Journey Into Motherhood: Inspirational Stories of Natural Birth.Journey Into Motherhood will take its place beside Ina May Gaskin's Guide to Childbirth as a book that should be read by every pregnant woman. In today's society we hear so many negative birth stories and are exposed to the media's sensationalist sen·sa·tion·al·ism n. 1. a. The use of sensational matter or methods, especially in writing, journalism, or politics. b. Sensational subject matter. c. Interest in or the effect of such subject matter. view of birth as a medical emergency. The psychological benefit of hearing women tell positive stories about their birth experiences is tremendous. These stories help pregnant women to see their upcoming birth not as a scary, painful, medical event, but as a transformational rite of passage rite of passage n. A ritual or ceremony signifying an event in a person's life indicative of a transition from one stage to another, as from adolescence to adulthood. with the potential to empower them as mothers, and as women, and change their lives forever. This heartwarming heart·warm·ing or heart-warm·ing adj. 1. Causing gladness and pleasure. 2. Eliciting sympathy and tender feelings: a heartwarming tale. Adj. 1. collection offers 48 true stories of natural birth, told in the mothers' own voices. As diverse as the women who wrote them, the stories include hospital births, birth center births, home births, unassisted births, emergency deliveries, births attended by young siblings siblings npl (formal) → frères et sœurs mpl (de mêmes parents) and more. Among the 48 women whose stories appear in this book, at least three have trained with ALACE ALACE Autonomous Lagrangian Circulation Explorer ALACE Association of Labor Assistants and Childbirth Educators ALACE Association of Local Authority Chief Executives (UK) as labor assistants. Journey Into Motherhood is also filled with proven secrets and techniques for pregnant and birthing women from mothers around the world. After each birth story there is a section called "A Mother's Guidance". In these brief paragraphs, the mother describes what prepared her most for a natural birth or what worked best for her during the birth. Following this section is a short paragraph called "Additional Thoughts" in which the author gives information or additional resources related to that particular birth story. This includes statistics, nutritional information, and books for further reading. In this way, readers who connect with a particular birth story or empathize em·pa·thize v. To feel empathy in relation to another person. with one woman's experience can delve further into that topic. This book would make a wonderful Blessingway gift. It would help surround the expectant mother expectant mother n → futura madre f expectant mother expect n → werdende Mutter f expectant mother n with positive stories and unobtrusive advice close to the time of her birth. $17.95. Order directly from www.journeytintomotherhood.com or call 760-431-2228. |
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