Ebook: Childbirth without fear: the principles and practice of natural childbirth

[Contents] The science of obstetrics -- Motherhood from many points of view -- A philosophy of childbirth -- Anatomy and physiology -- The pain of labour -- Factors predisposing to low threshold of pain interpretation -- Fear -- Imagery and the conditioning of the mind -- The fear of childbirth -- The retreat of fear -- Diet in pregnancy -- The phenomena of labour -- The relief of pain in labour -- Hypnosis in childbirth as a means of pain relief -- The conduct of labour -- Childbirth in emergency -- Breast-feeding and rooming-in -- The husband and childbirth -- Antenatal education -- Preparation for labour -- Antenatal schools of instruction and their organisation