Birthing a child can be a wonderful natural, empowering experience.

BIRTH AND BREASTFEEDING empowers women, in a clear and easy read, to take back their birthing rights! It is critical reading for all birthing women to rediscover the basic needs of woman in labour. At its most basic, author Michel Odent argues that women need to be allowed to honour their mammalian needs of privacy during childbirth.

This most basic need that ALL mammals share is ignored in most western birthing practices today! He clearly states: "The newborn baby needs the skin of the mother, the smell of the mother, her breast. Many birthing practices today neglect, ignore, and sadly deny birthing women, and their babies, these most basic mammalian needs."

Written by the world-reknowned Dutch developer of woman-centered, natural birthing practices in The Netherlands, and around the world. Fact: One in every three babies is born safely in their own home in The Netherlands, with the lowest rates of Caesarean sections in the West, under the care of trained Midwives.

Further reading suggestions, and clear notes for each chapter are included.

Further reading in our Parenting Resources Collection. Sold Separately.

Softcover. 140 pages. Floris Books, Edinburgh. Discover Wonder in Books.