary Maternal-Newborn Nursing (7th Edition) (MyNursingLab Series) (Hardcover)

Product Description: Doulas play an increasingly popular and important role on the maternity scene today…The Doula Guide To Birth is a comprehensive and thoughtful book that describes exactly what doulas do, how doulas work, how they can improve your childbirth experience, and how you can incorporate a doula into your labor and delivery plans. Highly recommended to all pregnant women who wish to be fully informed about their options.

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Bantam (May 19, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0553385267
• ISBN-13: 978-0553385267
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #111,906 in Books

The Doula Guide to Birth: Secrets Every Pregnant Woman Should Know (Paperback)

Product Description: Starred Review. In this revealing collection of essays, 25 writers talk about their personal breastfeeding experiences. The beautifully written, heartbreaking first entry, Breast-Laid Plans by Heidi Raykeil is about how nursing her daughter for three and a half years helped her become whole again after the loss of her first-born child. In Motherhood Made a Liar Out of Me, Daryn Eller writes about feeling left out as the mother of an adopted, bottle-fed daughter and when asked in the playground if her child is weaned, she always answers yes. Dawn Porter's In a Man's World tackles the difficulties of pumping milk in the workplace, while Patricia Berry is clear on her decision in Because I Don't Want To, her husband and La Leche League be damned.

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Harvard Common Press (March 25, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 155832397X
• ISBN-13: 978-1558323971
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #64,124 in Books

Unbuttoned: Women Open Up About the Pleasures, Pains, and Politics of Breastfeeding (Paperback)