The Experience of Childbirth

Plot

" The Experience of Childbirth is written by a sociologist and ante-natal teacher - herself the mother of five children - as a complete manual of physical and emotional preparation for the expectant mother. The physiology of pregnancy, the development of the foetus, and the successive stages of labour are described in detail. Moving on from the pioneer work of Grantly Dick-Read and later psychoprophylactic techniques Mrs. Kitzinger's research and teaching focus particularly on the psychological aspects of child-bearing, on the preparation of both wife and husband not only for birth but for parenthood and marital adjustment, and on a girl's changing relationship with her own mother." -- Publisher's description.