Known for his pioneering work in natural childbirth the author in this book looks at what water has meant in the past through myths and legends and what it means for us now. He also wrote "Entering the World", "Birth Reborn", "Primal Health" and "The Z Factor".

Water and Sexuality

Odent, Michel

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Penguin??Books

In Birth Reborn Michel Odent outlines the choices available to the mother who wants to give birth naturally, in her own way and with full control over her own body, drawing on his decades of experience as an obstetrician who dealt with 1,000 births a year. It is central to his philosophy that birth is instinctive, and that an environment that promotes intimacy and creativity is essential in the experience of birth, and that the role of the midwife must be key to the mother's experience.Michel Odent has returned birth to how it should be. Birth Reborn gives expectant mothers the confidence and information they need in order to trust themselves to give birth without the drugs and medical procedures that are being increasingly recognised as harmful to the mother and to the baby's future development.

Birth Reborn : What Childbirth Should Be

Souvenir

BIRTH REBORN

The internationally known French physician and head of the Pithiviers Maternity Clinic in northern France explains his revolutionary natural childbirth methods, which result in some of the lowest infant mortality figures in the world

Women's Health

Pantheon

Primal Health: A Blueprint for Our Survival

Medical Books

Arrow (A Division of Random House Group)

A French doctor discusses the importance of the removal of unnecessary technological barriers between mother and child during birth and describes his hospital's natural childbirth techniques

Entering the World: The De-Medicalization of Childbirth (English and French Edition)

Rizzoli Intl Pubns

Michel Odent, a leading figure in the natural childbirth movement, explains the techniques used at his Pithiviers hospital and the philosophy behind his remarkable achievement: a gentle, intimate trauma-free birth method.

Entering the World

Marion Boyars

An examination of the role of water in pregnancy, labour and the neonatal period, which covers water-based exercise during pregnancy, water birth and swimming for babies.

We Are All Water Babies

Arts & Photography

Johnson, Jessica

Photography & Video

Celestial Arts

A pioneer in the childbirth movement for 30 years, Michel Odent focuses on birth and breastfeeding and suggests some startling conclusions. The Nature of Birth and Breastfeeding has as its premise that in order to gain a truer understanding of the human experience, we must examine the way other mammals function during birth, breastfeeding, and parenting. Odent points out some habitual procedures which becloud the approaches to childbirth in Western society. On the one hand, privacy and minimal intervention are key to the ideal birth environment, yet hospitals and the advent of high-tech obstetrics often dictate the opposite, with a result of higher cesarean and morbidity rates.
Odent uncovers another irony--the proven need of mother and infant to receive support for an extensive period of breastfeeding may actually be endangered by the nuclear monogamous family structure. The necessity of allowing women to follow their instincts during labor, birth and breastfeeding is documented by Odent's studies of innate childbirth reactions in various cultures and traditions. The author successfully describes the medical, physiological, social, and emotional rationale behind the need to follow nature's design more closely. Expectant parents, childbirth professionals, psychologists, and all those concerned with our kinship to Mother Earth will find this a provocative and visionary book, which challenges many of our accepted social policies. With The Nature of Birth and Breastfeeding we are closer to the day when, as Dr. Odent puts it the cesarean section will become a rare and wonderful rescue operation, and the now-common terms such as support, assistance, and coaching may find themselves outdated.

The Nature of Birth and Breastfeeding

Bergin & Garvey

The internationally known French physician and head of the Pithiviers Maternity Clinic in northern France explains his revolutionary natural childbirth methods, which result in some of the lowest infant mortality figures in the world. Now, in this second edition of his best-selling book, Dr. Odent has written a new introduction which examines and describes the impact these birthing practices are having throughout the world.

Birth Reborn

Birth Works

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Water and Sexuality

Birth Reborn : What Childbirth Should Be

BIRTH REBORN

BIRTH REBORN

Primal Health: A Blueprint for Our Survival

Entering the World: The De-Medicalization of Childbirth (English and French Edition)

Entering the World

We Are All Water Babies

The Nature of Birth and Breastfeeding

Birth Reborn