Books by Ina May Gaskin

  • Birth Matters: A Midwife's Manifesta

    Ina May Gaskin, Ani DiFranco
    Renowned for her practice's exemplary results and low intervention rates, Ina May Gaskin has gained international notoriety for promoting natural birth. She is a much-beloved leader of a movement that seeks to stop the hyper-medicalization of birth—which has lead to nearly a third of hospital births in America to be cesarean sections—and renew confidence in a woman's natural ability to birth.
    Upbeat and informative, Gaskin asserts that the way in which...
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  • Ina May's Guide to Childbirth

    Ina May Gaskin
    What you need to know to have the best birth experience for you. Drawing upon her thirty-plus years of experience, Ina May Gaskin, the nation’s leading midwife, shares the benefits and joys of natural childbirth by showing women how to trust in the ancient wisdom of their bodies for a healthy and fulfilling birthing experience. Based on the female-centered Midwifery Model of Care, Ina May’s Guide to Natural Childbirth gives expectant mothers comprehensive information...
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  • Ina May's Guide to Breastfeeding

    Ina May Gaskin
    Everything you need to know to make breastfeeding a joyful, natural, and richly fulfilling experience for both you and your baby

    Drawing on her decades of experience in caring for pregnant women, mothers, and babies, Ina May Gaskin explores the health and psychological benefits of breastfeeding and gives you invaluable practical advice that will help you nurse your baby in the most fulfilling way possible. Inside you’ll find answers to virtually every...
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  • Spiritual Midwifery

    Ina May Gaskin
    Here is the 4th edition of the classic book on home birth that introduced a whole generation of women to the concept of natural childbirth. Back again are even more amazing birthing tales, including those from women who were babies in earlier editions and stories about Old Order Amish women attended by the Farm midwives.

    Also new is information about the safety of techniques routinely used in hospitals during and after birth, information on postpartum depression and maternal death...

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