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The Birth Partner's Quick Reference Guide and Planner: Essential Labor and Childbirth Information for Partners and Helpers
This is a shorter version of the classic bestseller The Birth Partner, ideal for time-pressed parents, partners, and birthing professionals. It is a convenient and easy-to-use book that provides facts on the fly during the ultra-busy period before, during, and after labor and birth. An added planner keeps your plans and to-dos in one place.
Generations of spouses and partners, as well as doulas, nurses, midwives, and other professionals, have relied on Penny Simkin's warm and wise guidance in caring for the new mother, from the last trimester through the early postpartum period. Her book The Birth Partner is the definitive guide to helping a woman through labor and birth, and The Birth Partner's Quick Reference Guide and Planner is a more-concise version of that book. For those who have the original book, it adds a planner component, for hospital or at-home birth plans and for other essential to-dos. It is full of reliable and up-to-date information on: Preparing for labor and for the new baby Ways to help a woman through each stage of labor and birth Pain-relief measures, including epidurals and medications as well as natural techniques Ways to induce or speed up labor Cesarean birth and complications that may require it Breastfeeding and newborn care and much more For the partner who wishes to be truly helpful in the birthing room, this is the essential book to have on hand.
Generations of spouses and partners, as well as doulas, nurses, midwives, and other professionals, have relied on Penny Simkin's warm and wise guidance in caring for the new mother, from the last trimester through the early postpartum period. Her book The Birth Partner is the definitive guide to helping a woman through labor and birth, and The Birth Partner's Quick Reference Guide and Planner is a more-concise version of that book. For those who have the original book, it adds a planner component, for hospital or at-home birth plans and for other essential to-dos. It is full of reliable and up-to-date information on: Preparing for labor and for the new baby Ways to help a woman through each stage of labor and birth Pain-relief measures, including epidurals and medications as well as natural techniques Ways to induce or speed up labor Cesarean birth and complications that may require it Breastfeeding and newborn care and much more For the partner who wishes to be truly helpful in the birthing room, this is the essential book to have on hand.
- GenresParenting
200 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 10, 2019
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December 22, 2021
As a childbirth educator and doula, I can honestly say I enjoyed this book more than the full version.
Unlike the longer/full version, it is geared toward the regular people who want to support a birthing person in their lives, but who are not actual birth workers. It is detailed, yet to the point. It is a great manual for someone who wants to better understand birth in general and unmedicated birth specifically, as well as how to support it.
Plus, you get information about the most common routines and procedures in the hospital, what they are for, why they do them and how they are done. This super informative book is good enough to read alone without a childbirth class AND it is an excellent accompaniment to any childbirth education series you might be taking with your partner.
If you only want to read one book about labor and birth, try this. It won't disappoint.
Unlike the longer/full version, it is geared toward the regular people who want to support a birthing person in their lives, but who are not actual birth workers. It is detailed, yet to the point. It is a great manual for someone who wants to better understand birth in general and unmedicated birth specifically, as well as how to support it.
Plus, you get information about the most common routines and procedures in the hospital, what they are for, why they do them and how they are done. This super informative book is good enough to read alone without a childbirth class AND it is an excellent accompaniment to any childbirth education series you might be taking with your partner.
If you only want to read one book about labor and birth, try this. It won't disappoint.
January 12, 2025
My husband read this book like sipping a glass of water in the desert. He was a busy businessman working everyday knowing no day non stop that I had no idea how to ask him joining birthing class. Ms Penny made my husband a real hero that in no time he understood his homework during our labor. i was giving birth abroad, a foreigner with no family abroad. I never thought I could make it. Glad that My doula introduced us this book, everything happened like a magic until we met our little angel.
November 28, 2021
Concise yet detailed. Exactly what I was hoping it would be.
August 22, 2025
This is a must read for any new dad.
A lot of times, pregnancy is discussed in great detail to women. But to men? Almost never. This book is a great way to educate those coming into pregnancy with no (or little) prior knowledge.
This book is extremely factual and covers every facet of birth that you can think of, and that partners will actually have to face. And it goes for any style of birth too. This book will give you the best way to support your significant other, and to have the knowledge to know and talk to the Doctors/OBs/Doulas and understand what they say.
A lot of times, pregnancy is discussed in great detail to women. But to men? Almost never. This book is a great way to educate those coming into pregnancy with no (or little) prior knowledge.
This book is extremely factual and covers every facet of birth that you can think of, and that partners will actually have to face. And it goes for any style of birth too. This book will give you the best way to support your significant other, and to have the knowledge to know and talk to the Doctors/OBs/Doulas and understand what they say.
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