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Title: Not what I was expecting, and in the end, not what I wanted
Review: What I was expecting was a book about YOGA for pregnant women and how it influenced and could be used during NATURAL CHILDBIRTH. What I got instead was a running advertisement for "freebirth" or unassisted birth AND some kind of unidentified and unidentifiable and unending lesson in her personal theology.I did like the same idea in most Unassisted type books: that uninhibited, unimpeded birth in a trusting environment is the best and ideal birth, and the one we all deserve. What I did not like was that the answer, the only answer, is to birth absent of trust and interdependence within the community, and her constant mantra that self-suffienciency was the sign of a true and mature adult.A Note to Jewish readers: this woman claims to be a Jew ending a cycle of violence by not circumscising her son(s), yet in the prayer to conceive him, she and her husband pray to not only more than ONE G-d, but also to Jesus. Not exactly Jewish.
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