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For PPL hoping to go natural in a hospital: book recommendation

Annaeliz84Annaeliz84 member
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Many people want to go natural but have to give birth in a hospital for one reason or another.  I just finished reading Natural Hospital Birth: The Best of Both Worlds by Cynthia Gabriel and really liked it.  I feel so much more prepared for what I hope will be a natural childbirth even though it will be in a hospital with a high rate of interventions. I also feel so much more committed to natural birth and able to explain to my spouse why it is so important to me.

Disclaimer:  I'm a FTM so we'll see how good my idea of "prepared" is in a few months, haha.  

 I hope this book is helpful to someone else as well!  Good luck mommies :)

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Re: For PPL hoping to go natural in a hospital: book recommendation

  • Haley.BethHaley.Beth member
    I read this book while preparing for my natural hospital birth with dd. It was very helpful, but I do have one recommendation. Take a tour of your hospital and ask LOTS of questions. Talk to other women who have given birth there. Talk to your doctor about the hospital's real policies. Reading that book was helpful, but my hospital was even more anti-natural birth than I was prepared for. I took the tour, but a lot of what they told me was flipped around once I was actually in labor. If you can get some real answers about the way your hospital operates, it helps to go back and take another look at the strategies the book offers and make a better game plan.
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  • aylafsu88aylafsu88 member

    imageHaley.Beth:
    I read this book while preparing for my natural hospital birth with dd. It was very helpful, but I do have one recommendation. Take a tour of your hospital and ask LOTS of questions. Talk to other women who have given birth there. Talk to your doctor about the hospital's real policies. Reading that book was helpful, but my hospital was even more anti-natural birth than I was prepared for. I took the tour, but a lot of what they told me was flipped around once I was actually in labor. If you can get some real answers about the way your hospital operates, it helps to go back and take another look at the strategies the book offers and make a better game plan.

    I totally agree. The other book I read which I liked was "A thinking womens guide to a better birth" by Henci Goer.

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  • KmfMjf1024KmfMjf1024 member
    I also really liked the Gabriel book! We borrowed it from our Bradley teacher but I found myself wanting to copy/make notes from it so much that we're just going to purchase our own.
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