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The Nurturing Touch at Birth: review | The Nurturing Touch at Birth: A Labor Support Handbook | Paulina Perez

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	• The Nurturing Touch at Birth: A Labor Support Handbook Paulina Perez Cutting Edge Press, 2006 - 192 pages average customer review:based on 21 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Excellent resource for labor

Paulina Perez's 2nd Edition of The Nurturing Touch at Birth, A Labor Support Handbook is a comprehensive guide for anyone wishing to excel at providing labor support. After several background chapters on the current state of affairs in the childbirth arena, the book delves into the how-tos of providing labor support. Hints, tips, and tricks run the gamut from relaxation techniques, affirmations, scriptures, and suggestions for audio CD's to use in labor, to aromatherapy, reflexology, therapeutic touch, massage, and mental activity techniques. Where this book shines is in its coverage of various positions and explanations of which positions work best for certain situations (such as with back labor or asynclitism). Included are at least 16 different positions, including some this nurse-midwife had never heard of before (the Stomp Squat and Walcher's position)! Black and white photos accompany some of the described techniques and positions. It would have been nice for the others to have at least a simple line drawing to aid in the accurate performance of such positions.
This book is appropriate for any birth setting whether home, free-standing birthing center, or hospital and is useful to labor nurses, doulas, montrices, and midwives. Ms. Perez includes implementation strategies for nurses working in highly technical, low touch environment who may encounter frustration as they attempt to buck the system. Throughout the book, the author offers encouragement and inspiration to those whose work with mothers is needed now more that ever before- the work of humanizing the birthing process.

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Excellent, concise reference for labor nurses

A masterpiece. Ms. Perez has created a wonderful reference for anyone wishing to empower women in labor. A must read for new L&D nurses.

The Nurturing Touch at Birth: review

This book is an indispensible part of any labor & delivery unit, especially one that supports mothers in their choices of birth experiences. I have used this book in orientation of new labor & delivery nurses with great success. It really opens the eyes of the orientee to other options than a 100% epidural rate. I would highly recommend its reading and application to every labor & delivery nurse.

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The Nurturing Touch at Birth: A Labor Support Handbook

I love this resource. This is a great reference for the old timers and the young newbees to Ob services. This is a resource I plan to use with our orientees. The topics are very pertinent and can be used to lead lively discussions for staff meetings.

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The Nurturing Touch - Nurtured by this book!

I absolutely loved this book! Paulina did a great job of presenting the information in a helpful, clear way that was nicely illustrated. My husband appreciated the photos as he doesn't read very much. I appreciated the wide variety of tips and techinuqes covered in this book.

With the birth of my first son I didn't know what to expect thought that just focusing on relaxation would be enough. While I did achieve the natural birh I desired, I felt unprepared in some ways becuase I felt I didn't have an ample supply of tools at my disposal to choose from.

Not so with my second child! Paulina's book helped me realize how many options are available for comfort during labor and I was able to have what I needed, when I needed it. I appreciated that you didn't have to be a registered nurse or medical professional to understand the book, but if you were you would certainly get something out of it!

Thanks Paulina!
Angela

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The heart of this book centers around the supportive care given to the laboring mother and details the labor support techniques useful when caring for the laboring woman. The topics include let's talk about pain, trusting relationships, the value of education, communications skills and tools, relaxation, affirmation, visualization, touch and massage, aromatherapy, music therapy, visualization,breathing techniques, focusing, rituals, therapeutic use of water, reflexology, acupressure, reflexology, maternal positioning and other strategies and techniques like the birth ball, lunge, dangle, towel pull, pelvic circles and use of rebozo.

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