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Home Birth Books
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Spiritual Midwifery (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as home-birth)
avg rating 4.38 — 6,719 ratings — published 1975
Home Birth On Your Own Terms: A How To Guide For Birthing Unassisted (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as home-birth)
avg rating 4.44 — 363 ratings — published
Ina May's Guide to Childbirth (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as home-birth)
avg rating 4.36 — 34,036 ratings — published 2003
The Doula Book: How A Trained Labor Companion Can Help You Have A Shorter, Easier, And Healthier Birth (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as home-birth)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,317 ratings — published 2002
Welcome With Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as home-birth)
avg rating 4.59 — 278 ratings — published 1999
“Oh, time and again, Mrs. Drinker told me that one had to have a doctor and one had to go to a hospital to have a baby. I was finally persuaded to make one concession: the doctor. But go to a hospital--that was ridiculous. Why? What for? I wasn't sick.
In Europe you went to a hospital when you were dangerously sick, and many people died there, but babies were born at home.
Would they in the hospital allow my husband to sit at my bed-side? Could I hold his hand, look into his eyes? Could my family be in the next room, singing and praying? The answer to all these questions was “nо."
All right, that settled it. I tried to explain that a baby had to be born into a home, received by loving hands, not into a hospital, surrounded by ghostly-looking doctors and masked nurses, into the atmosphere of sterilizers and antiseptics. That's why I would ask the doctor to come to our house.”
― The Story of the Trapp Family Siingers
In Europe you went to a hospital when you were dangerously sick, and many people died there, but babies were born at home.
Would they in the hospital allow my husband to sit at my bed-side? Could I hold his hand, look into his eyes? Could my family be in the next room, singing and praying? The answer to all these questions was “nо."
All right, that settled it. I tried to explain that a baby had to be born into a home, received by loving hands, not into a hospital, surrounded by ghostly-looking doctors and masked nurses, into the atmosphere of sterilizers and antiseptics. That's why I would ask the doctor to come to our house.”
― The Story of the Trapp Family Siingers
“He watched her pace the floor in her bare feet---the floor she'd scrubbed clean seven times now from the mess and afterbirth of new babies.
She'd gotten out the stains [...] in the floor she was pacing now, walking up and down the ordinary wooden boards with bare feet like Moses at the burning bush. Like something sacred had happened there; holy ground.”
― Children of Promise
She'd gotten out the stains [...] in the floor she was pacing now, walking up and down the ordinary wooden boards with bare feet like Moses at the burning bush. Like something sacred had happened there; holy ground.”
― Children of Promise
