Bangalore Birth Network

Image Source Title: From Fear To Love Author: Red Miller Pages: 288 Rating : 5/5 If you are pregnant and wish to read a book on pregnancy and labour, this is one book that you shouldn't miss! As the blurb in the back of the book says, this book is for pregnant mothers who wish to experience the healthiest, most joyful and nurturing birth experience possible. It helps you to identify your fears and discover the secrets they hold to empower and transform your birth experience, develop a self nurturing plan that will enhance your body’s ability to nourish and grow a healthy baby, work with your pain guides and increase your capacity to cope with the intensity of labour, minimise birth interventions, ins pire your birth partner to step up and play an active role, and understand your unborn baby’s wishes to create the ultimate birth team. The book is divided into three sections - Blossoming (Pregnancy), Opening (Labour), and A Whole New World (The Fourth Tr...

Image Source Ever heard of the adage “Good things come in small packages”? The book, The Basic Needs Of A Woman in Labour by Ruth Ehrhardt is a testament to that. At a mere 32 pages, this book leaves a deep impact on the reader with its honest and loving, yes loving!, look at the miracle that is pregnancy and labour. I’m currently in my 2nd pregnancy and I’m trying really hard to have a natural, intervention-free delivery that I was not able to experience the first time around. As a first time mom-to-be I let myself be talked out of something I really wanted, out of fear and the lack of empowering information. So this time around, I’ve been determined to do everything I could to fix things. That’s when I saw this book mentioned as a must-read for expecting moms on an online forum, and I was lucky to find myself a free Kindle copy from Amazon India during their sale. I read the book in flat 15 minutes. And though I have read reams and reams of words on ...