Birth Skills

Name: Birth Skills
Brand: Allen & Unwin
SKU: 9781741750973
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Proven pain-management techniques for your labour and birth

By Juju Sundin and Sarah Murdoch

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Birth Skills by Juju Sundin and Sarah Murdoch is a practical guide for expectant mothers, focusing on empowering them during the childbirth process. The book offers a range of physical and mental strategies to manage labour pain, utilising techniques such as movement, breathing, and visualisation. It aims to equip women with the confidence and skills needed to make childbirth a positive and engaging experience.
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Book Hero Magic created this recommendation. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! IS THIS YOUR NEXT READ?

You might enjoy this book if you're looking for practical techniques to manage labour pain. With insights from an experienced childbirth educator and a journalist, it offers skills that can empower expectant mothers and enhance the childbirth experience. Ideal for those interested in hands-on strategies and mental preparation for labour.

Birth Skills

Every pregnant woman's essential, step-by-step guide to taking charge of their labour and birth by Australia's leading expert in advanced labour pain management with her best-known client, Sarah Murdoch.

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Even after reading countless pregnancy books I still didn't understand what my labour would be like. All I really knew was it would be painful and scary. Then my obstetrician suggested I take Juju Sundin's birth skills classes. Juju gave me the knowledge to understand my body during labour and taught me about the physiology of pain and how to use her techniques to deal with it. - Sarah Murdoch

If you're like most women, you'll go into labour with little knowledge of exactly what your body is doing and why, and how you can actively manage the pain and stay in control while helping your body do what it's designed to.

That's where Birth Skills comes in, a step-by-step guide packed with information plus easy-to-learn, proven pain management skills.

In Birth Skills, obstetric physiotherapist Juju Sundin shares the techniques she has pioneered over her 30-year career, while Sarah Murdoch takes you on a personal journey of her own labour and birth, describing how she learned the skills in the class then applied them on the big day.

Whether it's your first baby or lucky last, you will learn:

how your body works in labour and why
how to turn fear into positive action so you stay in control
how to use movement, breathing, vocalisation, visualisation, keywords and other handy techniques
what to wear, what to take, and what questions to ask
how your partner can help, and working as a team
other women's experiences using Juju's techniques

Birth is all about the bigger picture -- educating and empowering yourself, giving it a try, doing it your way, and a healthy mother and baby. - Juju Sundin

Book Hero Magic summarised reviews for this book. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! HOW HAS THIS BEEN REVIEWED?

Birth Skills by Juju Sundin and Sarah Murdoch is praised for providing practical and detailed techniques for pain management during labour and childbirth. It is recommended for expectant mothers, particularly those aiming to avoid unnecessary interventions or planning a VBAC, as it offers effective support strategies for various stages of the birthing process.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781741750973

Publisher: Allen & Unwin

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 April 2007

Country: Australia

Imprint: Arena

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 210.0mm

Height: 220.0mm

Weight: 884g

Pages: 288

Collections

Health & Wellness Juju Sundin Non-Fiction Parenting & Family Sarah Murdoch Self-Help & Personal Development

About the Author

A practising physiotherapist for 35 years in Sydney, JUJU (Julia) SUNDIN conducts labour pain management programs for pregnant women. She has been a principal trainer for the Childbirth Education Association and the Australian Physiotherapy Association, training other health professionals in her cutting-edge methods in dealing with labour, fear and pain. A past Chairperson of the Australian Physiotherapy Association's Women's Health Group, she has been a regular contributor to a range of parenting and women's magazines. Inspired by two difficult birth experiences of her own 30 years ago, Juju is passionate about educating and empowering women during childbirth. She is the mother of two children. SARAH MURDOCH has enjoyed a successful modelling and acting career throughout the world. She has been instrumental in the tremendous success of Australian icon clothing brand, Bonds, working in creative development of the brand. Sarah currently serves as the Patron of the National Breast Cancer.