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American edition
ISBN: 978 1 906619 01 55

£25.00 - Conversion to USD will occur automatically in the online shop. Click here to pre-order

Availability: July 31, 2009
Preparing for a Healthy Birth includes:
  • Specially adapted and rewritten text for American families
  • 538 pages packed with information
  • A full week-by-week guide to pregnancy
  • Information on pain relief and interventions and why you need to avoid them
  • 100 birth stories, 180 comments and 6 sample birth plans from over 200 different contributors
  • Accounts about getting pregnant, finding appropriate care, dealing with past sexual abuse, twins, triplets and breech babies and losing weight after the birth!
  • Interviews with nurse-midwives and other experts
  • Contributions from Bill Bryson, Jan Tritten & Elise Hansen of Midwifery Today, Janet Balaskas, Deborah Jackson, Angela Horn and Michel Odent
  • Comments from Michel Odent
  • A comprehensive glossary of terms
  • 172 greyscale photographs
  • Forewords by Sheila Kitzinger and Michel Odent
A comment from an American editor and mother...

Your book is so thorough, so good. I feel as if I know you now. What an instinctive book it is! I look forward to sharing it with all who I come into contact with. You've been amazing in your thoroughness.

... and from Janet Balaskas:

This is a very important book for our times, when we sure have gotten this whole process of birth wrong. I heartily congratulate Sylvie for her passion and all the work that went into compiling and writing this book.