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The Birth Guy's Go-To Guide for New Dads
How to Support Your Partner Through Birth, Breastfeeding, and Beyond
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This guide is ideal for expectant fathers, birth partners, and anyone supporting a loved one through childbirth. It suits those seeking practical, empowering advice on labour support, breastfeeding, and strengthening relationships during the transition to parenthood.
In this one-of-a-kind guide, dad, doula, and certified lactation consultant Brian Salmon and perinatal mental health and relationship expert Kirsten Brunner offer practical, modern-day survival tips for expectant dads and birth partners.
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A must-have baby shower gift for expectant dads! In this one-of-a-kind guide, dad, doula, and certified lactation consultant Brian Salmon and perinatal mental health and relationship expert Kirsten Brunner offer practical, modern-day survival tips for expectant dads and birth partners.
Gone are the days when fathers would nervously pace the waiting room while their partners gave birth. Dads are participating in childbirth now more than ever before. However, if you're like many men, you may feel unprepared, uncomfortable, or even unwelcome in the birth room.
For you, The Birth Guy's Go-To Guide for New Dads offers battle-tested tips to help you get in the game and prepare for one of the most incredible adventures of your life. Based on the author's Rocking Dads childbirth course, this book will teach you everything you need to know about supporting your partner through birth, breastfeeding, and beyond.
In this guide, you'll discover pointers and advice you won't find in any other childbirth or breastfeeding guide, including:
- A list of items to pack for the hospital that will help mum's labour go more smoothly.
- Jedi communication skills that you can utilise during early labour to support mum and keep her in a positive state of mind.
- How to write a birth plan that the labour and delivery nurses will actually pay attention to.
- What to say and do—and what not to say and do—when mum is in active labour and feeling all the feelings.
- A detailed account of what to expect in the delivery room as a birth partner, and how to navigate the unknown terrains when things don't go as planned.
- How to help mum achieve proper nipple latch when she attempts breastfeeding for the first time.
Finally, and perhaps most importantly, you'll find tips for maintaining a strong relationship with your partner before, during, and after the birth so that you feel closer than ever when you launch into the wild yet wonderful world of parenthood.
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Praised by Dr Sky Izaddoost, a paediatrician, the book empowers dads with knowledge and strategies to bolster relationships and handle new responsibilities, being helpful to mothers as well. Robbie Davis-Floyd, PhD, commends it as a unique and inclusive resource for all expectant parents, offering invaluable advice on birth, breastfeeding, emotional wellness, and postpartum support, making it the perfect baby shower gift for dads-to-be.
Book Details
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ISBN: 9781684031597
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 28 March 2019
Country: United States
Imprint: New Harbinger Publications
Audience: General / adult
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Spine width: 14.0mm
Width: 152.0mm
Height: 228.0mm
Weight: 304g
Pages: 216
About the Author
Brian W Salmon (Author)
Brian W. Salmon, Doula, CLC, also known as Brian the Birth Guy, is a doula, a certified lactation counselor and a prenatal imaging specialist. He created the Rocking Dads childbirth class for birth partners and the Facilitating Fearless Birth class for couples. He has partnered with over 20,000 couples in his ultrasound clinics, birth classes, speaking engagements and hospitals as a doula. He is based in San Antonio, TX.
Kirsten Brunner (Author)
Kirsten Brunner, MA, LPC, is a perinatal mental health and relationship expert with over twenty years of clinical experience. She cofounded the website and workshop series, Baby Proofed Parents, which delivers sanity-saving and relationship-strengthening tools to expectant and new parents. She is based in Austin, TX.
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