Preparation for Birth- The Complete Guide to the Lamaze Method

The Official Lamaze Guide: Giving Birth with Confidence The Official Lamaze Guide helps expectant parents experience childbirth with confidence. In clear, easy-to-understand terms, this book dispels the myths that pregnancy and birth are fraught with risk. Lothian and DeVries offer solidly researched evidence to document that common ...	Easy Labor: Every Woman's Guide to Choosing Less Pain and More Joy During Childbirth THE FIRST COMPLETE, COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO PAIN RELIEF DURING LABOR AND DELIVERYFar too many expectant mothers find themselves unprepared when labor begins and natural techniques don’t effectively manage the pain. This indispensable guide provides reassuring, proven approac...	The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding: Seventh Revised Edition (La Leche League International Book) All parents want the best for their babies, and there’s no doubt about the fact that human milk is the ideal food for human babies. What’s the secret of successful breastfeeding? For almost fifty years mothers who have been in touch with La Leche League have found the kind of i...	Natural Childbirth the Bradley Way: Revised Edition	Thank You, Dr Lamaze Thank you, Dr Lamaze is the moving and often very funny story of a woman's experiences when faced with traditional pre-conceptions about giving birth by both medical profession and friends. Marjorie KarmelÕs best-selling book introduced the Lamaze method of childbirth to the US.
Having Your Baby! A Complete Lamaze Prepared Childbirth Class Parents-to-be who are interested in the Lamaze method but can't attend a class will be happy to know they can learn it from this two-hour video. Taught by two certified instructors who are OB nurses, this is the only video course that teaches the complete method. Lamaze seeks to...	Husband-Coached Childbirth (Fifth Edition): The Bradley Method of Natural Childbirth Now completely revised and updated for today's parents-to-be...The book that started a revolution in the birthing experience and helped millions of women and their partners to a safe and natural childbirth.The Bradley Method has changed the way men and women—and the medical...	Ina May's Guide to Childbirth What you need to know to have the best birth experience for you.Drawing upon her thirty-plus years of experience, Ina May Gaskin, the nation’s leading midwife, shares the benefits and joys of natural childbirth by showing women how to trust in the ancient wisdom of their bo...	The Birth Book: Everything You Need to Know to Have a Safe and Satisfying Birth (Sears Parenting Library) In The Birth Book: Everything You Need to Know to Have a Safe and Satisfying Birth, William and Martha Sears, authors of The Baby Book and creators of the concept of "attachment parenting," here turn their attention to the birth experience. In this helpful resource guide, the Sea...	Laugh and Learn About Childbirth 'Laugh and Learn About Childbirth', America's # 1 Childbirth Class, is the first video in a series of educational classes for pregnant couples, and the only comprehensive childbirth course on the market. This new 2 DVD-Set is completely updated. All aspects of labor and delivery ...

Some interesting information, but we didn't need it
The Lamaze method is very popular, with some good reasons-- it does help, in any physical endeavor, to focus one's breathing. Fine. But delivering naturally is going to cause the mother PAIN. Its just the way the process works, and you just have to go through it. But some of us don't ever get to that point. Turns out I had to have a c-section. HAD TO. I'm not disappointed about it at all-- it was necessary for the safety of both the baby and myself. So having a baby does entail pain-- whether during actual labor or recovering from major abdominal surgery. The absolute focus on delivering naturally is very wearing, and their attempts to 'support' the fact of c-sections seems very strained. If you know a section is in your future, give this one a miss.

Very informativee
I really like how this book covered ALL the options we have during labor and delivery. It really put me at ease. I also very much liked the different breathing and relaxation techniques provided.

Nice for "repeat mom's" but VERY outdated
I took Lamaze class with my first pregnancy and found it very informative and helpful. Although when it came down to the process I was overwhelmed with pain and lost control. With this second pregnancy, I wanted to review the Lamaze method so that this time I would know what to expect and have the tools with how to deal with it. The Lamaze class could not fit into my schedule so I looked to books. This book was nice for a mom who is just reviewing the techniques. It is VERY outdated and I believe even scary for the first time mom who does not know what to expect. So I think this would be a fine book to review the Lamaze method, but that is about all it is good for!

great read!
This book is better than I expected. My advice would be to start reading well in advance of lamaze classes. Sometimes the breathing seems complicated. But when you've read it and then see it in class, it will all come together. I love the quotes from actual patients. They help you to understand it will be different for eveyone but you can adjust. I feel extremely confident and ready for natural childbirth!

Good Book
This book, in combination with the dvd "Having Your Baby! A Complete Lamaze Prepared Childbirth Class" are perfect together. It is a good way to review as both follow much of the same information and set up basically the same way. I read another book written by Dr. Lamaze himself that was a great start to understanding the psychoprophylaxis method and Lamaze in general.