Heart & Hands Book

Heart & Hands by Elizabeth Davis

A guide for both midwives and parents interested in the benefits of midwifery care

This book has a wealth of information on labor, delivery and postpartum care. Whether or not you will be using a midwife, the information in this book is valuable and will surely help make your labor and delivery easier. With plenty of natural pain relieving tips, this book has been loved by mothers for many years.

Midwifery expert Elizabeth Davis includes valuable hints for turning breech and posterior babies, mediating pain in labor, and supporting newborn physiology. Davis also reveals the keys to postpartum recovery, with practical tips on breastfeeding for busy mothers. For over two decades, Heart & Hands has been a beloved guide for both midwives and parents interested in the benefits of midwifery care. This all-new fourth edition has been revised from start to finish, featuring updated material that emphasizes independent midwifery, physiologic (natural) birth, and the art of nonintervention. Comprehensive and compassionate, Heart & Hands remains a dog-eared classic for parents, midwives, and other birthing helpers.

This is the thoroughly revised and updated fourth edition of the classic text for midwives, also useful for expecting parents, nurses, childbirth educators, doulas, and other labor helpers. It features new diagrams and photographs, updated midwifery forms, and an expanded resource list for parents. Expanded sections on GBS, VBAC, gestational diabetes, and water birth address current controversies.

Previous editions have sold more than 150,000 copies!

Review of Heart & Hands:

“An impressive and deeply caring book… reveals a shrewd and compassionate sensitivity to women's needs in pregnancy and childbirth”.
-Sheila Kitzinger, author of The Complete Book of Pregnancy and Birth

Heart & Hands makes a thoughtful gift to any expecting parent. The more knowledge you have going in to labor and delivery the better!