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Publisher's Preface: There's Nothing New Under the Sun ix
Foreword: Not Just Another Book on Parenting Joseph Chilton Pearce xi
Preface: Don't Throw Your Baby Out with the Bath Water xiii
1 A New-or Old-Way to Think about Birth 1
2 High-Tech Birth and the Alternative 11
3 A Child's First Schoolhouse: Learning in the Womb 44
4 Birth: Labor and Delivery 77
5 Breastfeeding 128
6 Life after Birth: The Most Important Days of Our Lives 160
7 The Great Healer 189
Afterword: Thinking of Conscious Parenting as Green Parenting 215
Notes 219
Bibliography 231
Resources 238
About the Authors 245
Index 247
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Beau Long
reviewed The Art of Conscious Parenting: The Natural Way to Give Birth, Bond with, and Raise Healthy Children on December 02, 2010
The Art of Conscious Parenting
For the most part, I liked this book and think it has a lot of useful information. That said, I found the author a little bit irritating and self-righteous. If you can get over that, which I did, the book does a good job of doing a literature review of work supporting pre-conception planning, natural childbirth, breastfeeding, etc. It does not do a good job of presenting a balanced literature review, which is fine, but should be noted if you're not 100% sure you want natural childbirth because the author is clearly telling you that you are a selfish parent who will cause irreparable harm to your child.
Another point of irritation is that the author goes to great lengths to tout the benefits of natural childbirth, breastfeeding, etc, but in a throwaway sentence extols circumcision as a positive religious bonding event without even acknowledging the ongoing debate about circumcision as potentially traumatic genital mutilation. I don't have particularly strong feelings about this, but it struck me as hypocritical to not even mention that performing "surgery" on a newborn may run counter to many of the themes in the book.
Summary: This is a good book for anyone considering natural childbirth, but you need to be able to put it in the context of one author's perspective who clearly thinks he and his wife are the most well/completely informed parents.
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