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The complete and essential guide to birth with a doula by the "undisputed experts in the field."--Los Angeles Times. More and more parents-to-be all over the world are choosing the comfort and reassuring support of birth with a trained labor companion called a "doula." This warm, authoritative, and irreplaceable guide completely updates the authors' earlier book, Mothering the Mother, and adds much new and important research. In addition to basic advice on finding and working with a doula, the authors show how a doula reduces the need for cesarean section, shortens the length of labor, decreases the pain medication required, and enhances bonding and breast feeding. The authors, world-renowned authorities on childbirth with combined experience of over 100 years working with laboring women, have made their book indispensable to every woman who wants the healthiest, safest, and most joyful possible birth experience. A Merloyd Lawrence Book
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Marshall H. Klaus, M.D., internation ally known neonatologist, is the author or co-auth or of several standard works in the field, includi ng Bonding and Care of the High-Risk Newborn. John H. Kennell, M.D., Professor of Pediatri cs at Case Western Reserve Medical School, in Clev eland, Ohio, is co-author with Marshall and Phylli s Klaus of Bonding and Mothering the Mother. Toget her with Marshall Klaus, he was awarded the Anders on Aldrich Award in Pediatrics, the highest award in the profession.Phyllis H. Klaus, C.S.W., M.F.C.C., teaches and practices psychotherapy at the Erikson Institute in Santa Rosa and practi ces in Berkeley, California.
The complete and essential guide to birth with a doula by the "undisputed experts in the field."--Los Angeles Times. More and more parents-to-be all over the world are choosing the comfort and reassuring support of birth with a trained labor companion called a "doula." This warm, authoritative, and irreplaceable guide completely updates the authors' earlier book, Mothering the Mother, and adds much new and important research. In addition to basic advice on finding and working with a doula, the authors show how a doula reduces the need for cesarean section, shortens the length of labor, decreases the pain medication required, and enhances bonding and breast feeding. The authors, world-renowned authorities on childbirth with combined experience of over 100 years working with laboring women, have made their book indispensable to every woman who wants the healthiest, safest, and most joyful possible birth experience. A Merloyd Lawrence Book
About the Author
Marshall H. Klaus, M.D., internation ally known neonatologist, is the author or co-auth or of several standard works in the field, includi ng Bonding and Care of the High-Risk Newborn. John H. Kennell, M.D., Professor of Pediatri cs at Case Western Reserve Medical School, in Clev eland, Ohio, is co-author with Marshall and Phylli s Klaus of Bonding and Mothering the Mother. Toget her with Marshall Klaus, he was awarded the Anders on Aldrich Award in Pediatrics, the highest award in the profession.Phyllis H. Klaus, C.S.W., M.F.C.C., teaches and practices psychotherapy at the Erikson Institute in Santa Rosa and practi ces in Berkeley, California.
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