Product Description **2017 Janey Loves Platinum Awards GOLD Winner** Imagine if there was more to birth than being afraid. Imagine if birth could be empowering and joyful! Whether you are planning a homebirth or a caesarean, the birth of your baby has the potential to be a positive experience you will look back on with pride. This book shows you how it can be done, answering all your questions about birth, arming you with the knowledge you need to make informed choices, and filling you with confidence to trust your instincts and take control. In The Secrets of Birth, award-winning doula and mother of two, Kicki Hansard, lets you in on her birth and parenting secrets, gathered over 15 years of supporting hundreds of families. Straight-talking and honest, packed with real-world examples, and filled with evidence based information, The Secrets of Birth is your secret weapon to help you prepare for a positive birth. Review Kicki's book is warm, real, gentle and tough when it needs to be. Written from the heart and from her experiences as a doula, The Secrets of Birth takes a non-judgemental look at childbirth and encourages women to work out what's best for them. A book that can be your friend and companion through pregnancy and birth. --Rebecca Schiller - writer, campaigner, doula It is lovely so see books written about birth with a positive empowering standpoint. Encouraging women to really examine what it is they want and reminding them that they have the right to choose and be respected in these choices needs to be to first thing we communicate to women. Kicki does this right up front. I love the reminder that childbirth is a physiological event. Kicki then explains why and how this amazing physiological event unfolds. There are lots of tips and suggestion as well as several engaging stories. This is an easy to read book that will leave you feeling positive about birth. --Dr Hannah Dahlen - Professor of Midwifery, University of Western Sydney The kindness, warmth and practicality that is inherent in Kicki's nature breathe life into this book. A long awaited account of what every mother needs to know. A comfort to all, a must read and the holistic view really helped give me a sense of wholeness to the birthing experience. Highly recommended! --Dr Sam Collins - CEO, Aspire and Internationally Best Selling Author Radio Heaven About the Author Kicki Hansard BSc is a certified birth and postnatal doula with experience in all aspects of pregnancy, childbirth and parenting. Since 2002, she has been preparing couples for the arrival of their baby and supported many of them through the birth and postnatal period. She has been working as a doula course facilitator since 2006, and runs the BirthBliss Aspiring Doula Foundation course. Kicki was also given the Pregnancy & Birth Magazine and Doula UK award of Doula of the Year in 2009. Kicki believes that birth is a truly normal, and at the same time, deeply profound event that is optimized by personalised support, defined birth goals with flexibility built in and solid education. Her goals are to instil confidence with true information, equipping women and families for the work of labour, birth and the postnatal period and to understand each family's unique needs and birth goals. Kicki has trained with the grandmothers of doulas Penny Simkin and Phyllis Klaus in San Diego as a When Survivors Give Birth Educator and produces Kicki Hansard s Path to Birth , an educational tool for birth preparation. Kicki is also a chapter contributor to the book The Roar Behind the Silence . Born in Swedish Lapland, the magical land of the midnight sun and Northern Lights, Kicki moved to the UK in 1990 and has two teenage daughters.
The Secrets of Birth: What every woman should know about birth and motherhood
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Author: Hansard, Kicki
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781517251192
Details:
Author: Hansard, Kicki
Brand: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Edition: 1
Binding: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 143
Release Date: 27-10-2015
Part Number: black & white illustrations
Package Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.9 x 0.7 inches Languages: English
EAN: 9781517251192
