Your best birth : know all your options, discover the natural choices, and take back the birth experience /
Ricki Lake and Abby Epstein ; foreword by Jacques Moritz.
- 1st ed.
- New York : Wellness Central, 2009.
- xxxii, 238 p. ; 24 cm.
Not your mama's birth plan -- Your best birth place -- Obstetricians: find Dr. Right -- Midwives: not just for hippies anymore -- Doulas: labor's love -- The guest list: birth as a private party -- For sexual abuse survivors, a healing -- Epidurals: you haven't got time for the pain -- Pitocin and inductions: let's get this party started -- Fetal monitors: reading between the lines -- Episiotomies, vacuums and forceps: the (un)kindest cut -- C-sections and vbac: To c or not to c -- Loving your labor -- Bonding with baby.