The Doula'S Guide To Empowering Your Birth: A Complete Labor And Childbirth Companion For Parents To Be

The Doula'S Guide To Empowering Your Birth: A Complete Labor And Childbirth Companion For Parents To Be

Experienced doula, Linsey Bliss, shows you how to prepare physically and mentally?or every element of having a child, from pregnancy to fourth trimester in?he Doula's Guide to Empowering Your Birth. Lindsey Bliss, who has assisted as a doula at hundreds of births and is herself a mother of seven, reveals here all the wisdom andadvice that doulas share with the new mothers who hire them.The Doula's Guide to Empowering Your Birth covers the periodfrom pregnancy through labor and birth to?ourth trimester healing. The focus, however, is on preparing for birth--including topics like how to pick the right childbirth class and the right birthing method. You?ll also see how to assemble the team of professionals, family members, and friends who will support you through labor and birth, and how to approach last-minute decisions about pain medications and cesarean sections. Bliss's tone throughout is at onceauthoritative and confident as well aswarm and encouraging. Her concern in her practice as well as in these pages is to listen to and help secure each new mom's own personal vision of a birthing experience that issafe, fulfilling, and meaningful. ????eviewWe doctors know that having a doula by your side is the secret ingredient for an amazing birth. Among doulas, Lindsey Bliss?s the best of the best and?n this terrific book she shares her secrets with you. - Jaqueline Worth, M.D., OB/GYN, Village Obstetrics, New York City, and Mt. Sinai School of MedicineAn inspired and essential guide to creating the birth you desire! The Doula's Guide to Empowering Your Birth offers a golden opportunity to have your own personal,?xperienced doula guide you to an understanding of the many choices you have for you and your baby in birth and beyond.?indsey Bliss, an experienced and wise doula, has witnessed birth in many ways and provides in these pages the tips and wisdom you need to prepare for a safe, empowered, powerful, and truly memorable birth. - Debra Pascali-Bonaro, creator of the Pain to Power and co-author of Orgasmic BirthLindsey Bliss is an exceptional woman with years of life experience as the mother of seven children and hands-on experience as a doula who has dedicated her life to serving new mothers in both prosperous and underserved communities. The Doula's Guide to Empowering Your Birth translates medical language into plain English and explains the many choices available to you, so that you can be empowered in your birth. - Elizabeth Bachner, owner, midwife, and clinic director, GraceFull birthing center, Los AngelesLindsey Bliss is the go-to guide for anyone interested in a mindful pregnancy and empowering birth. - Colleen Wachob, Co-Founder of mindbodygreenAbout the AuthorLindsey Bliss is a widely respected doula, or childbirth coach, who is quoted frequently in New York and national media. She is a co-founder of the doula agency Carriage House Birth, which has assisted in more than 1100 births in New York and Los Angeles since 2011. Herself the mother of seven children, including two sets of twins, she knows labor and childbirth well both personally as well as professionally. She lives in New York City.