The Birth That's Right for You Book

Create a childbirth plan based on your needs that makes your baby's arrival an even more enjoyable event

Dr. Amen Ness, doula Lisa Gould Rubin, and Jackie Frederick-Berner believe that when it comes to the ideal birth method, you are your own best expert. Using the authors' combined half-century of experience, The Birth That's Right for You helps you figure out what type of person you are by having you reflect on:

• Your hopes
• Your fears
• The way you imagine giving birth
• How you cope with pain
• What you need to feel safe and secure

Based on your answers, you will be able to choose the birthing method that will meet those needs-- traditional childbirth without pain medication, a scheduled induction with an epidural, labor and delivery in a whirlpool, or any combination in between.

In The Birth That's Right for You, you will learn how to:

• Custom-tailor a childbirth approach that fits your needs
• Take a realistic look at your expectations and let go of everyone else's
• Assemble a supportive labor and delivery team
• Prepare for the unexpected
• Decide whether or not you'll use pain medication

Amen Ness, M.D., is an ob-gyn specializing in high-risk obstetrics. He has been delivering babies for more than twenty years. Lisa Gould Rubin, CD, CCE, has been a certified childbirth educator and doula since 1985. She helped establish the doula referral program at Mount Sinai Hospital, in New York City. Rubin and Jackie Frederick-Berner are the founders of The Good Birth Company.