Birth as a Healing Experience

The Emotional Journey of Pregnancy Through Postpartum

Lois Halzel Freedman (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

142 Seiten

2008
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-56023-940-6 (ISBN)

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This unique book focuses on the healing potential of pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum rather than on the medical aspects. In Birth as a Healing Experience: The Emotional Journey of Pregnancy Through Postpartum, you will find childbirth preparation discussed as a means to empower women and their partners in the childbirth experience.

Birth as a Healing Experience: The Emotional Journey of Pregnancy Through Postpartum emphasizes and examines the emotional aspects of pregnancy and postpartum, presenting these periods as important opportunities for a woman's growth and healing from previous traumatic births or pregnancy losses. Midwives, childbirth educators, pregnant and postpartum women, women of childbearing age, and men will find that this book is unlike most others on pregnancy because it focuses on the healing potential in pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum rather than on medical aspects. Women's stories illustrate how individuals deal with past experiences of grief and loss during pregnancy in a therapeutic setting. Through Birth as a Healing Experience, you will discover a new model of childbirth preparation that empowers women and their partners for a fulfilling childbirth experience. You will also find that this essential book contains important information on supporting women during the postpartum period so you can provide the best services to your clients throughout the childbearing experience. Addressing the importance of a woman's emotional well-being during the pregnancy and postpartum periods, the detailed case studies in this informative book will help you understand and learn from each topic. Birth as a Healing Experience offers you insightful discussions about:

the number of cesarean sections performed in the United States
the medical as well as psychological consequences of cesarean sections
the many benefits of vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC)
guidelines for VBAC and for attaining a fulfilling childbirth experience
the effects of pregnancy and childbirth on the psychological development of women
the importance of healing from past birth traumas and/or the early death of a mother to have a satisfying pregnancy and motherhood experienceFrom this vital guide, you will understand how such issues as a previous traumatic birth, miscarriage, or your own early mother loss can have an effect on your pregnancy and postpartum periods. Birth as a Healing Experience emphasizes honoring the childbirth experience and focuses on the power of women supporting women during pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum. From this intelligent book, you will find unique stories that will enhance the childbearing experience for you and your clients.

Lois Halzel Freedman

Contents Foreword

Preface
Acknowledgements
Part I: Birth as Personal and Psychological Development
Chapter 1: The Author's Own Story: Two Births and One Book
Birth Number One
The Second Baby: Practing the Lessons Learned
Birth of a Career and a Book
Chapter 2: Pregnancy and Childbirth in Women's Psychological Development
Part II: Birth as a Medical Intervention
Chapter 3: Contemporary Medical Interventions
Background
Common Medical Interventions
Chapter 4: The Caesarean Section
“Once a Cesarean, Always a Cesarean”: A Discussion
Reducing the Cesarean Rate 8 Postpartum Effects
Part III: Birth as an Experience of Empowerment
Chapter 5: Support for Honoring the Experience of Childbirth
The Childbirth Educator
The Care Provider
The Woman Listening to Her Inner Wisdom
The Partner
Labor Support from Another Woman
Part IV: Birth as a Healing Experience
Chapter 6: Vaginal Birth After Caesarean (VBAC)
Preparation for VBAC
Clients' Stories
Chapter 7: Healing from Loss
Working with Clients During Postpartum Period
Chapter 8: Healing from Mother Loss
Counseling Motherless Women
Part V: Birth as a Sacred Experience
Chapter 9: Circle of Women
Compassionate Childbirth Preparation
Bibliography
Index
Reference Notes Included

Erscheint lt. Verlag	14.7.2008
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	181 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Schwangerschaft / Geburt
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie
	Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Physiologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-56023-940-9 / 1560239409
ISBN-13	978-1-56023-940-6 / 9781560239406
Zustand	Neuware