Special Delivery

by Rahima Baldwin Dancy and RAHIMA BALDWIN

Book Overview

An illustrated guide to pregnancy, birth, and postnatal care stressing educated participation and decision making on the parties directly involved in all stages of the childbearing process. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0890879346
• ISBN13: 9780890879344
• Release Date: November 1979
• Publisher: Celestial Arts
• Length: 169 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.6" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

Extremly educational

I used this book to help educate myself and my husband for an unassited home delivery. It discusses homebirth with a midwife as well as hospital birth and the various aspects of both. How to take responsiblity for your birth and make sure that you have the birth experience you deserve. It goes over all aspects of birth from emotional to physical and how to prepare yourself for the optimum experience. The book throughly discusses the actuall birth and what to expect. It even covers breech birth and how a breech baby can be born vaginally. I would highly recommend this book to anyone serious about thier birth experience.

Great Resource for ALL pregnant women

I use this book to teach my childbirth classes and the couples always end up buying the book to keep. I teach couples that are birthing at the hospital and at home. Both find the information very useful and readable. I trained to be a midwife with the author-she is one of the most kind, gentle and wise women I know.

A superb resource for those seeking natural childbirth

While the content of this book spans all common birth locations from hospitals to home, it really focuses on educating thoroughly and taking responsibility for your own birth experience. Includes lots of good tips on labor management and is very helpful for those considering home birth.

An Incredible 'How To' Book!!

This book is extremely informative and even life-saving!! I recommend this book to every homebirth couple to read and read and read again!:)

The book's title says it all!

I highly recommend this book to those who are either pregnant or considering pregnancy. Although the book was written with home birth parents in mind, it also makes an excellent resource for parents who are hospital-bound and want to be informed of their options. Ms. Baldwin covers topics such as the history of birthing practices, the safety of planned homebirth, pregnancy nutrition, and choices in prenatal care. She also provides excellent information on the spirituality of pregnancy and birth, complications and emergencies, tools for labor, and the postpartum period. If you are looking for something to supplement "What To Expect" this book is it.