Description
- Chapter 1: “First Stage: Preparing the Fetus Ejection Reflex” by Michel Odent
- Chapter 2: “Managing First Stage Problems” by John Stevenson
- Chapter 3: “Before the First Wave: Midwife Carol Gautschi Shares Her Views on First Stage” by Kelly Moyer
- Chapter 4: “The Dynamic First Stage of Labor” by Marion Toepke McLean, Jill Cohen and Kimberley Mangu
- Chapter 5: “The Times and Tools of Induction” by Sister MorningStar
- Chapter 6: “Causing Labor to Unfold” by Alison Osborn
- Chapter 7: “Laboring Women Are Not Marathon Runners” by Michel Odent
- Chapter 8: “Nourishing the Mother” by Anne Frye
- Chapter 9: “The Amniotomy Question: Examining the Pros and Cons of Rupturing Membranes” by Verna Oberg
- Chapter 10: “Like Cures Like: Homeopathy for Labor and Birth” by Diane Gregg