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Birth Matters by Ina May Gaskin

Birth Matters

A Midwife’s Manifesta

How What We Don’t Know About Nature, Bodies, and Surgery Can Hurt Us

By Ina May Gaskin
Foreword by Ani DiFranco

By Ina May Gaskin
Foreword by Ani DiFranco

By Ina May Gaskin
Foreword by Ani DiFranco

By Ina May Gaskin
Foreword by Ani DiFranco

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    About Birth Matters

    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 women become mothers is a women’s rights issue, and it is perhaps the act that most powerfully exhibits what it is to be instinctually human. Birth Matters is a spirited manifesta showing us how to trust women, value birth, and reconcile modern life with a process as old as our species.

    About Birth Matters

    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 women become mothers is a women’s rights issue, and it is perhaps the act that most powerfully exhibits what it is to be instinctually human. Birth Matters is a spirited manifesta showing us how to trust women, value birth, and reconcile modern life with a process as old as our species.

    About Ina May Gaskin

    Called “the mother of authentic midwifery,” INA MAY GASKIN has practiced for nearly forty years at The Farm Midwifery Center, which is noted for its low rates of intervention, morbidity and mortality. She is the only midwife for whom an… More about Ina May Gaskin

    About Ina May Gaskin

    Called “the mother of authentic midwifery,” INA MAY GASKIN has practiced for nearly forty years at The Farm Midwifery Center, which is noted for its low rates of intervention, morbidity and mortality. She is the only midwife for whom an… More about Ina May Gaskin

    Product Details

    Category: Health & Fitness | Parenting

    Paperback | $16.95
    Published by Seven Stories Press
    Mar 22, 2011 | 272 Pages | 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 | ISBN 9781583229279

    Category: Health & Fitness | Parenting

    Ebook | $13.99
    Published by Seven Stories Press
    Jan 04, 2011 | 272 Pages | ISBN 9781609801403

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    Praise

    “A stand-out by Ina May Gaskin…elegantly covers the normalcy and power of birth, includes birth stories, and makes sound arguments for more support and less intervention. An essential acquisition.”—Library Journal (Starred Review)

    “Ina May Gaskin is such an important figure in the effort to bring a more kind birthing process back into the mainstream, so check out her book if you’d like to learn more about having a blissful, powerful birthing experience.” —Alicia Silverstone, The Kind Life

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