Our bodies, ourselves: pregnancy and childbirth

Introduction

The Journey to Parenthood

1. Approaching Birth with Confidence

2. Choosing Your Health Care Provider and Birth Setting

3. Preparing for Childbirth

Your Pregnancy

4. Your Developing Pregnancy and Prenatal Care

5. Taking Care of Yourself

6. Relationships, Sex, and Emotional Support

7. Prenatal Testing

8. Special Concerns During Pregnancy

9. Childbearing Loss

Giving Birth

10. Labor and Birth

11. Coping with Pain

12. Special Concerns During Labor and Birth

13. Cesarean Births

Becoming a Mother

14. Your Physical Recovery and Your Newborn

15. Feeding Your Baby

16. Life as a New Mother

Knowledge is Power

17. Advocating for Better Maternity Care

18. Advocating for Mothers and Families

Resources

Authorship and Acknowledgments

About the Contributors

Disclosures

Index