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The books, videos and tapes listed here have been personally selected from the many birth titles available. consider us your "one-stop" source for water birth books, tapes, and resources. If you are interested in books that are not on our list, just ask. I'm sure we know where to get them. We will be offering a shopping basket, secured purchase area by the end of March 1999. Until then, please call, fax, or email our office with your order.
Thank you!!
If you have any questions or would like to place an order
please call GMCHA at (503) 682-3600
or 1-800-641-BABY
Fax (503) 682-3434
Videos
Gentle Birth Choices
A Guide to Water Birth
The Use of Water for Labor & Birth
Water Birth on TV
Loving Pregnancy with Partner Massage Video
Water Babies: The Aquanatal Experience in Ostend
Water birth Titles
Gentle Birth Choices
Gentle Birth Choices in Spanish
Gentle Birth Choices,Gift Box Set containing the book and the video together
Water Birth: a Midwives Perspective
We Are All Water Babies
Water Birth Handbook
Water Birth: An Attitude to Care
Water Birth Research Binder
Water Birth International Newsletter
Water Birth Unplugged
Books
Creating a Joyful Birth Experience
Immaculate Deception: Birth & Beyond
Women Giving Birth
Birth Reborn
The Childbirth Kit
The Continuum Concept
Birth Without Violence
Videos
Gentle Birth Choices, the video
This remarkable production combines art, education, and politics and graphically illustrates why it is vital for women to be in charge of their birth experience. Interviews with Dr. Michel Odent, Dr. Marsden Wagner, of the World Health Organization, Dr. Michael Rosenthal, and midwives Nancy McNeese and Maggie Bennett validate the ideas. Filmed on location at a birth center and a home, you will witness six actual births including a VBAC birth, two water births, a squatting birth, and a woman birthing on hands and knees. With an original musical score, Gentle Birth Choices is a must buy for birth centers, hospitals, midwives and parents.
Winner of a national Telly award! 47 min.
ONLY $29.95
"Brace yourself for a powerful experience."--Mothering Magazine
"Buy a copy, show it everywhere till it wears out, then buy another on."--Midwifery Today
"Excellent video. Well done!"--Sheila Kitzinger, author, childbirth educator
Gentle Birth Choices, boxed Gift set
Now the award winning video and book are boxed together in an attractive gift set. Gentle Birth Choices was listed on the Lamaze International "Best Ten Books on Childbirth List" in 1998. This is an incredibly low price for the book and video together.
Only $39.95
A Guide to Water Birth
An informative film produced by Oxford University in London. Follows a couple at the John Radcliffe Maternity Center where waterbirth is a common practice. you will tour the tub room and see their beautiful water birth from start to finish. The role of the midwife during a water birth is discussed. An excellent film on the use of water for labor and birth for professionals and public. 12 min. $39.95
The Use of Water for Labor & Birth
Experienced home birth certified nurse midwife, Marina Alzugary gives a lesson on water birth based on two beautiful home water births. Alzugary's calm presence and voice make this video interesting to watch. A valuable asset. 25 min. $35.00
Water Birth on TV
A recording of the 20/20 and Home Show features on waterbirth. This is a good resource to show clients and healthcare professionals. (1994)25 min. $25.00
Loving Pregnancy With Partner Massage Video
An instructional video for couples massage focusing on the healing benefits of touch for mother and baby during pregnancy and labor. Well organized and easy to follow, this video is a must for every pregnant couple and childbirth educator and midwife. Divided into six 5-10 minute sections, you can turn it off and practice, before going on to the next lesson. 55 min $39.95
Water Babies: The Aquanatal Experience in Ostend
This exquisite production was filmed on location in a state hospital in Belgium where over 50% of the women give birth in water. Incredible footage allows the viewer to experience one water birth after another, including the birth of twins and a frank breech baby!!
The prenatal aquatic preparation of couples before birth is detailed and discussed with instructors and parents. This aquatic approach to childbirth preparation is quickly catching on in the US. as more and more couples find the benefits of the use of warm water for pregnancy, labor and birth.
Dr. Herman Ponette, the obstetrician in Ostend, speaks frankly about his experience with close e to 2000 water births where he has never seen a baby attempt to breathe while under the water or an infection caused by the water.
