Beautiful Birth Practical techniques to help you enjoy your birth

Would you like your experience of giving birth to be enjoyable? Do you see giving birth as an exciting journey into places in your body and mind you have never been to before? Do you imagine that childbirth will transform your relationship with your partner? All these aspects of birth are well within the realms of possibility.

Certain easily mastered "tools" can ease discomfort and make labour and delivery more manageable - even pleasurable. Special types of breathing, massage, visualisations and postures can be learnt and practised at home and put to use, as you choose, throughout the different stages of your labour. Even if medical intervention is required, these tools can help make birth a more positive experience.

• Demonstrates the natural "tools" that can ease pain and promote progress
• Suitable for all types of deliveries
• Helps a pregnant woman work with her body, her partner and her baby
• Techniques are easy to learn and can be practised at home with a birth partner.
• Variations are given to fit in with a woman's individual experience
• Fully illustrated throughout by pregnant couples

Suzanne is the founder and main teacher at Well Mother. She has been developing an holistic approach to maternity since 1989. She established ‘Well Mother' in 1990, teaching shiatsu, massage and exercise to women and their partners in Bristol, UK, to help them connect with the wisdom of their body. She has written three books: Shiatsu for Midwives published in 2003, Beautiful Birth is aimed at parents, and Pregnancy and childbirth; an holistic approach to massage and bodywork is for therapists and is the text book for the shiatsu and massage courses. In 2006 she set up a teacher training programme and currently eight teachers are working with her. She continues to train new teachers who currently assist on her courses.

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