Product Description: Maternity services and choices for labour and birth are fast evolving. Hypnobirth involves preparation for childbirth using tried and tested hypnotherapy techniques in harmony with midwifery best practices and increasing numbers of women are turning to the technique...read more

Product Description: Child Birth

Product Description: Experts debate issues surrounding childbirth, including discussions on safety, the rights and preferences of the mother, and assistance during the birthing process.

Product Description: This is a careful study of obstetrical mechanics in monkeys, apes, and extinct hominids in order to understand the present crisis in human reproduction. Current obstetrical problems have an anthropological origin. Cesarean section, almost unknown at the beginning of the century, is now considered necessary in more than 25% of deliveries...read more

Product Description: Describes the fascinating wonders of our prenatal origins as we prepare to take on the challenges of independent life. The author answers such questions as: * How does the fetus start the birth process? * Why does the fetus make breathing movements? * What are the functions of the placenta, our only true throw-away organ? * How does maternal lifestyle affect the fetus? * How does the fetus tell the time...read more