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Our Current Selection

Pregnancy, Childbirth & the Newborn
by Penny Simkin, Janet Whalley, and Ann Keppler

This book covers all aspects of childbearing from conception through early infancy. It includes information on what to expect during pregnancy and birth and how you can work with your caregivers to make childbirth a happy and healthy experience. It includes the latest information on clinical tests and procedures in pregnancy, childbirth, and early infancy. It also covers concerns regarding the emotional aspects of childbearing, the partner's role, comfort measures, high-risk pregnancies, medications, vaginal birth after cesarean, breastfeeding, and understanding infant behavior.

 

Our Next Selection

In January-February:
Reclaiming the Spirituality of Birth:
Healing for Mothers and Babies

by Benig Mauger

The West's rational, mechanistic worldview wreaks havoc with the birth experience as it leads to ever increasing levels of high-tech medical intervention. Induced labor, fetal monitors, and pain-killing drugs alter the natural rhythms of delivery. This scientific approach puts medical personnel in control of the birth process, leaving mothers and their babies with a profound sense of loss. Drawing on her experience as a birth teacher, therapist, and mother, Benig Mauger suggests that by reconnecting with the natural and spiritual world an expectant mother can make the birth experience her own, thereby healing old wounds and allowing herself both a deeply satisfying delivery and an abiding spiritual connection to her child.

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About CRR:

We choose books that promote the truth about birth. We believe that telling the TRUTH about birth is the only way we will ever get back to trusting birth.

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Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. – John Locke, 1632-1704, English Philosopher


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