As women increasingly seek more humanistic birthing methods than
the hospital-based delivery, certified midwife Susanna Napierala
suggests that water birth offers mother and infant the ideal
circumstances for beginning their lives together. Warm water,
explains the author, reduces the hours and stress of labor, offers
bodily support and relaxes blood flow, helping to ease the baby's
journey. The baby makes its transition to breathing air in a
familiar, gentle medium. Avoiding the didactics of ideology,
Napierala infuses her eloquent text with answers to commonly-asked
questions: How does the baby breathe underwater? What about
complications or infections? For whom is water birth a viable
choice? How does a couple prepare for it? Water Birth guides the
reader through the details of parental and midwife preparation,
labor, and birth, noting danger signals that must be heeded. Here
is a wealth of solid information, personal testimony, and
instruction for those who make this choice. Giving birth is one of
life's most enriching, yet emotionally and physiologically
stressful experiences. Faced with the dehumanizing mandates of the
medical establishment, women increasingly seek alternatives to
hospital birth. In her carefully presented book, Susanna Napierala,
midwife to more than 600 births over 18 years, suggests that giving
birth in water offers mother and infant the ideal circumstances for
beginning their lives together. Recognizing that this birthing
approach is not yet widely practiced in the United States,
Napierala readily acknowledges the commonly-asked questions: How
does the baby breathe underwater? What about complications or
infections? What specifically makes water birth a viable choice,
and for whom? How do a couple and their chosen midwife prepare for
water birth? Avoiding ideological didactics, the author cautions
that, regardless of a couple's expectations of the birth
experience, every pregnancy's priority should be a healthy mother
and baby. As she details aspects of parental and midwife
preparation, labor, and birth, Napierala counsels vigilance, noting
possible difficulties and danger signals that must be heeded. For
midwives, their assistants, pregnant women and their families
considering birth options, Water Birth offers a wealth of solid
information, personal testimony, and guidance for those who make
this choice.
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