Skip to content

Thinking Womans Guide to a Better Birth
Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different

Thinking Womans Guide to a Better Birth Mass market - 1999 - 1st Edition

by HENCI GOER

  • Used
  • Paperback

Certified Lamaze instructor and activist Henci Goer brings women the carefully researched facts they'll want to have--the complete rundown on modern pregnancy and childbirth.

Description

Berkley Pub Group, October 1999. Mass Market . 4 PB Extra Nice +5%.
Used - 4 PB Extra Nice +5%
NZ$22.04
NZ$6.66 Shipping to USA
Standard delivery: 2 to 8 days
More Shipping Options
Ships from The Book Nook (Illinois, United States)

Details

  • Title Thinking Womans Guide to a Better Birth
  • Author HENCI GOER
  • Binding Mass Market
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition Used - 4 PB Extra Nice +5%
  • Pages 368
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Berkley Pub Group, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date October 1999
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 432245
  • ISBN 9780399525179 / 0399525173
  • Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.04 x 6.12 x 1.07 in (22.96 x 15.54 x 2.72 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
    • Topical: Family
    • Topical: Health & Fitness
    • Topical: Women's Interest
  • Library of Congress subjects Childbirth, Pregnancy
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99012456
  • Dewey Decimal Code 618.4

About The Book Nook Illinois, United States

Biblio member since 2018
Seller rating: This seller has earned a 3 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.

We started out as a small used book store about 20 years ago. We occupied a small storefront with approx. 1000 square feet. We would find books wherever we could. Frequenting estate sales, garage sales, and auctions was a normal occurrence for us. Bringing our customers the best quality books for an even better price was our goal.
We now occupy four storefronts with approx. 7000 square feet and stock well over 200,000 items. We process approx 150-400 used books each day through our trade credit program. New items hit the shelves each and every day!

Through it all we still strive for the same goal. TO BRING YOU THE BEST QUALITY BOOKS FOR AN AFFORDABLE PRICE.

Terms of Sale: 30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.

Browse books from The Book Nook

Summary

As an intelligent woman, you are probably used to learning as much as you can before making major decisions. But when it comes to one of the most important decisions of your life--how you will give birth—it is hard to gather accurate, unbiased information. Surprisingly, much of the research does not support common medical opinion and practice.

Birth activist Henci Goer gives clear, concise information based on the latest medical studies. The Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better Birth helps you compare and contrast your various options and shows you how to avoid unnecessary procedures, drugs, restrictions, and tests. The book covers:

  • Cesareans
  • Breech babies
  • Inducing labor
  • Electronic Fetal Monitoring
  • Rupturing Membranes
  • Coping with slow labor
  • Pain medication
  • Epistiotomy
  • Vaginal birth after a Ceasarean
  • Doulas
  • Deciding on a doctor or midwife
  • Choosing where to have your baby
  • and much more . . .

From the publisher

Henci Goer is a certified Lamaze instructor and a doula (professional labor support). She is a founding member of the Coalition for Improving Maternity Services, a group made up of organizations and individuals involved with maternity care in the US and fighting for a mother-friendly childbirth environment. Her articles on pregnancy and childbirth have appeared in Readers Digest and Childbirth Instructor Magazine. For twenty years, Goer has been a Lamaze-certified childbirth educator and labor support professional (doula).

First line

YOU'RE EXPECTING A baby or planning to become pregnant.

Categories

Media reviews

Citations

  • Ingram Advance, 08/01/1999, Page 48

About the author

Henci Goer is a certified Lamaze instructor and a doula (professional labor support). She is a founding member of the Coalition for Improving Maternity Services, a group made up of organizations and individuals involved with maternity care in the US and fighting for a mother-friendly childbirth environment. Her articles on pregnancy and childbirth have appeared in Readers Digest and Childbirth Instructor Magazine. For twenty years, Goer has been a Lamaze-certified childbirth educator and labor support professional (doula).