Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering: A Doctor's Guide to Natural Childbirth and Gentle Early Parenting Choices - Softcover

Buckley, Sarah

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1587613220 ISBN 13: 9781587613227

Publisher: Celestial Arts, 2008

Synopsis

An authoritative guide to natural childbirth and postpartum parenting options from an MD who home-birthed her own four children.

Sarah Buckley might be called a third-wave natural birth advocate. A doctor and a mother, she approaches the question of how a woman and baby might have the most fulfilling birth experience with respect for the wisdom of both medical science and the human body. Using current medical and epidemiological research plus women's experiences (including her own), she demonstrates that what she calls "undisturbed birth" is almost always healthier and safer than high-technology approaches to birth. Her wise counsel on issues like breastfeeding and sleeping during postpartum helps extend the gentle birth experience into a gentle parenting relationship.

About this title

From the Publisher:

An authoritative guide to natural childbirth and postpartum parenting options from an MD who home-birthed her own four children. * Speaks to a new generation of parents who are concerned about the medicalization of childbirth and want current and science-based info about alternatives.

About the Author:

SARAH BUCKLEY, MD, is an internationally known authority on natural birthing and parenting choices. She has published numerous articles in Mothering magazine and Midwifery Today. She lives in Brisbane, Australia.

 THE AUTHOR SCOOP

How long did it take you to write this book?
Around ten years since I wrote the first material, and around 9 months to rewrite and put it all together.

What was the hardest thing about writing a book?
Combining it with looking after 4 children

When did you know you were a writer?
When I was 10, I told my class teacher I wanted to be an author!

Favorite childhood book?
I was a precocious reader, I read Jane Eyre at age 10 and loved Wuthering Heights.

If you had to boil your book’s message down to one sentence, what would it be?
Trust your body, trust your baby, follow your instincts

What are you working on now?
A commissioned report on the hormonal orchestration of labor

If you had a superpower, what would it be?
Sorting things out on every level, which includes a special talent for removing embedded hair ties from Barbie hair.

About this edition

• Publisher: Celestial Arts
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1587613220
• ISBN 13: 9781587613227
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352