Reviews for Mind Over Labor

The average rating for Mind Over Labor based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2009-04-06 00:00:00 Jean Claude Fortier Awesome book for labor preparation. I really think that labor is mostly a mental challenge. Women can endure a lot of physical discomfort/pain if they are mentally prepared and can frame the pain as something else (useful work, pressure waves, surges, the powerf of Woman, whatever you want to call it). The other half of the dealing with pain is not having a lot of fear, anxiety, or other baggage that gets in the way of letting the labor happen. This book helps women address these issues before they go into labor. Great resource for pregnant ladies and doulas, and it's available for a song online. My copy cost 80 cents. You can't even get thrift store books that cheap anymore.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-03-05 00:00:00 Brad Davis I've been reading/re-reading various birth books lately in anticipation of my next birth. This is the first time I have read this one cover to cover. Here's what I like: - Good ideas for relaxation - scripts and that kind of thing. Doesn't rely on hypnosis, which I appreciate, since there is a part of my brain that is way too cynical to let that work for me. - Concise. So many birth books are way long. - Good explanations of the overall process. Giving good information without making doctors out to be heartless villains. - Good tone. He doesn't sound condescending or self-righteous as some other natural birth authors tend to do. Respectful of all parties and informative throughout. This is actually one of my favorites, and one I'd be more likely to recommend because of the more respectful tone. Too many of these authors act like there is one way to do and to see things, and anybody else is worthy of ridicule. He seems genuine in his desire to provide helpful information to a wide variety of people involved in the birth process - in and out of the hospital, varying levels of interventions - he seems to make the assumption (as I think we all should) that everyone is making their choices based on what they feel is best for their baby, even though those choices have a wide range. My biggest complaint is somewhat ironic...it's that he doesn't appear to have any real credentials. All the book says about him is that he is a childbirth educator. Does he have any formal medical training? Where did he get his expertise in the field? In a way this shouldn't matter. His facts are accurate, and if his ideas for coping with labor work, what does it matter where he comes from? But I still would have rather known more about his background.