Pregnancy & Childbirth Secrets

By Gail J. Dahl

This national bestselling book will assist you in preparing for a positive childbirth experience and creating an easier, safer and gentler childbirth, whether you have your baby in a hospital, at a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 189693708X
• ISBN13: 9781896937083
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Innovative Publishing
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Enlightened Childbirth

Thanks Gail for giving us the insight into what childbirth should really be. Salli Gonzalez, Licensed Midwife San Antonio, TX

An inspiring, inspirational, and practical guide to pregnany & birth!!

Pregnancy & Childbirth Secrets provides parents with practical and compassionate tools for a safe, normal, birthing experience, from conception through the magnificence of birth and bonding to the precious first days, months, and years of a baby's life. Gail Dahl offers positive parenting suggestions that will help a parent get the most out of the incredibly empowering, ecstatic experience of creating, birthing, and parenting a precious baby. This is the book grandparents wish we'd had! Marilyn Fayre Milos, RN, Executive Director, National Organization of Circumcision Information Resource Centers (NOCIRC)Doctors Re-examine Circumcision

Excellent book for Childbirth classes

I recently had an Open House for my business, Life Song Perinatal Services, and had a chance to show off my chosen class text, "Pregnancy & Childbirth Secrets" by Gail Dahl. This is a wonderful book; she included so many great articles, the kind I normally have clipped out or copied out of journals and saved in my teaching stack. Anyway, I love the book, and was thrilled to find it. I had this book out for all to see - it was a wonderful gathering of midwives, childbirth educators, doulas, past class participants and mommas - and the book had resounding reviews. I just really appreciate all Gail's "straight-talk" re: epidural anesthesia and its mother baby effects, induction, cesarean. She also talks about Optimal Fetal Positioning, comfort measures, positions for birth, connecting with your baby while en utero, etc. She is a true Birthkeeper and believer of sacred, normal, physiological birth. It was beautifully written. In addition, I enjoyed all the "gray boxes" which captured some of the "best of" articles by so many birth gurus, including Michel Odent MD, Gloria Lemay,Penny Simkin, Jean Sutton, Sheila Kitzinger MD, Ina May Gaskin, Mardsen Wagner MD, Dr. Thomas Verny, CIMS and WHO recommendations, to name a few. Wonderful! Thank you, Gail, for writing such a book, and for compiling this excellent resource. I look forward to sharing it with my students. It is just what I was looking for in a childbirth class book. -- Mary Burgess, Life Song Perinatal Services, Bellingham, WA.

Best book for mom's and babies

Gail Dahl has researched and gathered information that makes pregancy a gentle, soft, safe experience. In this day of information it is amazing to me that mothers must still search and hunt for what is needed to bring a mother and baby safely through the amazing experience called BIRTH. Gail's dedication to bring healthy happy babies into this world makes her a pioneer in her field. Thank you Gail, I so appreciate your committment. Jollean Sandwell-Schantz