The Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better Birth by Henci Goer, Rhonda Wheeler Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of The Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better Birth
Book Review: Promotes thinking and consumer awareness!
Summary: 5 Stars
The points I want to make in my review are thus: the book doesn't expect you to necessarily go out and approach your childbirth with a prescribed way...but rather the opposite. It inspires you to do your own thinking instead of taking your doctor's/aunt's/mother's word for it. When reading it, it's one of those "things that make you go hmmmm"...which is why it's called the thinking woman's guide...
Second, and this is probably the most important thing I got out of it, it made me realize that in choosing my OB, I am a consumer, and I have the right to seek out an OB who would support my VBAC choices and respect the fact that I had already made myself a well-informed person. The first OB I had chosen ended up to be the wrong choice...her protocol was definitely not proven to be the best avenue for a VBAC, something I learned through my research...and the doc I ended up with was far more knowledgeable on VBACs.The VBAC Companion: The Expectant Mother's Guide to Vaginal Birth After Cesarean. I didn't use much out of Goer's book, but I'm thankful it gave me the confidence to make well-informed choices.
Book Review: A must-read for all women
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is filled with information that never makes the news- after you read this you will cringe at most media representations of birth. I read it for my doula certification and I had a bias toward hospital birth before I read the book, and it has changed my mind. Every woman has the power to have a natural birth, and should be encouraged to do so even in a hospital.Book Review: Author was hung up on her own bad birth expiriance
Summary: 3 Stars
The author was hung up on her own horable birth expiriances right from the start she did not share her story till very late in the book but you already knew it when you got there. Not a bad book but very bias against VBAC even though the author trys not to be.Book Review: helpful info, but biased
Summary: 2 Stars
I bought the book based on the title and some of the reviews that I had read, expecting a book that would provide the pros and cons of different scenarios and allow the reader to come to her own decision. The book did provide some interesting info and stats, but it was so full of anti-OB rhetoric that sifting through the bias made it hard to come to any sort of informed decision.Book Review: Excellent!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a must have for all pregnant women! I will be buying this book as a shower gift for now on!