Ina May's Guide to Childbirth

By: Ina May Gaskin

Narrated by: Randye Kaye

Drawing upon her 40-plus years of experience, Ina May Gaskin, the nation's leading midwife, shows the benefits and joys of physiological childbirth by showing women how to trust the ancient wisdom of their bodies for a healthy and fulfilling birthing experience.

Based upon the midwifery model of care that recognizes that spontaneous labor in healthy women cannot be improved upon, Ina May's Guide to Childbirth gives expectant mothers comprehensive information on everything from the all-important mind-body connection to how to give birth without technological intervention-as well as how to know when such intervention is necessary.

Filled with inspiring birth stories and practical advice, this invaluable resource includes:

• Reducing the pain of labor without drugs and the amazing role that touch and free movement play.
• What really happens during labor.
• Orgasmic birth-testimonies from those who experienced it.
• And much more...

©2003, 2019 Ina May Gaskin (P)2019 Tantor

Great info. Reader sounds like a robot.

Enjoyed the info, but the flow wasn’t my favorite. I have a medical background and would have liked that part to be first and the birth stories after.

Great performance, not-so-great editing

I enjoyed this book immensely and found it highly informative, always with studies and statistics to back everything up. Some better editing – where were the pauses? – would have improved my listening experience even further. Great narration otherwise, though.

10/10 would recommend

This book is extremely informative and eye opening. I recommend all parents-to-be and already parents read it.

Amazing book, terrible reading performance

Loved this book! Found it informative and encouraging, but almost stopped listening because the reading sounded like a computer program reading copy.

unspeakably valuable

I enjoyed and absorbed every minute of this book! So extremely valuable as I prepare for my first child