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Title	:	Childbirth Without Fear
Author	:	Grantly Dick-Read
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 448 pages
Published	:	June 1st 1994 by HarperCollins Publishers (first published January 1st 1959)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Parenting. Health

Childbirth Without Fear

Grantly Dick-Read

Paperback | Pages: 448 pages

Rating: 3.92 | 1166 Users | 97 Reviews

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Although "Childbirth Without Fear" is a catchy title, I think a more accurate title would have been "Childbirth Without Ignorance." The basic gist is that the more a mother knows about the mechanics of childbirth, the more she is able to relax and break the fear-tension-pain cycle that leads to [in Dick-Read's view, abnormally] painful labors. The book also strongly encourages medical professionals to allow mothers to fully participate in their natural labor and the baby's delivery, rather than being sedated. This book is apparently a classic in the field of natural childbirth. As such, it is important to keep a few things in mind when reading it (things that I wish I had known about it before I picked it up):
1) It was written quite a long time ago. The earliest sections were written in the 1930s and 1940s and the "updated" version I read was published earlier this year with a few editor's notes but for all intents and purposes written in 1953. That makes some parts of the book seem extremely dated. Some of the social stuff (such as the idea that motherhood is every woman's dream) definitely made me snort.
2) The intended audience for this book is NOT the mother-to-be, it is the doctors and midwives who will be attending the mother. After a while I got tired of reading about myself referred to as "the woman".
3) The whole book is about encouraging the mother to relax and avoid fear, and yet there is surprisingly little practical information on how to actually relax and push fear out of your mind during labor.
4) This book must have been an extraordinary pioneering text when it was first written, but now most of these teachings have been absorbed by anyone who advocates for natural birth. I still wouldn't say the desire for natural childbirth is completely mainstream, but it's no longer the sort of thing that makes people look at you like you are a totally wacky, on-the-fringes hippie. So most of the ideas in this book are now pretty well understood, and if you read a variety of other childbirth preparation books you can probably skip this one and leave it to the medical professionals who need to understand the history of their profession.

The other thing about this book is that I could see how it could become a bit demoralizing in the event that labor does end up being especially challenging. Dick-Read points out again and again that sometimes pain relief is necessary in the case of abnormal presentations, and of course c-sections are sometimes necessary in the case of really abnormal circumstances. So certainly his intention is to simply be reassuring. Yet I sometimes got the feeling from reading this that if my labor experience does end up being painful, it is only my own fault for perceiving it that way. That just seems...unfair and probably unreasonable. I especially found the parts of the book that say that things like morning sickness and fatigue are basically just neuroses and if the mother can get over her fear and apprehension she'll magically not be sick pretty unbelievable. I think medical advances since the '50s have made it clear that there are definite biological reasons for pregnancy symptoms like morning sickness. So I have a hard time believing that labor pain could also be something entirely a product of the mother's perception.

Anyway, I'm glad that I read this, but I am also glad I read it conjunction with other childbirth prep books that were more practical.

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Original Title:	Childbirth without Fear: The Principles and Practice of Natural Childbirth
ISBN:	0061092487 (ISBN13: 9780061092480)
Edition Language:	English

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This was literally a life changing book for me. I haven't a clue if it is still in print but he was responsible for early education for women in approaching childbirth in a healthy way.

Highly recommend if you are pregnant.

As I am prepping myself for the birth of my fourth child, I thought I would refresh my childbirth knowledge and expand my knowledge regarding the recent history of childbirth. I'm sure this book was revolutionary considering it was written before either of my grandmothers became mothers and updated after they became mothers. I struggled to get past the condescending tone and outdated views he had at times towards women. On the whole, it was ok if I kept reminding myself of the time period in

The idea of this book is great but the writing style was too rambling and philosophical for me.The book starts out by stating that pain is caused by tension so being afraid will cause more pain and reducing or eliminating fear will reduce or eliminate pain. I wanted him to then go into descriptions of how to reduce or eliminate fear, instead a bunch of the writing is about the philosophy of why people are afraid, the history of our understanding of fear, etc. I didn't make myself finish the book

great book indeed for both obstetricians and pregnant women, Dr Grantly has made it clear from his own observations that childbirth is painless. mentioning a great information that fear is the only enemy of the whole natural process of giving birthby fear the urerus shuts down and became white without oxygen or blood the thing that makes the muscles so tense and eventually the contractions so hard to bearthe key to avoid all of this is to relax and let it go, is to not interpret contractions as



I texted this to my friend who asked me about the takeaways from this book: "A huge takeaway so far is knowing what to expect and being educated about labor helps reduce fear while in labor. When fear isnt as present during labor and delivery, women can have relaxed births that aren't necessarily even painful. To achieve this education on labor and what's normal and practice of relaxing the mind leading up to labor are essential."This book was originally published in 1940s and the author died