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Rebounding from Childbirth: Toward Emotional Recovery
 
 

Rebounding from Childbirth: Toward Emotional Recovery (Paperback)

by Lynn Madsen (Author) "Often a new mother will read in a childbirth text something like this: "You may experience strong emotions postpartum, partly due to the heightened levels..." (more)
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"This little gem of a book will be transformative for those wounded women fortunate enough to read it, and extraordinarily useful to the therapists who are trying to help women heal from the iatrogenic traumas all too commonly generated by hospital birth."-Robbie E. Davis-Floyd, Ph.D. author of Birth as an American Rite of Passage


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“This book is more than useful: it is necessary in the American context after several generations of medicalized birth. The time has come to consider the healing process millions of mothers need after giving birth.”–Michel Odent, M.D. author of The Nature of Birth and Breastfeeding

“A psychologist's moving account of her own birth trauma and an exploration into the process of healing that a woman can experience afterwards. If birth was bad for you, this book can help you work through depression and despair and find self-confidence.”–Sheila Kitzinger

“This little gem of a book will be transformative for those wounded women fortunate enough to read it, and extraordinarily useful to the therapists who are trying to help women heal from the iatrogenic traumas all too commonly generated by hospital birth.”–Robbie E. Davis-Floyd, Ph.D. author of Birth as an American Rite of Passage

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Often a new mother will read in a childbirth text something like this: "You may experience strong emotions postpartum, partly due to the heightened levels of naturally occurring hormones, and partly due to the excitement of your baby's birth." Read the first page
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent!, April 22 2003
I thought this was a great book for those of us with negative feelings of our birth experiences. Some real truths are dealt with here and I felt better reading about situations and emotions like my own. The book helped me realize that what I was feeling and people's reactions to my feelings were not at all uncommon. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is trying to recover from a negative experience and feels that no one understands. I am so glad I found it!
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2.0 out of 5 stars Not very well written or helpful, Mar 29 2003
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This book confronts the reality that a difficult childbirth can impact a woman but it fails to help in any other way. The author focuses too much on the specifics of the difficult births featured in the book without doing a good job of looking at the bigger goal of helping any woman who had a difficult childbirth overcome the experience. I found it too hard to relate to the women featured - everyone's experience is different, even traumatic experiences. A better approach would be to take the focus off personal stories as anyone reading this book likely has replayed her own traumatic experience over and over and is seeking to overcome it rather than read a play by play of yet another bad time giving birth. I think a book about common reactions to a difficult delivery (such as anxiety) and how to deal with them would be more helpful.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The Only Book of its Kind, Jan 15 2003
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I had a very difficult childbirth (back labor, young inexperienced doctor AND nurse, long, LONG labor, botched epidural led to general anesthesia for my emergency c-section, etc.).

For months I looked and looked to find something that would address my lingering feelings of loss and trauma. This book is the only one that addresses post traumatic stress after an especially difficult childbirth.

I guess the biggest thing it did for me is showed me I wasn't alone, and I wasn't crazy!

I can't say it "cured" me, but definitely worth the read if you're struggling with your birth experience.

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3.0 out of 5 stars A need for this book, but will not serve all
Perhaps if I read this book after my first birth, I might look at it differently, but I read it after my last birth and I felt left with the thought afterwards of "now what"... Read more
Published on Jun 11 2002 by sarahs4

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