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In this book Ina May Gaskin, a leading midwife, imparts her knowledge about women’s bodies combining the best of what medical science has offered over the past century or two with what women have always been able to learn about themselves before birth moved into hospitals. She points you towards the best information currently available about women’s real capacities in labor and birth and to show how these can mesh with the most effective use of modern birth technology. She expresses lessons that can empower women to give birth to their own child without technological intervention, wherever they decide to give birth. She explains birth as a normal physiological process with birth stories, pregnancy and prenatal care, the essentials of birth, labor and delivery. She also gives benchmarks for midwifery and a vision for midwifery and mothers in the twenty first century.

“The inimitable Ina May Gaskin shares her birthing wisdom once again, this time explaining how she and her team of midwives have achieved such extraordinary success rates, and why the natural birthing process, when left to its own devices, can proceed so beautifully on its own. Required reading for any woman who wants to learn about her birthing options.”
— Hope Edelman, author of Motherless Daughters

“Simply put, midwife Ina May Gaskin is the most important person in maternity care in North America, bar none. As a reproductive scientist as well as a medical practitioner, I can assure readers that everything Ina May presents in this book is based on the best scientific evidence. This book should be read by every woman who is having or may someday have a baby, and by every midwife, nurse, doula, childbirth educator, and doctor who assists or may someday assist these women through their maternity experience.”
— Marsden Wagner, M.D., M.S., Former Director of Women’s and Children’s Health, World Health Organization

BOOK SPECIFICATIONS

2003 publication, 348 pages, soft cover bound,