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Title: Birth without Violence: Revised Edition of the Classic by Frederick Leboyer ISBN: 0-89281-983-9 Publisher: Healing Art Press Pub. Date: 30 May, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (12 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An eye-opener for those of us who forgot our own birth.
Comment: WOW! This is one of the most touching, honest books I have ever read. Birth is a natural event that should take place in a natural setting. This book brings to light the forgotten beauty and simplicity of birth. It will open your eyes to the horrors of birth (yes babies can feel, see, sense, smell and hear when you yell, poke, prod, spank, shine bright lights and drop burning liquid into their eyes), and turn you on to the beauty of this wonderful experience. This book actually changed my life and led me onto the path of midwifery. Recommended to all humankind!
Rating: 4
Summary: Birth with dignity and respect for babies
Comment: After four hospital births, I was finally fed up with impersonal childbirth. This book was one of the first books I read while preparing for the homebirth of our fifth child. It was one of the few birth books that evoked respect for babies and peace at birth as opposed to a clinical presentation of birth. Our culture needs more books of this sort to show women that we need to birth our babies in a much more dignified manner, taking into consideration a genuine love for babies. Expectant couples everywhere should take a look at "Birth without Violence." Beautiful writing style and great photos!
Rating: 5
Summary: The ultimate in common sense, poetic beauty
Comment: This book is so full of common sense, compassion and beauty while still being founded upon simple yet so often unpracticed scientific priciples that is almost annoying to read. "How is it possible that we haven't been doing this for ten thousand years? How is it possible that we don't do this today as a matter of course?"; these will be just some of the first questions that will pop up in your mind. It is so clearly written and so important, that the attributes of this not just life-altering but culture-altering book about the first moments of life for a newborn child cannot be understated. It reads, and to a large degree is constructed, like great poetry--in much the same way the work of Galileo and Darwin and Alice Miller and Stephen Hawking read like epic poetic novels as they sing with human, universal truths.
One of the most beautiful things about this book is LeBoyer's confident, unashamed way of admitting that he merely observed a small, hidden community in India and their childbirthing practices. He discovered that their lives in this aspect, and those of their children, were a reflection of, according to Western medical principles, a scientific impossibility. With that discovery he saw the differences between the simplicity of nature, the imposed myopia of culture and the limitlessness of human potential--in an area of human life where he once unconsciously (like most of us) thought the three were essentially one and the same. He then allowed that to forever change his life. Consequently, given what he learned, he wrote this masterpiece (given its easy to digest structure, poetic/psychological tone and its overwhelming lack of antecedents), and changed ours. The cultural/philosophical and spiritual bridge from the West to the East he created by this approach to childbirthing is momumental in its implications, in a way most of the New Age literature of the past thirty plus years, including that of American writers who willingly reveal their Eastern philosophical inspiration, really just isn't.
This is a beautiful book. I have one wonderful son. If and when I have other children, this book charts how they will essentially come into the world and spend their first moments in it. I'll see to it.
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Title: Ina May's Guide to Childbirth by Ina May Gaskin ISBN: 0553381156 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 04 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Loving Hands: The Traditional Art of Baby Massage by Frederick Leboyer ISBN: 1557043140 Publisher: Newmarket Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1997 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Inner Beauty, Inner Light by Frederick Leboyer ISBN: 1557043159 Publisher: Newmarket Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1997 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: The Secret Life of the Unborn Child by Thomas, M.D. Verny, John Kelly ISBN: 0440505658 Publisher: Dell Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 September, 1988 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Birthing from Within: An Extra-Ordinary Guide to Childbirth Preparation by Pam England, Rob Horowitz ISBN: 0965987302 Publisher: Partera Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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