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Heart & Hands: A Midwife's Guide to Pregnancy & Birth | 
 enlarge | Author: Elizabeth Davis
Creators: Linda Harrison, Suzanne Arms
Publisher: Celestial Arts
Category: Book
List Price: $32.50
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Avg. Customer Rating:  23 reviews
Sales Rank: 50523
Media: Paperback
Edition: 4
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 312
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 8 x 0.9
ISBN: 1587612216
Dewey Decimal Number: 618.2
EAN: 9781587612213
ASIN: 1587612216
Publication Date: November 2004
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Elizabeth Davis's Heart and Hands, though subtitled A Midwife's Guide to Pregnancy and Birth, is not just for midwives. It's an excellent and thorough resource for parents-to-be who are thinking about delivering their child with a midwife, or who are concerned about the medical establishment's over-control of birth. (Two previous editions sold more than 100,000 copies and there are nowhere near 100,000 midwives or midwifery students to buy this book, proving that parents-to-be have looked to this resource for options.) Completely updated in the third edition, Heart and Hands is a practical guide, textbook, and reference that is both hands- and hearts-on. Davis, a long-time, well-known midwife, gives how-to details on all aspects of midwifery practice, including prenatal care, problems in pregnancy, assisting at births, labor complications (including a devastating and beautiful description of a stillbirth by midwife Shannon Anton), and caring for the entire family postpartum. Each chapter has a special section "for parents," but expectant parents can use all of Heart and Hands to get as much knowledge as possible about their upcoming experience.
Book Description
For over two decades, HEART & HANDS has been a beloved guide for both midwives and parents interested in the benefits of midwifery care. This all-new fourth edition has been revised from start to finish, featuring updated material that emphasizes independent midwifery, physiologic (natural) birth, and the art of nonintervention. Midwifery expert Elizabeth Davis includes valuable hints for turning breech and posterior babies, mediating pain in labor, and supporting newborn physiology. Davis also reveals the keys to postpartum recovery, with practical tips on breastfeeding for busy mothers. Comprehensive and compassionate, HEART & HANDS remains a dog-eared classic for parents, midwives, and other birthing helpers.
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 Great Resource Manual August 28, 2008
This book was a little too in-depth for the average reader, but was excellent for practical information and training purposes. I found it worked best as a resource rather than a study item. The author was knowledgeable and communicated well.
 To the person who said: More pronography then medical guidance May 22, 2007
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
This reader has an issue with a woman's whole body. In many birth books all you see is from the wasit down like the woman is not a whole person. When we focus on the whole picture (a womans torso, breasts and FACE!) we remember this isn't a birthing machine that needs fixing; this is a person, a woman, a mother.
GREAT book May 9, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I would recommend this book to anyone pursuing a natural birth. It helped me to understand many of the things that my midwife did, as well as to have faith in the strength of my body. Reading this before labor helped me to make it through 20 hours of back labor without even so much as an aspirin. I would highly recommend this book to parents-to-be!
 More pronography then medical guidance May 2, 2007
4 out of 67 found this review helpful
While certain anatomical photos are certainly necessary to help explain birth, this book goes way beyond medical visuals and seems to have gone out of its way to include pictures that border on pornography. There's even diagrams that were amended to include "details" clearly not necessary to serve as an effective visual aid. Moreover, why it is necessary to have so many waistup shots of women's breasts and pretty blatnat ones to boot when a baby comes out of the body waist below is beyond on us. We tried at first to ignore the pictures and read the book, but it just got so obscenre for us, we shelved it with plans to throw it away. Men buying Penthouse will definitely like this book!
Wonderful book February 26, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
We have six healthy, intelligent and well adjusted children! The first two were born in the hospital with a CNM (certified Nurse Midwife). The next two were born at home with a PCM (professionally certified midwife) and the last two my husband and I delivered alone. The two books most helpful to us were this one and Special Delivery by Rahima Baldwin. It is informative, factual, and easy to read. If you need practical information as well as courage to birth at home, read this and your mind will be put at ease. You are not "crazy" to consider this option!
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