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The birth partner : a complete guide to childbirth for dads, doulas, and other labor companions

Call Number

  • 618.2 S5898 (CEN)

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Edition

3rd ed.

Publication Information

Boston, Mass. : Harvard Common Press, c2008.

Physical Description

xviii, 398 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Contents

  • The last few weeks of pregnancy
  • Getting into labor
  • Moving through the stages of labor
  • Comfort measures for labor
  • Strategies for challenging variations in normal labor
  • Tests, technologies, interventions, and procedures
  • Complications in late pregnancy, labor, or afterward
  • Medications for pain during labor
  • Cesarean birth, and vaginal birth after cesarean
  • The first few days postpartum
  • Getting started with breastfeeding.

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