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Husband-Coached Childbirth (Fifth Edition): The Bradley Method of Natural Childbirth | 
| Authors: Robert A. Bradley, Marjie Hathaway, Jay Hathaway, James Hathaway
Publisher: Bantam
Category: Book
List Price: $17.00
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Rating:  71 reviews
Sales Rank: 7688
Media: Paperback
Edition: 5
Pages: 384
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.2 x 0.9
ISBN: 055338516X
Dewey Decimal Number: 618.45
EAN: 9780553385168
ASIN: 055338516X
Publication Date: May 20, 2008
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Product Description
Now completely revised and updated for today's parents-to-be...
The book that started a revolution in the birthing experience and helped millions of women and their partners to a safe and natural childbirth.
The Bradley Method has changed the way men and women—and the medical establishment—think about childbirth today. Now this new, updated edition of the groundbreaking work by Robert A. Bradley, M.D., has all the information you need to approach a natural childbirth safely, confidently, and wisely. From the reasons to choose the Bradley Method to the steps you will take as your birth day approaches—and after the birth of your baby—this book is designed to help couples share completely in the birthing experience.
•Build better, deeper, and more trusting communication skills with your partner in preparation for a drug-free childbirth
•Learn the physical, emotional, and mental relaxation techniques essential to a natural childbirth
•Discover how you and your doctor can work together toward your natural delivery
•Monitor your weight, nutrition, and your overall well-being during pregnancy
•Use natural prevention methods for the most common pregnancy problems
•Get the most out of the bonding experience you will share with your baby and your partner
With its time-tested wisdom, medical soundness, and reassuring first-person accounts of natural childbirth, this book is the “gold standard” of childbirth books. The Bradley Method is an essential guide for anyone considering childbirth without unnecessary medications or medical intervention and to share fully in your child’s arrival into the world.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 66 more reviews...
 Relax, Nature Intended for Natural Births December 5, 2008
Author of Healing Our Children & Cure Tooth Decay (San Jose, CA)
Yes, there are many short cited aspects of the book. Dr. Bradley says that childbirth is completely natural and an organic process and then frequently does episiotomy's. Cutting women is a cruel, and highly abusive practice.
Other than that, this is a book that supports homebirth, and is aimed to help train women to relax during child birth. According to Ina May, and surely other great birth experts, to maximize the chance of a natural child birth, a woman needs to relax. The Bradely method is a form of practicing relaxation before birth, so that during the birth, you can be relaxed.
Obviously a book can never replace a class which helps prepare for birth. However it is steeped with a type of care, and a type of spiritual acceptance about life and about birth.
Review is by Ramiel Nagel author of Healing Our Children: Because Your New Baby Matters! Sacred Wisdom for Preconception, Pregnancy, Birth and Parenting (ages 0-6) & Cure Tooth Decay: Heal and Prevent Cavities with Nutrition (First Edition).
Very helpful November 24, 2008
Jerzey (Amissville, VA USA)
I thought the book was very informative and helpful on what to expect with labor. I just wish the book had a larger chapter on relaxation techniques. My husbnad and I do feel more prepared and confident about the birth of our baby. We wanted to go natural and this is our first child. This is definitely a book worth buying if you want to learn more about going natural. Reading the testimonials from other families was great, because everyone is different and you really don't know what will work for you until you get to that point. This book is a must.
An essential to help dads understand Natural Childbirth October 20, 2008
Alyssa Cole (Salt Lake, UT)
After reading some of the negative reviews about this book I feel I need to correct some of the misinterpretations of Dr. Bradley's book. First of all it is written specifically to the husbands to give them an understanding on how the birth process works and how they can be an active part in the preparation for and the act of childbirth; as a coach and as a companion to the mother. The language used is a bit dated, but the principals and concepts are unchanging.
This book teaches how a woman can prepare her mind and body for the natural process of delivering her child. Dr. Bradley cites his years and years of experience and an amazing success rate only to give you encouragement- to give you someone to relate to so that you can see how women over decades (and centuries for that matter) have worked with their bodies to avoid complications and have received an amazing and empowering experience in return, not to brag about himself as an OB.
I used the knowledge that I acquired from this book to deliver my first son after 4 hours of labor (dramatically shorter than the average first time mother I feel because I was prepared to deal with the different demands my body was placing on me at each stage)- with no medication. With my husband by my side encouraging and supporting me I knew I could do anything.
Dr. Bradley was a Pioneer of his day and has made it possible for thousands of women to have the birth experience they deserve. I would definitely recommend the Bradley Classes as a companion to your individual research. It provides a support group as well as a knowledgeable instructor who can answer more personal and direct questions then you could obtain from the text of a book.
A must for natural childbirth September 3, 2008
Atlanta Girl (Atlanta, GA)
I must admit, I had my doubts about my ability to sucessfully give birth naturally. But once I read this book and began attending the Bradley Birth Classes with my husband, my doubts disappeared. Everything made sense after that as I became educated and confident and prepared in the area of natural childbirth. In July, I delivered my first child without any medical interference, and everything went perfectly. I know we are blessed to have had the experience without complication, but we were prepared for that as well. The Bradley classes were especially good for helping you feel prepared for the complications that can, and many times do, occur. This book is a must for anyone who wants to take control of their experience as it relates to natural births and making medical decisions that are best for you and your baby!
Very Helpful for My Husband August 11, 2008
melissa
In response to the other reviews, I'd like to say that this book was written to the husband of the woman having a baby, not to the woman herself. It's written by a man who has assisted hundreds (thousands?) of women during natural births to men who will be coaching, supporting and helping their wives through their own natural births. As a woman who has had two natural births and is anticipating her third in January, I read this before asking my husband to read it. Over and over I thought, "Oh, I'd love for my husband to think about that." or "It would be really helpful for my husband to know this." He then read it and found it very enlightening as to what is going on during the stages of birth, how I might be feeling, what I should be doing, and how he can help.
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