The Official Lamaze Guide: Giving Birth with Confidence - Softcover

Lamaze International is a leading organization providing natural childbirth training for pregnant mothers. Every year, the organisation's educational programmes reach millions of parents through "Lamaze Parents Magazine" (2.7 million circulation) and the organization's websites. This is the official guide to pregnancy presenting the Lamaze method of natural childbirth. Obstetric care practices such as episiotomies and epidurals, once reserved for complicated childbirths, are now used routinely in hospitals. This book was written to help mothers understand the risks of those procedures and the benefits of a more natural approach to childbirth. This is the first and only official guide to the Lamaze Method of natural childbirth. Essential reading both for pregnant women trained by Lamaze and for any mother who wants a natural childbirth rather than a childbirth experience designed for the convenience of the hospital or doctors.