Ina May Gaskin

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Ina May Gaskin is founder and director of the Farm Midwifery Center, located near Summertown, Tennessee. She has lectured all over the world at midwifery conferences and at medical schools, both to students and to faculty. The Farm is noted for its low rates of intervention, morbidity and mortality. Recently selected as a Visiting Fellow at Morse College of Yale University, Ina May also teaches midwifery, writes books and articles for medical journals and edits her quarterly journal, The Birth Gazette.

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Ina May's Guide to Childbirth: Updated With New Material Nov 19, 2008

by Ina May Gaskin

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What you need to know to have the best birth experience for you.

Drawing upon her thirty-plus years of experience, Ina May Gaskin, the nation’s leading midwife, shares the benefits and joys of natural childbirth by showing women how to trust in the ancient wisdom of their bodies for a healthy and fulfilling birthing experience. Based on the female-centered Midwifery Model of Care, Ina May’s Guide to Natural Childbirth gives expectant mothers comprehensive information on everything from the all-important mind-body connection to how to give birth without technological intervention.

Filled with inspiring birth stories and practical advice, this invaluable resource includes:• Reducing the pain of labor without drugs--and the miraculous roles touch and massage play

• What really happens during labor
• Orgasmic birth--making birth pleasurable
• Episiotomy--is it really necessary?
• Common methods of inducing labor--and which to avoid at all costs
• Tips for maximizing your chances of an unmedicated labor and birth
• How to avoid postpartum bleeding--and depression
• The risks of anesthesia and cesareans--what your doctor
doesn’t necessarily tell you
• The best ways to work with doctors and/or birth care providers
• How to create a safe, comfortable environment for
birth in any setting, including a hospital
• And much more

Ina May’s Guide to Natural Childbirth takes the fear out of childbirth by restoring women’s faith in their own natural power to give birth with more ease, less pain, and less medical intervention.

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Ina May's Guide to Breastfeeding: From the Nation's Leading Midwife Sep 22, 2009

by Ina May Gaskin

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Everything you need to know to make breastfeeding a joyful, natural, and richly fulfilling experience for both you and your baby

Drawing on her decades of experience in caring for pregnant women, mothers, and babies, Ina May Gaskin explores the health and psychological benefits of breastfeeding and gives you invaluable practical advice that will help you nurse your baby in the most fulfilling way possible. Inside you’ll find answers to virtually every question you have on breastfeeding, including topics such as
•the benefits of breastfeeding
•nursing challenges
•pumps and other nursing products
•sleeping arrangements
•nursing and work
•medications
•nursing multiples
•weaning
•sick babies
•nipplephobia, and much more

Ina May's Guide to Breastfeeding is filled with helpful advice, medical facts, and real-life stories that will help you understand how and why breastfeeding works and how you can use it to more deeply connect with your baby and your own body. Whether you’re planning to nurse for the first time or are looking for the latest, most up-to-date expert advice available, you couldn’t hope to find a better guide than Ina May.

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Spiritual Midwifery Mar 1, 2002

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"Here is the 4th edition of the classic book on home birth that introduced a whole generation of women to the concept of natural childbirth. Back again are even more amazing birthing tales, including those from women who were babies in earlier editions and stories about Old Order Amish women attended by the Farm midwives.

Also new is information about the safety of techniques routinely used in hospitals during and after birth, information on postpartum depression and maternal death, and recent statistics on births managed by The Farm Midwives.

From the amazing birthing tales to care of the newborn, Spiritual Midwifery is still one of the best books an expectant mother could own. Includes resources for doulas, childbirth educators, birth centers, and other organizations and alliances dedicated to improving maternity care at home and in hospitals. "

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Birth Matters: How What We Don't Know About Nature, Bodies, and Surgery Can Hurt Us Jan 4, 2011

by Ina May Gaskin, Ani DiFranco

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Renowned for her practice's exemplary results and low intervention rates, Ina May Gaskin has gained international notoriety for promoting natural birth. She is a much-beloved leader of a movement that seeks to stop the hyper-medicalization of birth—which has lead to nearly a third of hospital births in America to be cesarean sections—and renew confidence in a woman's natural ability to birth.
Upbeat and informative, Gaskin asserts that the way in which women become mothers is a women's rights issue, and it is perhaps the act that most powerfully exhibits what it is to be instinctually human. Birth Matters is a spirited manifesta showing us how to trust women, value birth, and reconcile modern life with a process as old as our species.

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Guía del nacimiento (Ensayo) (Spanish Edition) Nov 9, 2020

by Ina May Gaskin, María Luisa Rodríguez Tapia

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En la década de los setenta, un grupo de mujeres, encabezado por Ina May Gaskin, inició un movimiento para cambiar los métodos tradicionales de parto. Recorrieron el Tennessee rural en una caravana de autobuses para compartir sus conocimientos sobre el parto y la maternidad con otras mujeres, y comenzaron a asistir mutuamente sus partos sin necesidad de instituciones, hospitales o médicos. Desde entonces, Ina May ha presenciado más de un millar de nacimientos en su popular casa de partos, "La Granja", pero son mucho más numerosos las matronas, familias, médicos y estudiantes a los que ha alumbrado con sus libros, publicaciones y conferencias a nivel mundial.