Scenes of babies in water after birth with their happy and peaceful expressions stay in your mind long after the video is over.
See just what a "state of the art" Aquatic Maternity Center looks like with swimming pools, hot tubs and see-through birthing tubs.
This video is a Global Maternal/Child Health Association exclusive. It is not yet available anywhere else.
Place your order for Water Babies today!! $49.95
Waterbirth Book Titles
Gentle Birth Choices
by Barbara Harper, RN founder of GMCHA,
offers couples a guided tour of how birth can be reclaimed as a normal part of a woman's life and exhalted as a life enhancing experience. Harper utilizes her experience as a childbirth educator, birth attendant, and mother of 3 (two born at home in water) to sort through the maze of decisions that face women today. Beautiful photos by Suzanne Arms. Foreword by Robbie Davis-Floyd. Amazing chapter of water labor and birth. Recommended by Booklist. $16.95
Spanish Gentle Birth Choices
Opciones para un Parto Suave
now available in a Spanish edition at the same price Amazing chapter on water labor and birth. Recommended by Booklist $16.95
Water Birth: a Midwives Perspective
by Suzanna Napierala Midwife Napierala concisely covers the topic of the use of water. Beginning with home water birth experiences in the late 1970's and taking the reader to the coast of the Black Sea, Napierala shares an incredible wealth of knowledge. Contains diagrams and instructions for constructing home tubs. $16.95
We Are All Water Babies by Michel Odent & Jessica Jackson.
By far Odent's best book to date. Photographer Jackson and water birth pioneer Odent team up to illustrate the powerful influence that water plays in our lives from birth through old age. An incredible beautiful coffee table size treasure. A limited number of autographed copies available in hard cover. Paperback American edition has useful resource section. $25.00
Water Birth Handbook
by Roger Lichy A delightful and complete book on water birth from a "Country doctor" in private practice in England who has been attending water births since 1987. Beautiful color photos, lots of practical information. This book is valued by water birth practitioners the world over. $15.00
Water Birth: An Attitude to Care
by Dianne Garland explores the issues surrounding water labor and water birth as it pertains to hospital practibe. Protocols, responsibilities, risk factors and benefits are all discussed. A very valuable asset to the growing collection of water birth information. The best book out on water birth. $30.00
Water Birth Research Binder
A compilation of published articles from around the world. Specifically tailored to individual needs for nursing, medical, or midwifery students. Valuable also for practicing midwives & physicians. $37.50
Water Birth International Newsletter
Premier Issue: Spring 1999 $25.00
Waterbirth Unplugged
The incredible proceeding from the first International waterbirth conference April 1995. $35.00
Books
Creating a Joyful Birth Experience
by Lucia Capacchione, PhD & Sandra Bardsley, RN,
guides women through unique exercises in order to help develop a partnership with their unborn child for a healthier pregnancy, labor, and early parenting. Through visualization, drawing, & creative journaling expectant mothers will enjoy this insightful childbirth preparation. $13.00
Immaculate Deception: Birth & Beyond
by Suzanne Arms
A complete rewrite and update of Arm's classic critique of how childbirth is managed in the US and ways to bring change. Great photos!$16.95
Women Giving Birth
by Astrid Limburg & Beatrijs Smulders
is the only birth book completely illustrated by full-color photography. Women's stories of their experiences of birth in Holland inspire us. $18.95
Birth Reborn
by Michel Odent, MD
Truly the one book that changed medical thought about childbirth. If I had only one book to give to every pregnant woman, I would give this one. A renewed classic with beautiful photos. $17.95
The Childbirth Kit
by Marie Fellenstein Hale & Liz Chalmers (new release)
This unique book and visual aid combination contains ideas and images to help you through labor. The full-color quick reference cards contain handy reminders of childbirth techniques. Good for mother or partners even during labor.$22.95
The Continuum Concept
by Jean Liedloff (old favorite) This revised edition of the 1975 child development classic is a must read for parents. Based on anthropological observations of the Tequana Indians of South America, It opens your eyes to new ways you may want to approach parenting. $12.00
Birth Without Violence
by Frederik Leboyer, MD (new revised release) A new edition of the classic book that changed how we think about birth & babies. $14.95
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