We suggest you read these books if you are expecting a baby
Staying informed about pregnancy and everything that this process that many women experience day by day implies is of vital importance, since the care that must be taken at this precious stage of life will depend on it.
In the same way, informing yourself and knowing the details of what pregnancy is, will help women, and men why not, not to fall into the misinformation that exists around pregnancy. Here we offer you these 5 books that will help you to be informed up to “the tail” about pregnancy.
“The Pregnancy Bible”, by Dr. Anne Deans, is an essential book that covers all stages of pregnancy, childbirth and postnatal care, without forgetting the most practical aspects or the feelings and emotions through which the mother. It contains a large number of illustrations and photographs that facilitate a clear understanding of the text and allow visualization of the baby’s development during the months of gestation.
The book “What to expect when you are expecting something”, by the author Heidi Murkoff, is a pregnancy guide that responds in a simple way to all the concerns of future mothers. Written in a simple, realistic and useful way, its pages are full of tips to fully experience pregnancy, childbirth and the first weeks with the baby.
The “Guide to the conscious woman to a better birth” by the author Henci Goer, is an excellent work that helps us to make informed decisions and which deals, among other topics: the medicalization of childbirth, repeat caesarean sections, breech baby at term or induction of labor.
From Michel Odent, “The baby is a mammal” is required reading to understand the biological reasons why it is preferable to choose a respected, dark birth and that allows natural oxytocin to do its work in the body of the woman and her son.
Finally, we have «The new birth revolution. The path towards a new paradigm »by Dr. Isabel Fernández del Castillo, who talks to us about the importance of opting for a respected delivery and free of interventions that are not necessary. With overwhelming evidence, science is showing that supporting the spontaneous process of labor and postpartum is a long-term investment in the physical, emotional, mental, and social health of mothers and babies.