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Reddit mentions of Childbirth without Fear: The Principles and Practice of Natural Childbirth (Import)
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yes, i replied before i clicked
i suppose the name is inspired from
http://www.amazon.com/Childbirth-without-Fear-Principles-Practice/dp/0953096467
Your husband is a douchebag. Sorry. When he can carry and push a baby out of HIS hoo-ha, he can freakin' decide what birth he wants. His resistance/ambivalence to your plan/emotions/desires just really blows. If I were in your position, I'd be so effing pissed. It really doesn't matter what research your provide him. It is really easy to critique all research. If he's made up his mind and is deadset...well, what can you do?
Require that he read these two books:
I had 2 of 3 of my girls at a free-standing birth center with a certified nurse midwife. I wish I had just used a certified midwife and had a homebirth. Yeah, my births were great. They could have been better. Birthing at home, IMO, would have been much more comfie.
I had to have an emergency induction for my third because my water was low. There is a time and place for medicalization of the birth--and that time is when it becomes dangerous. Birth, itself, is not a dangerous process. I hated my hospital birth. I felt like goddamn prisoner. They had this two page checklist of tasks that they were requiring I complete before they would allow me to check out. What? Seriously? After I gave birth at the birth center, I was able to go climb into my own bed at home in two hours. And I delivered in what was supposedly the most baby-friendly maternity ward in the COUNTRY: Loma Linda University Medical Center. Jesus, if that is the most baby-friendly maternity ward in the country, the whole country has a long way to go. Yeah, sure, they do rooming-in; tons of free breastfeeding paraphernalia; and beautiful, spacious, private post-partum rooms, but there is so much more to birthing and bonding than that!
My eldest daughter summed it up nicely when she asked me why a birthing friend chose to have her birth at a hospital, "Why is she going to the hospital? She's not sick."
Also, my husband was on board with the midwife because his mother had completely safe births using midwives, also.
Edited for formatting.
I realize that everyone is different. And I was speaking from my own personal experience... surely that was apparent.
Also, there are plenty of methods that can help make the child bearing process easier. Half of the women that comprise my friends and family went into the birthing process with the preconception that the act of birthing a child was going to hurt. They had no choice in the matter. And this, simply isn't always the case. The other half of women that I connected with during my pregnancy were a few women who told me to a) read this book, and b) who told me that they went into the operating room with the mindset that they would have a relatively pain free birth. Most of these women had a much better way (in my opinion) of what child birth is actually like.