The Doula's Guide to Empowering Your Birth

A Complete Labor and Childbirth Companion for Parents to Be

De: Lindsey Bliss

Narrado por: Taylor Meskimen

Experienced doula, Lindsey Bliss, shows you how to prepare physically and mentally for every element of having a child, from pregnancy to fourth trimester in The Doula’s Guide to Empowering Your Birth.

Lindsey Bliss, who has assisted as a doula at hundreds of births and is herself a mother of seven, reveals here all the wisdom and advice that doulas share with the new mothers who hire them.

The Doula’s Guide to Empowering Your Birth covers the period from pregnancy through labor and birth to fourth-trimester healing. The focus, however, is on preparing for birth—including topics like how to pick the right childbirth class and the right birthing method for you. You’ll also learn:

• How to handle and treat morning sickness
• What things you can do during pregnancy, and what to avoid
• How to reduce anxiety during pregnancy, including meditation and ritual baths
• How to assemble the team of professionals, family members, and friends who will support you through labor and birth
• Tools, tips, and positions for labor
• How to approach last-minute decisions about pain medications and cesarean sections
• Post-partum information, including breastfeeding, newborn care, and the transition into parenting

Bliss’s tone throughout is at once authoritative and confident as well as warm and encouraging. Her concern in her practice as well as in this book is to listen to and help secure each new mom’s own personal vision of a birthing experience that is safe, fulfilling, and meaningful.

©2018 Lindsey Bliss (P)2022 Harvard Common Press

Reseñas de la Crítica

"We doctors know that having a doula by your side is the secret ingredient for an amazing birth. Among doulas, Lindsey Bliss is the best of the best and in this terrific book she shares her secrets with you."—Jaqueline Worth, M.D., OB/GYN, Village Obstetrics, New York City, and Mt. Sinai School of Medicine

"Lindsey Bliss is the go-to guide for anyone interested in a mindful pregnancy and empowering birth."—Colleen Wachob, Co-Founder and Chief Brand Officer, mindbodygreen

"An inspired and essential guide to creating the birth you desire! The Doula's Guide to Empowering Your Birth offers a golden opportunity to have your own personal, experienced doula guide you to an understanding of the many choices you have for you and your baby in birth and beyond. Lindsey Bliss provides in these pages the tips and wisdom you need to prepare for a safe, empowered, powerful, and truly memorable birth.”—Debra Pascali-Bonaro, doula, doula trainer, creator of the Pain to Power childbirth program, and co-author of Orgasmic Birth

Definitely for first time parents

I don’t understand the concept of “birthing person”. It’s irritating to listen to, especially as a WOMAN who is trying to empower herself for labor and birth, which God made her body to do. Women birth babies, no one else.

A good basic guide

This is a good book for first time expecting moms that haven’t been exposed to birth or labor. It is very basic, and a little redundant, but has good information throughout!