The Positive Birth Book: A New Approach to Pregnancy, Birth and the Early Weeks

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Professor Tong carefully and simply breaks down the evidence and facts to provide you with everything you need to know to turn anxiety and trepidation about childbirth into confidence, empowerment, and cherished, life-long memories.

She set up The Positive Birth Movement (PBM), a global network of antenatal discussion groups, with the aim of improving childbirth and giving women better access to support and information, not anticipating the huge appetite among women for more positive messages about birth. I found this book empowering and factual - everything Milli advocates for is so important in the birth room (wherever that room may be) and throughout she makes it abundantly clear that whatever birth you want, the most important aspect is that you are well informed about it and that your choices are guided by accurate, evidence-based information, rather than fear, pressure from others or hospital policy. She provides an explanation of why mindfulness can be so helpful at this stage and gives examples both of how to do it and also some lovely affirmations and visualisations to use. All rights are reserved, including those for text and data mining, AI training, and similar technologies. In The Happy Birth Book, Beverley Turner, with the help of midwife Pam Wild, lays out all the facts about pregnancy, birth and new parenthood.A good part of the book can be skipped if you have read other childbirth books but what this book adds is a great mental framework to help prepare you no matter what you want- and that is the most important preparation of all. Thanks for telling it straight about birth, hospitals, circumscion, ultrasounds, the importance of nursing a human child with human milk, unnessecary medical interventions, and how a healthy woman should trust her body and a competent mid-wife!

By the time you finish this book you'll feel relaxed, capable and genuinely excited about giving birth. The first book to truly focus solely on the birth of your baby (rather than pregnancy) and without a specific agenda. It's a wonderful and compassionate read, as it can help normalise many of the emotions and experiences of mothers, especially in the early days.It’s a very different book to many of the parenting manifestos, and moves past seeing behaviour as something to be ‘trained’ into (or out of ) children and more as an aspect of communication. This book will help them learn about what might happen and why they play such a valuable role merely by being there.