Labor Pain: A Natural Approach to Easing Delivery

by Nicky Wesson

Nicky Wesson shows how natural alternatives can provide effective pain relief during labor and childbirth without dangerous side effects for mother and baby. - Conventional medicines provided for pain relief during childbirth can have adverse effects on the baby. - Offers many options for effective natural pain relief, including acupressure and acupuncture, hydrotherapy, herbal remedies, aromatherapy and massage, relaxation techniques, homeopathy,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0892818956
• ISBN13: 9780892818952
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: Healing Arts Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Excellent resource for natural birth

My friend passed this book on to me after her first birth, which she was able to do all natural, telling me that it had been very helpful to her. I have read it cover to cover, and it is great! It has suggestions for herbal and homeopathic remedies for labor, birth and postpartum, which are hard to find elsewhere. Read this book if you paln on having a drug-free birth. It is a quick and easy read.

Ignore the editorial review- this is an EXCELLENT book

This book is one of the best I've read about labor and coping with it. There is a good mix of practical suggestions and factual data from studies etc. Not everything will work for everyone but something here will inspire you. Whoever wrote in the review above that they didn't like being told labor will hurt is in fantasy land. It WILL hurt but you can cope with it and this book will I believe, help you with this.I presonally found this book much better than "Birthing From Within". BFW has so much new agey art therapy [thats] going on it's hard to dig out the information. Wesson's book on the other hand gets right to the facts without the fluff. And it's not overwhelming either.

Great suggestions for alternative ways to deal with labor

While I don't care for the no-way-out-of-it attitude toward pain during labor (even if I've never given birth before, I don't need to be told that labor can hurt), this book does offer good tips for other ways of dealing with labor. I like the list of recommended homeopathic remedies, herbs, and oils for massage.Beware of the fact that this book is written very much from a British point of view. A lot of what is discussed in the way of midwives and hospitals doesn't apply in the United States. But again, the natural remedy tips are what made this book invaluable to me.