Basándose en sus más de treinta años de experiencia, la autora expone los beneficios físicos y psicológicos del parto natural, instando a las mujeres a confiar en la sabiduría ancestral de sus cuerpos para desarrollar una experiencia plena y saludable. Sobre la base de un modelo de obstetricia centrado en la madre y su conexión mente-cuerpo, este libro nos ofrece las herramientas necesarias para poder dar a luz sin intervención tecnológica, centrándose en el poder natural de hacerlo con más facilidad, menos dolor y la mínima intervención médica.

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Die selbstbestimmte Geburt: Handbuch für werdende Eltern. Mit Erfahrungsberichten (German Edition) May 18, 2015

by Ina May Gaskin, Ursula Fassbender

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Das umfassende Handbuch zur Vorbereitung auf die selbstbestimmte Geburt, mit dem kompakten Wissen und der Erfahrung einer Pionierin – komplett überarbeitet und aktualisiert: Mit vielen neuen Informationen zu Geburtslagen im Mutterleib, zur körperlichen Betätigung während der Geburtsvorbereitung, zu Kaiserschnittentbindungen und zur ersten Zeit nach der Geburt bestärkt die renommierte Hebamme Ina May Gaskin Frauen darin, ihrem Körper zu vertrauen, mit dem sie ihr Kind möglichst ohne technische Eingriffe zur Welt bringen – in der Klinik, im Geburtshaus oder zu Hause. Bewegende Erzählungen von Frauen, die eine selbstbestimmte Geburt erlebten, ermutigen dazu, den eigenen Weg zu gehen.

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La gioia del parto: Segreti e virtù del corpo femminile durante il travaglio e la nascita (Educazione pre e perinatale Vol. 11) (Italian Edition) Apr 22, 2014

by Ina May Gaskin

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Il libro indispensabile per preparasi alla nascita La famosa ostetrica americana Ina May, già autrice del libro Spiritual Midwifery, si rivolge alle giovani donne con un messaggio rassicurante e incoraggiante: potete vivere la nascita del vostro bambino e goderne, in tutta sicurezza. Propone racconti di nascite positivi, autentici, emozionanti, a volte difficili, ma sempre vengono dal centro dell’esperienza delle persone. C’è tanto bisogno di racconti positivi. Le giovani donne in attesa vengono sommerse da messaggi negativi e mantenute nella paura costante di una minaccia astratta di rischi teorici che le separa dalle percezioni reali del loro corpo e del loro bambino. Il parto tecnologico diventa asettico, privo della vivacità e spontaneità del parto delle donne e si colora di pericoli e dolori dovuti a interventi non necessari. Nella seconda parte del libro, Ina May descrive in tono vivido le leggi del corpo, come reagisce agli stimoli esterni e interni, come si può aprire e chiudere in base all’ambiente e agli interventi esterni. Allo stesso tempo entra nel merito delle pratiche ostetriche oggi comunemente usate nei paesi occidentali come il taglio cesareo, l’analgesia epidurale, la ventosa e altre ancora, analizzandole con la lucidità della instancabile ricercatrice, con il distacco acquisito con gli anni dell’esperienza e con una visione ampia della scena mondiale del parto, rischi e benefici. Denuncia senza veli abusi e bugie del sistema medico. Vuole le donne consapevoli, su tutti i livelli. Vuole che possano scegliere, veramente, in base a una conoscenza a 360 gradi, non in base alle paure o alle convenzioni. Travagliare, partorire e nascere è possibile, è sicuro, è intenso, è esaltante, è rafforzante… Questo libro è per le donne, per le coppie e per le ostetriche. Ricco di storie di parto illuminanti e consigli pratici, questa preziosa guida offre suggerimenti su: - come ridurre il dolore del travaglio senza farmaci e quale miracoloso ruolo possono giocare tatto e massaggio - cosa realmente accade durante il travaglio - l'episiotomia: è veramente necessaria? - i metodi comuni per indurre il travaglio: quali evitare - come evitare emorragie e depressione postpartum - i rischi dell'anestesia e del taglio cesareo: quello che i medici non dicono - il modo migliore per collaborare con i medici o con chi si occupa di parto. ... e molto ancora per aiutare le madri in attesa a partorire con più facilità, meno dolore e meno interventi medici in ospedale, in un centro nascita o nella tranquillità della propria casa. "Il libro è bellissimo, ti racconta ciò che nessuno dice, ti infonde forza, sicurezza, determinazione e positività. Una guida spirituale. Lo consiglio a tutte le donne in dolce attesa." (Recensione) L'AUTRICE: Ina May Gaskin è autrice del famoso libro Spiritual Midwifery. Nel 1970 ha contribuito alla fondazione della comunità di The Farm a Summertown nel Tennessee con il marito Stephen e altri 250 giovani persone spostando l’attenzione del mondo sul parto naturale. E’ stata anche la fondatrice nonché la direttrice del Centro Nascita di The Farm sito nella comunità. Ad oggi il Centro ha portato alla luce più di 2200 bambini. Ina May ha fondato ed è stata presidente del MANA (Midwives Alliance of North America) che ha rappresentato al meeting delle coalizioni per la Safe Motherhood Initiatives-USA. Vive ancora a The Farm con il marito Stephen.

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