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"It is the mind-body connection that will allow parents to fully experience and appreciate the emotional, physical, and spiritual beauty of childbirth. Better Birth will help guide parents through this journey of creation and destination to birth."
?Donna Karan

Pregnancy should be a time of joy and celebration. But if you're not emotionally, physically, intellectually, and spiritually prepared for childbirth, it can also be a time of stress and anxiety. This groundbreaking book takes the fear out of labor and delivery and arms you with the knowledge to have an informed, safe, and peaceful birth.

Better Birth will be the one resource that you can turn to again and again to get all your questions answered and feel empowered during your birthing process. Birthing expert Denise Spatafora shows you how to prepare yourself to have the childbirth you want, whether you choose to deliver your baby in a hospital, birthing center, or at home. She shows you how to tap into your mind-body connection to draw upon natural relaxation methods that promote a childbirth experience that is beautiful and fulfilling, rather than frightening. If you're pregnant or thinking of becoming pregnant, you and your baby deserve a better birth.
Foreword by Candace B. Pert, Ph.D.

Acknowledgments.

Introduction.

PART ONE: Inventing the Experience.

1 The BornClear Philosophy.

2 Consciously Conceiving.

3 Pregnancy: Establishing a New Perspective.

4 The BornClear Toolbox.

5 Connecting with Your Growing Baby.

PART TWO: BornClear Birthing.

6 Accessing Your Internal Medicine.

7 The Art and Science of Labor and Birth.

8 The Birth Plan: The Art of Creating Alignment.

9 Getting Ready for Baby.

10 Surrender Means Letting Go.

Resources.

Vie de famille

Maternité

Pregnacy

Childbirth

Health

Fitness

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Publié par	Turner Publishing Company
Date de parution	27 mars 2009
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780470522424
Langue	English

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Table of Contents

Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction
The BornClear Program
Birthing a New Beginning

PART ONE - Inventing the Experience

Chapter 1 - The BornClear Philosophy

The Power of the Mind-Body Connection
Experiencing the Mind-Body Connection
Giving Birth Consciously
The Power of Reflection
The Power of Trusting Yourself
Let’s Get Started

Chapter 2 - Consciously Conceiving

BornClear and Conception
Mind-Body Conception
Physical Issues Surrounding Fertility
Male Fertility Issues
Unexplained Infertility
The Work of Preconception
Connecting with Your Preconceived Child
Ten Tips to Remember
Building Community
Choosing Other Options
Aligning Your Intentions

Chapter 3 - Pregnancy: Establishing a New Perspective

Designing Childbirth in Your Own Words
How Others Fit into Your New Perspective
What Birthing Choices Really Look Like
Putting It All Together

Chapter 4 - The BornClear Toolbox

The Toolbox and the Mind-Body Connection
BornClear Breathing
Visualizations
Meditation
Owning a Mantra
Writing Exercises
Therapeutic Art Exercises
Movement and Exercise
Using Sound to Relax
Hands-On Relaxation
Reflexology
My Favorite Relaxation Remedies and Treatments
Food for Thought

Chapter 5 - Connecting with Your Growing Baby

The Mind-Body Connection and Pregnancy
The Mind-Body Fix
Creating Memories
Working on Your Relationship with Your Partner
Naming Your Baby
Creating Pregnancy Rituals
Creating Community
Moving On

PART TWO - Born Clear Birthing
Chapter 6 - Accessing Your Internal Medicine

Birthing Begins in the Brain
Moving into the Body
The Power of Pain
The Role of Conventional Drugs
If You Are Late
Your Internal Medicine Chest after the Birth
The Importance of Breast-Feeding
Understanding Postpartum Depression
What Fathers or Partners Are Experiencing
Using Your Internal Medicine Chest as a Life Tool

Chapter 7 - The Art and Science of Labor and Birth

What Has Already Happened
What to Do If You Know Your Delivery Will Be Breech
The Stages of Labor
Issues That May Come Up During Labor
Emergency C-Sections
Other Procedures to Be Aware Of

Chapter 8 - The Birth Plan: The Art of Creating Alignment

The Beauty of Creating Alignment
Addressing Your Birth Plan
Conversations with Your Birth Team
Touring Your Birth Facility
Pre-Planning a Home Birth
What Happens When Things Don’t Go Your Way
Packing Your Bag
Your Parting Words

Chapter 9 - Getting Ready for Baby

The New Family Plan
Postpartum Doulas
Choosing a Pediatrician
Nesting
What You Need to Buy
Your Life during the First Month
The Blend Theory
The Gift of Prioritizing
The Language of Love
Feeding Yourself
Things I Wish I Had Known Then

Chapter 10 - Surrender Means Letting Go

Your Final Checklist
How Did Your Own Birth Go?
Learn to Let Go
BornClear Is a Better Birth

Resources
Recommended Reading
Index

This book is printed on acid-free paper.

