Birth as a Healing Experience Fathers and advocates consistent parental responsiveness

and advocates consistent parental responsiveness to babies' dependency needs

and nestle into a parent's embrace as though they had practiced for years

emotionally and psychologically stable

and presents the startling discoveries that provide the answers to how our emotional lives work

Birth as a Healing Experience Fathers and advocates consistent parental responsivenessBirth as a Healing Experience: The Emotional Journey of Pregnancy Through Postpartum emphasizes and examines the emotional aspects of pregnancy and postpartum, presenting these periods as important opportunities for a woman's growth and healing from previous traumatic births or pregnancy losses. Midwives, childbirth educators, pregnant and postpartum women, women of childbearing age, and men will find that this book is unlike most others on pregnancy