An Easier Childbirth: A Mother's Guide for Birthing Normally

Gayle H. Peterson

Shadow & Light Publications, 1993 - Health & Fitness - 177 pages

Childbirth should be one of the most joyful experiences in a woman's life. All too frequently it is one of the most fearful. Gayle Peterson, a nationally recognized leader in the field of perinatal psychology, prepares the mother-to-be for the most positive experience possible, utilizing a childbirth preparation method based on medical research that shows emotional factors to be important in a healthy pregnancy and delivery. Guided imagery, visualization, and journal writing help the mother-to-be learn ways of yielding comfortably and safely into the entire childbirth process.

About the author

Sheila Kitzinger was born Sheila Helena Elizabeth Webster in Taunton, Somerset, England on March 29, 1929. She studied social anthropology at Ruskin and St Hugh's Colleges at Oxford. As an anthropologist, she encouraged women around the world to reclaim from doctors their natural prerogative over pregnancy and childbirth. Her first book, The Experience of Childbirth, was published in 1962. Her other works included Birth over Thirty, Woman's Experience of Sex, Breastfeeding Your Baby, Ourselves as Mothers, Becoming a Grandmother, Birth Crisis, Birth and Sex: The Power and the Passion, and A Passion for Birth. She created a Birth Crisis Network in Britain, which offers reflective listening for women traumatized after delivery. She died after a short illness on April 11, 2015 at the age of 86.

Bibliographic information

• Title: An Easier Childbirth: A Mother's Guide for Birthing Normally
• Author: Gayle H. Peterson
• Photographs by: Harriette Hartigan
• Contributor: Sheila Kitzinger
• Edition: 2, illustrated
• Publisher: Shadow & Light Publications, 1993
• ISBN: 0962523143, 9780962523144
• Length: 177 pages
• Subjects: Health & Fitness / Pregnancy & Childbirth