Pre- and Perinatal Massage Therapy: A comprehensive Practitioners' Guide to Pregnancy, labor and Postpartum is skillfully written, well-researched, well-organized, and easy to follow.
This book well be of great assistance to any massage therapist working with women from the beginning of pregnancy, through childbirth, to months after the birth. I highly recommend this be in every pre-. peri-, and post-natal massage therapist's professional library.
--Review by Carolan McFarland in The Hospital-Based Massage-network Quarterly, Winter 1998/1999Read full review

Carole Osborne-Sheets should be commended for Pre- and Perinatal Massage Therapy. This book is an excellent addition for massage therapists working with women in their childbearing years. She has pulled together a tremendous mass of information and has coherently framed it into a comprehensive overview of important concepts. It is clear from the outset that Osborne-Sheets has the well-being of childbearing clients foremost in mind, and this work indicates an appreciation of the need for a holistic attitude that considers the physical, emotional and spiritual aspects of a woman's experience during this life-changing time.
For practitioners wishing to gain new insight into their work with childbearing women, or for those who have been hungry for a well-orchestrated text on the matter, this book is excellent. Osborne-Sheets helps provide a foundation of information that can only further the work we do in the pre- and perinatal clinical setting.
--Review by Cindy McNeely, who supervises a perinatal hospital based massage therapy program in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in Massage Magazine, May/June 2000.Read full review

This is most especially a book for those who are already massage therapists familiar with human anatomy, physiology and massage technique, yet the committed birth practitioner can benefit hugely from the author's careful explanation and instruction.
The author seems to cover all the bases- what's going on in the woman's body, how to listen, what kind of touch to use, how to help the woman express and process feelings, positions to use, structural rebalancing, sculpting, breath work, releases, relaxation, and much more.
What a successful job Osborne-Sheets has accomplished by integrating facts about pregnancy and birth, massage and bodywork techniques, and compassionate emotional care. This is a well referenced, comprehensive book that no massage therapist who is considering working with pregnant women and no birth practitioner should be without.
--Review by Cher Mikkola, senior editor at Midwifery Today, in Midwifery Today, Summer 1999.