Copyright © 2009 by Denise Spatafora. All rights reserved

Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey Published simultaneously in Canada

Photograph on p. iii by Stefanie Jasper. All other photographs are courtesy of Timothi Jane Graham.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:

Spatafora, Denise. Better birth: the ultimate guide to childbirth from home births to hospitals/ Denise Spatafora. p. cm. Includes index.
eISBN : 978-0-470-52242-4
1. Childbirth—Popular works. 2. Childbirth at home—Popular works. I. Title. RG525.S647 2009 618.4—dc22 2008055887

For my children with all my love always Love yourselves and each other with your whole heart

Savannah Born under the Stars and the Moon Creative and Beautiful September 18, 2000, 5:19 a.m.

Orion Born with the rising Sun Joyful and Powerful April 27, 2003, 8:13 a.m.
Foreword

By Candace B. Pert, Ph.D, Chief Scientific Officer, RAPID Pharmaceuticals, Rockville, Maryland
Finally, someone has taken the science of the mind-body connection and applied it to the experience of childbirth. The era of medical birth primacy and its treatment of women as bodies without mind, emotion, or spirit, is over.
Thanks to Denise Spatafora, a new era of smart birth—women and their partners being fully empowered to design birthing experiences of their choice—is upon us. Denise is a woman with a mission, and with BornClear she launches a movement to alter forever how we approach and conduct ourselves through conception, pregnancy, birthing, and parenting. She is up to no less than a revolution in consciousness.
Knowledge is access, and the access Denise is offering through BornClear is grounded in the scientific discoveries I and my colleagues made in the 1970s while I was first at Johns Hopkins and later at the National Institutes of Mental Health in Bethesda, Maryland. As described in my book Molecules of Emotion , I laid the foundation for the discovery of endorphin, the body’s natural morphine and the brain chemical responsible for the exhilarating emotion of bliss and pain-free childbirth, among other effects. That groundbreaking research led to the even more astounding finding in the 1980s that each of us is a communication network of chemical information. The mind and the body are constantly in communication, a process that is highly regulated by the molecules of emotion, the peptides, of which the endorphin is one.
In the work I did with my team to establish the mind-body connection, I showed how conscious breathing, a technique employed by both the yogi during meditation and the woman in labor, can alter the experience of pain. There is a wealth of data showing that changes in the rate and the depth of breathing produce changes in the quantity and the kind of chemicals that are released from the brain—and vice versa. You can cause those chemicals, by consciously controlling your breath—a principle used in Lamaze and other birthing techniques—to diffuse rapidly throughout the cerebrospinal fluid and thus diminish your pain. The endorphin-respiratory link is well documented. Virtually any endorphin molecule found anywhere else can be found in the respiratory center, providing the scientific rationale for the powerful healing effects of consciously controlled breath patterns.
My science led me to trust my body as I went through becoming pregnant and giving birth to my own children. After one high-tech, heavily drugged hospital delivery and a second natural childbirth, again in the environment of a hospital, I’d decided to have my third child at home. At that time, I continued to be my own best laboratory rat, experimenting on myself to prove or disprove my theses. I wanted to be emotionally present for the birth and fully in control of the process.
I knew about the breathing connection to endorphin release, and so I used conscious controlled breathing, a surefire, proven strategy for releasing endorphins and quelling pain, to experience a natural, pain-diminished delivery of my child. I trusted my instincts and the wisdom of my body, something I’d been prevented from doing in the hospital environment, with its emphasis on high-tech machinery over mind-body wisdom. It was an experience that won me over to natural childbirth.
Another aspect I love about the BornClear approach is Denise’s understanding of how knowledge dispels fear. In this book, Denise arms women and their partners with an incredible amount of knowledge—not only about the development of the fetus, as so many books do, but about the relationship of our thoughts, feelings, and beliefs to the experiences of being pregnant, giving birth, and parenting. My work has shown that we all filter our perceptions of reality through a network of emotional chemicals, highly coloring what we see as “out there,” or objective reality. The quality and freedom of those emotions—whether they are stuck and suppressed or flowing and alive—can profoundly impact that experience. Preparing for childbirth and parenting has everything to do with our thoughts and feelings, and know