Everything you need to know to have the best birth experience for you - whether in a hospital, birthing centre or the comfort of home.

Expert advice for every stage, from planning a baby to giving birth.

Every Woman's BirthRights gives mothers the information they need to make positive choices about pregnancy and childbirth. It encourages them to trust and act on their instincts rather than acquiesce to the many unevaluated routines and procedures used in maternity care. Clear, challenging, unsentimental and underawed by the "miracle" of modern obstetrics, here is a book which women can use to become more than simply silent partners in one of the most important events of their lives.

Since women enjoy more birthing options today then ever before, the path toward a safe and satisfying birth can be fraught with important decisions. Planning, understanding the resources available to you, and developing your own birthing philosophy can make all the difference.

In this comprehensive, reassuring, and authoritative guide, Dr. Bill and Martha Sears, the pediatrics specialists whose books on pregnancy, babies, and parenting have become widely praised bestsellers, thoroughly explore the abundant choices couples can face when anticipating the birth of their child.

There is no one right way to have a baby - there is only the way that is right for you.

Pregnancy can be a good experience or a lousy one. A lot depends on how confident you feel about to handle it, and to be confident you need accurat information and lots of it.

A unique illustrated parents' guide to:
-the nine months of pregnancy
-preparing for labour and birth
-active birth
-yoga-based exercises for before and after birth
-breathing awareness
-massage for parents and baby
-babycare and early parenthood
-modern medical care

Yoga is all about breathing. By learning to control your breathing, you can stay focused during your labour, work your way through your contractions, fight off feelings of anxiety or exhaustion, and give yourself the best chance of delivering your baby naturally and safely. By practising the exercises in Breahte your way through birth with yoga, you can also prepare your body for childbirth and give yourself a range of positions to try during labour - all of which will make you feel more confident and more capable going in to the labour room.

Pregnancy and childbirth are normal life processes, not illnesses, You feel the incredible surge of life moving inside you, the ripening of your body heavy with furit deep inside it, and then at last the flood of vitality as labor starts and your uterus contracts in wave after wave brigning your baby into your arms. It is exciting, awe inspiring, and deeply satisfying. At the same time you grow up a bit, learn more about yourself and your partner, develop in understanding and awareness.