The Best Birth Your Guide to the Safest, Healthiest, Most Satisfying Labor and Delivery

While Lamaze and Bradley were revolutionary in their day, Sarah McMoyler, an experienced labor and delivery nurse and the mother of two, offers an updated, medically savvy approach that speaks to the hopes and fears of today's expectant parents. The Best Birth debunks some of the most prevalent myths about labor and delivery, providing you with the most up-to-date and useful information you and your partner need to prepare for what will be one of the most astounding, least predictable events of your life. Unlike the other childbirth prep methods out there, the McMoyler Method... Offers new, proven tips for coping with pain, Provides the knowledge and tools expectant fathers need to be totally involved throughout labor and delivery, Endorses medical team expertise: the medical staff wants the same thing you do-healthy mom, healthy baby, Diminishes the idea that you should feel guilt or regret for choosing an epidural or having a C-section.

Sarah McMoyler, R.N., has over twenty years of experience delivering babies and thirteen years of teaching childbirth preparation in the San Francisco Bay area. She is a mother of two.