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Birth Without Fear
The Judgment-Free Guide to Taking Charge of Your Pregnancy, Birth, and Postpartum
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In Birth Without Fear, January Harshe—founder of the global online community Birth Without Fear—delivers an honest, positive, and passionate message of empowerment surrounding everything that involves having a baby. It's a guide that fills in the considerable cracks in the information available to women and families when they're preparing to welcome a child—covering care provider choices, medical freedom, birth options, breastfeeding, intimacy, postpartum depression, and much more.
Birth Without Fear shows moms, dads, partners, and families how to choose the best provider for them, how to trust in themselves and the birth process, and how to seek the necessary help after the baby has arrived. In addition, it will educate them about their rights—and how to use their voice to exercise them—as well as how to cope with the messy postpartum feelings many people aren't willing to talk about. Unlike other pregnancy books, Birth Without Fear will also help partners understand what mothers are going through, as well as discuss the challenges that they, too, will face—and how they can navigate them.
Shattering long-held myths and beliefs surrounding pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum experience, Birth Without Fear is an accessible, reassuring, and ultimately inspiring guide to taking charge of pregnancy, childbirth, and beyond.
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Release date
March 5, 2019 -
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9781549175312
- File size: 239749 KB
- Duration: 08:19:28
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Languages
- English
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Reviews
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February 15, 2019
Mom-of-six Harshe knows how to connect with pregnant women and newbie mothers. Nearly 400,000 people like her Facebook page, Birth without Fear, and more than 149,000 people follow her Instagram, Take Back Postpartum, which celebrates moms' bodies after childbirth. So it makes sense that she would write a book organized into three sections: pregnancy, birth, and postpartum. Harshe gives sensible advice throughout. For example, she recommends that pregnant women write a birth plan. For Harshe, it's all about what she calls self-care and self-love. She admirably helps new moms realize that lots of women feel lonely during motherhood, which is ironic, she notes, given that they never get to go to the bathroom alone. She also advises women not to care what others say or think; instead, she advises, they should take a deep breath and choose what's best for them, from where to give birth to breastfeeding or not and beyond. She also gives women permission to feel depressed, providing key resources because, as Harshe notes, she can only hold their hands in theory. Practical, positive, and empowering.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2019, American Library Association.)
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