May 19, 2008 by Angela White, J.D., breastfeeding counselor
Filed under breastfeeding, poll, pregnancy
Hard to believe I reach 30 weeks of pregnancy tomorrow! As part of planning for the birth, I have been reading Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth
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With three wonderful children, Angela has been breastfeeding for over six years. She was the Feature Editor for the UCSD Guardian newspaper. She started blogging in 2003 and launched Breastfeeding ... more
I love Ina May’s book too, it is my intention to give a copy to all my friends who get pregnant! I’m one of the first in our group, so there will be more soon! If it helps them have a positive feeling towards their birth then it’s money well spent, the first girl I gave it too thought it looked a bit nuts but promised to read it
Thanks for the review, Half Pint Pixie! I can see people having that first reaction to the book, and I just want to impress upon them how “bad” my first two births were. The babies and I ended up being fine, but they were not the empowering, positive experiences I had hoped for - the type of experiences described in the book.
Now that I am planning a home birth, I get a lot of interesting reactions — a lot of stories of “thank goodness I was in a hospital because X, Y, Z happened” and I just wonder to myself, well, maybe X, Y, and Z wouldn’t have happened if you weren’t at a hospital that gave you A, B, C interventions.