Birth Reborn - Michel Odent New softcover book What Childbirth Should Be

BIRTH REBORN

What Childbirth Should Be

by MICHEL ODENT, with introduction by Sheila Kitzinger

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New softcover book, 124 pages, published 2008.

For over 40 years Michel Odent has been the world's leading 'birth guru'. He has poineered a new philosophy of childbirth, making it a natural experience for women and providing settings that allow a woman to give birth her own way. Women become their own birthing experts: if they follow their instincts they can give birth naturally, with minimal intervention from medical science.

Many of the birthing practices that Michel Odent has advocated are now in common usage, including the creation of more homely birthing rooms, birthing pools and water births, labour without drugs and ensuring that the mother plays the key role in the experience of birth. Michel Odent has returned birth to how it should be.

Birth Reborn gives expectant mothers the confidence and information they need in order to trust themselves to give birth without the drugs and medical procedures that are being increasingly recognised as harmful to the mother and to the baby's future development.

About the author

Michel Odent, MD, (born in France in 1930) is a surgeon and childbirth specialist famous for advocating natural childbirth. He did his Medical studies at Paris University and trained as a general surgeon. He was in charge of the surgical unit and the maternity unit at the Pithiviers state hospital (1962–1985). He then practiced in London, and subsequently founded the Primal Health Research Centre. Odent has published 11 books which have been printed in 21 languages.

Sheila Kitzinger is a British natural childbirth activist and author on childbirth and pregnancy. She is a social anthropologist specialising in pregnancy, childbirth and the parenting of babies and young children. She campaigns for women to have the information they need to make choices about childbirth. She is a strong believer that all women who are not at high risk should be given the choice to benefit from a home birth . She is a keen writer and her books cover women's experiences of antenatal care, birth plans, induction of labour, epidurals, episiotomy, hospital care in childbirth, children's experiences of being present at birth and post traumatic stress following childbirth.

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Birth Reborn: What Childbirth Should Be by Michel Odent