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Your Best Birth: Know All Your Options, Discover The Natural Choices, And Take Back The Birth Experience (2009)

by Ricki Lake(Favorite Author)

3.93 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0446538132 (ISBN13: 9780446538138)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Grand Central Life & Style

review 1: Empowering. Know your options! Many of these books talk about birthing options with an underlying current of 'Natural and non-medicated' are really the best, and that is what you should be doing if you care about your baby.This book is honest and upfront about all the options, giving many real stories of how varied the birth experience can be. Comforting book on an anxious topic.
review 2: As a Canadian, I felt like a lot of this book didn't really apply to my experience, as its written for American women navigating the American health care system. That said, there were certainly some helpful sections that are more universal. But I felt overall like there was just something lacking as I was reading... Maybe it's because I just read the book A Natural Hospita... morel Birth: The Best of Both Worlds, which had great information that was well-supported by research throughout, but this book suffers from a lack of citation/referencing. Even when it mentions, say "a study done recent in Sweden," there is no citation provided so you can follow up on the research yourself, if you'd like. I find this a bit troubling. I enjoyed the section at the beginning where the authors detail their own birth experiences so you can see where they are coming from, which helps to clarify their own personal biases. They refer to their video The Business of Being Born quite a lot, but I suppose the book is somewhat of a companion to the movie, so I guess that's alright.... The writing is mostly pretty easy to read, but a bit inconsistent: sometimes it's technical, and sometimes written in an overly familiar style. There are lots of text boxes inserted in the main text, which comes off as a bit intrusive when you just want to follow a section through without interruption. Despite all this, there is definitely some useful information, especially about how to advocate for and achieve a more natural birth experience, though the authors' solution is typically to reject the hospital site altogether. Not a bad book, but I much preferred A Natural Hospital Birth, especially since a lot of the American content here was not relevant to me. less

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