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Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering: A Doctor's Guide to Natural Childbirth and Gentle Early Parenting Choices

Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering: A Doctor's Guide to Natural Childbirth and Gentle Early Parenting Choices

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An authoritative guide to natural childbirth and postpartum parenting options from an MD who home-birthed her own four children.

Sarah Buckley might be called a third-wave natural birth advocate. A doctor and a mother, she approaches the question of how a woman and baby might have the most fulfilling birth experience with respect for the wisdom of both medical science and the human body. Using current medical and epidemiological research plus women's experiences (including her own), she demonstrates that what she calls "undisturbed birth" is almost always healthier and safer than high-technology approaches to birth. Her wise counsel on issues like breastfeeding and sleeping during postpartum helps extend the gentle birth experience into a gentle parenting relationship.

Why You'll Love It

About the author:

Dr Sarah Buckley is a family physician (GP); mother of four children, all naturally born and raised, now in their teen years and beyond; and currently a full-time writer and lecturer on pregnancy, birth, and parenting, for parents and professionals in Australia, the US, and internationally.

She is author of the bestselling book Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering (Celestial Arts/Penguin Random House 2009), and has also contributed to numerous books including: Midwifery Best Practice Volumes 4 and 6 (2004, 2009); Mothering Your Nursing Toddler (2000): Pregnancy and Childbirth Secrets (2007): The Wild Feminine (2008) and Essential Midwifery Practice: Intrapartum Care (2010).

Dr Buckley’s work critiques current practices in pregnancy, birth, and parenting from the widest possible perspectives, including scientific, evolutionary, psychological, and personal.

Her special interests include:

• Safety of ultrasound

• Prenatal testing for Down syndrome

• Ecstatic hormones of labour and birth

• Impact of epidurals, induction and cesarean on mother and baby

• Cord clamping and cord blood banking

• Science of mother-baby attachment

• Benefits of breastfeeding and long-term breastfeeding

• Safety of co-sleeping

Dr Buckley encourages us all to be well informed, to listen to our hearts and instincts, and to take our rightful place as the real experts in our bodies, our babies and our families. Her membership website www.gentlenaturalbirth.com has programs to empower and support both parents and maternity-care professionals.

Dr Buckley has a long-term interest in the hormones of childbearing, and her article “Ecstatic Birth, Nature’s Hormonal Blueprint for Labour”, originally written for Mothering magazine (US), is one of the most popular birth articles ever published in this area. (Available as a free ebook for subscribers on her website www.sarahbuckley.com.)

Her ground-breaking report Hormonal Physiology of Childbearing was published by the National Partnership for Women and Families in 2015 and has been described as “…one of the most revolutionary and influential publications on maternity and newborn care ever issued.” She is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Queensland in this area.

She lives with her family in the semi-rural outskirts of Brisbane, Australia. You can read more about Sarah, including her books and articles, at her website www.sarahbuckley.com and her membership website www.gentlenaturalbirth.com.

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