Mother with Child, livre ebook

A call to women to regain the meaning of childbearing. Fucuses on the inner transformations of the childbearing experience.

"Rabuzzi rejects the status quo, presenting viable, often spiritual, alternatives to prevailing high-tech, patriarchal models of childbirth." —Booklist

"Excellent." —The Reader's Review

"A lovely book. . . . It is a book for anyone wishing to reexamine and reclaim birth's potential for sacredness." —Robbie Davis-Floyd, author of Birth as an American Rite of Passage

Rabuzzi, author of The Sacred and the Feminine and Motherself, contends that childbearing has been denigrated, denied, and devalued. This book is intended to help women rename, re-ritualize, reinterpret, and reframe childbearing for themselves and their partners.

Preface
Introduction

I. Preconception(s)
II. Conception
III. Miraculous Conceptions
IV. Misconceptions
V. Pregnancy: A Natural Initiation Process
VI. Models of Labor and Delivery
VII. Phases of Labor
VIII. "Delivery": A Time of Potential Revelation
IX. The Postpartum Period

Conclusion

Notes
Index